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subsection 2, transfer to an appropriate juvenile
facility, or transport to another jurisdiction.

 
Sec. 11. 15 MRSA §3206, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 180, §7, is
amended 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 for that
crime. 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. 12. 15 MRSA §3314, sub-§1, ¶H, as amended by PL 2003, c. 503,
§1, is further amended to read:

 
H. The court may commit the juvenile to a Department of
Corrections 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
juvenile correctional facility, which detention must be served
concurrently with any other period of detention previously
imposed and not fully discharged or imposed on the same date but
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 exclusively for juveniles. The
court may order such a disposition to be served as a part of and
with a period of probation that is subject to such provisions of
Title 17-A, section 1204 as the court may order and that must be
administered pursuant to Title 34-A, chapter 5, subchapter 4.
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 except that a statement is
not required to be furnished and the day-for-day deduction must
be determined by the facility, but not to Title 17-A, section
1253, subsection 3-B, 4, 5 or, 8, 9 or 10. For purposes of
calculating the commencement of the period of detention, credit
is accorded only for the portion of the first day for which the
juvenile is actually detained; the juvenile may not be released
until the juvenile has served the full term of hours or days
imposed by the court. Whenever a juvenile is committed for a
period of detention, the court shall determine whether reasonable
efforts have been made to


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