                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

STATEWIDE PLAN FOR JUVENILE SERVICES (§ 16.1-309.4)

It shall be the duty of the Department of Juvenile Justice to devise, develop
and promulgate a statewide plan for the establishment and maintenance of a range
of institutional and community-based, diversion, predispositional and
postdispositional services to be reasonably accessible to each court. The
Department shall be responsible for the collection and dissemination of the
required court data necessary for the development of the plan. The plan shall
utilize the information provided by local plans submitted under § 16.1-309.3.
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 detention
home needs.

HISTORY: 1995, cc. 698, 840; 1996, cc. 671, 682, 755, 914.