Louisiana Children's Code Tit. XI, Art. 1150. Definitions

(1) “Department” means the Department of Children and Family Services.

(2) “Designated emergency care facility” means any of the following:

(3) “Emergency medical service provider” means a licensed emergency medical service provider, when dispatched as a result of a “911” call from a parent who wishes to relinquish his infant under this Chapter.

(4) “Infant” means a child not previously subjected to abuse or neglect, who is not more than sixty days old as determined within a reasonable degree of medical certainty by an examining physician. However, if the infant was admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit upon birth and has not been discharged from the hospital, then the sixty days shall commence from the date of initial discharge.

(5) “Relinquish” or “relinquishment” of an infant means to give over possession or control of him by a parent to another in compliance with this Chapter, with the settled intent to forego all parental responsibilities.