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Sec. 6. 15 MRSA §3203-A, sub-§11 is enacted to read:

 
11.__Review of order.__Upon petition by a juvenile community
corrections officer or an attorney for the State and a showing of
changed circumstances, the Juvenile Court may review an order for
detention, conditional release or unconditional release and may
enter a new order in accordance with this section.

 
Sec. 7. 15 MRSA §3206 is enacted to read:

 
§3206.__Detention of juveniles charged as adults

 
A person under 18 years of age who is arrested for a crime
defined under Title 12 or Title 29-A that is not a juvenile crime
as defined in section 3103 may not be detained unless a juvenile
community corrections officer has been notified within 2 hours
after the person's arrest and has approved the detention.__
Section 3203-A, subsection 7, paragraphs A and B governing the
facilities in which juveniles may be detained apply to any
detention of such a juvenile following arrest.

 
Sec. 8. 15 MRSA §3307, sub-§2, ķA, as amended by PL 1981, c. 361, is
further amended to read:

 
A. The Once a petition is filed, the general public shall
may not be excluded from any proceeding on a juvenile crime
that would constitute murder or a Class A, Class B or Class
C crime if the juvenile involved were an adult or; from any
proceeding on a juvenile crime that would constitute a Class
D crime if the juvenile involved were an adult, and it is
the 2nd or subsequent Class D crime for that juvenile not
arising from the same underlying transaction,; or from any
subsequent dispositional hearings in such cases.

 
Sec. 9. 15 MRSA §3314, sub-§4, as amended by PL 1997, c. 752, §22, is
further amended to read:

 
4. Medical support. Whenever the court commits a juvenile to
a Department of Corrections 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


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