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39.01  Definitions.--When used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1)  "Abandoned" means a situation in which the parent or legal custodian of a child or, in the absence of a parent or legal custodian, the caregiver responsible for the child's welfare, while being able, makes no provision for the child's support and makes no effort to communicate with the child, which situation is sufficient to evince a willful rejection of parental obligations. If the efforts of such parent or legal custodian, or caregiver primarily responsible for the child's welfare, to support and communicate with the child are, in the opinion of the court, only marginal efforts that do not evince a settled purpose to assume all parental duties, the court may declare the child to be abandoned. The term "abandoned" does not include a "child in need of services" as defined in chapter 984 or a "family in need of services" as defined in chapter 984. The incarceration of a parent, legal custodian, or caregiver responsible for a child's welfare may support a finding of abandonment.

(2)  "Abuse" means any willful act or threatened act that results in any physical, mental, or sexual injury or harm that causes or is likely to cause the child's physical, mental, or emotional health to be significantly impaired. For the purpose of protective investigations, abuse of a child includes the acts or omissions of the parent, legal custodian, caregiver, or other person responsible for the child's welfare. Corporal discipline of a child by a parent, legal custodian, or caregiver for disciplinary purposes does not in itself constitute abuse when it does not result in harm to the child.

(3)  "Addictions receiving facility" means a substance abuse service provider as defined in chapter 397.

(4)  "Adjudicatory hearing" means a hearing for the court to determine whether or not the facts support the allegations stated in the petition in dependency cases or in termination of parental rights cases.

(5)  "Adult" means any natural person other than a child.

(6)  "Adoption" means the act of creating the legal relationship between parent and child where it did not exist, thereby declaring the child to be legally the child of the adoptive parents and their heir at law, and entitled to all the rights and privileges and subject to all the obligations of a child born to such adoptive parents in lawful wedlock.

(7)  "Alleged juvenile sexual offender" means:

(a)  A child 12 years of age or younger who is alleged to have committed a violation of chapter 794, chapter 796, chapter 800, s. 827.071, or s. 847.0133; or

(b)  A child who is alleged to have committed any violation of law or delinquent act involving juvenile sexual abuse. "Juvenile sexual abuse" means any sexual behavior which occurs without consent, without equality, or as a result of coercion. For purposes of this paragraph, the following definitions apply:

1.  "Coercion" means the exploitation of authority or the use of bribes, threats of force, or intimidation to gain cooperation or compliance.

2.  "Equality" means two participants operating with the same level of power in a relationship, neither being controlled nor coerced by the other.

3.  "Consent" means an agreement, including all of the following:

a.  Understanding what is proposed based on age, maturity, developmental level, functioning, and experience.

b.  Knowledge of societal standards for what is being proposed.

c.  Awareness of potential consequences and alternatives.

d.  Assumption that agreement or disagreement will be accepted equally.

e.  Voluntary decision.

f.  Mental competence.

Juvenile sexual offender behavior ranges from noncontact sexual behavior such as making obscene phone calls, exhibitionism, voyeurism, and the showing or taking of lewd photographs to varying degrees of direct sexual contact, such as frottage, fondling, digital penetration, rape, fellatio, sodomy, and various other sexually aggressive acts.

(8)  "Arbitration" means a process whereby a neutral third person or panel, called an arbitrator or an arbitration panel, considers the facts and arguments presented by the parties and renders a decision which may be binding or nonbinding.

(9)  "Authorized agent" or "designee" of the department means an employee, volunteer, or other person or agency determined by the state to be eligible for state-funded risk management coverage, that is assigned or designated by the department to perform duties or exercise powers pursuant to this chapter.

(10)  "Caregiver" means the parent, legal custodian, adult household member, or other person responsible for a child's welfare as defined in subsection (47).

(11)  "Case plan" or "plan" means a document, as described in s. 39.601, prepared by the department with input from all parties, including parents, guardians ad litem, legal custodians, caregivers, and the child. The case plan follows the child from the provision of voluntary services through any dependency, foster care, or termination of parental rights proceeding or related activity or process.

