Kansas Statutes 38-550. Contracts for care of youths; expense determination and payment
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 38-550
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- 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 board of directors of any youth camp or home may contract with the board of county commissioners of any county for the payment of expenses for any youth residing in the county of such board of county commissioners, when such youth is placed in a youth camp or home. In the absence of such a contract, no youth shall be so placed unless he resides in one of the contracting counties or unless such expenses are paid by the state board of social welfare or some person or agency other than one of the contracting counties. Such expenses shall be determined by the board of the directors from time to time and shall be in an amount which is sufficient to defray all costs and expenses of the youth camp or home allocated and apportioned to such youth.