Arizona Revised Statutes
Title 8 - Child Safety
§ 8-128 - Violation; classification

8-128. Violation; classification
A person who knowingly violates any provision of this article is guilty of a class 6 felony.

Structure Arizona Revised Statutes

Arizona Revised Statutes

Title 8 - Child Safety

§ 8-101 - Definitions

§ 8-102 - Who may be adopted

§ 8-102.01 - Jurisdiction

§ 8-103 - Who may adopt

§ 8-104 - Venue

§ 8-105 - Preadoption certification; investigation; central adoption registry

§ 8-105.01 - Adoption; racial preferences; prohibition; exception

§ 8-105.02 - Adoption by foster parents; removal of child

§ 8-105.03 - Adoption information from local community organizations

§ 8-106 - Consent to adoption; waiver; consent to the release of information; notification to potential fathers

§ 8-106.01 - Putative fathers registry; claim of paternity; adoptive interest

§ 8-107 - Time and contents of consent

§ 8-108 - Petition for child's custody by noncertified party; hearing; exceptions

§ 8-109 - Petition to adopt; contents

§ 8-110 - Fictitious name for child

§ 8-111 - Notice of hearing on petition to adopt; service

§ 8-112 - Social studies; requirements

§ 8-113 - Removal from home; expedited hearings; probationary period; rights and responsibilities; visitation limitations

§ 8-114 - Monies paid to or for parent; court approval; attorney fees; accounting; disallowance; exception

§ 8-115 - Hearing; procedure; record; evidence

§ 8-116 - Court order; contents; form

§ 8-116.01 - Agreements regarding communications

§ 8-117 - Rights under adoption order

§ 8-118 - Petition withdrawal or denial; custody

§ 8-119 - Dismissal after death; exception

§ 8-120 - Records; inspection; exception; destruction or transfer of certain records

§ 8-121 - Confidentiality of information; exceptions

§ 8-122 - Financial hardship; deferral, waiver or reduction of fees

§ 8-123 - Irregularities; curative period

§ 8-124 - Subsequent adoptions

§ 8-125 - Adoption decrees of other states

§ 8-126 - Licensure and regulation of agencies

§ 8-127 - Services of county attorney; exception

§ 8-128 - Violation; classification

§ 8-129 - Health and genetic history; compilation; availability; costs

§ 8-130 - Consent to licensed agency or division; attorneys; affidavits

§ 8-131 - Exemption of division from licensure; compliance with standards

§ 8-132 - Adoption agency information confidentiality; permissible disclosure; use; violation; classification; definitions

§ 8-133 - Fees for division services

§ 8-134 - Confidential intermediary

§ 8-135 - Confidential intermediary and fiduciary fund

§ 8-136 - Prospective adoptive parent's blindness; certification; grant of adoption; burden of proof; specific written findings; definitions

§ 8-141 - Definitions; exception

§ 8-142 - Adoption subsidy program; funding; claims; limitation

§ 8-142.01 - Adoption subsidy program; hospital reimbursement

§ 8-143 - Eligibility for subsidies; rate

§ 8-144 - Subsidy agreement; duration; amount; periodic review; confidentiality

§ 8-145 - Appeals

§ 8-161 - Definitions

§ 8-162 - Nonrecurring adoption expense program; funding; use of other resources; payment

§ 8-163 - Eligibility

§ 8-164 - Nonrecurring expenses; limitation

§ 8-165 - Records

§ 8-166 - Appeals

§ 8-171 - Definitions

§ 8-172 - Interstate compacts; requirements; optional contents

§ 8-173 - Adoption assistance agreements; reciprocity conditions; violation; classification

§ 8-201 - Definitions

§ 8-201.01 - Prohibitions

§ 8-202 - Jurisdiction of juvenile court

§ 8-203 - Court employees; appointment; certification; qualifications; salary; bond

§ 8-203.01 - Fingerprinting juvenile probation officers; affidavit

§ 8-204 - Juvenile court employees; merit system; annual report

§ 8-205 - Powers and duties of juvenile court personnel

§ 8-206 - Venue

§ 8-207 - Order of adjudication; noncriminal; use as evidence

§ 8-208 - Juvenile court records; public inspection; exceptions

§ 8-209 - Juvenile court facilities; juvenile shelters; treatment services

§ 8-221 - Counsel right of juvenile, parent or guardian; appointment; reimbursement; guardian ad litem

§ 8-222 - Subpoenas; issuance

§ 8-231 - Juvenile court commissioners; appointment; powers and duties; compensation; qualifications

