Art. 1150. Definitions
As used in this Chapter:
(1) "Department" means the Department of Children and Family Services.
(2) "Designated emergency care facility" means any of the following:
(a) Any hospital licensed in the state of Louisiana.
(b) Any of the following medical clinics during normal and customary hours of
operation: local or parish public health units, licensed rural health clinics, licensed
ambulatory surgical centers, and federally qualified health centers. Offices, clinics, or other
types of treatment facilities, private physicians, or dentists not listed above are not designated
emergency care facilities within the meaning of this Subparagraph.
(c) Any manned fire station.
(d) Any manned law enforcement station.
(e) Repealed by Acts 2024, No. 398, §2.
(3) "Emergency medical service provider" means a licensed emergency medical
service provider, when dispatched as a result of a "911" call from a parent who wishes to
relinquish his infant under this Chapter.
(4) "Infant" means a child not previously subjected to abuse or neglect, who is not
more than sixty days old as determined within a reasonable degree of medical certainty by
an examining physician. However, if the infant was admitted to a neonatal intensive care
unit upon birth and has not been discharged from the hospital, then the sixty days shall
commence from the date of initial discharge.
(5) "Relinquish" or "relinquishment" of an infant means to give over possession or
control of him by a parent to another in compliance with this Chapter, with the settled intent
to forego all parental responsibilities.
Acts 2003, No. 609, §2; Acts 2009, No. 284, §1, eff. July 1, 2009; Acts 2013, No.
186, §1; Acts 2016, No. 80, §3; Acts 2018, No. 134, §1; Acts 2022, No. 271, §6; Acts 2024,
No. 145, §1; Acts 2024, No. 398, §2.