State ward definition
State ward means a state ward as defined in section 2
State ward means a person accepted for care by the department who is at least 12 years of age but not over 17 years and 6 months of age at the time committed to the department by the juvenile division of a probate court in compliance with section 18(e) of chapter 12A of Act No. 288 of the Public Acts of 1939, as amended, being section 712A.18 of the Michigan Com piled Laws, if the court acquired jurisdiction over the person pursuant to sec tion 2(a) or section 2(d) of chapter 12A of Act No. 288 of the Public Acts of 1939, as amended, being section 712A.2 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, and if the act for which the youth is committed occurred before his seventeenth birthday.
State ward means a child who has been placed by court order under the guardianship of the Commissioner of Human Services and for whom Hennepin County is the Commissioner’s delegee.