41-5-1803. County responsibility to provide youth detention services. (1) Each county shall provide services for the detention of youth in facilities separate from adult jails.
     (2) In order to fulfill its responsibility under subsection (1), a county may:
     (a) establish, operate, and maintain a holdover, a short-term detention center, or a youth detention facility at county expense;
     (b) provide shelter care facilities as authorized in 41-5-1801;
     (c) contract with another county for the use of an available shelter care facility, holdover, short-term detention center, or youth detention facility;
     (d) establish and operate a network of holdovers in cooperation with other counties;
     (e) establish a regional detention facility; or
     (f) enter into an agreement with a private party under which the private party will own, operate, or lease a shelter care facility or youth detention facility for use by the county. The agreement may be made in substantially the same manner as provided for in 7-32-2232 and 7-32-2233.
     (3) Each county or regional detention facility must be licensed by the department in accordance with rules adopted under 41-5-1802.

     History: En. Sec. 2, Ch. 799, L. 1991; Sec. 41-5-810, MCA 1995; redes. 41-5-1803 by Sec. 47, Ch. 286, L. 1997.