16-1608 EMERGENCY REMOVAL.

16-1608. Emergency removal. (1) A child may be taken into shelter care by a peace officer without an order issued pursuant to subsection (4) of section 16-1611 or section 16-1619, Idaho Code, only where the child is endangered in his surroundings and prompt removal is necessary to prevent serious physical or mental injury to the child or where the child is an abandoned child pursuant to the provisions of chapter 82, title 39, Idaho Code.

(2) When a child is taken into shelter care under subsection (1) of this section, he may be held for a maximum of forty-eight (48) hours, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, unless a shelter care hearing has been held pursuant to section 16-1615, Idaho Code, and the court orders an adjudicatory hearing.

History:

[(16-1608) 16-1612, added 1976, ch. 204, sec. 2, p. 740; am. 1982, ch. 186, sec. 12, p. 498; am. 1989, ch. 302, sec. 4, p. 756; am. 2001, ch. 107, sec. 13, p. 365; am. 2001, ch. 357, sec. 3, p. 1259; am. 2005, ch. 25, sec. 76, p. 113; am. and redesig. 2005, ch. 391, sec. 10, p. 1274; am. 2025, ch. 165, sec. 2, p. 792.]