424.018 - “Specialized foster home” defined. [Effective January 1, 2011.]

424.018  “Specialized foster home” defined. [Effective January 1, 2011.]  “Specialized foster home” means a family home which provides full-time care and services for one to six children who:

      1.  Require special care for physical, mental or emotional issues;

      2.  Are under 21 years of age;

      3.  Are not related within the first degree of consanguinity or affinity to any natural person maintaining or operating the home;

      4.  Are received, cared for and maintained for compensation; and

      5.  Are in the custody of and placed in the home by an agency which provides child welfare services.

      (Added to NRS by 2009, 1486, effective January 1, 2011)