Arkansas Code Title 9, Subtitle 3, Chapter 27, Subchapter 3 - Arkansas Juvenile Code
- § 9-27-301 - Title.
This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Arkansas Juvenile Code of 1989".
- § 9-27-302 - Purposes -- Construction.
This subchapter shall be liberally construed to the end that its purposes may be carried out: (1) To assure that all juveniles brought to...
- § 9-27-303 - Definitions.
As used in this subchapter: (1) "Abandoned infant" means a juvenile less than nine (9) months of age whose parent, guardian, or custodian left...
- § 9-27-304 - Provisions Supplemental.
(a) Unless this subchapter otherwise provides, nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to be in conflict with, to repeal, or to prevent proceedings...
- § 9-27-305 - Applicability.
Any juvenile within this state may be subjected to the care, custody, control, and jurisdiction of the circuit court.
- § 9-27-306 - Jurisdiction.
(a) (1) The circuit court shall have exclusive original jurisdiction of and shall be the sole court for the following proceedings governed by this...
- § 9-27-307 - Venue.
(a) (1) (A) Except as set forth in subdivisions (a)(2)-(4) of this section, a proceeding under this subchapter shall be commenced in the circuit...
- § 9-27-308 - Personnel -- Duties.
(a) Intake Officers. (1) The judge or judges of the circuit court designated to hear juvenile cases in their district plan under Supreme Court...
- § 9-27-309 - Confidentiality of Records -- Definition.
(a) All records may be closed and confidential within the discretion of the circuit court, except: (1) Adoption records, including any part of a...
- § 9-27-310 - Commencement of Proceedings.
(a) Proceedings shall be commenced by filing a petition with the circuit clerk of the circuit court or by transfer by another court.(b) (1)...
- § 9-27-311 - Required Contents of Petition.
(a) The petition shall set forth the following: (1) (A) The name, address, gender, Social Security number, and date of birth of each juvenile...
- § 9-27-312 - Notification to Defendants.
(a) In a delinquency and family-in-need-of-services case, a juvenile defendant ten (10) years of age and above, any persons having care and control of...
- § 9-27-313 - Taking Into Custody.
(a) (1) A juvenile only may be taken into custody without a warrant before service upon him or her of a petition and notice...
- § 9-27-314 - Emergency Orders.
(a) (1) In any case in which there is probable cause to believe that immediate emergency custody is necessary to protect the health or...
- § 9-27-315 - Probable Cause Hearing.
(a) (1) (A) Following the issuance of an emergency order, the circuit court shall hold a probable cause hearing within five (5) business days...
- § 9-27-316 - Right to Counsel.
(a) (1) In delinquency and family in need of services cases, a juvenile and his or her parent, guardian, or custodian shall be advised...
- § 9-27-317 - Waiver of Right to Counsel -- Detention of Juvenile -- Questioning.
(a) Waiver of the right to counsel at a delinquency or family in need of services hearing shall be accepted only upon a finding...
- § 9-27-318 - Filing and Transfer to the Criminal Division of Circuit Court.
(a) The state may proceed with a case as a delinquency only when the case involves a juvenile: (1) Fifteen (15) years of age...
- § 9-27-319 - Double Jeopardy.
(a) No juvenile who has been subjected to an adjudication pursuant to a petition alleging him or her to be delinquent shall be tried...
- § 9-27-320 - Fingerprinting or Photographing.
(a) (1) When a juvenile is arrested for any offense that if committed by an adult would constitute a Class Y, Class A, or...
- § 9-27-321 - Statements Not Admissible.
Statements made by a juvenile to the intake officer or probation officer during the intake process before a hearing on the merits of the...
- § 9-27-322 - Release From Custody.
(a) Upon receiving notice that a juvenile has been taken into custody on an allegation of delinquency, the intake officer shall immediately notify the...
- § 9-27-323 - Diversion -- Conditions -- Agreement -- Completion -- Definition.
(a) If the prosecuting attorney, after consultation with the intake officer, determines that a diversion of a delinquency case is in the best interests...
- § 9-27-324 - Preliminary Investigation.
(a) Upon receiving notice that a juvenile has been taken into custody on an allegation of delinquency, the intake officer shall also conduct a...
- § 9-27-325 - Hearings -- Generally.
(a) (1) (A) All hearings shall be conducted by the judge without a jury, except as provided by the Extended Juvenile Jurisdiction Act, §...
- § 9-27-326 - Detention Hearing.
(a) If a juvenile is taken into custody on an allegation of delinquency, violation of Division of Youth Services of the Department of Human...
- § 9-27-327 - Adjudication Hearing.
(a) (1) (A) An adjudication hearing shall be held to determine whether the allegations in a petition are substantiated by the proof. (B) (i)...
- § 9-27-328 - Removal of Juvenile.
(a) Before a circuit court may order any dependent-neglected juvenile or family in need of services juvenile removed from the custody of his or...
- § 9-27-329 - Disposition Hearing.
(a) If the circuit court finds that the petition has been substantiated by the proof at the adjudication hearing, a disposition hearing shall be...
- § 9-27-330 - Disposition -- Delinquency -- Alternatives.
