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C.__The commissioner may apply for and receive federal funds | under the United States Housing Act of 1954, Public Law 560, | Title 7. |
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| | 4.__Lease of Maine Youth Center building.__Notwithstanding | subsection 5 and Title 5, chapter 154, the commissioner may, with | the approval of the Director of the Bureau of General Services, | within the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, | lease any building that the commissioner determines is no longer | needed to be a part of the Maine Youth Center for the purpose of | providing services to juveniles under such terms as the | commissioner and director determine appropriate. |
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| | 5.__Acceptance or conveyance of donated personal property. The | commissioner may accept donations of personal property to be used | at a correctional facility.__If, at a later date, the donated | property ceases to be useful to the correctional facility, the | commissioner may sell the property and use the proceeds for the | benefit of the correctional facility to which the property was | originally donated. |
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| | 6.__Receipt of adjudicated juveniles.__The commissioner's | power to accept adjudicated juveniles is as set out in this | subsection. |
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| A.__The commissioner may receive in any juvenile facility | juveniles detained by the United States or adjudicated of an | offense against the United States and committed for a term | of institutionalization to the custody of the Attorney | General of the United States if: |
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| (1)__The Attorney General of the United States | designates a juvenile facility in the State as the | place of confinement for the juvenile; and |
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| (2)__The commissioner approves and agrees to accept and | keep the juvenile in a juvenile facility in the State. |
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| B.__The commissioner may contract with the Attorney General | of the United States or an officer designated by the | Congress for the care, custody, subsistence, education, | treatment, confinement, support and training of any juvenile | accepted under this subsection or under federal law in | accordance with the 18 United States Code, Sections 706 and | 707.__All sums paid pursuant to contracts authorized by this | subsection accrue to the General Fund. |
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| | 7.__Inmate benefit welfare account.__The commissioner shall | provide an accounting of the student welfare fund at the Maine |
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