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12-15-312
Section 12-15-312 Reasonable efforts in judicial determinations; situations in which reasonable
efforts are not required to be made. (a) When the juvenile court enters an order removing
a child from his or her home and places the child into foster care or custody of the Department
of Human Resources pursuant to this chapter, the order shall contain specific findings, if
warranted by the evidence, within the following time periods while making child safety the
paramount concern: (1) In the first order of the juvenile court that sanctions the removal,
whether continuation of the residence of the child in the home would be contrary to the welfare
of the child. This order may be the pick-up order that the juvenile court issues on the filing
of a dependency petition. (2) Within 60 days after the child is removed from the home of the
child, whether reasonable efforts have been made to prevent removal of the child or whether
reasonable efforts were not required to be made. (3) Within 12...
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12-15-315
Section 12-15-315 Permanency hearing for Department of Human Resources cases only. (a) Within
12 months of the date a child is removed from the home and placed in out-of-home care, and
not less frequently than every 12 months thereafter during the continuation of the child in
out-of-home care, the juvenile court shall hold a permanency hearing. The Department of Human
Resources shall present to the juvenile court at the hearing a permanent plan for the child.
The juvenile court shall consult with the child, in an age-appropriate manner, regarding the
permanency plan and any transition plan to independent living. If a permanent plan is not
presented to the juvenile court at this hearing, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that
the child should be returned home. This provision is intended to ensure that a permanent plan
is prepared by the Department of Human Resources and presented to the juvenile court within
12 months of the placement of any child in foster care and no less...
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12-15-319
Section 12-15-319 Grounds for termination of parental rights; factors considered; presumption
arising from abandonment. (a) If the juvenile court finds from clear and convincing evidence,
competent, material, and relevant in nature, that the parents of a child are unable or unwilling
to discharge their responsibilities to and for the child, or that the conduct or condition
of the parents renders them unable to properly care for the child and that the conduct or
condition is unlikely to change in the foreseeable future, it may terminate the parental rights
of the parents. In a hearing on a petition for termination of parental rights, the court shall
consider the best interests of the child. In determining whether or not the parents are unable
or unwilling to discharge their responsibilities to and for the child and to terminate the
parental rights, the juvenile court shall consider the following factors including, but not
limited to, the following: (1) That the parents have abandoned...
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15-20A-5
Section 15-20A-5 Sex offenses. For the purposes of this chapter, a sex offense includes any
of the following offenses: (1) Rape in the first degree, as provided by Section 13A-6-61.
(2) Rape in the second degree, as provided by Section 13A-6-62. A juvenile sex offender adjudicated
delinquent of a violation of rape in the second degree is presumed to be exempt from this
chapter after the juvenile has been counseled on the dangers of the conduct for which he or
she was adjudicated delinquent unless the sentencing court makes a determination that the
juvenile sex offender is to be subject to this chapter. (3) Sodomy in the first degree, as
provided by Section 13A-6-63. (4) Sodomy in the second degree, as provided by Section 13A-6-64.
A juvenile sex offender adjudicated delinquent of a violation of sodomy in the second degree
is presumed to be exempt from this chapter after the juvenile has been counseled on the dangers
of the conduct for which he or she was adjudicated delinquent unless...
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38-7-15
Section 38-7-15 Conditions precedent to bringing child into state for purposes of adoption
or placement in child-care facility. (a) No person or agency shall bring or send any child
into the State of Alabama for the purpose of placing him or procuring his adoption or placing
him in any child-care facility, as defined herein, without first obtaining the consent of
the department. The department shall have the power to impose and enforce reasonable conditions
precedent to the granting of such consent. Such conditions shall be for the purpose of providing
the same care and protection for the child coming into the State of Alabama for placement
or adoption as are afforded to a child who is born in the State of Alabama, and such conditions
shall include the following: (1) The department shall be authorized to designate an agency
in another state from which said child is being brought or sent, or in which said child's
parents or guardian may be found, to interview said parent or parents or...
