Section 304.1. Detention  


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  • 1. A facility certified by the state division for
      youth as a juvenile facility must be operated  in  conformity  with  the
      regulations  of the state division for youth and shall be subject to the
      visitation and inspection of the state board of social welfare.
        2. No child to whom the provisions of this article may apply shall  be
      detained  in  any  prison,  jail, lockup, or other place used for adults
      convicted of crime or under arrest and charged with  crime  without  the
      approval  of  the state division for youth in the case of each child and
      the statement of its reasons therefor.   The state  division  for  youth
      shall  promulgate  and  publish  the  rules  which  it  shall  apply  in
      determining  whether  approval  should  be  granted  pursuant  to   this
      subdivision.
        3.  The  detention  of  a  child  under  ten  years of age in a secure
      detention facility shall not be directed under any of the provisions  of
      this article.
        4.  A detention facility which receives a child under subdivision four
      of section 305.2 shall immediately notify the child's  parent  or  other
      person  legally responsible for his care or, if such legally responsible
      person is unavailable the person with whom the child  resides,  that  he
      has been placed in detention.