§ 7B-1401.  (Effective until July 1, 2025) Definitions.

The following definitions apply in this Article:

(1) Additional Child Fatality. - Any death of a child that did not result from suspected abuse or neglect and about which no report of abuse or neglect had been made to the county department of social services within the previous 12 months.

(2) Local Team. - A Community Child Protection Team or a Child Fatality Prevention Team.

(3) State Team. - The North Carolina Child Fatality Prevention Team.

(4) Task Force. - The North Carolina Child Fatality Task Force.

(5) Team Coordinator. - The Child Fatality Prevention Team Coordinator.  (1991, c. 689, s. 233(a); 1993, c. 321, s. 285(a); 1998-202, s. 6.)

§ 7B-1401.  (Effective July 1, 2025) Definitions.

The following definitions apply in this Article:

(1) Repealed by Session Laws 2023-134, s. 9H.15(f), as amended by Session Laws 2024-1, s. 3.6(a), and as amended by Session Laws 2024-57, s. 2B.2(d), effective July 1, 2025.

(1a) Child Fatality Prevention System. - The statewide system comprised of the following:

a. Local Teams.

b. The North Carolina Child Fatality Task Force as established in this Article.

c. The State Office.

d. Medical examiner child fatality staff.

(2) Local Team. - A multidisciplinary child death review team that is either a single or multicounty team responsible for performing any type of review pursuant to this Article.

(2a) Medical examiner child fatality staff. - Staff within the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner whose primary responsibilities involve reviewing, investigating, training, educating, or supporting death investigations into child fatalities that fall under the jurisdiction of the medical examiner pursuant to G.S. 130A-383.

(2b) National Fatality Review Case Reporting System or NFR-CRS. - The web-based system used by a majority of states to provide child death review teams with a simple method for capturing, analyzing, and reporting on the full set of information shared at a child death or serious injury review.

(2c) State Office. - The State Office of Child Fatality Prevention established under Part 4C of Article 3 of Chapter 143B of the General Statutes.

(3) Repealed by Session Laws 2023-134, s. 9H.15(f), effective October 3, 2023, as amended by Session Laws 2024-1, s. 3.6(a), and as amended by Session Laws 2024-57, s. 2B.2(d), effective July 1, 2025.

(4) Task Force. - The North Carolina Child Fatality Task Force.

(5) Repealed by Session Laws 2023-134, s. 9H.15(f), effective October 3, 2023, as amended by Session Laws 2024-1, s. 3.6(a), and as amended by Session Laws 2024-57, s. 2B.2(d), effective July 1, 2025.  (1991, c. 689, s. 233(a); 1993, c. 321, s. 285(a); 1998-202, s. 6; 2023-134, s. 9H.15(f); 2024-1, s. 3.6(a); 2024-57, s. 2B.2(d).)