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For the purposes of this chapter, the term “child neglect” includes where a parent or other caretaker:

(a) Fails to provide the child with adequate food, clothing, shelter, education, medical attention, supervision or other care necessary for the child’s physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health and development, though:

(1) The parent or caretaker is financially able to do so; or

(2) Public assistance and service programs are reasonably available if the parent or caretaker is indigent;

(b) Has abandoned the child;

(c) Has withheld medically indicated treatment, including traditional, cultural, and spiritual healing methods and options where appropriate;

(d) Is intoxicated or under the influence of a legal or illegal substance which renders the parent or caretaker unable to meet the reasonable demands of the child for care;

(e) Has been found to be manufacturing/cultivating any illicit drugs in the home or on the property where the home is located or on or property where the child might reasonably be assumed to have access to in the daily life of the child; or

(f) Has failed to protect the child from the known company of a registered sex offender. [Ord. 46A § 1203, adopted, 3/24/2016.]