State ex rel. of D.G.

CHEHARDY, Chief Judge.

The Department of Public Safety and Corrections, Division of Youth Services (DYS), appeals a judgment of the juvenile court for the Parish of Jefferson. The sole issue in the appeal is whether the court erred in ordering DYS to pay the costs of a juvenile’s temporary hospitalization in a facility neither owned by, nor under contract with, the State of Louisiana. We reverse.

D.G., a fourteen-year-old male, was adjudicated to be a child in need of supervision on November 13, 1985. At a disposition hearing held January 16, 1986, he was placed on active probation until his…