(12)  "Child" or "youth" means any unmarried person under the age of 18 years who has not been emancipated by order of the court and who has been alleged or found to be dependent.

(13)  "Child protection team" means a team of professionals established by the ¹department to receive referrals from the protective investigators and protective supervision staff of the department and to provide specialized and supportive services to the program in processing child abuse, abandonment, or neglect cases. A child protection team shall provide consultation to other programs of the department and other persons regarding child abuse, abandonment, or neglect cases.

(14)  "Child who is found to be dependent" means a child who, pursuant to this chapter, is found by the court:

(a)  To have been abandoned, abused, or neglected by the child's parent or parents, legal custodians, or caregivers;

(b)  To have been surrendered to the department, the former Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, or a licensed child-placing agency for purpose of adoption;

(c)  To have been voluntarily placed with a licensed child-caring agency, a licensed child-placing agency, an adult relative, the department, or the former Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, after which placement, under the requirements of this chapter, a case plan has expired and the parent or parents, legal custodians, or caregivers have failed to substantially comply with the requirements of the plan;

(d)  To have been voluntarily placed with a licensed child-placing agency for the purposes of subsequent adoption, and a natural parent or parents have signed a consent pursuant to the Florida Rules of Juvenile Procedure;

(e)  To have no parent, legal custodian, or caregiver to provide supervision and care; or

(f)  To be at substantial risk of imminent abuse, abandonment, or neglect by the parent or parents, legal custodians, or caregivers.

(15)  "Child support" means a court-ordered obligation, enforced under chapter 61 and ss. 409.2551-409.2597, for monetary support for the care, maintenance, training, and education of a child.

(16)  "Circuit" means any of the 20 judicial circuits as set forth in s. 26.021.

(17)  "Comprehensive assessment" or "assessment" means the gathering of information for the evaluation of a child's and caregiver's physical, psychiatric, psychological or mental health, educational, vocational, and social condition and family environment as they relate to the child's and caregiver's need for rehabilitative and treatment services, including substance abuse treatment services, mental health services, developmental services, literacy services, medical services, family services, and other specialized services, as appropriate.

(18)  "Court," unless otherwise expressly stated, means the circuit court assigned to exercise jurisdiction under this chapter.

(19)  "Department" means the Department of Children and Family Services.

(20)  "Diligent efforts by a parent, legal custodian, or caregiver" means a course of conduct which results in a reduction in risk to the child in the child's home that would allow the child to be safely placed permanently back in the home as set forth in the case plan.

(21)  "Diligent efforts of social service agency" means reasonable efforts to provide social services or reunification services made by any social service agency that is a party to a case plan.

(22)  "Diligent search" means the efforts of a social service agency to locate a parent or prospective parent whose identity or location is unknown, initiated as soon as the social service agency is made aware of the existence of such parent, with the search progress reported at each court hearing until the parent is either identified and located or the court excuses further search.

(23)  "Disposition hearing" means a hearing in which the court determines the most appropriate family support services in the least restrictive available setting in dependency cases or in termination of parental rights cases.

(24)  "District" means any one of the 15 service districts of the department established pursuant to s. 20.19.

(25)  "District administrator" means the chief operating officer of each service district of the department as defined in s. 20.19(7) and, where appropriate, includes any district administrator whose service district falls within the boundaries of a judicial circuit.

(26)  "Expedited termination of parental rights" means proceedings wherein a case plan with the goal of reunification is not being offered.

(27)  "False report" means a report of abuse, neglect, or abandonment of a child to the central abuse hotline, which report is maliciously made for the purpose of:

(a)  Harassing, embarrassing, or harming another person;

(b)  Personal financial gain for the reporting person;

(c)  Acquiring custody of a child; or

(d)  Personal benefit for the reporting person in any other private dispute involving a child.

The term "false report" does not include a report of abuse, neglect, or abandonment of a child made in good faith to the central abuse hotline.

(28)  "Family" means a collective body of persons, consisting of a child and a parent, legal custodian, caregiver, or adult relative, in which:

(a)  The persons reside in the same house or living unit; or

(b)  The parent, legal custodian, caregiver, or adult relative has a legal responsibility by blood, marriage, or court order to support or care for the child.

