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2013 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 32A - Children's Code
Article 3B - Families in Need of Court-Ordered Services
Section 32A-3B-6 - Place of custody. (1993)
NM Stat § 32A-3B-6 (2013) What's This?
32A-3B-6. Place of custody. (1993)
Unless a child from a family in need of services who has been placed in department custody is also alleged or adjudicated delinquent, the child shall not be held in a jail or other facility intended or used for the incarceration of adults charged with criminal offenses or for the detention of children alleged to be delinquent children, but may be placed in the following community-based shelter-care facilities:
A. a licensed foster-care home or any home authorized under the law for the provision of foster care, group care or use as a protective residence;
B. a facility operated by a licensed child welfare services agency;
C. a facility provided for in the Children's Shelter Care Act [32A-9-1 NMSA 1978]; or
D. in a home of a relative of the child, when the relative provides the court with a sworn statement that the relative will not return the child to the dangerous surroundings that prompted protective custody for the child.
History: 1978 Comp., § 32A-3B-6, enacted by Laws 1993, ch. 77, § 78.
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