211.341. Detention facilities, how provided--government (third and fourth class counties). - Missouri Statutes

Detention facilities, how provided--government (third and fourthclass counties).

211.341. 1. Counties of the third and fourth classes withinone judicial circuit, shall, upon the written recommendation ofthe circuit judge of that judicial circuit, establish a place ofjuvenile detention to serve all of the counties within thatjudicial circuit, and in like manner, the counties shall supplyoffices for the juvenile officers of that circuit. Therecommendation of the circuit judge shall be made only after ahearing conducted by him, after thirty days' notice, to determinethe need and feasibility of establishing such a place ofdetention within the judicial circuit. The provisions of section211.331 apply as to the form of operation and means ofmaintenance of the place of detention, except that the total costof establishment and operation of the places of detention shallbe prorated among the several counties within that judicialcircuit upon a ratio to be determined by a comparison of therespective populations of the counties. The point of location ofthe place of juvenile detention shall be determined by thecircuit judge of the judicial circuit.

2. Circuit judges of any two or more adjoining judicialcircuits after a hearing as provided in subsection 1 may, byagreement confirmed by judicial order, and in the interest ofeconomy of administration, establish one place of juveniledetention to serve their respective judicial circuits. In suchevent, the circuit judges so agreeing shall jointly govern theaffairs of the place of detention and the cost thereof shall beapportioned among the counties served in the manner provided forin subsection 1.

3. Any county of the third or fourth class desiring toprovide its own place of juvenile detention may do so in themanner prescribed for counties of the first and second classes.

(L. 1957 p. 642 § 211.170)