DEPT. OF HEALTH & REHAB. SERVICES v. STATE

No. 92-608.

616 So.2d 91 (1993)

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, and A.C., a Child, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

March 19, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Sawyer, Jr., Dist. Legal Counsel, Dept. of Health and Rehabilitative Services, Orlando, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Belle B. Turner, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for appellee State.

No appearance for A.C.


W. SHARP, Judge.

The Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services appeals from a commitment order entered by a juvenile court judge which required A.C. to be placed with Community Environmental Services (a private mental health facility) and which required HRS to pay any excess fee above that paid by Medicaid. HRS argues that a juvenile judge lacks authority under Chapter 39 to direct HRS to place any child committed to it, in a specific facility, or to require...

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