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Funding of Salaries and Expenses of Youth Counsellors and Clerk-Reporters
§ 43-21-45. Funds for payment of salaries and expenses of youth counsellors and clerk-reporters - In any Class 1 county having a total population in...
Organization, Administration and Operation
§ 43-21-101. Short title - This chapter shall be cited as the "Youth Court Law."
§ 43-21-103. Construction and purpose - This chapter shall be liberally construed to the end that...
§ 43-21-105. Definitions - The following words and phrases, for purposes of this chapter,...
§ 43-21-109. Youth court facilities - Any county or municipality may separately or jointly establish and...
§ 43-21-113. Special judge - When a judge shall certify in writing that he is...
§ 43-21-115. Intake unit - In every youth court division the judge shall appoint as...
§ 43-21-119. Youth court personnel - The judge or his designee shall appoint as provided in...
§ 43-21-121. Guardian ad litem; appointment of a CASA volunteer - All CASA volunteers shall:
§ 43-21-123. Expenditures by the youth court - Except for expenses provided by state funds and/or other monies,...
§ 43-21-127. Cooperation - It is hereby made the duty of every public official...
Jurisdiction
§ 43-21-151. Jurisdiction - When a child is expelled from the public schools, the...
§ 43-21-159. Transfer of cases from other courts - In cases where the child is charged with a hunting...
Provisions Applicable to All Proceedings
§ 43-21-205. Court costs and fees - In proceedings under this chapter, no court costs shall be...
Records
§ 43-21-257. Agency records - The Department of Health shall not be held civilly liable...
§ 43-21-259. Confidentiality of other records involving children - All other records involving children and the contents thereof shall...
§ 43-21-261. Disclosure of records - Law enforcement agencies may disclose information to the public concerning...
§ 43-21-265. Destruction of records - The youth court, in its discretion, may order the destruction...
Custody and Detention
§ 43-21-301. Custody orders - A finding of probable cause under this subsection (3)(a) shall...
§ 43-21-305. Noncustodial interrogation - A law enforcement officer may stop any child abroad in...
§ 43-21-307. Temporary custody - The judge or his designee may authorize the temporary custody...
§ 43-21-311. Rights in custody - These rights shall be posted where the child may read...
§ 43-21-319. Correctional facility for juveniles in need of supervision authorized to be built in Tallahatchie County - In addition to any other provisions of law, it shall...
§ 43-21-323. Juvenile Detention Facilities Monitoring Unit established; duties and responsibilities; confidentiality of records of monitor and communications of reporter - To carry out the duties in this subsection (1) a...
§ 43-21-324. Training for all Juvenile Facilities Monitoring Unit employees and juvenile detention center administrators - The Department of Public Safety shall contract with a juvenile...
Intake
§ 43-21-353. Duty to inform state agencies and officials; duty to inform individual about whom report has been made of specific allegations - Upon receiving a report that a child has been sexually...
§ 43-21-354. Statewide incoming wide area telephone service to be maintained on twenty-four-hour seven days a week basis - The statewide incoming wide area telephone service established pursuant to...
§ 43-21-355. Immunity for reporting information - Any attorney, physician, dentist, intern, resident, nurse, psychologist, social worker,...
Informal Proceedings
§ 43-21-403. Notice to parties - When it is determined to make an informal adjustment, the...
Petition
§ 43-21-451. Commencement of formal proceedings - All proceedings seeking an adjudication that a child is a...
§ 43-21-453. Style of petition - The petition shall be entitled "IN THE INTEREST OF_______________ ."
§ 43-21-457. Amendment to the petition - A petition may be amended at any time on order...
§ 43-21-459. Responsive pleadings - No party shall be required to file a responsive pleading.
Summons
§ 43-21-503. Form of summons - The form of the summons shall be substantially as follows:...
§ 43-21-509. Warrant for failure to obey summons - If any person summoned as herein provided shall without reasonable...
Adjudication
§ 43-21-553. Uncontested adjudications - At any time after the petition has been filed, all...
§ 43-21-555. Plea bargaining prohibited - Under no circumstances shall the party or the prosecutor engage...
Disposition
§ 43-21-603. Disposition hearing procedure - Once the reasonable efforts requirement is bypassed, the court shall...
§ 43-21-605. Disposition alternatives in delinquency cases - The training school may retain custody of the child until...
§ 43-21-609. Dispositional alternatives in neglect and abuse cases - In neglect and abuse cases, the disposition order may include...
§ 43-21-611. Dispositional alternatives for children in need of special care - If the youth court finds at the disposition hearing that...
§ 43-21-617. Protective orders - In all cases where the child is found to be...
§ 43-21-623. Testing of juvenile delinquents under the jurisdiction of the youth court for HIV and AIDS - Any juvenile who is adjudicated a delinquent on or after...
§ 43-21-627. Alternative work program; qualified offenders; volunteers; supervision; removal from program - Each youth court is authorized to establish a youth court...
Appeals -
Mississippi Commission on a Uniform Youth Court System and Procedures -
Teen Court Pilot Program Act
§ 43-21-751. Short title - This article shall be known as the "Teen Court Pilot...
§ 43-21-753. Establishment; teen court program - The youth court of any county in the state may...
§ 43-21-755. Instructional time - Any school participating in the Teen Court Program established by...
Youth Court Support Program -
Mississippi Juvenile Detention Facilities Licensing Act
§ 43-21-901. Short title - Sections 43-21-901 through 43-21-915 and Section 43-21-207 shall be cited...
§ 43-21-903. Purpose - The purpose of Sections 43-21-901 through 43-21-915 is to protect...
§ 43-21-905. Definitions - As used in Sections 43-21-901 through 43-21-915, the following words...
§ 43-21-909. Identification of existence of issues that might prevent licensure; license required to own, operate and maintain juvenile detention facility - Beginning October 1, 2016, the licensing agency shall conduct mock...
§ 43-21-911. Biennial renewal of license - A license issued under Sections 43-21-901 through 43-21-915 must be...
§ 43-21-913. Compliance inspections by licensing agency - The licensing agency shall make inspections to determine ongoing compliance...