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LR 1072
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Sec. A-3. 15 MRSA §3301, sub-§1, ķA, as enacted by PL 1977, c. 520, §1, is
amended to read:

 
A. Decide that no further action requiring ongoing
supervision is not required, either in the interests of the
public or of the juvenile;

 
Sec. A-4. 15 MRSA §3301, sub-§5, ķA, as amended by PL 1989, c. 502, Pt.
A, §41, is further amended to read:

 
A. Decide that no further action requiring ongoing
supervision is not required either in the interests of the
public or of the juvenile. If the juvenile caseworker
determines that the facts in the report prepared for the
caseworker by the referring officer pursuant to section
3203-A, subsection 3, are sufficient to file a petition, but
in the caseworker's judgment the interest of the juvenile
and the public will be served best by providing the juvenile
with services voluntarily accepted by the juvenile and the
juvenile's parents, guardian or legal custodian if the
juvenile is not emancipated, the juvenile caseworker may
refer the juvenile for that care and treatment and not
request that a petition be filed;

 
Sec. A-5. 15 MRSA §3314, sub-§2, as amended by PL 1997, c. 752, §21,
is further amended to read:

 
2. Suspended disposition. The court may impose any of the
dispositional alternatives provided in subsection 1, and may
suspend its disposition and place the juvenile on a specified
period of probation that is subject to such provisions of Title
17-A, section 1204 as the court may order and that is
administered pursuant to the provisions of Title 34-A, chapter 5,
subchapter IV, except that in no case may the court impose the
condition set out in Title 17-A, section 1204, subsection 1-A.
The court may impose as a condition of probation that a juvenile
must reside outside the juvenile's home in a setting satisfactory
to the juvenile caseworker if the court determines that
reasonable efforts have been made to prevent or eliminate the
need for removal of the juvenile from the juvenile's home and
that continuation in the juvenile's home would be contrary to the
welfare of the juvenile. Imposition of such a condition does not
affect the legal custody of the juvenile.

 
Revocation of probation is governed by the procedure procedures
contained in Title 17-A, sections 1205, 1205-A and 1206, except
that the provisions of Title 17-A, section 1205, subsections 4
and 5 requiring a preliminary hearing and Title 17-A, section
1206, subsection 7-A does do not apply, provided that ; however,


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