25 NCAC 01E .0317 DEFINITIONS

For purposes of this Section, immediate family is defined as:

(1) spouse - a husband or wife;

(2) parent;

(a) a biological or adoptive parent, or

(b) an individual who stood in loco parentis (a person who is in the position or place of a parent) to an employee when the employee was a child, or

(d) in-law relationships;

(3) child - a son or daughter who is:

(a) a biological child, or

(b) an adopted child, or

(c) a foster child (a child for whom the employee performs the duties of a parent as if it were the employee's child), or

(d) step-child (a child of the employee's spouse from a former marriage), or

(e) a legal ward (a minor child placed by the court under the care of a guardian), or

(f) a child of an employee standing in loco parentis, or

(g) in-law relationships;

(4) sister or brother - biological, adoptive (including step-, half- or in-law relationships);

(5) grandparents, great grandparents, grandchildren, great grandchildren (including step relationships); and

(6) other dependents living in the employee's household.

History Note: Authority G.S. 126-4;

Eff. July 1, 1995;

Pursuant to G.S. 150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without substantive public interest Eff. October 4, 2016.