§ 8-232 - County attorney

§ 8-233 - Record of proceeding

§ 8-234 - Treatment, community restitution, restraining and protective orders

§ 8-235 - Appeals

§ 8-236 - Cooperation

§ 8-237 - Statement or conduct of minor; hearsay exception

§ 8-238 - Advisory hearing; DNA

§ 8-241 - Fees on disposition

§ 8-242 - Evaluation and disposition of a child with developmental disabilities

§ 8-243 - Liability of parents to bear expense; exception

§ 8-243.01 - Deposit of child support assessment monies

§ 8-243.02 - Assignment of right to support; priority

§ 8-244 - Removal of child from state

§ 8-245 - Physical and mental care

§ 8-246 - Jurisdiction; length of commitment; placement; assessment; definition

§ 8-247 - Contempt powers

§ 8-248 - Hearing; service providers; definition

§ 8-249 - Restoration of civil rights; persons adjudicated delinquent

§ 8-261 - Definitions

§ 8-262 - Establishing voluntary programs

§ 8-263 - Order for counseling; administration; enforcement

§ 8-264 - Participation by county; certification

§ 8-265 - County's share of matching funds; appropriation by legislature

§ 8-271 - Definitions

§ 8-272 - Psychiatric acute care services; outpatient and inpatient assessments; definitions

§ 8-273 - Residential treatment services; definition

§ 8-291 - Definitions

§ 8-291.01 - Effect of incompetency; request for examination

§ 8-291.02 - Expert appointment; costs; immunity

§ 8-291.03 - Screening report

§ 8-291.04 - Examination; competency to stand trial

§ 8-291.05 - Misdemeanor charges; dismissal; notice

§ 8-291.06 - Privilege against self-incrimination; sealed reports

§ 8-291.07 - Mental health expert reports

§ 8-291.08 - Competency hearings; restoration orders

§ 8-291.09 - Restoration order; commitment

§ 8-291.10 - Reports; hearings

§ 8-291.11 - Records

§ 8-301 - Commencement of proceedings

§ 8-302 - Transfer between juvenile and criminal courts

§ 8-303 - Taking into temporary custody; interference; release; separate custody; violation; classification

§ 8-304 - Investigation of alleged acts of delinquency, dependency and incorrigibility

§ 8-305 - Detention center; jail; separate custody; definition

§ 8-306 - Supervision and inspection of juvenile detention center and shelter care facilities

§ 8-307 - Delinquency hearings; required attendance of cited child; referring to youth service bureau; notification of parents

§ 8-308 - Required attendance of parent, legal guardian or custodian in court; contempt

§ 8-309 - Unlawful use of an electronic communication device by a minor; classification; definitions

§ 8-321 - Referrals; diversions; conditions; community based alternative programs

§ 8-322 - Juvenile probation services fund; program and contract requirements

§ 8-323 - Juvenile hearing officer; appointment; term; compensation; hearings; required attendance; contempt

§ 8-325 - Appeal from an order of a juvenile hearing officer; procedures

§ 8-326 - County attorney

§ 8-327 - Transfer hearing

§ 8-328 - Juvenile diversion programs; reporting

§ 8-341 - Disposition and commitment; definitions

§ 8-341.01 - Residential treatment services; definition

§ 8-342 - Commitment of child; medical examination; definition

§ 8-343 - Disposition of offenses involving driving or in actual physical control of a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs

§ 8-344 - Restitution payments

§ 8-345 - Restitution lien; definition

§ 8-346 - Restitution fund; restitution contracts

§ 8-347 - Disposition document or minute order; fingerprints

§ 8-348 - Setting aside adjudication; application; release from disabilities; exceptions

§ 8-349 - Destruction of juvenile records; electronic research records; definition

§ 8-350 - Dangerous offenders; sex offenders; notification to schools; definition

§ 8-350.01 - Youth sex offenders; treatment; definition

§ 8-350.02 - Civil actions by victim or other persons

§ 8-351 - Definition of juvenile intensive probation

§ 8-352 - Intensive probation; evaluation; criteria; limit; conditions

§ 8-353 - Juvenile intensive probation teams; duties; caseload limit

§ 8-354 - Modification of supervision

§ 8-355 - School; employment; community restitution programs

§ 8-357 - Budget requests

§ 8-358 - Juvenile intensive probation guidelines; report

§ 8-361 - Adoption of interstate compact for juveniles

§ 8-362 - Commission assessments

§ 8-363 - Juvenile compact administrator, compact commissioner; authority to appoint deputy compact administrator; state council