(29)  "Foster care" means care provided a child in a foster family or boarding home, group home, agency boarding home, child care institution, or any combination thereof.

(30)  "Harm" to a child's health or welfare can occur when the parent, legal custodian, or caregiver responsible for the child's welfare:

(a)  Inflicts or allows to be inflicted upon the child physical, mental, or emotional injury. In determining whether harm has occurred, the following factors must be considered in evaluating any physical, mental, or emotional injury to a child: the age of the child; any prior history of injuries to the child; the location of the injury on the body of the child; the multiplicity of the injury; and the type of trauma inflicted. Such injury includes, but is not limited to:

1.  Willful acts that produce the following specific injuries:

a.  Sprains, dislocations, or cartilage damage.

b.  Bone or skull fractures.

c.  Brain or spinal cord damage.

d.  Intracranial hemorrhage or injury to other internal organs.

e.  Asphyxiation, suffocation, or drowning.

f.  Injury resulting from the use of a deadly weapon.

g.  Burns or scalding.

h.  Cuts, lacerations, punctures, or bites.

i.  Permanent or temporary disfigurement.

j.  Permanent or temporary loss or impairment of a body part or function.

As used in this subparagraph, the term "willful" refers to the intent to perform an action, not to the intent to achieve a result or to cause an injury.

2.  Purposely giving a child poison, alcohol, drugs, or other substances that substantially affect the child's behavior, motor coordination, or judgment or that result in sickness or internal injury. For the purposes of this subparagraph, the term "drugs" means prescription drugs not prescribed for the child or not administered as prescribed, and controlled substances as outlined in Schedule I or Schedule II of s. 893.03.

3.  Leaving a child without adult supervision or arrangement appropriate for the child's age or mental or physical condition, so that the child is unable to care for the child's own needs or another's basic needs or is unable to exercise good judgment in responding to any kind of physical or emotional crisis.

4.  Inappropriate or excessively harsh disciplinary action that is likely to result in physical injury, mental injury as defined in this section, or emotional injury. The significance of any injury must be evaluated in light of the following factors: the age of the child; any prior history of injuries to the child; the location of the injury on the body of the child; the multiplicity of the injury; and the type of trauma inflicted. Corporal discipline may be considered excessive or abusive when it results in any of the following or other similar injuries:

a.  Sprains, dislocations, or cartilage damage.

b.  Bone or skull fractures.

c.  Brain or spinal cord damage.

d.  Intracranial hemorrhage or injury to other internal organs.

e.  Asphyxiation, suffocation, or drowning.

f.  Injury resulting from the use of a deadly weapon.

g.  Burns or scalding.

h.  Cuts, lacerations, punctures, or bites.

i.  Permanent or temporary disfigurement.

j.  Permanent or temporary loss or impairment of a body part or function.

k.  Significant bruises or welts.

(b)  Commits, or allows to be committed, sexual battery, as defined in chapter 794, or lewd or lascivious acts, as defined in chapter 800, against the child.

(c)  Allows, encourages, or forces the sexual exploitation of a child, which includes allowing, encouraging, or forcing a child to:

1.  Solicit for or engage in prostitution; or

2.  Engage in a sexual performance, as defined by chapter 827.

(d)  Exploits a child, or allows a child to be exploited, as provided in s. 450.151.

(e)  Abandons the child. Within the context of the definition of "harm," the term "abandons the child" means that the parent or legal custodian of a child or, in the absence of a parent or legal custodian, the person responsible for the child's welfare, while being able, makes no provision for the child's support and makes no effort to communicate with the child, which situation is sufficient to evince a willful rejection of parental obligation. If the efforts of such a parent or legal custodian or person primarily responsible for the child's welfare to support and communicate with the child are only marginal efforts that do not evince a settled purpose to assume all parental duties, the child may be determined to have been abandoned.

