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

(c)           a step-parent, 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.