Senate Bill No. 231–Committee on Judiciary

 

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AN ACT relating to juvenile justice; revising provisions relating to detention homes for the temporary detention of children; permitting such homes, under certain circumstances, to adjoin, be located on the same grounds as, or share common grounds or common facilities with an adult jail or adult lockup; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

   Section 1. NRS 62.180 is hereby amended to read as follows:

   62.180  1.  Provision must be made for the temporary detention of

 children in a detention home to be conducted as an agency of the court or

 in some other appropriate public institution or agency, or the court may

 arrange for the care and custody of such children temporarily in private

 homes subject to the supervision of the court, or may arrange with any

 private institution or private agency to receive for temporary care and

 custody children within the jurisdiction of the court.

   2.  Except as otherwise provided in this subsection and subject to the

 provisions of this chapter, any county may provide, furnish and maintain

 at public expense a building suitable and adequate for the purpose of a

 detention home for the temporary detention of children. In a county whose

 population is 35,000 or more, the board of county commissioners shall

 provide the detention facilities. Two or more counties, without regard to

 their respective populations, may provide a combined detention home

 under suitable terms agreed upon between the respective boards of county

 commissioners and the judges of the juvenile court regularly sitting in the

 judicial districts covering the counties.

   3.  Any detention home built and maintained under this chapter must be

 constructed and conducted as nearly like a home as possible, and must not

 be deemed to be or treated as a penal institution. [In a county whose

 population is 35,000 or more,]

   4.  Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, a detention home

 built and maintained under this chapter must not [be adjoining or] adjoin,

 be located on the same grounds as , or share common facilities or

 common grounds with a prison, an adult jail or an adult lockup. If a

 detention home built and maintained under this chapter complies with

 the provisions of 28 C.F.R. § 31.303 relating to collocated facilities, the

 detention home may adjoin, be located on the same grounds as, or share

 common facilities or common grounds with an adult jail or an adult

 lockup.

   [4.] 5. In addition to detention homes, a county may provide and

 maintain at public expense programs which provide alternatives to placing

 a child in a detention home.

   Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective on July 1, 2001.

 

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