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2025 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 938 - Juvenile justice code.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 938.01 - Title, legislative intent and purposes.
- 938.02 - Definitions.
- 938.022 - Electronic filing.
- 938.028 - Indian juvenile welfare.
- 938.03 - Time and place of court; absence or disability of judge.
- 938.06 - Services for court.
- 938.067 - Powers and duties of intake workers.
- 938.069 - Powers and duties of disposition staff.
- 938.07 - Additional sources of court services.
- 938.08 - Duties of person furnishing services to court.
- 938.09 - Representation of the interests of the public.
- 938.10 - Power of the judge to act as intake worker.
- 938.12 - Jurisdiction over juveniles alleged to be delinquent.
- 938.125 - Jurisdiction over juveniles alleged to have violated civil laws or ordinances.
- 938.13 - Jurisdiction over juveniles alleged to be in need of protection or services.
- 938.135 - Referral of juveniles to proceedings under ch. 51 or 55.
- 938.14 - Jurisdiction over interstate compact proceedings.
- 938.15 - Jurisdiction of other courts to determine legal custody.
- 938.17 - Jurisdiction over traffic, boating, snowmobile, all-terrain vehicle, and utility terrain vehicle violations and over civil law and ordinance violations.
- 938.18 - Jurisdiction for criminal proceedings for juveniles 14 or older; waiver hearing.
- 938.183 - Original adult court jurisdiction for criminal proceedings.
- 938.185 - Venue.
- 938.19 - Taking a juvenile into custody.
- 938.195 - Recording custodial interrogations.
- 938.20 - Release or delivery from custody.
- 938.205 - Criteria for holding a juvenile in physical custody.
- 938.207 - Places where a juvenile may be held in nonsecure custody.
- 938.208 - Criteria for holding a juvenile in a juvenile detention facility.
- 938.209 - Criteria for holding a juvenile in a county jail or a municipal lockup facility.
- 938.21 - Hearing for juvenile in custody.
- 938.217 - Change in placement; juvenile held in custody.
- 938.22 - County and private juvenile facilities.
- 938.222 - Contracts with private entities for juvenile detention facility services.
- 938.223 - Contracts with Minnesota counties for juvenile detention facility services.
- 938.224 - Contracts with department for juvenile detention facility services.
- 938.225 - Statewide plan for juvenile detention and correctional facilities.
- 938.23 - Right to counsel.
- 938.235 - Guardian ad litem.
- 938.237 - Civil law and ordinance proceedings initiated by citation in the court assigned to exercise jurisdiction under this chapter and ch. 48.
- 938.24 - Receipt of jurisdictional information; intake inquiry.
- 938.243 - Basic rights: duty of intake worker.
- 938.245 - Deferred prosecution.
- 938.25 - Petition: authorization to file.
- 938.255 - Petition; form and content.
- 938.263 - Amendment of petition.
- 938.265 - Consultation with victims.
- 938.27 - Notice; summons.
- 938.273 - Service of summons or notice; expense.
- 938.275 - Parents’ contribution to cost of custody, sanctions and court and legal services.
- 938.28 - Failure to obey summons; capias.
- 938.29 - Substitution of judge.
- 938.293 - Discovery.
- 938.295 - Physical, psychological, mental or developmental examination.
- 938.296 - Testing for HIV infection and certain diseases.
- 938.2965 - Waiting area for victims and witnesses.
- 938.297 - Motions before trial.
- 938.299 - Procedures at hearings.
- 938.30 - Plea hearing.
- 938.305 - Hearing upon the involuntary removal of a juvenile.
- 938.31 - Fact-finding hearing.
- 938.312 - Notice of dismissal.
- 938.315 - Delays, continuances and extensions.
- 938.317 - Jeopardy.
- 938.32 - Consent decree.
- 938.325 - Proceedings by telephone or live audiovisual means.
- 938.33 - Court reports.
- 938.331 - Court reports; effect on victim.
- 938.335 - Dispositional hearings.
- 938.34 - Disposition of juvenile adjudged delinquent.
- 938.341 - Delinquency adjudication; restriction on firearm possession.
- 938.3415 - Delinquency adjudication; restriction on body armor possession.
- 938.342 - Disposition; truancy and school dropout ordinance violations.
- 938.343 - Disposition of juvenile adjudged to have violated a civil law or an ordinance.
- 938.344 - Disposition; certain intoxicating liquor, beer and drug violations.
- 938.345 - Disposition of juvenile adjudged in need of protection or services.
- 938.346 - Notice to victims of juveniles’ acts.
- 938.35 - Effect of judgment and disposition.
- 938.355 - Dispositional orders.
- 938.356 - Duty of court to warn.
- 938.357 - Change in placement; juvenile subject to dispositional order.
- 938.358 - Trial reunification.
- 938.36 - Payment for services.
- 938.361 - Payment for alcohol and other drug abuse services.
- 938.362 - Payment for certain special treatment or care services.
- 938.363 - Revision of dispositional orders.
- 938.364 - Dismissal of certain dispositional orders.
- 938.365 - Extension of orders.
- 938.366 - Extended out-of-home care.
- 938.368 - Continuation of dispositional orders.
- 938.37 - Costs.
- 938.371 - Access to certain information by substitute care provider.
- 938.373 - Medical authorization.
- 938.38 - Permanency planning.
- 938.383 - Reasonable and prudent parent standard.
- 938.385 - Plan for transition to independent living.
- 938.39 - Disposition by court bars criminal proceeding.
- 938.396 - Records.
- 938.48 - Authority of department of corrections.
- 938.485 - Authority of department.
- 938.49 - Notification by court of placement with a county department or the department of corrections; transfer of reports and records.
- 938.50 - Examination of juveniles under supervision of department of corrections.
- 938.505 - Juveniles placed under correctional supervision.
- 938.51 - Notification of release or escape of juvenile from correctional custody or supervision.
- 938.52 - Facilities for care of juveniles in care of department of corrections.
- 938.53 - Duration of control of department of corrections over delinquents.
- 938.533 - Community supervision.
- 938.534 - Intensive supervision program.
- 938.535 - Early release and intensive supervision program; limits.
- 938.538 - Serious juvenile offender program.
- 938.539 - Type 2 status.
- 938.54 - Records.
- 938.546 - Juvenile treatment court grant program.
- 938.547 - Juvenile alcohol and other drug abuse pilot program.
- 938.548 - Multidisciplinary screen and assessment criteria.
- 938.549 - Juvenile classification system.
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