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22-2817. Release on recognizance and supervised release; powers of court.(a) For all purposes of release on recognizance programs and supervisedrelease programs, each district court may contract forservices and facilities; receive property by gifts, devises andbequests; and sell or exchange any property so accepted and use inany manner the proceeds or the property received in exchange.
(b) To the extent feasible, each district court establishing, operatingor coordinatingrelease on recognizance programs and supervised release programs shall arrange,by contract or on such alternativebasis as may be mutually acceptable, for utilization of existing localfacilities and treatment and service resources, including but not limitedto employment, job training, general, special or remedial education,psychiatric and marriage counseling, and alcohol and drug abusetreatment and counseling. Each such district court shall approve thedevelopment and maintenance of such resources by its own staff only ifthe resources to be so developed and maintained are otherwiseunavailable to the court within reasonable proximity to the communitywhere these services are needed in connection with the release onrecognizance programs or supervised release programs. Each such districtcourt, to the extent feasible and advisable under the circumstances, mayuse the services of volunteers for such programs and may solicit localfinancial support from public, private, charitable and benevolentsources therefor.
History: L. 1981, ch. 152, § 4; July 1.
