Nevada § 127.330 - Text of compact

§ 127.330. Text of compact

The Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children is as follows: INTERSTATE COMPACT ON THE PLACEMENT OF CHILDREN ARTICLE I. Purpose and Policy It is the purpose and policy of the party states to cooperate with each other in the

interstate placement of children to the end that: (a) Each child requiring placement receives the maximum opportunity to be placed in

a suitable environment and with persons or institutions having appropriate qualifications

and facilities to provide a necessary and desirable degree and type of care. (b) The appropriate authorities in a state where a child is to be placed may have

full opportunity to ascertain the circumstances of the proposed placement, thereby

promoting full compliance with applicable requirements for the protection of the child. (c) The proper authorities of the state from which the placement is made may obtain

the most complete information on the basis of which to evaluate a projected placement

before it is made. (d) Appropriate jurisdictional arrangements for the care of children are promoted. ARTICLE II. Definitions As used in this compact: (a) “Child” means a person who, by reason of minority, is legally subject to parental

control, guardianship or similar control. (b) “Placement” means the arrangement for the care of a child in a family free or

boarding home or in a child-caring agency or institution but does not include any

institution caring for the mentally ill, mentally defective or epileptic or any institution

primarily educational in character, and any hospital or other medical facility. (c) “Receiving state” means the state to which a child is sent, brought, or caused

to be sent or brought, whether by public authorities or private persons or agencies,

and whether for placement with state or local public authorities or for placement

with private agencies or persons. (d) “Sending agency” means a party state, officer or employee thereof; a subdivision

of a party state, or officer or employee thereof; a court of a party state; a person,

corporation, association, charitable agency or other entity which sends, brings or

causes to be sent or brought any child to another party state. ARTICLE III. Conditions for Placement (a) A sending agency shall not send, bring or cause to be sent or brought into any

other party state any child for placement in foster care or as a preliminary to a

possible adoption unless the sending agency complies with each and every requirement

set forth in this article and with the applicable laws of the receiving state governing

the placement of children therein. (b) Prior to sending, bringing or causing any child to be sent or brought into a receiving

state for placement in foster care or as a preliminary to a possible adoption, the

sending agency shall furnish the appropriate public authorities in the receiving state

written notice of the intention to send, bring or place the child in the receiving

state. The notice must contain: (1) The name, date and place of birth of the child. (2) The identity and address or addresses of the parents or legal guardian. (3) The name and address of the person, agency or institution to or with which the

sending agency proposes to send, bring or place the child. (4) A full statement of the reasons for the proposed action and evidence of the authority

pursuant to which the placement is proposed to be made. (c) Any public officer or agency in a receiving state which is in receipt of a notice

pursuant to paragraph (b) of this article may request of the sending agency, or any

other appropriate officer or agency of or in the sending agency's state, and is entitled

to receive therefrom, such supporting or additional information as it considers necessary

under the circumstances to carry out the purpose and policy of this compact. (d) The child must not be sent, brought or caused to be sent or brought into the receiving

state until the appropriate public authorities in the receiving state notify the sending

agency, in writing, to the effect that the proposed placement does not appear to be

contrary to the interests of the child. ARTICLE IV. Penalty for Illegal Placement The sending, bringing or causing to be sent or brought into any receiving state of

a child in violation of the terms of this compact is a violation of the laws respecting

the placement of children of both the state in which the sending agency is located

or from which it sends or brings the child and of the receiving state. Such a violation may be punished or subjected to penalty in either jurisdiction in

accordance with its laws. In addition to liability for any such punishment or penalty, the violation constitutes

full and sufficient grounds for the suspension or revocation of any license, permit

or other legal authorization held by the sending agency which empowers or allows it

to place or care for children. ARTICLE V. Retention of Jurisdiction (a) The sending agency retains such jurisdiction over the child sufficient to determine

all matters in relation to the custody, supervision, care, treatment and disposition

of the child as it would have had if the child had remained in the sending agency's

state, until the child is adopted, reaches majority, becomes self-supporting or is

discharged with the concurrence of the appropriate authority in the receiving state.

That jurisdiction also includes the power to effect or cause the return of the child

or the transfer of the child to another location and custody pursuant to law. The sending agency continues to have financial responsibility for support and maintenance

of the child during the period of the placement. Nothing contained in this article defeats a claim of jurisdiction by a receiving state

sufficient to deal with an act of delinquency or crime committed therein. (b) When the sending agency is a public agency, it may enter into an agreement with

an authorized public or private agency in the receiving state to provide one or more

services to the child as the agent for the sending agency. (c) Nothing in this compact prevents a private charitable agency authorized to place

children in the receiving state from performing services or acting as the agent in

that state for a private charitable agency of the sending state, or to prevent the

agency in the receiving state from discharging its financial responsibility for the

support and maintenance of a child who has been placed on behalf of the sending agency

without relieving the responsibility set forth in paragraph (a). ARTICLE VI. Institutional Care of Delinquent Children A child adjudicated delinquent may be placed in an institution in another party jurisdiction

pursuant to this compact but no such placement may be made unless the child is given

a court hearing on notice to the parent or guardian with opportunity to be heard,

prior to the child being sent to the other party jurisdiction for institutional care

and the court finds that: (a) Equivalent facilities for the child are not available in the sending agency's

jurisdiction; and (b) Institutional care in the other jurisdiction is in the best interest of the child

and will not produce undue hardship. ARTICLE VII. Compact Administrator The executive head of each jurisdiction party to this compact shall designate an officer

to act as the administrator and general coordinator of activities under this compact

in his or her jurisdiction and who, acting jointly with like officers of other party

jurisdictions, may adopt regulations to carry out more effectively the terms and provisions

of this compact. ARTICLE VIII. Limitations This compact does not apply to: (a) The sending or bringing of a child into a receiving state by his or her parent,

stepparent, grandparent, adult brother or sister, adult uncle or aunt or his or her

guardian and leaving the child with any such relative or nonagency guardian in the

receiving state. (b) Any placement, sending or bringing of a child into a receiving state pursuant

to any other interstate compact to which both the state from which the child is sent

or brought and the receiving state are parties, or to any other agreement between

the states which has the force of law. ARTICLE IX. Enactment and Withdrawal This compact is open to joinder by any state, territory or possession of the United

States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and, with the consent

of Congress, the Government of Canada or any province thereof. It becomes effective with respect to any jurisdiction when the jurisdiction has enacted

it into law. Withdrawal from this compact must be by the enactment of a statute repealing it, but

does not take effect until 2 years after the effective date of the statute and until

written notice of the withdrawal has been given by the withdrawing jurisdiction to

the executive head of each other party jurisdiction. Withdrawal of a party jurisdiction does not affect the rights, duties and obligations

under this compact of any sending agency in that jurisdiction with respect to a placement

made prior to the effective date of withdrawal. ARTICLE X. Construction and Severability The provisions of this compact must be liberally construed to effectuate the purposes

thereof. The provisions of this compact are severable and if any phrase, clause, sentence or

provision of this compact is declared to be contrary to the constitution of any party

state or of the United States or the applicability thereof to any government, agency,

person or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this compact

and the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person or circumstance are

not affected thereby. If this compact is held contrary to the constitution of any state party thereto, the

compact remains in full force and effect as to the remaining states and in full force

and effect as to the state affected as to all severable matters.