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<section article="gcs" article_name="Correctional Services" number="9-606" title_number="9" title_name="State and Local Correctional System -- Incarcerated Individuals" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Miscellaneous">
  <level label="a">
    <text>This section applies to local correctional facilities and correctional facilities in the Division of Correction.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>On the recommendation of a health care provider, the managing official of a correctional facility or the managing official’s designee may authorize medical treatment of a juvenile incarcerated individual if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>in the judgment of the managing official or designee, the treatment is necessary; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a parent, guardian, or person in loco parentis of the juvenile is not available on a timely basis to give the authorization.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A managing official or designee may not be held liable for authorizing medically necessary treatment in good faith.</text>
  </level>
</section>
