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Title XLVII CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND CORRECTIONS
Chapter 984
CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN NEED OF SERVICES Entire Chapter
CHAPTER 984
CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN NEED OF SERVICES
984.01
Purposes and intent; personnel standards and screening.
984.02
Legislative intent for the juvenile justice system.
984.03
Definitions.
984.04
Families in need of services and children in need of services; procedures and jurisdiction.
984.06
Oaths, records, and confidential information.
984.07
Appointed counsel; compensation.
984.071
Resources and information.
984.08
Attorney’s fees.
984.085
Sheltering unmarried minors; aiding unmarried minor runaways; violations.
984.086
Children locked out of the home; interagency cooperation.
984.09
Punishment for contempt of court; alternative sanctions.
984.10
Intake.
984.11
Services to families in need of services.
984.12
Case staffing; services and treatment to a family in need of services.
984.13
Taking into custody a child alleged to be from a family in need of services or to be a child in need of services.
984.14
Shelter placement; hearing.
984.15
Petition for a child in need of services.
984.151
Truancy petition; prosecution; disposition.
984.16
Process and service.
984.17
Response to petition and representation of parties.
984.18
Referral of child-in-need-of-services cases to mediation.
984.19
Medical screening and treatment of child; examination of parent, guardian, or person requesting custody.
984.20
Hearings for child-in-need-of-services cases.
984.21
Orders of adjudication.
984.22
Powers of disposition.
984.225
Powers of disposition; placement in a staff-secure shelter.
984.226
Physically secure setting.
984.23
Court and witness fees.
984.24
Appeal.