(f)  Neglects the child. Within the context of the definition of "harm," the term "neglects the child" means that the parent or other person responsible for the child's welfare fails to supply the child with adequate food, clothing, shelter, or health care, although financially able to do so or although offered financial or other means to do so. However, a parent, legal custodian, or caregiver who, by reason of the legitimate practice of religious beliefs, does not provide specified medical treatment for a child may not be considered abusive or neglectful for that reason alone, but such an exception does not:

1.  Eliminate the requirement that such a case be reported to the department;

2.  Prevent the department from investigating such a case; or

3.  Preclude a court from ordering, when the health of the child requires it, the provision of medical services by a physician, as defined in this section, or treatment by a duly accredited practitioner who relies solely on spiritual means for healing in accordance with the tenets and practices of a well-recognized church or religious organization.

(g)  Exposes a child to a controlled substance or alcohol. Exposure to a controlled substance or alcohol is established by:

1.  Use by the mother of a controlled substance or alcohol during pregnancy when the child, at birth, is demonstrably adversely affected by such usage; or

2.  Continued chronic and severe use of a controlled substance or alcohol by a parent when the child is demonstrably adversely affected by such usage.

As used in this paragraph, the term "controlled substance" means prescription drugs not prescribed for the parent or not administered as prescribed and controlled substances as outlined in Schedule I or Schedule II of s. 893.03.

(h)  Uses mechanical devices, unreasonable restraints, or extended periods of isolation to control a child.

(i)  Engages in violent behavior that demonstrates a wanton disregard for the presence of a child and could reasonably result in serious injury to the child.

(j)  Negligently fails to protect a child in his or her care from inflicted physical, mental, or sexual injury caused by the acts of another.

(k)  Has allowed a child's sibling to die as a result of abuse, abandonment, or neglect.

(31)  "Health and human services board" means the body created in each service district of the department pursuant to the provisions of s. 20.19(8).

(32)  "Institutional child abuse or neglect" means situations of known or suspected child abuse or neglect in which the person allegedly perpetrating the child abuse or neglect is an employee of a private school, public or private day care center, residential home, institution, facility, or agency or any other person at such institution responsible for the child's care.

(33)  "Judge" means the circuit judge exercising jurisdiction pursuant to this chapter.

(34)  "Legal custody" means a legal status created by court order or letter of guardianship which vests in a custodian of the person or guardian, whether an agency or an individual, the right to have physical custody of the child and the right and duty to protect, train, and discipline the child and to provide him or her with food, shelter, education, and ordinary medical, dental, psychiatric, and psychological care. The legal custodian is the person or entity in whom the legal right to custody is vested.

(35)  "Legal guardianship" means a judicially created relationship between the child and caregiver which is intended to be permanent and self-sustaining and is provided pursuant to the procedures in chapter 744.

(36)  "Licensed child-caring agency" means a person, society, association, or agency licensed by the department to care for, receive, and board children.

(37)  "Licensed child-placing agency" means a person, society, association, or institution licensed by the department to care for, receive, or board children and to place children in a licensed child-caring institution or a foster or adoptive home.

(38)  "Licensed health care professional" means a physician licensed under chapter 458, an osteopathic physician licensed under chapter 459, a nurse licensed under chapter 464, a physician assistant licensed under chapter 458 or chapter 459, or a dentist licensed under chapter 466.

(39)  "Likely to injure oneself" means that, as evidenced by violent or other actively self-destructive behavior, it is more likely than not that within a 24-hour period the child will attempt to commit suicide or inflict serious bodily harm on himself or herself.

(40)  "Likely to injure others" means that it is more likely than not that within a 24-hour period the child will inflict serious and unjustified bodily harm on another person.

(41)  "Long-term relative custodian" means an adult relative who is a party to a long-term custodial relationship created by a court order pursuant to this chapter.

(42)  "Long-term relative custody" or "long-term custodial relationship" means the relationship that a juvenile court order creates between a child and an adult relative of the child or other caregiver approved by the court when the child cannot be placed in the custody of a natural parent and termination of parental rights is not deemed to be in the best interest of the child. Long-term relative custody confers upon the long-term relative or other caregiver the right to physical custody of the child, a right which will not be disturbed by the court except upon request of the caregiver or upon a showing that a material change in circumstances necessitates a change of custody for the best interest of the child. A long-term relative or other caregiver shall have all of the rights and duties of a natural parent, including, but not limited to, the right and duty to protect, train, and discipline the child and to provide the child with food, shelter, and education, and ordinary medical, dental, psychiatric, and psychological care, unless these rights and duties are otherwise enlarged or limited by the court order establishing the long-term custodial relationship.

