IC 31-37-2-1 — Delinquent child defined
Chapter 2. Delinquent Children Who Commit Certain Other Acts and Who Need Care, Treatment, or Rehabilitation
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Sec. 1. A child is a delinquent child if, before becoming eighteen (18) years of age, the child: (1) commits a delinquent act described in this chapter; and (2) needs care, treatment, or rehabilitation that: (A) the child is not receiving; (B) the child is unlikely to accept voluntarily; and (C) is unlikely to be provided or accepted without the coercive intervention of the court.
As added by P.L.1-1997, SEC.20.
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