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90_HB1350

      705 ILCS 405/1-3          from Ch. 37, par. 801-3
          Amends the Juvenile Court Act of 1987.   Makes  stylistic
      changes in the definition Section of the Act.
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 1        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  Juvenile  Court  Act  of 1987 by
 2    changing Section 1-3.
 3        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section  5.  The Juvenile Court Act of 1987 is amended by
 6    changing Section 1-3 as follows:
 7        (705 ILCS 405/1-3) (from Ch. 37, par. 801-3)
 8        Sec. 1-3.  Definitions. Terms used in  this  Act,  unless
 9    the  context  otherwise requires, have the following meanings
10    ascribed to them:
11        (1)  Adjudicatory hearing. "Adjudicatory hearing" means a
12    hearing to determine whether the allegations  of  a  petition
13    under  Section 2-13, 3-15 or 4-12 that a minor under 18 years
14    of  age  is  abused,  neglected  or  dependent,  or  requires
15    authoritative intervention, or  addicted,  respectively,  are
16    supported  by  a preponderance of the evidence or whether the
17    allegations of a petition under Section 5-13 that a minor  is
18    delinquent are proved beyond a reasonable doubt.
19        (2)  Adult.  "Adult"  means  a  person 21 years of age or
20    older.
21        (3)  Agency. "Agency" means a  public  or  private  child
22    care  facility  legally  authorized or licensed by this State
23    for placement or institutional care or for both placement and
24    institutional care.
25        (4)  Association. "Association" means  any  organization,
26    public or private, engaged in welfare functions which include
27    services  to  or  on  behalf of children but does not include
28    "agency" as herein defined.
29        (4.1)  Chronic truant.  "Chronic truant" shall  have  the
30    definition  ascribed  to  it  in  Section 26-2a of The School
31    Code.
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 1        (5)  Court. "Court" means the circuit court in a  session
 2    or division assigned to hear proceedings under this Act.
 3        (6)  Dispositional hearing. "Dispositional hearing" means
 4    a  hearing to determine whether a minor should be adjudged to
 5    be a ward of the  court,  and  to  determine  what  order  of
 6    disposition  should be made in respect to a minor adjudged to
 7    be a ward of the court.
 8        (7)  Emancipated minor.  "Emancipated  minor"  means  any
 9    minor  16  years  of  age  or over who has been completely or
10    partially  emancipated  under  the  "Emancipation  of  Mature
11    Minors Act", enacted by the Eighty-First General Assembly, or
12    under this Act.
13        (8)  Guardianship of the  person.  "Guardianship  of  the
14    person" of a minor means the duty and authority to act in the
15    best  interests  of  the  minor, subject to residual parental
16    rights and responsibilities, to make important  decisions  in
17    matters having a permanent effect on the life and development
18    of  the  minor  and  to  be concerned with his or her general
19    welfare. It includes but is not necessarily limited to:
20             (a)  the  authority  to  consent  to  marriage,   to
21        enlistment  in  the armed forces of the United States, or
22        to a major medical, psychiatric, and surgical  treatment;
23        to  represent  the  minor  in  legal actions; and to make
24        other  decisions  of   substantial   legal   significance
25        concerning the minor;
26             (b)  the    authority   and   duty   of   reasonable
27        visitation, except to the extent  that  these  have  been
28        limited  in  the  best  interests  of  the minor by court
29        order;
30             (c)  the  rights  and  responsibilities   of   legal
31        custody  except  where  legal  custody has been vested in
32        another person or agency; and
33             (d)  the power to consent to  the  adoption  of  the
34        minor, but only if expressly conferred on the guardian in
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 1        accordance  with Section 2-29, 3-30, 4-27 or 5-31 of this
 2        Act.
 3        (9)  Legal   custody.    "Legal   custody"   means    the
 4    relationship  created  by  an  order  of  court  in  the best
 5    interests of the minor which imposes  on  the  custodian  the
 6    responsibility of physical possession of a minor and the duty
 7    to  protect, train and discipline him and to provide him with
 8    food, shelter, education and ordinary medical care, except as
 9    these  are  limited   by   residual   parental   rights   and
10    responsibilities  and  the rights and responsibilities of the
11    guardian of the person, if any.
12        (10)  Minor. "Minor" means a person under the age  of  21
13    years subject to this Act.
14        (11)  Parents.   "Parent" means the father or mother of a
15    child and includes any adoptive parent.  It also includes the
16    father whose paternity is presumed or  has  been  established
17    under  the  law of this or another jurisdiction.  It does not
18    include a parent whose rights in respect to  the  minor  have
19    been terminated in any manner provided by law.
20        (11.1)  "Permanency  goal"  means a goal set by a service
21    plan or an administrative case  review,  including,  but  not
22    limited  to,  (i)  remaining  home,  (ii) returning home to a
23    specified parent or guardian, (iii) adoption, (iv)  successor
24    guardianship,  (v) long-term relative foster care, (vi) other
25    long-term substitute care, when no other goal is appropriate,
26    or (vii) emancipation.
27        (11.2)  "Permanency review hearing" means  a  hearing  to
28    review   and   determine   (i)  the  appropriateness  of  the
29    permanency goal in light of the permanency alternatives, (ii)
30    the appropriateness of the plan to achieve  the  goal,  (iii)
31    the  appropriateness  of  the  services  delivered  and to be
32    delivered to effectuate the  plan  and  goal,  and  (iv)  the
33    efforts being made by all the parties to achieve the plan and
34    goal.
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 1        (12)  Petition.  "Petition"  means  the petition provided
 2    for in  Section  2-13,  3-15,  4-12  or  5-13  of  this  Act,
 3    including any supplemental petitions thereunder.
 4        (13)  Residual   parental  rights  and  responsibilities.
 5    "Residual parental rights and responsibilities"  means  those
 6    rights  and  responsibilities remaining with the parent after
 7    the transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the  person,
 8    including,  but  not  necessarily  limited  to,  the right to
 9    reasonable visitation (which may be limited by the  court  in
10    the  best  interests  of  the minor as provided in subsection
11    (8)(b) of this Section), the right to  consent  to  adoption,
12    the right to determine the minor's religious affiliation, and
13    the responsibility for his support.
14        (14)  Shelter.  "Shelter"  means  the temporary care of a
15    minor in physically unrestricting  facilities  pending  court
16    disposition or execution of court order for placement.
17        (15)  Station adjustment.  "Station adjustment" means the
18    informal handling of an alleged offender by a juvenile police
19    officer.
20        (16)  Ward  of  the  court.  "Ward  of the court" means a
21    minor who is so adjudged under Section 2-22,  3-23,  4-20  or
22    5-22   of   this  Act,  after  a  finding  of  the  requisite
23    jurisdictional  facts,   and   thus   is   subject   to   the
24    dispositional powers of the court under this Act.
25        (17)  Juvenile police officer.  "Juvenile police officer"
26    means  a  sworn  police  officer  who  has  completed a Basic
27    Recruit Training Course, has been assigned to the position of
28    juvenile police officer by his or her chief  law  enforcement
29    officer  and  has  completed  the necessary juvenile officers
30    training  as  prescribed  by  the  Illinois  Law  Enforcement
31    Training Standards Board, or in the case of  a  State  police
32    officer,  juvenile  officer training approved by the Director
33    of the Department of State Police.
34    (Source: P.A. 88-7, Sec. 5; 88-7, Sec.  15;  88-487;  88-586,
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 1    eff. 8-12-94; 88-670, eff. 12-2-94.)

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