North Dakota § 50-28-01 - Definitions
Full text of North Dakota North Dakota Century Code § 50-28-01 — Definitions, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 50-28-01. Definitions
As used in this chapter: 1. "Adoption assistance" means the payment or payments for the maintenance of a child which are made or committed to be made pursuant to an adoption assistance program established by the laws of a party state. 2. "Adoption assistance state" means the state that is signatory to an adoption assistance agreement in a particular case. 3. "Child with special needs" means an individual under twenty-one years of age, who was or will be adopted before reaching eighteen years of age, and who has any of the special needs described in section 50-09-02.2. 4. "Compact" means the interstate compact on adoption and medical assistance. 5. "Department" means the department of health and human services. 6. "Medical assistance" means a program operated by a state under a state plan approved under title XIX of the Social Security Act [42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.]. 7. "Party state" means a state that has adopted the compact. 8. "Residence state" means the state in which the child lives. 9. "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 of the United States.
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Section 50-28-01 ("Definitions") is part of the North Dakota Century Code, the codified statutory law of North Dakota. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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