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Welfare and Institutions Code § 15610.19

ARTICLE 2. Definitions

Current as of September 28, 2026Welf. & Inst. Code, § 15610.19Official source ↗Ask about this

Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 54, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 2003.

“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.