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Corrections Human Services juvenile correctional facility, the | court shall determine whether reasonable efforts have been | made to prevent or eliminate the need for removal of the | juvenile from the juvenile's home and whether continuation in | the juvenile's home would be contrary to the welfare of the | juvenile. This determination does not affect whether the | court orders a commitment to a Department of Corrections Human | Services juvenile correctional facility, which continues to be | governed by section 3313. |
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| | Sec. 5. 15 MRSA §3314, sub-§1, ¶H, as amended by PL 1997, c. 752, §20, | is further amended to read: |
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| H. The court may commit the juvenile to a Department of | Corrections Human Services juvenile correctional facility | and order that the disposition be suspended or may commit | the juvenile for a period of detention that may not exceed | 30 days, with or without an underlying suspended disposition | to a Department of Corrections Human Services juvenile | correctional facility, which detention may be served | intermittently as the court may order and must be ordered | served in a detention facility approved or operated by the | Department of Corrections Human Services exclusively for | juveniles. The court may order such a disposition to be | served as a part of and with a period of probation, which is | subject to such provisions of Title 17-A, section 1204 as | the court may order and which must be administered pursuant | to Title 34-A, chapter 5, subchapter IV. Revocation of | probation is governed by the procedure contained in | subsection 2. Any disposition under this paragraph is | subject to Title 17-A, section 1253, subsection 2, but not | to Title 17-A, section 1253, subsection 3-B, 4, 5 or 8. |
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| | Sec. 6. 15 MRSA §3314, sub-§4, as amended by PL 1997, c. 752, §22, is | further amended to read: |
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| | 4. Medical support. Whenever the court commits a juvenile to | a Department of Corrections Human Services juvenile correctional | facility or to the Department of Human Services or for a period | of detention or places a juvenile on a period of probation, it | shall require the parent or legal guardian to provide medical | insurance for or contract to pay the full cost of any medical | treatment, mental health treatment, substance abuse treatment and | counseling that may be provided to the juvenile while the | juvenile is committed, including while on aftercare status or on | probation, unless it determines that such a requirement would | create an excessive hardship on the parent or legal guardian, or | other dependent of the parent or legal guardian, in which case it | shall require the parent or legal guardian to pay a reasonable | amount toward the cost, the amount to be determined by the court. |
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