§ 8-364 - Financial arrangements

§ 8-365 - Responsibilities of state departments, agencies and officers

§ 8-371 - Educational rehabilitation; definition

§ 8-381 - Applicability

§ 8-382 - Definitions

§ 8-383 - Implementation of rights and duties

§ 8-383.01 - Victims' rights; dismissed counts

§ 8-384 - Inability to exercise rights; designation of others; notice; representative for a minor or vulnerable adult; definition

§ 8-385 - Limited rights of a legal entity

§ 8-385.01 - Victims' rights for neighborhood associations

§ 8-386 - Information provided to victim by law enforcement agencies

§ 8-386.01 - Issuance and execution of arrest warrants

§ 8-387 - Notice of terms and conditions of release

§ 8-388 - Notice of diversion

§ 8-389 - Preliminary notice of rights

§ 8-390 - Notice of proceedings

§ 8-391 - Notice of adjudication; impact statement

§ 8-392 - Notice of postadjudication review and appellate proceedings

§ 8-392.01 - Notice of right to request not to receive committed youth mail

§ 8-393 - Notice of release or escape

§ 8-394 - Notice of delinquent's status

§ 8-395 - Notice of postadjudication release; right to be heard; hearing; final decision; free electronic recording

§ 8-396 - Notice of probation modification, termination or revocation disposition matters; notice of arrest

§ 8-397 - Notice of release, discharge or escape from a mental health treatment agency or residential treatment

§ 8-398 - Request for notice; forms; notice system

§ 8-399 - Victim conference with prosecuting attorney

§ 8-400 - Proceedings; right to be present

§ 8-401 - Detention hearing

§ 8-402 - Postarrest detention decisions

§ 8-403 - Plea negotiation

§ 8-404 - Impact statement; predisposition report

§ 8-405 - Disposition

§ 8-406 - Probation modification, revocation disposition or termination proceedings

§ 8-407 - Victim's discretion; form of statement

§ 8-408 - Return of victim's property; release of evidence

§ 8-409 - Consultation between crime victim advocate and victim; privileged information; exception

§ 8-410 - Minimizing victim's contacts

§ 8-411 - Motion to revoke release

§ 8-412 - Victim's right to refuse an interview; applicability

§ 8-413 - Victim's right to privacy; exception; definitions

§ 8-414 - Speedy adjudication; continuance; notice

§ 8-415 - Effect of failure to comply

§ 8-416 - Standing to invoke rights; recovery of damages; right to counsel

§ 8-417 - Construction of article

§ 8-418 - Implementation fee; definition

§ 8-419 - Victim reconciliation services

§ 8-420 - Right to leave work; scheduled proceedings; employment rights; nondiscrimination; confidentiality; definition

§ 8-421 - Statement of rights

§ 8-422 - Use of a facility dog in court proceedings; definition

§ 8-451 - Department; purpose

§ 8-452 - Director; appointment; qualifications; compensation

§ 8-453 - Powers and duties

§ 8-454 - Department organization

§ 8-455 - Centralized intake hotline; purposes; report of possible crime; DCS report; risk assessment tools; access to information; public awareness; definitions

§ 8-456 - Investigative function; training; voice stress analysis; recordings; criminal offenses; definitions

§ 8-457 - Service coordination function

§ 8-458 - Inspections bureau; monitoring and evaluation; quality assurance process

§ 8-459 - Community advisory committee; duties; membership

§ 8-460 - Acquisition of lands and buildings; lease-purchase agreements; lease or sublease of lands or buildings

§ 8-461 - Child safety collections; fund; definition

§ 8-462 - Housing assistance

§ 8-463 - Department of child safety employees; employees of contractors; fingerprint requirement

§ 8-464 - Electronic communication by department

§ 8-465 - Auditor general; department audit team; duties

§ 8-466 - Child and family advocacy center; requirements for funding; immunity; definition

§ 8-467 - Child welfare licensing fees; fund; uses; trust; definition

§ 8-471 - Office of child welfare investigations; training; responsibilities; annual report

§ 8-481 - Healthy families program; administration; consent; access to records

§ 8-501 - Definitions

§ 8-502 - Foster parent and child welfare agency information; confidentiality; permissible disclosure; use; violation; classification; definitions

§ 8-503 - Powers and duties

§ 8-503.01 - Children and family services training program fund; purposes; status report; exemption from lapsing

