Kansas Statutes 38-536. Care for children under 18 in custody of district court
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Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 38-536
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
- Youth: means child adjudicated to be a delinquent child, miscreant child, wayward child, traffic offender, truant, deprived child, child in need of care or juvenile offender. See Kansas Statutes 38-553
The county commissioners of each county having a population of more than one hundred thirty thousand (130,000) and less than one hundred eighty-five thousand (185,000) inhabitants in this state may provide parental, detention or juvenile homes or schools or youth centers for the purpose of caring for children under eighteen (18) years of age in the custody or under the jurisdiction of the district court.