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§ 9-27-301. Title - This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 9-27-302. Purposes — Construction - This subchapter shall be liberally construed to the end that...
§ 9-27-303. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Abandoned infant” means a...
§ 9-27-304. Provisions supplemental - (a) Unless this subchapter otherwise provides, nothing in this subchapter...
§ 9-27-305. Applicability - Any juvenile within this state may be subjected to the...
§ 9-27-306. Jurisdiction - (a) (1) The circuit court shall have exclusive original jurisdiction...
§ 9-27-307. Venue - (a) (1) (A) Except as set forth in subdivisions (a)(2)-(4)...
§ 9-27-308. Personnel — Duties - (a) Intake Officers. (1) The judge or judges of the...
§ 9-27-309. Confidentiality of records — Definition - (a) All records may be closed and confidential within the...
§ 9-27-310. Commencement of proceedings - (a) Proceedings shall be commenced by filing a petition with...
§ 9-27-311. Required contents of petition - (a) The petition shall set forth the following: (1) (A)...
§ 9-27-312. Notification to defendants - (a) In a delinquency and family-in-need-of-services case, a juvenile defendant...
§ 9-27-313. Taking into custody - (a) (1) A juvenile only may be taken into custody...
§ 9-27-314. Emergency orders - (a) (1) In a case in which there is probable...
§ 9-27-315. Probable cause hearing - (a) (1) (A) Following the issuance of an emergency order,...
§ 9-27-316. Right to counsel - (a) (1) In delinquency and family in need of services...
§ 9-27-317. Waiver of right to counsel — Detention of juvenile — Questioning - (a) Waiver of the right to counsel at a delinquency...
§ 9-27-318. Filing and transfer to the criminal division of circuit court - (a) The state may proceed with a case as a...
§ 9-27-319. Double jeopardy - (a) No juvenile who has been subjected to an adjudication...
§ 9-27-320. Fingerprinting or photographing - (a) (1) When a juvenile is arrested for any offense...
§ 9-27-321. Statements not admissible - Statements made by a juvenile to the intake officer or...
§ 9-27-322. Release from custody - (a) Upon receiving notice that a juvenile has been taken...
§ 9-27-323. Diversion — Conditions — Agreement — Completion — Definition - (a) If the prosecuting attorney, after consultation with the intake...
§ 9-27-324. Preliminary investigation - (a) Upon receiving notice that a juvenile has been taken...
§ 9-27-325. Hearings — Generally - (a) (1) (A) All hearings shall be conducted by the...
§ 9-27-326. Detention hearing - (a) If a juvenile is taken into custody on an...
§ 9-27-327. Adjudication hearing - (a) (1) (A) An adjudication hearing shall be held to...
§ 9-27-328. Removal of juvenile - (a) Before a circuit court may order any dependent-neglected juvenile...
§ 9-27-329. Disposition hearing - (a) If the circuit court finds that the petition has...
§ 9-27-330. Disposition — Delinquency — Alternatives - (a) If a juvenile is found to be delinquent, the...
§ 9-27-331. Disposition — Delinquency — Limitations - (a) (1) A commitment to the Division of Youth Services...
§ 9-27-332. Disposition — Family in need of services — Generally - (a) If a family is found to be in need...
§ 9-27-333. Disposition — Family in need of services — Limitations — Definitions - (a) At least five (5) working days before ordering the...
§ 9-27-334. Disposition — Dependent-neglected — Generally - (a) If a juvenile is found to be dependent-neglected, the...
§ 9-27-335. Disposition — Dependent-neglected — Limitations - (a) (1) At least five (5) working days before ordering...
§ 9-27-336. Limitations on detention - (a) A juvenile who is alleged to be or who...
§ 9-27-337. Six-month reviews required - (a) (1) The court shall review every case of dependency-neglect...
§ 9-27-338. Permanency planning hearing - (a) (1) A permanency planning hearing shall be held to...
§ 9-27-339. Probation — Revocation - (a) (1) After an adjudication of delinquency, the court may...
§ 9-27-341. Termination of parental rights — Definition - (a) (1) (A) This section shall be a remedy available...
§ 9-27-342. Proceedings concerning juveniles for whom paternity not established - (a) Absent orders of a circuit court or another court...
§ 9-27-343. Appeals - (a) All appeals from juvenile cases shall be made to...
§ 9-27-344. Monthly report - The circuit court shall submit monthly to the Director of...
§ 9-27-345. Admissibility of evidence - (a) Juvenile adjudications of delinquency for offenses for which the...
§ 9-27-346. Support orders - (a) If it appears at the adjudication or disposition hearing...
§ 9-27-347. Probation reports - (a) The probation officer shall make and keep a complete...
§ 9-27-348. Publication of proceedings - No information by which the name or identity of a...
§ 9-27-349. Compliance with federal acts - The Division of Youth Services of the Department of Human...
§ 9-27-350. Compacts to share costs - Nothing in this subchapter shall prohibit two (2) or more...
§ 9-27-351. Escape considered an act of delinquency - The escape of a juvenile from the locked portion of...
§ 9-27-353. Duties and responsibilities of custodian - (a) It shall be the duty of any person or...
§ 9-27-354. Progress reports on juveniles - (a) (1) The court may order progress reports from a...
§ 9-27-355. Placement of juveniles - (a) The court shall not specify a particular provider for...
§ 9-27-356. Juvenile sex offender assessment and registration - (a) If a juvenile is an adjudicated delinquent for any...
§ 9-27-357. Deoxyribonucleic acid samples - (a) A person who is adjudicated delinquent for the following...
§ 9-27-359. Fifteenth-month review hearing - (a) A hearing shall be held to determine whether the...
§ 9-27-360. Review of termination of parental rights - (a) After an order of termination of parental rights, the...
§ 9-27-361. Court reports - (a) (1) Seven (7) business days before a scheduled dependency-neglect...
§ 9-27-362. Emancipation of juveniles - (a) A petition for emancipation may be filed in a...
§ 9-27-363. Foster youth transition - (a) The General Assembly finds that: (1) A juvenile in...
§ 9-27-364. Division of Youth Services aftercare - (a) (1) After an adjudication of delinquency and upon commitment...
§ 9-27-365. No reunification hearing - (a) (1) (A) Any party can file a motion for...
§ 9-27-366. Confessions - In determining whether a juvenile's confession was voluntarily, knowingly, and...
§ 9-27-367. Court costs, fees, and fines - (a) The juvenile division of the circuit court may order...
§ 9-27-368. Risk and needs assessments - (a) The Administrative Office of the Courts shall work with...
§ 9-27-369. Resumption of services - (a) The Department of Human Services or an attorney ad...
§ 9-27-370. Reinstatement of parental rights - (a) The Department of Human Services or an attorney ad...
§ 9-27-371. Punitive isolation or solitary confinement of juveniles — Definitions - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Punitive isolation” means...