Section 48.599. Definitions.

  In this subchapter:

(1g)  “Child" means a person under 18 years of age. For purposes of the authority to provide care and maintenance for a child placed in a residential care center for children and youth operated by a child welfare agency and of counting the number of children for whom a child welfare agency may provide such care and maintenance, “child" also includes a person 18 years of age or over, but under 21 years of age, who is placed in a residential care center for children and youth operated by a child welfare agency under an order under s. 48.355 , 48.357 , 48.365 , 938.355 , 938.357 , or 938.365 that terminates after the person attains 18 years of age, under a voluntary transition-to-independent-living agreement under s. 48.366 (3) or 938.366 (3) , or under the placement and care responsibility of another state under 42 USC 675 (8) (B) (iv).

(1r)  “Physical restraint" includes all of the following:

(a) A locked room.

(b) A device or garment that interferes with a child's freedom of movement and that the child is unable to remove easily.

(c) Restraint by a child welfare agency staff member of a child by use of physical force.

(2)  “Psychotropic medication" means an antipsychotic, antidepressant, lithium carbonate or a tranquilizer.

1989 a. 336 ; 2015 a. 55 .