Code of Alabama - Title 44: Youth Services - Chapter 1 - Department of Youth Services and Youth Services Board

• Article 1 General Provisions.
• Section 44-1-1 Purpose of chapter
  The purpose of this chapter is to promote and safeguard the social well-being and general welfare of the youth of the state through a comprehensive...
• Section 44-1-2 Definitions
  The following terms, wherever used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings: (1) AFTERCARE. A youth is released by the department from a state...
• Section 44-1-3 Alabama Boys Industrial School, Alabama Training School for Girls and Alabama Industrial School - Control; priority as to use of funds of department; legal custody of inhabitants
  The Alabama Boys Industrial School, the Alabama Training School for Girls and the Alabama Industrial School shall be under the control of the youth services...
• Section 44-1-4 Alabama Boys Industrial School, Alabama Training School for Girls and Alabama Industrial School - Separate advisory boards; regulations
  The department of youth services shall establish separate advisory boards for the Alabama Boys Industrial School, the Alabama Training School for Girls and the Alabama...
• Section 44-1-5 Alabama Boys Industrial School, Alabama Training School for Girls and Alabama Industrial School - Continuation of rights, etc., of employees; personal leave for teachers
  (a) Employees of the Alabama Boys Industrial School, the Alabama Training School for Girls and the Alabama Industrial School holding positions on January 22, 1975,...
• Section 44-1-6 Alabama Boys Industrial School, Alabama Training School for Girls and Alabama Industrial School - Restrictions on appropriations
  All moneys appropriated to the Alabama Industrial School, Alabama Boys Industrial School and the Alabama Training School for Girls from the special education trust funds...
• Section 44-1-7 Alabama Boys Industrial School, Alabama Training School for Girls, and Alabama Industrial School - Donations and endowment funds
  In order to make provision for the proper preservation and application of donations from private sources by gift, devise or otherwise, heretofore made to the...
• Section 44-1-8 Confinement of youth in adult penal institutions
  The department of youth services shall not have the power, by virtue of the vesting in it of the legal custody of a youth or...
• Section 44-1-9 Detention without order or warrant of escaped youths
  A committed youth who has been placed by the department of youth services in any state training school and who has escaped or run away...
• Section 44-1-10 Penalties; enforcement of chapter
  (a) Violations of the provisions of this chapter shall be penalized or punished as follows: (1) Any person, partnership, corporation or association that violates the...
• Article 2 Department of Youth Services.
• Section 44-1-20 Created; composition and principal offices
  There is hereby created and established a department of the state to be known as the department of youth services. The department shall be composed...
• Section 44-1-21 State youth services director
  (a) The state youth services director shall have at a minimum a master's degree in behavioral or social science or a related field from an...
• Section 44-1-22 Employees of department
  The employees of the department of youth services shall be governed by the personnel merit system rules and regulations of the state personnel department. Employees...
• Section 44-1-23 Legal counsel
  The state youth services director shall be authorized, subject to the provisions of the state merit system law, to appoint legal counsel for the department....
• Section 44-1-24 Powers and duties of department generally
  The Department of Youth Services shall perform the following: (1) Provide services for youths who have run away from their own communities in this state...
• Section 44-1-25 Development of department program
  The department of youth services shall develop a workable program of youth services as follows: (1) Collect statistics, information and data concerning the need for...
• Section 44-1-26 Salary subsidies for probation services; juvenile probation officers; responsibilities of Department of Human Resources
  Repealed by Act 98-392, p. 782, §17, effective July 21, 2004.
• Section 44-1-27 Standards for programs and youth detention facilities; licensing and inspection of youth detention and foster care facilities
  (a) The Department of Youth Services shall establish and promulgate reasonable minimum standards for the construction and operation of detention facilities, programs for the prevention...
• Section 44-1-28 Subsidies for youth detention facilities
  The functions and facilities related to youth detention facilities, licensed by the department of youth services of each county or counties, acting together may, upon...
• Section 44-1-29 Competitive bids; conflicts of interest
  Any purchase and any construction or supply contract of the department of youth services in an amount in excess of $500.00 shall be made or...
• Section 44-1-30 Study and evaluation of youth in custody of department
  When the legal custody of a youth has been vested in the department of youth services by order of the juvenile judge, the department shall,...
• Section 44-1-31 Guardianship of youth in custody of department
  If, at any time while legal custody of a youth is vested in the department of youth services, the department learns that he or she,...