(43)  "Mediation" means a process whereby a neutral third person called a mediator acts to encourage and facilitate the resolution of a dispute between two or more parties. It is an informal and nonadversarial process with the objective of helping the disputing parties reach a mutually acceptable and voluntary agreement. The role of the mediator includes, but is not limited to, assisting the parties in identifying issues, fostering joint problem solving, and exploring settlement alternatives.

(44)  "Mental injury" means an injury to the intellectual or psychological capacity of a child as evidenced by a discernible and substantial impairment in the ability to function within the normal range of performance and behavior.

(45)  "Necessary medical treatment" means care which is necessary within a reasonable degree of medical certainty to prevent the deterioration of a child's condition or to alleviate immediate pain of a child.

(46)  "Neglect" occurs when the parent or legal custodian of a child or, in the absence of a parent or legal custodian, the caregiver deprives a child of, or allows a child to be deprived of, necessary food, clothing, shelter, or medical treatment or permits a child to live in an environment when such deprivation or environment causes the child's physical, mental, or emotional health to be significantly impaired or to be in danger of being significantly impaired. The foregoing circumstances shall not be considered neglect if caused primarily by financial inability unless actual services for relief have been offered to and rejected by such person. A parent, legal custodian, or caregiver legitimately practicing religious beliefs in accordance with a recognized church or religious organization who thereby does not provide specific medical treatment for a child shall not, for that reason alone, be considered a negligent parent, legal custodian, or caregiver; however, such an exception does not preclude a court from ordering the following services to be provided, when the health of the child so requires:

(a)  Medical services from a licensed physician, dentist, optometrist, podiatric physician, or other qualified health care provider; or

(b)  Treatment by a duly accredited practitioner who relies solely on spiritual means for healing in accordance with the tenets and practices of a well-recognized church or religious organization.

For the purpose of protective investigations, neglect of a child includes the acts or omissions of the parent, legal custodian, or caregiver.

(47)  "Other person responsible for a child's welfare" includes the child's legal guardian, legal custodian, or foster parent; an employee of a private school, public or private child day care center, residential home, institution, facility, or agency; or any other person legally responsible for the child's welfare in a residential setting; and also includes an adult sitter or relative entrusted with a child's care. For the purpose of departmental investigative jurisdiction, this definition does not include law enforcement officers, or employees of municipal or county detention facilities or the Department of Corrections, while acting in an official capacity.

(48)  "Next of kin" means an adult relative of a child who is the child's brother, sister, grandparent, aunt, uncle, or first cousin.

(49)  "Parent" means a woman who gives birth to a child and a man whose consent to the adoption of the child would be required under s. 63.062(1)(b). If a child has been legally adopted, the term "parent" means the adoptive mother or father of the child. The term does not include an individual whose parental relationship to the child has been legally terminated, or an alleged or prospective parent, unless the parental status falls within the terms of ²s. 39.4051(1) or s. 63.062(1)(b).

(50)  "Participant," for purposes of a shelter proceeding, dependency proceeding, or termination of parental rights proceeding, means any person who is not a party but who should receive notice of hearings involving the child, including foster parents or caregivers, identified prospective parents, grandparents entitled to priority for adoption consideration under s. 63.0425, actual custodians of the child, and any other person whose participation may be in the best interest of the child. Participants may be granted leave by the court to be heard without the necessity of filing a motion to intervene.

(51)  "Party" means the parent or legal custodian of the child, the petitioner, the department, the guardian ad litem or the representative of the guardian ad litem program when the program has been appointed, and the child. The presence of the child may be excused by order of the court when presence would not be in the child's best interest. Notice to the child may be excused by order of the court when the age, capacity, or other condition of the child is such that the notice would be meaningless or detrimental to the child.

