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The 2000 Florida Statutes

Title XLVII
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND CORRECTIONS
Chapter 984
Children And Families In Need Of Services
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Chapter 984, Florida Statutes 2000

CHAPTER 984

CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN NEED OF SERVICES

984.01  Purposes and intent; personnel standards and screening.

984.02  Legislative intent for the juvenile justice system.

984.03  Definitions.

984.04  Families in need of services and children in need of services; procedures and jurisdiction.

984.05  Rules relating to habitual truants; adoption by Department of Education and Department of Juvenile Justice.

984.06  Oaths, records, and confidential information.

984.07  Appointed counsel; compensation.

984.071  Information packet.

984.08  Attorney's fees.

984.085  Sheltering unmarried minors; aiding unmarried minor runaways; violations.

984.086  Children locked out of the home; interagency cooperation.

984.09  Punishment for contempt of court; alternative sanctions.

984.10  Intake.

984.11  Services to families in need of services.

984.12  Case staffing; services and treatment to a family in need of services.

984.13  Taking into custody a child alleged to be from a family in need of services or to be a child in need of services.

984.14  Shelter placement; hearing.

984.15  Petition for a child in need of services.

984.151  Truancy petition; prosecution; disposition.

984.16  Process and service.

984.17  Response to petition and representation of parties.

984.18  Referral of child-in-need-of-services cases to mediation.

984.19  Medical, psychiatric, and psychological examination and treatment of child; physical or mental examination of parent, guardian, or person requesting custody of child.

984.20  Hearings for child-in-need-of-services cases.

984.21  Orders of adjudication.

984.22  Powers of disposition.

984.225  Powers of disposition; placement in a staff-secure shelter.

984.226  Physically secure setting.

984.23  Court and witness fees.

984.24  Appeal.