{"data":{"id":"us-mt/41-5-1703","jurisdiction":"us-mt","citation":"41-5-1703","heading":"Powers and duties of juvenile probation officers.","body":"(1) A juvenile probation officer shall:\n(a) perform the duties set out in 41-5-1302;\n(b) make predisposition studies and submit reports and recommendations to the court;\n(c) supervise, assist, and counsel youth placed on probation or conditional release or under the juvenile probation officer's supervision, including enforcement of the terms of probation or conditional release or intervention;\n(d) assist any public and private community and work projects engaged in by youth to pay restitution;\n(e) perform any other functions designated by the court.\n(2) A juvenile probation officer does not have power to make arrests or to perform any other law enforcement functions in carrying out the juvenile probation officer's duties except that a juvenile probation officer may take into custody any youth who violates either the youth's probation, terms and conditions of the youth's conditional release agreement, or a lawful order of the court.\n(3) The duties of a full-time or part-time juvenile probation officer may not be performed by a person serving as a law enforcement officer.","path":["TITLE 41. MINORS","CHAPTER 5. YOUTH COURT ACT","Part 17. Juvenile Probation Officers"],"source_url":"https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0410/chapter_0050/part_0170/section_0030/0410-0050-0170-0030.html","current_through":"Montana Code Annotated 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:55:14Z","sha256":"6661da6c9eeb27d3d7dc4f6e899be0f4c455728b1f4ba2a92a0a5b10c7ad776c","source_id":"us-mt","stale":false,"prev":"us-mt/41-5-1702","next":"us-mt/41-5-1704"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}