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Welfare and Institutions Code § 16509.1

CHAPTER 5. State Child Welfare Services

Current as of September 28, 2026Welf. & Inst. Code, § 16509.1Official source ↗

Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 978, Sec. 62. Effective September 13, 1982.

No child who in good faith is under treatment solely by spiritual means through prayer in accordance with the tenets and practices of a recognized church or religious denomination by a duly accredited practitioner thereof shall, for that reason alone, be considered to have been neglected within the purview of this chapter.