§ 8-504 - Sanitation, fire and hazard inspection

§ 8-505 - Issuance of licenses; application; investigation; renewal

§ 8-506 - Denial, suspension or revocation of license; foster home; hearing; exception

§ 8-506.01 - Denial, suspension, revocation or change of license; child welfare agency; appeal

§ 8-507 - Operation without license

§ 8-508 - Receipt of articles of incorporation

§ 8-509 - Licensing of foster homes; fingerprint waiver; restricted license; renewal of license; provisional license; exemption from licensure; immunization requirements

§ 8-509.01 - Prospective foster parent's blindness; burden of proof; specific written findings; definitions

§ 8-510 - Acceptance of children by agency

§ 8-511 - Short-term caregiver

§ 8-512 - Comprehensive medical and dental care; guidelines

§ 8-512.01 - Behavioral health services; urgent need; dependent and adopted children; definition

§ 8-512.02 - Comprehensive health plan expenditure authority fund; reversion

§ 8-513 - Participation in activities; contact with relatives; placement with siblings; independent living programs

§ 8-514 - Placement in foster homes

§ 8-514.01 - Placement of children with developmental disabilities

§ 8-514.02 - Placement of child

§ 8-514.03 - Kinship foster care; requirements; investigation

§ 8-514.04 - Kinship care program; requirements

§ 8-514.05 - Foster care provider and department access to child health information; consent to treatment

§ 8-514.06 - Out-of-home placement; documents; definition

§ 8-514.07 - Kinship foster care; relative identification and notification

§ 8-514.08 - Educational decisions; parent contact information; inability to locate

§ 8-515 - Time limits on placement in receiving home; court orders

§ 8-515.01 - Local foster care review boards; appointment; exclusions; terms; training; compensation; meetings

§ 8-515.02 - Case assignment; distribution of records

§ 8-515.03 - Duties of local foster care review boards

§ 8-515.04 - State foster care review board; members; personnel; training programs; compensation

§ 8-515.05 - Removal of child from foster parent's home; requirements; notification; review

§ 8-516 - Supervision of foster homes; reports; review of file; progress report

§ 8-517 - Withdrawal from foster home

§ 8-518 - Central registry; change of address; marital status

§ 8-519 - Records and reports

§ 8-520 - Violations; classification

§ 8-521 - Independent living program; conditions; eligibility; rules; progress reports; educational case management unit

§ 8-521.01 - Transitional independent living program

§ 8-521.02 - Extended foster care program; requirements

§ 8-522 - Dependency actions; special advocate; appointment; duties; immunity

§ 8-523 - Special advocate program

§ 8-524 - Special advocate fund

§ 8-525 - Open court proceedings; closure; records

§ 8-526 - Child welfare; reporting requirements

§ 8-526.01 - Missing children; reporting requirements; definitions

§ 8-527 - Children in out-of-home care; noninterference with regular school activities

§ 8-528 - Newborn infants left with safe haven providers; placement protocol; definitions

§ 8-529 - Children in foster care; rights

§ 8-530 - Foster parents; rights

§ 8-530.01 - Placement of a child returning to foster care; notification

§ 8-530.02 - Child welfare; joint annual report

§ 8-530.03 - Child placement; time limits

§ 8-531 - Definitions

§ 8-531.01 - Prohibition

§ 8-532 - Jurisdiction; dependency based termination

§ 8-533 - Petition; who may file; grounds

§ 8-534 - Contents of petition

§ 8-535 - Notice of initial hearing; waiver; guardian ad litem

§ 8-536 - Social study before disposition; contents

§ 8-537 - Termination adjudication hearing

§ 8-538 - Court order; form; contents

§ 8-539 - Effect of court order

§ 8-540 - Court costs

§ 8-541 - Records; disclosure; exception

§ 8-542 - Confidentiality of information; violation; classification

§ 8-543 - Sibling information exchange program; definition

§ 8-544 - Termination decrees of other states

§ 8-548 - Enactment of compact; terms

§ 8-548.01 - Financial responsibility

§ 8-548.02 - Interstate compact administrator

§ 8-548.03 - Supplementary agreements

§ 8-548.04 - Financial arrangements

§ 8-548.05 - Visitation, inspection and supervision

§ 8-548.06 - Responsibilities of state departments, agencies and officers

§ 8-550.01 - Child abuse prevention fund; purpose; definition

§ 8-801 - Definitions

§ 8-802 - Child safety worker; fingerprint clearance cards; interview requirements; temporary custody limit; cooperation and coordination; alteration of files; violation; classification

