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| 1.__Statement.__The purposes of the Mountain View Youth | Development Center are: |
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| A.__To detain juveniles pending a court proceeding; |
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| B.__To administer court-ordered diagnostic evaluations | pursuant to Title 15, section 3309-A, and court-ordered | examinations pursuant to Title 15, section 3318; |
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| C.__To rehabilitate juveniles committed to a juvenile | correctional facility pursuant to Title 15, section 3314, | subsection 1, paragraph F; |
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| D.__To protect the public from dangerous juveniles; |
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| E.__To confine juveniles ordered detained pursuant to Title | 15, section 3314, subsection 1, paragraph H; |
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| F.__To confine juveniles ordered detained pursuant to Title | 15, section 3312, subsection 3, paragraph D; and |
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| G.__To confine juveniles ordered detained pursuant to Title | 12, sections 6004, 8004 and 10608 and Title 29-A, section | 115. |
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| | 2.__Accomplishment.__To accomplish the purposes set out in | subsection 1, the disciplines of education, casework, group work, | psychology, psychiatry, medicine, nursing, vocational training | and religion as they are related to human relations and | personality development must be employed.__Security measures, | whether in the form of physically restrictive construction or | intensive staff supervision, when appropriate, may be taken to | accomplish these purposes. |
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| | Sec. 23. 34-A MRSA §4108, sub-§2, ¶H, as enacted by PL 1991, c. 400, is | amended to read: |
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| H. A juvenile held under observation must be under constant | sight and sound supervision by facility staff, which must be | constant if necessary to prevent imminent harm to the | juvenile. |
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| | Sec. 24. 34-A MRSA §4111, sub-§3, as amended by PL 2003, c. 706, Pt. | A, §13, is further amended to read: |
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| | 3. Psychiatric hospitalization. The commissioner has all the | power over a juvenile client or juvenile detainee that a guardian | has over a ward and that a parent has over a child with regard to | necessary psychiatric hospitalization, including |
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