Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 340 - Department of Human Services
Chapter 75 - Child Welfare Services
Subchapter 1 - General Provisions of Child Welfare Services
Part 1 - SCOPE AND APPLICABILITY
Section 340:75-1-18.4 - Reasonable efforts not required determination

Universal Citation: OK Admin Code 340:75-1-18.4

Current through Vol. 42, No. 1, September 16, 2024

(a) At any time prior to or following the adjudicatory hearing, the court, on its own motion, or upon the motion of a party, may find that reasonable efforts to prevent the removal of a child from home or to reunite the child with the family are not required, when the court determines, per Section 1-4-809 of Title 10A of the Oklahoma Statutes, that the:

(1) parent or legal guardian of the child who is an infant 12 months of age or younger has abandoned the child;

(2) child's parent or legal guardian has:
(A) committed murder or manslaughter of any child;

(B) aided or abetted, attempted, conspired, or solicited to commit voluntary manslaughter of any child;

(C) committed a felony assault upon any child that resulted in the child receiving serious bodily injury; or

(D) subjected any child to aggravated circumstances including, but not limited to, heinous and shocking abuse, or heinous and shocking neglect; or

(3) the parental rights of a parent to the child's sibling have been terminated involuntarily;

(4) parent has been found by a court of competent jurisdiction to have committed sexual abuse against the child or another child of the parent; or

(5) parent is required to register with a sex offender registry pursuant to Section 113(a) of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, 42 U.S.C., Section 16913(a).

(b) The court conducts a permanency hearing within 30 calendar days of the court's determination that any of the conditions specified in 10A O.S. § 1-4-809 exist. Reasonable efforts are required to place the child in a timely manner in accordance with the permanency plan.

Added at 18 Ok Reg 393, eff 12-8-00 (emergency); Added at 18 Ok Reg 3067, eff 7-12-01; Amended at 18 Ok Reg 3480, eff 7-25-01 (emergency); Amended at 19 Ok Reg 2208, eff 6-27-02; Amended at 26 Ok Reg 884, eff 5-15-09; Amended at 27 Ok Reg 1092, eff 3-26-10 (emergency); Amended at 27 Ok Reg 1865, eff 7-1-10; Amended at 30 Ok Reg 839, eff 7-1-13

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