1Community service shall be imposed on a child for a period of 40 to 300 hours. The daily duration of community service may not exceed 4 hours per day.
2If imprisonment is substituted with community work, the duration of community work may be longer in time. In such case, conversion shall be made according to article 109 of this Code.
3In case of enforcement of a decision for community work as a supplementary decision, community work may be imposed for a shorter duration than the minimum hours foreseen in paragraph 1 of this article.
4Community service is decided in such a way that it does not preclude the educational process of the child and it may be followed by the obligation to follow a vocational course.
5In cases when a decision imposing community work is taken, it is necessary that the child be assigned to a work place which experience thereto will serve to the child to become a respectable person.
6Community service, as a supplementary decision, may be imposed on a child even in the cases when the respective article of the Criminal Code does not foresee it as a type of punishment.
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