Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3309-B – Limitations on diagnostic evaluations in a secure detention facility
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Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3309-B
- Detention: means the holding of a person in a facility characterized by either physically restrictive construction or intensive staff supervision that is intended to prevent a person who is placed in or admitted to the facility from departing at will. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3003
- Diagnostic evaluation: means an examination of a juvenile, to assess the risks the juvenile may pose and determine the needs the juvenile may have, which may include, but is not limited to, educational, vocational or psychosocial evaluations, psychometric testing and psychological, psychiatric or medical examinations, which may take place on either a residential or a nonresidential basis. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3003
- Facility: means any physical structure. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3003
- Juvenile: means a person who had not attained 18 years of age at the time the person allegedly committed a juvenile crime. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3003
Except as provided in section 3309?A, subsection 4, the court may not order a juvenile to undergo a diagnostic evaluation at a detention facility unless the juvenile meets the requirements of section 3203?A, subsection 4, paragraphs C and D, the facility is one in which the juvenile may otherwise be detained and the diagnostic evaluation is unable to take place outside the facility on either a residential or nonresidential basis. [PL 1999, c. 65, §2 (AMD).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1987, c. 369 (NEW). PL 1989, c. 502, §A42 (AMD). PL 1997, c. 24, §RR5 (AMD). PL 1997, c. 752, §17 (AMD). PL 1999, c. 65, §2 (AMD).