211.331. Detention facilities, superintendent, appointment, compensation--acquisition of land (counties of first and second classification). - Missouri Statutes

Detention facilities, superintendent, appointment,compensation--acquisition of land (counties of first and secondclassification).

211.331. 1. In each county of the first and second classificationsand in the city of St. Louis, it is the duty of the county commission, or,where there is no county commission, such other authorized body, to providea place of detention for children coming within the provisions of thischapter. It is also the duty of the county commission or other authorizedbody to provide offices for the personnel of the juvenile court.

2. The place of detention shall be so located and arranged that thechild being detained does not come in contact, at any time or in anymanner, with adults convicted or under arrest, and the care of children indetention shall approximate as closely as possible the care of children ingood homes.

3. The place of detention shall be in charge of a superintendent.The judge of the juvenile court or the family court administrator, ifprovided by local rule, shall appoint and fix the compensation andmaintenance of the superintendent and of any assistants or other personnelrequired to operate the detention facility. Such compensation andmaintenance are payable out of funds of the county.

4. The county commission or other governing body of the county isauthorized to lease or to acquire by purchase, gift or devise land for suchpurpose, and to erect buildings thereon and to provide funds to equip andmaintain the same for the subsistence and education of the children placedtherein.

(L. 1957 p. 642 § 211.160, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1226)

(1979) County charter provision relating to power of a county official to control places of detention and correction for juveniles was without effect as statute placed control of such facilities in juvenile court. State ex rel. St. Louis County v. Edwards, et al. (Mo.), 589 S.W.2d 283.