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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>72236</law_id><section_number>16.1-309.4</section_number><catch_line>Statewide plan for juvenile services</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>16.1-284.1</reference><reference>16.1-318</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="16.1">Courts Not of Record</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="11">Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Courts</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="12.1">Virginia Juvenile Community Crime Control Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>It shall be the duty of the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> of Juvenile Justice to devise, develop and promulgate a statewide plan for the establishment and maintenance of a range of institutional and community-based, <span class="dictionary">diversion</span>, predispositional and postdispositional services to be reasonably accessible to each <span class="dictionary">court</span>. The <span class="dictionary">Department</span> shall be responsible for the collection and dissemination of the required <span class="dictionary">court</span> data necessary for the development of the plan. The plan shall utilize the information provided by local plans submitted under &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Establishment of a community-based system of services; biennial local plan; quarterly report" href="/16.1-309.3/">16.1-309.3</a>. The plan shall be submitted to the Board on or before July 1 in odd-numbered years. The plan shall include a biennial forecast with appropriate annual updates as may be required of future juvenile correctional center and <span class="dictionary">detention home</span> needs.</p></section></text><history>1995, cc. 698, 840; 1996, cc. 671, 682, 755, 914.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
