Section 325.20  Definitions

"Authorized agent" means Department staff who have been appointed and authorized by the Director to officially act in the place of the Guardianship Administrator to authorize and consent to matters concerning children for whom the Department has legal responsibility.

"Children for whom the Department is legally responsible" means children for whom the Department has temporary protective custody as authorized by the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act, children for whom the Department has been appointed legal custodian or guardian by order of a Juvenile Court, children whose parent(s) have signed an adoptive surrender, or children for whom the Department has temporary custody via a voluntary placement agreement.  For purposes of consenting to the administration of psychotropic medications the Department must be the legal guardian or custodian which has been granted the authority to consent to major medical care.

"Department" means the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.

"Emergency" means circumstances exist in which a child for whom the Department is legally responsible poses a threat of imminent serious harm to self or others.

"Pharmacological Review Committee" means a committee appointed by the Department which is comprised of at least three representatives, at least one of whom is a Board certified psychiatrist who specializes in the treatment of children and adolescents.  This Committee shall have certain powers and duties as prescribed in this Part.

"Psychiatric consultant" means a psychiatrist as defined in 405 ILCS 5/1-121 who has specialized in child and adolescent psychiatry.

"Psychotropic medication" means medication whose use for antipsychotic, antidepressant, antimanic, antianxiety, behavioral modification or behavioral management purposes is listed in AMA Drug Evaluations, latest edition, or Physician's Desk Reference, latest edition, or which are administered for any of these purposes. [405 ILCS 5/1-121.1]

"Residential facility" means any facility in which one or more children for whom the Department of Children and Family Services is legally responsible are housed, whether or not that facility is located within the State of Illinois, including but not limited to group homes, child care institutions, inpatient mental health facilities, including those operated by the Illinois Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities.  Facilities operated by the Illinois Department of Corrections are not residential facilities, as defined in this Part.