§ 8-803 - Limitation of authority; duty to inform

§ 8-804 - Central registry; notification; definition

§ 8-804.01 - Maintenance of reports; records

§ 8-805 - Immunity of participants; nonprivileged communications

§ 8-806 - Voluntary placement; conditions; notice of placement; time limit; rules

§ 8-807 - DCS information; public record; use; confidentiality; violation; classification; definition

§ 8-807.01 - Incidents involving fatality or near fatality; definition

§ 8-808 - Parent assistance program

§ 8-809 - Parents' rights; information on website; rule changes

§ 8-810 - Missing children; notification; entry into databases

§ 8-811 - Hearing process; definitions

§ 8-812 - Child welfare agency; nonoperating identification license; photograph

§ 8-813 - Preplacement investigation; medical examination; disposition

§ 8-814 - Permanent guardianship subsidy; offsets; annual review; discontinuation; appeals; definition

§ 8-815 - Indian child welfare act; inquiry

§ 8-816 - Family builders program; services; definitions

§ 8-817 - Initial screening and safety assessment and investigation protocols

§ 8-819 - Determination of neglect

§ 8-821 - Taking into temporary custody; medical examination; placement; interference; violation; classification; definition

§ 8-822 - Removal of child from home; rules and policies; approval; definition

§ 8-823 - Notice of taking into temporary custody

§ 8-824 - Preliminary protective hearing; probable cause; appointment of counsel

§ 8-825 - Court determinations in preliminary protective hearing

§ 8-826 - Further hearings and proceedings

§ 8-827 - Background checks of adults residing in potential emergency placement homes; disqualifying criminal offenses; definitions

§ 8-829 - Judicial determinations; timing; documentation

§ 8-831 - Parent's blindness; burden of proof; specific written findings; definitions

§ 8-841 - Dependency petition; service; preliminary orders; hearing

§ 8-842 - Initial dependency hearing; deadlines

§ 8-843 - Initial dependency hearing; rights

§ 8-844 - Dependency adjudication hearing; settlement conference or mediation

§ 8-844.01 - Allegation of aggravating circumstance

§ 8-845 - Disposition hearing

§ 8-846 - Services provided to the child and family

§ 8-847 - Periodic review hearings

§ 8-861 - Return of child

§ 8-862 - Permanency hearing

§ 8-863 - Hearing to terminate parental rights; notice; grounds

§ 8-864 - Timing of motions and hearings; consolidation of hearings

§ 8-871 - Permanent guardianship of a child

§ 8-872 - Permanent guardianship; procedure

§ 8-873 - Revocation of permanent guardianship

§ 8-873.01 - Permanent guardianship dependency proceedings; reunification services

§ 8-874 - Appointment of successor permanent guardian

§ 8-882 - Program development

§ 8-883 - Requirements for contractors

§ 8-884 - Evaluation of community programs; annual report

§ 8-891 - In-home intervention

§ 8-892 - Compliance

§ 8-901 - Missing, kidnapped or runaway children; mandatory reporting

§ 8-921 - Prohibition on religious discrimination; adoption services and foster care services; enforcement; remedies; definitions

§ 8-1151 - Findings and declarations

§ 8-1152 - Definitions

§ 8-1161 - Responsibilities of regional partnership councils

§ 8-1162 - Composition of regional partnership councils; reimbursement of expenses; immunity

§ 8-1163 - Staff support for regional partnership councils

§ 8-1164 - Designation of regions

§ 8-1171 - Regional and statewide direct and grant program requirements; permitted objectives

§ 8-1172 - Program and grant proposal requirements

§ 8-1173 - Procedures for the award of regional grants

§ 8-1174 - Program and grantee accountability

§ 8-1181 - Early childhood development and health fund

§ 8-1182 - Acceptance of gifts and grants; acceptance of federal, state and local monies; use

§ 8-1183 - Prohibition on supplantation of state funds; additional legislative appropriations

§ 8-1184 - Budget and funding process

§ 8-1185 - Allocation of funds

§ 8-1186 - Annual audit

§ 8-1191 - Members; appointment; terms; oath; immunity

§ 8-1192 - Powers and duties

§ 8-1193 - Public record, open meeting, and conflict of interest laws

§ 8-1194 - Meetings; travel expenses

§ 8-1195 - Executive director compensation; duties; regional and board staff; central office; expenditure of funds