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12-15-406
Section 12-15-406 Determination of placement of the minor or child. (a) At the time that a
minor or child sought to be committed is first brought before the juvenile court, the juvenile
court shall determine the placement of the minor or child pending further hearings. No limitations
shall be placed upon the minor or child unless limitations shall be necessary to prevent the
minor or child from doing substantial harm to self or to others or to prevent the minor or
child from leaving the jurisdiction of the juvenile court. (b) No child shall be placed in
a juvenile detention facility unless the child is charged with a delinquent act. (c) The juvenile
court may order the minor or child to be held in a public or private facility pending receipt
by the department. (d) The juvenile court shall order the minor or child to appear at the
times and places set for hearing the petition and may order and require the minor or child
to appear at designated times and places to be examined by medical...
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38-7-2
Section 38-7-2 Definitions. Terms used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires,
have the meanings ascribed to them in this section. When not inconsistent with the context,
words used in the present tense include the future, words in the singular number include the
plural number, and words in the plural number include the singular number, and the word "shall"
is always mandatory and not merely directory: (1) CHILD. Any person under 19 years of age,
a person under the continuing jurisdiction of the juvenile court pursuant to Section 12-15-117,
or a person under 21 years of age in foster care as defined by the Department of Human Resources.
(2) CHILD-CARE INSTITUTION or INSTITUTION FOR CHILD CARE. A child-care facility where more
than 10 children are received and maintained for the purpose of providing them with care or
training or both, or transitional living program services, but does not include: a. Any institution
for child care which is under the ownership or control,...
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12-15-109
Section 12-15-109 Issuance of orders to parents for payment of court costs, fees of attorneys,
and expenses for support, treatment of children under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court
pursuant to this chapter; manner of payment; proceedings upon failure of parents to pay amounts
directed. If, after making a parent, or other person legally obligated to care for and support
a child, a party to the action pursuant to this chapter and the Alabama Rules of Juvenile
Procedure and after a hearing, the juvenile court finds that the parent or other person is
financially able to pay all or part of the court costs, as provided by law, attorney fees,
and expenses with respect to examination, treatment, care, detention, or support of the child
incurred from the commencement of the proceeding in carrying out this chapter, the juvenile
court shall order them to pay the same and may prescribe the manner of payment. Unless otherwise
ordered, payment shall be made to the clerk of the juvenile court...
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12-15-140
Section 12-15-140 Content of order; order may set forth reasonable conditions of behavior for
parents, persons responsible for care; enumeration of certain specific requirements which
may be included in order. (a) The protection or restraint order may set forth reasonable conditions
of behavior to be observed by a person who is a parent, legal guardian, legal custodian, or
other person legally responsible for the care of the child subject to a juvenile court proceeding,
or the spouse of the parent, or spouse of any other person legally responsible for the care
of the child, or relatives of any of the above, or residents of the home of the child, or
any other person. (b) The protection or restraint order, among other things, may require any
person or persons to do any of the following: (1) Stay away from the home in which the child
subject to a juvenile court proceeding resides, the family or the child. (2) Vacate the home
in which the child subject to a juvenile court proceeding...
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12-15-217
Section 12-15-217 Notice of delinquent acts. (a) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of Section
12-15-133, written notice that a child enrolled in a school, kindergarten to grade 12, has
been found delinquent of an act which if committed by an adult would be a Class A or B felony
or any other crime, at the discretion of the juvenile court, shall be provided within seven
days to the superintendent of the school district of attendance, or, if the child attends
a private school, to the principal of the school. The juvenile court shall provide the notice
using whatever method it deems appropriate or otherwise as decided by the Administrative Office
of Courts. The prosecutor may recommend to the juvenile court that notice be given to the
school for any delinquent act. Written notice shall include only the offenses, enumerated
by the appropriate code section and brief description, found to have been committed by the
child and the disposition of the case involving the child. Where applicable, this...
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