Title 80, Title 80: Utah Juvenile Code

80-2-802. Division child placing and adoption services -- Restrictions on placement of a child. (1) Except as provided in Subsection, the division may provide adoption services and, as a licensed child-placing agency under, engage in child placing in accordance with this chapter,…

80-2-803. Division promotion of adoption -- Adoption research and informational pamphlet. The division shall: (1) actively promote the adoption of all children in the division's custody who have a final plan for termination of parental rights under Sectionor a primary permanency …

80-2-804. Adoptive placement time frame -- Division contracts with child-placing agencies. (1) Subject to this part, for a child who has a primary permanency plan of adoption or for whom a final plan for pursuing termination of parental rights is approved in accordance with Secti…

80-2-805. Division post-adoption services and contracts -- Access to health care for an adopted child. (1) Unless a parent or guardian of a child who is adopted from the custody of the division expressly requests otherwise, the division may not, solely on the basis that the paren…

80-2-806. Division adoption assistance -- Eligibility -- Limitations. (1) The purpose of this section is to provide adoption assistance to eligible adoptive families to establish and maintain a permanent adoptive placement for a child who has a special need and who qualifies unde…

80-2-807. Division supplemental adoption assistance -- Department advisory committee. (1) The division may, based on annual legislative appropriations for adoption assistance and, subject to Subsection, division rules made in accordance with, provide supplemental adoption assista…

80-2-808. Division termination or modification of adoption assistance. (1) The division may not terminate or modify adoption assistance unless the division gives the adoptive parents notice and opportunity for a hearing as required in. Title 63G, Chapter 4, Administrative Procedu…

80-2-809. Interstate compact adoption assistance agreements. (1) Notwithstanding Section, as used in this section: 80-2-801 "Adoption assistance" means financial support to an adoptive parent provided under the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, Title IV (e) of th…

80-2-901. Definitions. As used in this part: (1) "State" means: a state of the United States; the District of Columbia; the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; the Virgin Islands; Guam; the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; or a territory or possession administered by the Un…

80-2-902. Division authority under Article III of Interstate Compact. (1) The "appropriate public authorities," as used in Article III of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children shall, with reference to this state, mean the division. (2) The division shall receive and…

80-2-903. Director authority under Article V of Interstate Compact. As used in Paragraph (1) of Article V of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children, "appropriate authority in the receiving state," with reference to this state, means the director of the division.

80-2-904. Executive director authority under Article VII of Interstate Compact. (1) As used in Article VII of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children, "executive" means the executive director of the department. (2) The executive director of the department is authorize…

80-2-905. Interstate Compact on Placement of Children -- Text. The Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children is hereby enacted and entered into with all other jurisdictions that legally join in the compact which is, in form, substantially as follows: INTERSTATE COMPACT ON P…

80-2-906. Financial responsibility for child placed under Interstate Compact. (1) Financial responsibility for a child placed under the provisions of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children shall, in the first instance, be determined in accordance with the provisions …

80-2-907. Fulfillment of requirements under Interstate Compact. Requirements for visitation, inspection, or supervision of children, homes, institutions, or other agencies in another party state which may apply under this chapter or, shall be deemed to be met if performed under a…

80-2-908. Jurisdiction over delinquent children under Interstate Compact. Any court having jurisdiction to place delinquent children may place such a child in an institution in another state, under Article VI of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children, and shall retai…

80-2-909. Existing authority for child placement continues. Any person who, under any law of this state other than this part or the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children established under Section, has authority to make or assist in making the placement of a child, shall…

80-2-910. Interjurisdictional home study report. (1) The state of Utah may request a home study report from another state or an Indian Tribe for purposes of assessing the safety and suitability of placing a child in a home outside of the jurisdiction of the state of Utah. (2) The…