§ 5-701. Definitions
West's Annotated Code of MarylandFamily LawEffective: October 1, 2023
Effective: October 1, 2023
MD Code, Family Law, § 5-701
§ 5-701. Definitions
(a) Except as otherwise provided in § 5-705.1 of this subtitle, in this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.
(b)(1) “Abuse” means:
(d) “Centralized confidential database” means the Department's confidential computerized data system that contains information regarding child abuse and neglect investigations and assessments.
(g)(1) “Educator or human service worker” means any professional employee of any correctional, public, parochial or private educational, health, juvenile service, social or social service agency, institution, or licensed facility.
(i)(1) “Health practitioner” includes any person who is authorized to practice healing under the Health Occupations Article or § 13-516 of the Education Article.
(j) “Household” means the location:
(k) “Household member” means a person who lives with, or is a regular presence in, a home of a child at the time of the alleged abuse or neglect.
(m) “Indicated” means a finding that there is credible evidence, which has not been satisfactorily refuted, that abuse, neglect, or sexual abuse did occur.
(n)(1) “Law enforcement agency” means a State, county, or municipal police department, bureau, or agency.
(o) Except as provided in §§ 5-705.1 and 5-714 of this subtitle, “local department” means the local department that has jurisdiction in the county:
(p) “Local department case file” means that component of the Department's confidential computerized database that contains information regarding child abuse and neglect investigations to which access is limited to the local department staff responsible for the investigation.
(q) “Local State's Attorney” means the State's Attorney for the county:
(r) “Mental injury” means the observable, identifiable, and substantial impairment of a child's mental or psychological ability to function caused by an intentional act or series of acts, regardless of whether there was an intent to harm the child.
(s) “Neglect” means the leaving of a child unattended or other failure to give proper care and attention to a child by any parent or other person who has permanent or temporary care or custody or responsibility for supervision of the child under circumstances that indicate:
(t) “Police officer” means any State or local officer who is authorized to make arrests as part of the officer's official duty.
(u) “Record” means the original or any copy of any documentary material, in any form, including a report of suspected child abuse or neglect, that is made by, received by, or received from the State, a county, or a municipal corporation in the State, or any subdivision or agency concerning a case of alleged child abuse or neglect.
(x) “Sex trafficking” means the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a child for the purpose of a commercial sex act.
(y) “Sexual abuse” means any act that involves:
(z) “Sexual molestation or exploitation” includes:
Credits
Added by Acts 1987, c. 635, § 2, eff. July 1, 1988. Amended by Acts 1989, c. 395, § 1, eff. July 1, 1989; Acts 1989, c. 730, §§ 1, 2, eff. July 1, 1989; Acts 1993, c. 318, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1993; Acts 1994, c. 728, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1994; Acts 1998, c. 46, § 1, eff. Dec. 31, 1998; Acts 1999, c. 214, § 1, eff. June 1, 1999; Acts 2001, c. 414, § 1, eff. March 1, 2002; Acts 2002, c. 279, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2002; Acts 2003, c. 308, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2003; Acts 2005, c. 464, § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 2006; Acts 2005, c. 464, § 3, eff. Jan. 1, 2006; Acts 2006, c. 44, § 6, eff. April 8, 2006; Acts 2012, c. 342, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2012; Acts 2012, c. 343, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2012; Acts 2015, c. 245, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2015; Acts 2017, c. 151, § 1, eff. April 18, 2017; Acts 2017, c. 152, § 1, eff. April 18, 2017; Acts 2017, c. 651, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2017; Acts 2017, c. 652, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2017; Acts 2020, c. 45, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2020; Acts 2023, c. 686, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2023; Acts 2023, c. 687, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2023; Acts 2023, c. 796, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2023; Acts 2023, c. 797, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2023.
MD Code, Family Law, § 5-701, MD FAMILY § 5-701
Current through legislation effective through April 9, 2023, from the 2024 Regular Session of the General Assembly. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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