{"data":{"id":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-63-1-40","jurisdiction":"us-sc","citation":"S.C. Code Ann. § 63-1-40","heading":"Definitions.","body":"When used in this title and unless otherwise defined or the specific context indicates otherwise:\n(1) \"Child\" means a person under the age of eighteen.\n(2) \"Court\" means the family court.\n(3) \"Guardian\" means a person who legally has the care and management of a child.\n(4) \"Judge\" means the judge of the family court.\n(5) \"Parent\" means biological parent, adoptive parents, step-parent, or person with legal custody.\n(6) \"Status offense\" means any offense which would not be a misdemeanor or felony if committed by an adult, such as, but not limited to, incorrigibility (beyond the control of parents), truancy, running away, playing or loitering in a billiard room, playing a pinball machine or gaining admission to a theater by false identification.\n(7) \"Child caring facility\" means a campus with one or more staffed residences and with a total population of twenty or more children who are in care apart from their parents, relatives, or guardians on a continuing full-time basis for protection and guidance.\n(8) \"Foster home\" means a household of one or more persons who are licensed or approved to provide full-time care for one to five children living apart from their parents or guardians.\n(9) \"Residential group care home\" means a staffed residence with a population fewer than twenty children who are in care apart from their parents, relatives, or guardians on a full-time basis.","path":["Title 63 - SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S CODE","CHAPTER 1 State Policy and General Provisions"],"source_url":"https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t63c001.php","current_through":"2025 Session of the General Assembly","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T08:09:09Z","sha256":"793bc6d10fb8a6179eee392e84fb8f6a870ba5f12fb60de9767a65489e496dc9","source_id":"us-sc","stale":false,"prev":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-63-1-30","next":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-63-1-45"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}