California Law (Last Updated: March 4, 2014) |
Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC |
Division 9. PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES |
Part 3. AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE |
Chapter 11. Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act |
ARTICLE 2. Definitions |
Section 15610.19.
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"Clergy member" means a priest, minister, rabbi, religious practitioner, or similar functionary of a church, synagogue, temple, mosque, or recognized religious denomination or organization. "Clergy member" does not include unpaid volunteers whose principal occupation or vocation does not involve active or ordained ministry in a church, synagogue, temple, mosque, or recognized religious denomination or organization, and who periodically visit elder or dependent adults on behalf of that church, synagogue, temple, mosque, or recognized religious denomination or organization.
(Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 54, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 2003.)