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38-2372. Computation of sentence.In any action pursuant to the revised Kansas juvenilejustice code in which thejuvenile is adjudicated upon a plea of guilty or trial by court or jury or uponcompletion of an appeal,the judge, if sentencing the juvenile to incarceration, shall direct that, forthe purpose of computingjuvenile's sentence and release, eligibility and conditional release datesthereunder, that suchsentence is to be computed from a date, to be specifically designated by thecourt in the sentencingorder. Such date shall be established to reflect and shall be computed as anallowance for the timewhich the juvenile has spent incarcerated pending the disposition of thejuvenile's case. In recordingthe date of commencement of such sentence, the date as specifically set forthby the court shall beused as the date of sentence and all good time calculations authorized by laware to be allowed onsuch sentence from such date as though the juvenile were actually incarceratedin a juvenilecorrectional facility. Such credit shall not reduce the minimum term ofincarceration authorized bylaw for the offense of which the juvenile has been adjudicated.
History: L. 2006, ch. 169, § 72; Jan. 1, 2007.
