Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1099.3 – Purpose
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1099.3
- Governing authority: means the governing authority of a parish or parishes having a youth center or a juvenile detention center authority. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1099.2
- Parish: means a parish in which a youth center is sited. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1099.2
A governing authority may assist and afford opportunities to preadjudicatory and postadjudicatory children who enter the juvenile justice system to become productive, law-abiding citizens of the community, parish, and state by the establishment of rehabilitative programs within a structured environment and provide physical facilities and related services for children, including the housing, care, supervision, maintenance, and education of juveniles under the age of eighteen years, and for individuals eighteen years of age and over who were under eighteen years of age when they committed an alleged offense, throughout the parish and participating parishes.
Acts 1991, No 147, §2, eff. July 2, 1991; Acts 2019, No. 104, §3.