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Administration of Justice Bulletin No. 98/03 December 1998 2. Order the juvenile to cooperate with place- meat in a residential treatment facility, an intensive nonresidential treatment program. an intensive substance abuse program, or a group home other than a multipurpose group home operated by a state agency, 3. Place the juvenile on intensive probation under the supervision of a court counselor. 4. Order the juvenile to cooperate with a super- vised day program. [This alternative is only slightly modified from former G.S. 7A- 649(5).l 5. Order the juvenile to participate in a regi- mented mining program. 6.Order the juvenile to submit to house arrest. 7. Suspend imposition of a more severe disposi- tion, under conditions to which the juvenile agrees. [This alternative is the same as former G,S. 7A449(1), except that it provides that the conditions may not exceed the allowable dispositions for the level under which the disposition is being imposed, whereas the former provision said that the conditions could not exceed the maximum criminal sanction permissible for the offense. 1 8. Order that the juvenile be confined in an approved juvenile detention facility for up to fourteen 24-hour periods. Confinement under this alternative may not be imposed consecu- tively with internuttent confinement under Level I alternative number 12, above, at the same clispositional hearing. 9. Order the residential placement of the juve- nile in a multipurpose group home operated by a state agency. 10. Require full or parUal restitution of more than $500, payable within a twelve-month period. [Except for the reference to amount, this alternative is the same as former G.S. 7A- 649(2),1 I I. Order the juvenile to perform supervised community service of not less than 100 hours and not more than 200 hours. [This alternative is the same as former G.S. 7A-649(4)~ except it specifies a range of hours and does not include a requirement that the obligation not exceed twelve months,l In addition, at Level 2 the court may impose a Level 3 disposition, commitment, ff the juvenile has received a Level 3 disposition in a prior juvenile action. Level 3, Commitment to the Office of Juvenile Justice At Level 3, the court ordinarily must commit the juvenile to the Office of luvenile Iustice for placement in a training school for a period of at least six months. The court may impose a Level 2, rather than Level 3, disposition, however, if the court makes written find- ings on the record substantiating the juvenile's extmordinmy needs. Probation When the court places a delinquent juvenile on probation, the court may impose conditions of proba- tion that are related to the needs of the juvenile and that are reasonably necessary to ensure that the juve- nile will lead a law-abiding life. The code retains the former law's list of authorized conditions of probation and adds to that list conditions that the juvenile' 1. not violate any reasonable and lawful rules of a parent guardian, or custodian; 2. refrain from the use or possession of any controlled substance included in any schedule of the Controlled Substances Act (Article 5 of G.S. Chapter 90); 3. refrain from the use or possession of any alcoholic bev6rage regulated under G.S. Chapter 18B; 4. submit to random chug testing; 5. abide by a prescribed curfew: 6. submit to a warrantless search at reasonable times; 7. possess no firearnz explosive device, or other deadly weapon: 8. satisfy any other conditions that the court determines to be appropriate. In addition, the court may order the juvenile to comply, if directed to do so by the chief court coun- selor, vdth one or more of the follomng conditions: 1. perform up to 20 hours ofcommumty service; 2. submit to substance abuse monitoring and treatment: 3. participate in a life skills or an educational skills program administered by the Office of Juvenile Justice; 4. cooperate with electronic monitoring; 5. cooperate with intensive supervision. The court may not give the chief court counselor discretion to impose the last two of these conditions, however, unless the juvenile is subject to Level 2 dispositions. 20