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Rev. Stat. § 43-245
Nebraska
Revised Statutes of 1943
Chapter
43. Infants and Juveniles
Article
2. Juvenile Code
(B)
General Provisions
§
43-245. Terms, defined.
For purposes of the Nebraska
Juvenile Code, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) Age of majority means
nineteen years of age;
(2) Approved center means
a center that has applied for and received approval from the Director
of the Office of Dispute Resolution under section 25-2909;
(3) Cost or costs means
(a) the sum or equivalent expended, paid, or charged for goods or services,
or expenses incurred, or (b) the contracted or negotiated price;
(4)
Juvenile means any person under the age of eighteen;
(5) Juvenile court means
the separate juvenile court where it has been established pursuant to
sections 43-2,111 to 43-2,127 and the county court sitting as a juvenile
court in all other counties. Nothing in the Nebraska Juvenile Code shall
be construed to deprive the district courts of their habeas corpus, common-law,
or chancery jurisdiction or the county courts and district courts of jurisdiction
of domestic relations matters as defined in section 25- 2740;
(6) Juvenile detention
facility has the same meaning as in section 83-4,125;
(7) Mediator for juvenile
offender and victim mediation means a person who (a) has completed at
least thirty hours of training in conflict resolution techniques, neutrality,
agreement writing, and ethics set forth in section 25- 2913, (b) has an
additional eight hours of juvenile offender and victim mediation training,
and (c) meets the apprenticeship requirements set forth in section 25-2913;
(8) Mental health facility
means a treatment facility as defined in section 71- 914
or a government, private, or state hospital which treats mental illness;
(9) Nonoffender means
a juvenile who is subject to the jurisdiction of the juvenile court for
reasons other than legally prohibited conduct, including, but not limited
to, juveniles described in subdivision (3)(a) of section 43- 247;
(10) Nonsecure detention
means detention characterized by the absence of restrictive hardware,
construction, and procedure. Nonsecure detention services may include
a range of placement and supervision options, such as home detention,
electronic monitoring, day reporting, drug court, tracking and monitoring
supervision, staff secure and temporary holdover facilities, and group
homes;
(11) Parent means one
or both parents or a stepparent when such stepparent is married to the
custodial parent as of the filing of the petition;
(12) Parties means the
juvenile as described in section 43-247 and his or her parent, guardian,
or custodian;
(13)
Except in proceedings under the Nebraska Indian Child Welfare Act, relative
means father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, brother, sister, stepfather,
stepmother, stepbrother, stepsister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew,
or niece;
(14) Secure detention
means detention in a highly structured, residential, hardware-secured
facility designed to restrict a juvenile's movement;
(15) Status offender means
a juvenile who has been charged with or adjudicated for conduct which
would not be a crime if committed by an adult, including, but not limited
to, juveniles charged under subdivision (3)(b) of section 43-247 and sections
53-180.01 and 53-180.02; and
(16) Traffic offense means
any nonfelonious act in violation of a law or ordinance regulating vehicular
or pedestrian travel, whether designated a misdemeanor or a traffic infraction.
Source: Laws 1981, LB
346, § 1; Laws 1985, LB 447, § 11; Laws 1987, LB 638, §
1; Laws 1989, LB 182, § 9; Laws 1996, LB 1296, § 20; Laws 1997,
LB 622, § 62; Laws 1998, LB 1041, § 20; Laws 1998, LB 1073,
§ 11; Laws 2000, LB 1167, § 11; Laws 2004, LB 1083, § 91.
Operative date July 1, 2004.
CROSS REFERENCE
Nebraska Indian Child
Welfare Act, see section 43-1501.
NOTES
OF DECISIONS
The language of subsection
(2) (now subsection (11)) of this section is not exclusive; it merely
identifies the necessary parties to a juvenile proceeding. The grandparents
of a child subject to dependency proceedings under section 43-247 are
entitled to intervene as a matter of right in the proceedings. In re Interest
of Kayle C. & Kylee C., 253 Neb. 685, 574 N.W.2d
473 (1998).
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