Shelter Restrictions

In Arizona, by definition a homeless youth is one who "is an individual under the age of eighteen years living apart from his parents and who lacks a fixed and regular nighttime residence or whose primary residence is either a supervised shelter designed to provide temporary accommodations, a halfway house or a place not designed for or ordinarily used for sleeping by humans."²³³ A youth who is homeless has the capacity to give consent in the same manner as a legally emancipated youth.²³⁴

Footnotes

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Ariz. Rev. Stat. §44-132 (2001)(One area for further research will be if this translates into more shelters specifically designed for this population).

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