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<section article="ghu" article_name="Human Services" number="9-244" title_number="9" title_name="Juvenile Services" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Department of Juvenile Services">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Secretary shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>study the problem of the units of work that are involved in the juvenile courts; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>establish a system for units of work.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>On the basis of the comparative workload of any juvenile court, the Secretary shall provide the court with adequate staff and an adequate variety of staff.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Unless the judges of the court consent, a juvenile court may not be assigned a smaller staff than authorized as of July 1, 1986.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Within the formula described in this section, a judge of any juvenile court may request the additional clerical and professional court service staff that the workload of the court requires.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Secretary shall consider and respond to a request under paragraph (1) of this subsection in accordance with §§ 9-241 and 9-243 of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
