STATE, IN INTEREST OF D.G.

No. 86-CA-579.

503 So.2d 132 (1987)

The STATE of Louisiana In the Interest of D.G.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

February 9, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Erwin Kopsa, Chief Legal Counsel, Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections, Baton Rouge, for appellant.

Before CHEHARDY, C.J., and GAUDIN and GOTHARD, JJ.


CHEHARDY, Chief Judge.

The Department of Public Safety and Corrections, Division of Youth Services (DYS), appeals a judgment of the juvenile court for the Parish of Jefferson. The sole issue in the appeal is whether the court erred in ordering DYS to pay the costs of a juvenile's temporary hospitalization in a facility neither owned by, nor under contract with, the State of Louisiana. We reverse.

D.G., a fourteen-year-old male, was adjudicated to be a child...

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