§ 374-a. Interstate compact on the placement of children. 1. The\ninterstate compact on the placement of children is hereby enacted into\nlaw and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining\ntherein in form substantially as follows:\n INTERSTATE COMPACT ON THE PLACEMENT OF CHILDREN\n ARTICLE I. PURPOSE AND POLICY\n It is the purpose and policy of the party states to cooperate with\neach other in the interstate placement of children to the end that:\n (a) Each child requiring placement shall receive the maximum\nopportunity to be placed in a suitable environment and with persons or\ninstitutions having appropriate qualifications and facilities to provide\na necessary and desirable degree and type of care.\n (b) The appropriate authorities in a state where a child is to be\nplaced may have full opportunity to ascertain the circumstances of the\nproposed placement, thereby promoting full compliance with applicable\nrequirements for the protection of the child.\n (c) The proper authorities of the state from which the placement is\nmade may obtain the most complete information on the basis of which to\nevaluate a projected placement before it is made.\n (d) Appropriate jurisdictional arrangements for the care of children\nwill be promoted.\n ARTICLE II. DEFINITIONS\n As used in this compact:\n (a) "Child" means a person who, by reason of minority, is legally\nsubject to parental, guardianship or similar control.\n (b) "Sending agency" means a party state, officer or employee thereof;\na subdivision of a party state, or officer or employee thereof; a court\nof a party state; a person, corporation, association, charitable agency\nor other entity which sends, brings, or causes to be sent or brought any\nchild to another party state.\n (c) "Receiving state" means the state to which a child is sent,\nbrought, or caused to be sent or brought, whether by public authorities\nor private persons or agencies, and whether for placement with state or\nlocal public authorities or for placement with private agencies or\npersons.\n (d) "Placement" means the arrangement for the care of a child in a\nfamily free or boarding home or in a child-caring agency or institution\nbut does not include any institution caring for the mentally ill,\nmentally defective or epileptic or any institution primarily educational\nin character, and any hospital or other medical facility.\n ARTICLE III. CONDITIONS FOR PLACEMENT\n (a) No sending agency shall send, bring, or cause to be sent or\nbrought into any other party state any child for placement in foster\ncare or as a preliminary to a possible adoption unless the sending\nagency shall comply with each and every requirement set forth in this\narticle and with the applicable laws of the receiving state governing\nthe placement of children therein.\n (b) Prior to sending, bringing or causing any child to be sent or\nbrought into a receiving state for placement in foster care or as a\npreliminary to a possible adoption, the sending agency shall furnish the\nappropriate public authorities in the receiving state written notice of\nthe intention to send, bring, or place the child in the receiving state.\nThe notice shall contain:\n (1) The name, date and place of birth of the child.\n (2) The identity and address or addresses of the parents or legal\nguardian.\n (3) The name and address of the person, agency or institution to or\nwith which the sending agency proposes to send, bring, or place the\nchild.\n (4) A full statement of the reasons for such proposed action and\nevidence of the authority pursuant to which the placement is proposed to\nbe made.\n (c) Any public officer or agency in a receiving state which is in\nreceipt of a notice pursuant to paragraph (b) of this article may\nrequest of the sending agency, or any other appropriate officer or\nagency of or in the sending agency's state, and shall be entitl
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