§1099.3. Purpose
A governing authority may assist and afford opportunities to preadjudicatory and
postadjudicatory children who enter the juvenile justice system to become productive, law-abiding citizens of the community, parish, and state by the establishment of rehabilitative
programs within a structured environment and provide physical facilities and related services
for children, including the housing, care, supervision, maintenance, and education of
juveniles under the age of eighteen years, and for individuals eighteen years of age and over
who were under eighteen years of age when they committed an alleged offense, throughout
the parish and participating parishes.
Acts 1991, No 147, §2, eff. July 2, 1991; Acts 2019, No. 104, §3.