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(6) ‘‘Kin’’ means an individual who is related by blood, marriage, tribal custom, and/or adoption. The term also includes fictive kin, meaning other individuals who have an emotionally significant relationship with the child, child’s parents, or extended family members. (7) ‘‘Kinship foster care’’ means 24-hour substitute care for a child who is in the legal custody of the department in the home of kin away from the child’s parents or guardians. (8) ‘‘Kinship adoptive parent’’ means kin who is seeking or who has adoptive placement of a child in foster care. (9) ‘‘Kinship adoptive placement’’ means by signed written agreement between kin and the department, a child has been placed in the home of licensed kin for the purpose of adoption. (10) ‘‘Kinship foster parent’’ means kin who is seeking licensure to provide or who is licensed to provide placement, care, and supervision for a child in foster care. (11) ‘‘Legal custody’’ means the right to the physical custody, care, and control of a child; the right to determine where the child shall live, the right and duty to provide protection, food, clothing, shelter, ordinary medical care, education, supervision, and discipline for a child and in an emergency to authorize surgery or other extraordinary care. The court may in its order place other rights and duties with the legal custodian. Unless otherwise provided by court order, the parent or guardian retains the right to make decisions of substantial legal significance affecting the child, including consent to marriage, enlistment in the armed forces, and major nonemergency medical and surgical treatment, the obligation to provide financial support or other funds for the care of the child, and other residual rights or obligations as may be provided by order of the court. (12) ‘‘License or licensed’’ means in accordance with these regulations, the department has approved, verified, or certified, the individual and the foster family or adoptive home to receive a child who is in the legal custody of the department for placement, care, and supervision. Such persons receive the benefits of licensure, including financial assistance and other supportive services. (13) ‘‘Provisional license’’ or ‘‘provisionally licensed’’ means in accordance with these regulations, under extenuating or emergent circumstances, the department has temporarily approved, verified, or certified the individual and the foster family home to receive a child who is in the legal custody of the department for placement, care, and supervision. Such persons receive the benefits of licensure, including financial assistance and other supportive services. (14) ‘‘SLED’’ means State Law Enforcement Division. D. Applications. (1) Kin shall complete an application in a format provided by the department. The completion of the application initiates the licensing process. Kin who are licensed to provide foster care need not complete another application to be licensed as a kinship adoptive parent, but must indicate their desire to become a kinship adoptive parent in writing in a format provided by the department. (2) In addition to the application process stated above to initiate the licensing process, the licensing process may also be initiated when the department receives a court order approving placement with kin as being in a child’s best interest. Upon receiving the court order approving placement, the department may license kin who otherwise meet the standards outlined in these regulations. (3) The department shall make a decision regarding licensure within 90 days of the date the department receives a completed application or a court order approving placement. This period may be extended by the State Director or the State Director’s designee, upon a showing of good cause. (4) The department may request and consider additional information as necessary during the licensing process and to promote a kinship foster parent or kinship adoptive parent meeting the needs of the child. Additionally, case-by-case, the department may waive any licensing standard that is not a safety element. E. Licenses. (1) The department shall issue a license when all requirements found in these regulations are met. (2) A license is not transferrable as to the kin or the kinship foster or kinship adoptive home. (3) Licensure by more than one agency, organization, or division, is prohibited.