(52)  "Physical injury" means death, permanent or temporary disfigurement, or impairment of any bodily part.

(53)  "Physician" means any licensed physician, dentist, ³podiatrist, or optometrist and includes any intern or resident.

(54)  "Preliminary screening" means the gathering of preliminary information to be used in determining a child's need for further evaluation or assessment or for referral for other substance abuse services through means such as psychosocial interviews; urine and breathalyzer screenings; and reviews of available educational, delinquency, and dependency records of the child.

(55)  "Preventive services" means social services and other supportive and rehabilitative services provided to the parent of the child, the legal custodian of the child, or the caregiver of the child and to the child for the purpose of averting the removal of the child from the home or disruption of a family which will or could result in the placement of a child in foster care. Social services and other supportive and rehabilitative services shall promote the child's need for physical, mental, and emotional health and a safe, stable, living environment, shall promote family autonomy, and shall strengthen family life, whenever possible.

(56)  "Prospective parent" means a person who claims to be, or has been identified as, a person who may be a mother or a father of a child.

(57)  "Protective investigation" means the acceptance of a report alleging child abuse, abandonment, or neglect, as defined in this chapter, by the central abuse hotline or the acceptance of a report of other dependency by the department; the investigation of each report; the determination of whether action by the court is warranted; the determination of the disposition of each report without court or public agency action when appropriate; and the referral of a child to another public or private agency when appropriate.

(58)  "Protective investigator" means an authorized agent of the department who receives and investigates reports of child abuse, abandonment, or neglect; who, as a result of the investigation, may recommend that a dependency petition be filed for the child; and who performs other duties necessary to carry out the required actions of the protective investigation function.

(59)  "Protective supervision" means a legal status in dependency cases which permits the child to remain safely in his or her own home or other placement under the supervision of an agent of the department and which must be reviewed by the court during the period of supervision.

(60)  "Relative" means a grandparent, great-grandparent, sibling, first cousin, aunt, uncle, great-aunt, great-uncle, niece, or nephew, whether related by the whole or half blood, by affinity, or by adoption. The term does not include a stepparent.

(61)  "Reunification services" means social services and other supportive and rehabilitative services provided to the parent of the child, the legal custodian of the child, or the caregiver of the child, whichever is applicable, to the child, and where appropriate to the foster parents of the child, for the purpose of enabling a child who has been placed in out-of-home care to safely return to his or her family at the earliest possible time. The health and safety of the child shall be the paramount goal of social services and other supportive and rehabilitative services. Such services shall promote the child's need for physical, mental, and emotional health and a safe, stable, living environment, shall promote family autonomy, and shall strengthen family life, whenever possible.

(62)  "Secretary" means the Secretary of Children and Family Services.

(63)  "Sexual abuse of a child" means one or more of the following acts:

(a)  Any penetration, however slight, of the vagina or anal opening of one person by the penis of another person, whether or not there is the emission of semen.

(b)  Any sexual contact between the genitals or anal opening of one person and the mouth or tongue of another person.

(c)  Any intrusion by one person into the genitals or anal opening of another person, including the use of any object for this purpose, except that this does not include any act intended for a valid medical purpose.

(d)  The intentional touching of the genitals or intimate parts, including the breasts, genital area, groin, inner thighs, and buttocks, or the clothing covering them, of either the child or the perpetrator, except that this does not include:

1.  Any act which may reasonably be construed to be a normal caregiver responsibility, any interaction with, or affection for a child; or

2.  Any act intended for a valid medical purpose.

(e)  The intentional masturbation of the perpetrator's genitals in the presence of a child.

(f)  The intentional exposure of the perpetrator's genitals in the presence of a child, or any other sexual act intentionally perpetrated in the presence of a child, if such exposure or sexual act is for the purpose of sexual arousal or gratification, aggression, degradation, or other similar purpose.

(g)  The sexual exploitation of a child, which includes allowing, encouraging, or forcing a child to:

1.  Solicit for or engage in prostitution; or

2.  Engage in a sexual performance, as defined by chapter 827.

(64)  "Shelter" means a place for the temporary care of a child who is alleged to be or who has been found to be dependent, pending court disposition before or after adjudication.

