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Volume 19, Issue 1 (Fall 2002)

ANIMALS Offenses Against Public Health and Morals: Authorize the Governor to Issue a Call for a Special Session of the General Assembly in the Event of a Bioterrorist Attack or Other Public Health Emergency Prior to Declaring a State of Emergency; Pro...

The Act allows the Governor to declare a state of emergency in the event of a terrorist attack with biological weapons or other public health emergency. Such a declaration would trigger a comprehensive response plan, to be developed by the Division of Public Health of the Department of Human Resources

COURTS Juvenile Courts Amend Provisions Relating to Juvenile Proceedings, so as to Restrict Full-Time Juvenile Court Judges From Serving as a Judge in Another Court; Clarify the Obligation of the District Attorney Regarding a Petition in Juvenile Court...

The Act delineates between the situation in which there is a deprived child and the situation in which there is an unruly child or delinquent child so that they will not be treated the same under the law. Further, the Act provides that where there is a non-adjudication of a