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§ 16.1-339.1 Minors in detention homes or shelter care facilities

If a minor admitted to a mental health facility pursuant to this article was in a detention home or a shelter care facility at the time of his admission, the director of the detention home or shelter care facility or his designee shall provide, if available, the charges against the minor that are the basis of the detention and the names and addresses of the minor’s parents and the juvenile and domestic relations district court ordering the minor’s placement in detention or shelter care to the mental health facility and to the juvenile and domestic relations district court for the jurisdiction in which the mental health facility is located if different from the court ordering the minor’s placement in detention or shelter care.

History

This law was first created in 2009. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 455 and 555 of that year’s edition of “Acts of Assembly,” the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.

2009, cc. 455, 555.

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