• Section 44-1-32 Determination of social service plan
  (a) When legal custody of a youth has been vested in the department of youth services and so long as such legal custody is so...
• Section 44-1-33 Authorization of medical, psychiatric, surgical and dental treatment
  (a) The state youth services director or his delegate may authorize major surgery or medical treatment to be performed upon any committed youth or general...
• Section 44-1-34 Review of committed youth
  The department of youth services shall make a periodic review in the case of each youth whose legal custody is vested in the department who...
• Section 44-1-35 Petition for examination or review by director or court
  In the event any committed youth has not been examined as provided in section 44-1-30 or has not been reviewed within nine months of a...
• Section 44-1-36 Commitment of mentally ill or retarded youth to state hospital; discharge of rehabilitated youth; release of youth into aftercare; termination or extension of orders of commitment
  (a) In the event a committed youth shall be diagnosed in writing as mentally ill to the degree that said youth is unable to profit...
• Section 44-1-37 Clothing, money and transportation to be furnished upon release
  The department of youth services shall insure that each youth it releases from the state training schools has clothing, transportation to his home or to...
• Section 44-1-38 Records of examinations, etc
  The department of youth services shall keep adequate written records of all social studies and examinations and of the conclusions based thereon and of all...
• Section 44-1-39 Restrictions on release or use of records
  (a) It shall be unlawful, except for purposes directly connected with the administration of this chapter, or as herein provided, and in accordance with regulations...
• Section 44-1-40 Agreements with federal government
  The department of youth services is authorized to serve as an agent of the state in entering into agreements with any appropriate agency of the...
• Article 3 Youth Services Board.
• Section 44-1-50 Created; principal offices
  There is hereby created and established the Alabama youth services board. The principal offices of the board shall be located at the state capital. The...
• Section 44-1-51 Composition; compensation; records
  (a) The Governor shall be the ex officio Chair of the Youth Services Board. (b) The board shall be composed of 18 voting members, five...
• Section 44-1-52 Powers
  The youth services board shall have the following powers: (1) To appoint the state youth services director and to fix his salary. (2) To institute...
• Section 44-1-53 Meetings; quorum
  The youth services board may hold such meetings as are convenient and necessary, which shall be at least annually, to carry out its duties and...
• Section 44-1-54 Court review of board orders or decisions
  Any person aggrieved by any final order or decision of the youth services board may have a review of such order or decision in the...
• Section 44-1-55 Annual report to governor
  As soon after the end of a fiscal year as practicable, the youth services board shall print and send to the governor of Alabama a...
• Section 44-1-56 Budget requests
  Each biennium the youth services board shall present to the governor a request for funds based on projected needs for juvenile services in the state,...
• Article 4 Youth Services Department District.
• Section 44-1-70 Department of youth services designated "youth services department district."
  The department of youth services as presently constituted by law is hereby designated as a special school district of the state to be known as...
• Section 44-1-71 Superintendent of education for youth services department district - Appointment and qualifications
  There is hereby established the position of superintendent of education for the district which shall be filled by the appointment of the governing board of...
• Section 44-1-72 Superintendent of education for youth services department district - Responsibility; annual budget
  The superintendent of the district shall have the general responsibility for administering and supervising the educational programs of the youth services department as approved by...
• Section 44-1-73 Funding
  The youth services board and the state board of education shall cooperatively establish a funding formula which reflects the educational needs of the students assigned...
• Section 44-1-74 Retention of certain personnel; employment and status of new teaching personnel; merit system coverage of nonteaching personnel
  As of October 1, 1983, all personnel who have been employed by the department of youth services for at least six months shall remain in...
• Section 44-1-75 Salary schedule for teachers; leaves, benefits and insurance
  The youth services director shall work with the superintendent and the teaching staffs on each of the three campuses to develop a salary schedule for...
• Section 44-1-76 Relationship of board of youth services and superintendent to state board of education; powers and duties of board and superintendent; functioning of district
  The board of youth services and the superintendent of education of the special school district shall stand in the same relationship to the state board...
• Section 44-1-77 Construction of article
  The provisions of this article shall be construed in pari materia with the provisions of law contained in Title 44, chapters 1 and 2, and...
• Section 44-1-78 Certain Eufaula Adolescent Center School instructional personnel considered employees under Department of Youth Services Local Education Agency School District
  All appropriate State Department of Education or teacher certified personnel employed with the Department of Mental Health as Eufaula Adolescent Center School instructional personnel on...

Last modified: May 3, 2021