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| Public Act 097-0293 | ||||
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AN ACT concerning children.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act is | ||||
amended by changing Section 10 as follows: | ||||
(325 ILCS 2/10)
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Sec. 10. Definitions. In this Act:
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"Abandon" has the same meaning as in the Abused and | ||||
Neglected
Child Reporting Act.
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"Abused child" has the same meaning as in the Abused and | ||||
Neglected
Child Reporting Act.
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"Child-placing agency" means a licensed public or private | ||||
agency
that receives a child for the purpose of placing or | ||||
arranging
for the placement of the child in a foster family | ||||
home or
other facility for child care, apart from the custody | ||||
of the child's
parents.
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"Department" or "DCFS" means the Illinois Department of | ||||
Children and
Family Services.
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"Emergency medical facility" means a freestanding | ||||
emergency center or
trauma center, as defined in the Emergency | ||||
Medical Services (EMS) Systems
Act.
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"Emergency medical professional" includes licensed | ||||
physicians, and any
emergency medical technician-basic, | ||||
emergency medical
technician-intermediate, emergency medical | ||
technician-paramedic,
trauma nurse specialist, and | ||
pre-hospital RN, as defined in the
Emergency Medical Services | ||
(EMS) Systems Act.
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"Fire station" means a fire station within the State with | ||
at least one staff person.
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"Hospital" has the same meaning as in the Hospital | ||
Licensing Act.
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"Legal custody" means the relationship created by a court | ||
order in
the best interest of a newborn infant that imposes on | ||
the infant's custodian
the responsibility of physical | ||
possession of the infant, the duty to
protect, train, and | ||
discipline the infant, and the duty to provide the infant
with | ||
food,
shelter, education, and medical care, except as these are | ||
limited by
parental rights and responsibilities.
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"Neglected child" has the same meaning as in the Abused and
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Neglected Child Reporting Act.
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"Newborn infant" means a child who a licensed physician | ||
reasonably
believes is 30 days old or less at the time the | ||
child is
initially relinquished to a hospital, police station, | ||
fire station, or
emergency
medical facility, and who is not an | ||
abused or a neglected child.
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"Police station" means a municipal police station, or a | ||
county sheriff's
office, a campus police department located on | ||
any college or university owned or controlled by the State or | ||
any private college or private university that is not owned or | ||
controlled by the State when employees of the campus police | ||
department are present, or any of the district headquarters of | ||
the Illinois State Police.
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"Relinquish" means to bring a newborn infant, who a
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licensed physician reasonably believes is 30 days old or less,
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to a hospital, police station, fire station, or emergency | ||
medical facility
and
to leave the infant with personnel of the | ||
facility, if the person leaving the
infant does not express an | ||
intent to return for the
infant or states that he or she will | ||
not return for the infant.
In the case of a mother who gives | ||
birth to an infant in a hospital,
the mother's act of leaving | ||
that newborn infant at the
hospital (i) without expressing an | ||
intent to return for the infant or (ii)
stating that she will | ||
not return for the infant is not a "relinquishment" under
this | ||
Act.
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"Temporary protective custody" means the temporary | ||
placement of
a newborn infant within a hospital or other | ||
medical facility out of the
custody of the infant's parent.
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(Source: P.A. 96-345, eff. 1-1-10.)
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Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||
becoming law.
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