48.99(2)(j)(j) “Legal risk placement” means a placement of a child made preliminary to an adoption in which the prospective adoptive parents acknowledge in writing that the child can be ordered to be returned to the sending state or the birth mother’s state of residence, if different from the sending state, and in which a final decree of adoption may not be entered in any jurisdiction until all required consents are obtained or are dispensed with in accordance with applicable law.

48.99(2)(k)(k) “Member state” means a state that has enacted the enabling legislation for this compact.

48.99(2)(L)(L) “Noncustodial parent” means a person who, at the time of the commencement of court proceedings in the sending state, does not have sole legal custody of the child or has joint legal custody of the child, and who is not the subject of allegations or findings of child abuse or neglect.

48.99(2)(m)(m) “Nonmember state” means a state that has not enacted the enabling legislation for this compact.

48.99(2)(n)(n) “Notice of residential placement” means information regarding a placement into a residential facility that is provided to the receiving state including the name, date, and place of birth of the child, the identity and address of the child’s parent or legal guardian, evidence of the authority to make the placement, and the name and address of the facility in which the child will be placed. Notice of residential placement also includes information regarding a discharge and any unauthorized absence from the facility.

48.99(2)(o)(o) “Placement” means the act by a public or private child placing agency that is intended to arrange for the care or custody of a child in another state.

48.99(2)(p)(p) “Private child placing agency” means any private corporation, agency, foundation, institution, or charitable organization, or any private person or attorney, that facilitates, causes, or is involved in the placement of a child from one state to another state and that is not an instrumentality of the state or acting under color of state law.

48.99(2)(q)(q) “Provisional placement” means a proposed placement that the public child placing agency in the receiving state has determined to be safe and suitable and with respect to which the receiving state, to the extent allowable, has temporarily waived its standards or requirements that are otherwise applicable to prospective foster or adoptive parents so as to not delay the placement. Completion of the receiving state’s requirements regarding training for prospective foster or adoptive parents shall not delay an otherwise safe and suitable placement.

48.99(2)(r)(r) “Public child placing agency” means any government child welfare agency or child protection agency or a private entity under contract with such an agency, regardless of whether the agency or entity acts on behalf of a state, county, municipality, or other governmental unit, that facilitates, causes, or is involved in the placement of a child from one state to another state.

48.99(2)(s)(s) “Receiving state” means the state to which a child is sent, brought, or caused to be sent or brought.

48.99(2)(t)(t) “Relative” means a person who is related to the child as a parent, stepparent, sibling by half or whole blood or by adoption, grandparent, aunt, uncle, or first cousin or a nonrelative with such significant ties to the child that the nonrelative may be regarded as a relative as determined by the court in the sending state.

48.99(2)(u)(u) “Residential facility” means a facility providing a level of care that is sufficient to substitute for parental responsibility or foster care and that is beyond what is needed for assessment or treatment of an acute condition. For purposes of this compact, residential facilities do not include institutions that are primarily educational in character, hospitals, or other medical facilities.

48.99(2)(v)(v) Except as provided in sub. (11) (g), “rule” means a written directive, mandate, standard, or principle issued by the interstate commission and promulgated under sub. (11) that is of general applicability; that implements, interprets, or prescribes a policy or provision of the compact; and that has the force and effect of an administrative rule in a member state. “Rule” includes the amendment, repeal, or suspension of an existing rule.

48.99(2)(w)(w) “Sending state” means the state from which the placement of a child is initiated.

48.99(2)(x)(x) “Service member’s permanent duty station” means the military installation where an active duty U.S. armed services member is currently assigned and is physically located under competent orders that do not specify the duty as temporary.

48.99(2)(y)(y) “Service member’s declared state of legal residence” means the state in which an active duty U.S. armed services member is considered a resident for tax and voting purposes.

48.99(2)(z)(z) “State” means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Marianas Islands, or any other territorial possession of the United States.

48.99(2)(zg)(zg) “State court” means a judicial body of a state that is vested by law with responsibility for adjudicating cases involving abuse, neglect, deprivation, delinquency, or status offenses of children.

48.99(2)(zr)(zr) “Supervision” means monitoring provided by a receiving state once a child has been placed in the receiving state under this compact.

48.99(3)(a)(a) Except as otherwise provided in par. (b), this compact shall apply to all of the following:

48.99(3)(a)1.1. The interstate placement of a child who is subject to ongoing court jurisdiction in a sending state due to allegations or findings that the child has been abused, neglected, or deprived, as defined by the laws of the sending state, except that the placement of such a child into a residential facility shall only require notice of residential placement to the receiving state prior to placement.

48.99(3)(a)2.2. The interstate placement of a child who has been adjudicated delinquent or unmanageable based on the laws of a sending state and who is subject to the ongoing court jurisdiction of the sending state if any of the following apply:

48.99(3)(a)2.a.a. The child is being placed in a residential facility in another member state and is not covered under another compact.

48.99(3)(a)2.b.b. The child is being placed in another member state and the determination of safety and suitability of the placement and services required is not provided through another compact.

48.99(3)(a)3.3. The interstate placement of any child by a public child placing agency or private child placing agency as a preliminary step to a possible adoption.

48.99(3)(b)(b) This compact shall not apply to any of the following:

48.99(3)(b)1.1. The interstate placement of a child in a custody proceeding in which a public child placing agency is not a party so long as the placement is not intended to effectuate on adoption.