Section 51.02. Applicability.

  This chapter applies to the department, to child-placing agencies providing adoption services under contract with the department, to county agencies providing adoption services under contract with the department and to all persons making inquiry or application to the department or to a child-placing agency or a county agency providing adoption services under contract with the department for adoption of special needs children, including minority children, except when procedures involving the federal Indian Child Welfare Act, 25 USC 1901 to 1963 , apply. In this section, "child-placing agency" means a private child-placing agency licensed under ch. DCF 54 to accept guardianship of children and to place children under its guardianship for adoption, and "county agency" means a county social services department under s. 46.215 or 46.22 , Stats., or a county human services department under s. 46.23 , Stats. Section DCF 51.10 applies to a proposed adoptive parent who has not previously adopted a child with whom a child is placed or will be placed under s. 48.833 or 48.837 , Stats., or who brings a child from a foreign country to Wisconsin for adoption under s. 48.839 , Stats.

History: Cr. Register, December, 1995, No. 480 , eff. 1-1-96; am. Register, May, 1999, No. 521 , eff. 6-1-99; correction made under s. 13.93 (2m) (b) 7., Stats., Register November 2002 No. 563 ; emerg. am. eff. 4-1-07; CR 07-028 : am. Register July 2007 No. 619 , eff. 8-1-07; correction made under s. 13.92 (4) (b) 7., Stats., Register November 2008 No. 635 .