(65)  "Shelter hearing" means a hearing in which the court determines whether probable cause exists to keep a child in shelter status pending further investigation of the case.

(66)  "Social service agency" means the department, a licensed child-caring agency, or a licensed child-placing agency.

(67)  "Substance abuse" means using, without medical reason, any psychoactive or mood-altering drug, including alcohol, in such a manner as to induce impairment resulting in dysfunctional social behavior.

(68)  "Substantial compliance" means that the circumstances which caused the creation of the case plan have been significantly remedied to the extent that the well-being and safety of the child will not be endangered upon the child's remaining with or being returned to the child's parent, legal custodian, or caregiver.

(69)  "Taken into custody" means the status of a child immediately when temporary physical control over the child is attained by a person authorized by law, pending the child's release or placement.

(70)  "Temporary legal custody" means the relationship that a juvenile court creates between a child and an adult relative of the child, legal custodian, or caregiver approved by the court, or other person until a more permanent arrangement is ordered. Temporary legal custody confers upon the custodian the right to have temporary physical custody of the child and the right and duty to protect, train, and discipline the child and to provide the child with food, shelter, and education, and ordinary medical, dental, psychiatric, and psychological care, unless these rights and duties are otherwise enlarged or limited by the court order establishing the temporary legal custody relationship.

(71)  "Victim" means any child who has sustained or is threatened with physical, mental, or emotional injury identified in a report involving child abuse, neglect, or abandonment, or child-on-child sexual abuse.

History.--s. 1, ch. 26880, 1951; ss. 1, 2, ch. 67-585; s. 3, ch. 69-353; s. 4, ch. 69-365; ss. 19, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 1, ch. 71-117; s. 1, ch. 71-130; s. 10, ch. 71-355; ss. 4, 5, ch. 72-179; ss. 19, 30, ch. 72-404; ss. 2, 23, ch. 73-231; s. 1, ch. 74-368; ss. 15, 27, 28, ch. 75-48; s. 4, ch. 77-147; s. 2, ch. 78-414; s. 9, ch. 79-164; s. 2, ch. 79-203; s. 1, ch. 80-290; ss. 1, 17, ch. 81-218; ss. 4, 15, ch. 84-311; s. 4, ch. 85-80; s. 2, ch. 85-206; ss. 73, 78, ch. 86-220; s. 1, ch. 87-133; s. 1, ch. 87-289; s. 12, ch. 87-397; s. 1, ch. 88-319; s. 10, ch. 88-337; s. 2, ch. 90-53; s. 3, ch. 90-208; s. 3, ch. 90-306; s. 2, ch. 90-309; s. 69, ch. 91-45; s. 1, ch. 91-183; s. 1, ch. 92-158; s. 1, ch. 92-170; ss. 1, 4(1st), 14, ch. 92-287; s. 13, ch. 93-39; s. 6, ch. 93-230; s. 1, ch. 94-164; s. 11, ch. 94-209; s. 50, ch. 94-232; s. 1333, ch. 95-147; s. 8, ch. 95-152; s. 1, ch. 95-212; s. 4, ch. 95-228; s. 1, ch. 95-266; ss. 3, 43, ch. 95-267; s. 3, ch. 96-369; s. 2, ch. 96-398; s. 20, ch. 96-402; s. 23, ch. 97-96; s. 158, ch. 97-101; s. 44, ch. 97-190; s. 4, ch. 97-234; s. 111, ch. 97-238; s. 1, ch. 97-276; s. 1, ch. 98-49; s. 176, ch. 98-166; s. 7, ch. 98-280; s. 20, ch. 98-403.

¹Note.--All powers, duties, functions, records, personnel, property, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds of the Department of Children and Family Services relating to services to abused and neglected children provided through the child protection teams and sexual abuse treatment program were transferred to the Department of Health, Division of Children's Medical Services, by s. 2, ch. 98-137.

²Note.--Transferred to s. 39.503(1) by s. 64, ch. 98-403.

³Note.--Redesignated as "podiatric physician" by ch. 98-166.