A person, agency or institution having legal custody of a youth or youth offender has the following duties and authority:
(1) To have physical custody and control of the youth or youth offender.
(2) To supply the youth or youth offender with food, clothing, shelter and incidental necessaries.
(3) To provide the youth or youth offender with care, education and discipline.
(4) To authorize ordinary medical, dental, psychiatric, psychological, hygienic or other remedial care and treatment for the youth or youth offender, and, in an emergency when the youth or youth offender’s safety appears urgently to require it, to authorize surgery or other extraordinary care.
(5) To make such reports and to supply such information to the court as the court may from time to time require.
(6) To apply for any Social Security benefits or public assistance to which the youth or youth offender is otherwise entitled and to use the benefits or assistance to pay for the care of the youth or youth offender. [1993 c.33 §250; 1993 c.367 §2; 2003 c.396 §125]
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