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Sec. 6. 15 MRSA §3203-A, sub-§11 is enacted to read:

 
11.__Review of order.__Upon petition by a juvenile community
corrections officer or an attorney for the State and a showing
of changed circumstances, the Juvenile Court may review an
order for detention, conditional release or unconditional
release and may enter a new order in accordance with this
section.

 
Sec. 7. 15 MRSA §3206 is enacted to read:

 
§3206.__Detention of juveniles charged as adults

 
A person under 18 years of age who is arrested for a crime
defined under Title 12 or Title 29-A that is not a juvenile
crime as defined in section 3103 may not be detained unless a
juvenile community corrections officer has been notified
within 2 hours after the person's arrest and has approved the
detention.__Section 3203-A, subsection 7, paragraphs A and B
governing the facilities in which juveniles may be detained
apply to any detention of such a juvenile following arrest.

 
Sec. 8. 15 MRSA §3307, sub-§2, ķA, as amended by PL 1981, c. 361, is
further amended to read:

 
A. The Once a petition is filed, the general public shall
may not be excluded from any proceeding on a juvenile
crime that would constitute murder or a Class A, Class B
or Class C crime if the juvenile involved were an adult
or; from any proceeding on a juvenile crime that would
constitute a Class D crime if the juvenile involved were
an adult, and it is the 2nd or subsequent Class D crime
for that juvenile not arising from the same underlying
transaction,; or from any subsequent dispositional
hearings in such cases.

 
Sec. 9. 15 MRSA §3314, sub-§4, as amended by PL 1997, c. 752, §22,
is further amended to read:

 
4. Medical support. Whenever the court commits a juvenile
to a Department of Corrections juvenile correctional facility
or to the Department of Human Services or for a period of
detention or places a juvenile on a period of probation, it
shall require the parent or legal guardian to provide medical
insurance for or contract to pay the full cost of any medical
treatment, mental health treatment, substance abuse treatment
and counseling that may be provided to the juvenile while the
juvenile is committed, including while on aftercare status or
on probation, unless it determines that such a requirement
would create an excessive hardship on the parent or legal
guardian, or other dependent of


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