(a) If a juvenile is found to be delinquent, the circuit court may enter an order making any of the following dispositions based upon...
- § 9-27-331 - Disposition -- Delinquency -- Limitations.
(a) (1) A commitment to the Division of Youth Services of the Department of Human Services is for an indeterminate period not to exceed...
- § 9-27-332 - Disposition -- Family in Need of Services -- Generally.
(a) If a family is found to be in need of services, the circuit court may enter an order making any of the following...
- § 9-27-333 - Disposition -- Family in Need of Services -- Limitations.
(a) At least five (5) working days before ordering the Department of Human Services, excluding community-based providers, to provide or pay for family services,...
- § 9-27-334 - Disposition -- Dependent-Neglected -- Generally.
(a) If a juvenile is found to be dependent-neglected, the circuit court may enter an order making any of the following dispositions: (1) Order...
- § 9-27-335 - Disposition -- Dependent-Neglected -- Limitations.
(a) (1) At least five (5) working days before ordering the Department of Human Services, excluding community-based providers, to provide or pay for family...
- § 9-27-336 - Limitations on Detention.
(a) A juvenile who is alleged to be or who has been adjudicated either dependent-neglected or a member of a family in need of...
- § 9-27-337 - Six-Month Reviews Required.
(a) (1) The court shall review every case of dependency-neglect or families in need of services when: (A) A juvenile is placed by the...
- § 9-27-338 - Permanency Planning Hearing.
(a) (1) A permanency planning hearing shall be held to finalize a permanency plan for the juvenile: (A) No later than twelve (12) months...
- § 9-27-339 - Probation -- Revocation.
(a) (1) After an adjudication of delinquency, the court may place a juvenile on probation. The conditions of probation shall be given to the...
- § 9-27-340 - [Repealed.]
- § 9-27-341 - Termination of Parental Rights.
(a) (1) (A) This section shall be a remedy available only to the Department of Human Services or a court-appointed attorney ad litem. (B)...
- § 9-27-342 - Proceedings Concerning Juveniles for Whom Paternity Not Established.
(a) Absent orders of a circuit court or another court of competent jurisdiction to the contrary, the biological mother, whether adult or minor, of...
- § 9-27-343 - Appeals.
(a) All appeals from juvenile cases shall be made to the Supreme Court or to the Court of Appeals in the time and manner...
- § 9-27-344 - Monthly Report.
The circuit court shall submit monthly to the Director of the Administrative Office of the Courts a report in writing upon forms to be...
- § 9-27-345 - Admissibility of Evidence.
(a) Juvenile adjudications of delinquency for offenses for which the juvenile could have been tried as an adult may be used at the sentencing...
- § 9-27-346 - Support Orders.
(a) If it appears at the adjudication or disposition hearing in any case brought under this subchapter that the parents or any other person...
- § 9-27-347 - Probation Reports.
(a) The probation officer shall make and keep a complete history of each case before disposition and during the course of any probation imposed...
- § 9-27-348 - Publication of Proceedings.
No information by which the name or identity of a juvenile who is the subject of proceedings under this subchapter may be ascertained shall...
- § 9-27-349 - Compliance With Federal Acts.
The Division of Youth Services of the Department of Human Services shall have the responsibility for the collection, review, and reporting of statistical information...
- § 9-27-350 - Compacts to Share Costs.
Nothing in this subchapter shall prohibit two (2) or more counties, cities, or school districts of this state from agreeing by compact to share...
- § 9-27-351 - Escape Considered an Act of Delinquency.
The escape of a juvenile from the locked portion of a juvenile facility is an act of delinquency.
- § 9-27-352 - [Repealed.]
- § 9-27-353 - Duties and Responsibilities of Custodian.
(a) It shall be the duty of any person or agency appointed as the custodian of any juvenile in a proceeding under this subchapter...
- § 9-27-354 - Progress Reports on Juveniles.
(a) (1) The court may order progress reports from a service provider whenever a juvenile is placed out of home and in a setting...
- § 9-27-355 - Placement of Juveniles.
(a) The court shall not specify a particular provider for placement of any foster child.(b) (1) A relative of a juvenile placed in the...
- § 9-27-356 - Juvenile Sex Offender Assessment and Registration.
(a) If a juvenile is an adjudicated delinquent for any of the following offenses, the court shall order a sex offender screening and risk...
- § 9-27-357 - Deoxyribonucleic Acid Samples.
(a) A person who is adjudicated delinquent for the following offenses shall have a deoxyribonucleic acid sample drawn: (1) Rape, § 5-14-103; (2) Sexual...
- § 9-27-358 - [Repealed.]
- § 9-27-359 - Fifteenth-Month Review Hearing.
(a) A hearing shall be held to determine whether the Department of Human Services shall file a petition to terminate parental rights if: (1)...
- § 9-27-360 - Review of Termination of Parental Rights.
(a) After an order of termination of parental rights, the circuit court shall review the case following the termination hearing at least every six...
- § 9-27-361 - Court Reports.
(a) (1) Seven (7) business days before a scheduled dependency-neglect review hearing, including the fifteenth-month review hearing and any post-termination of parental rights hearing,...
- § 9-27-362 - Emancipation of Juveniles.
(a) A petition for emancipation may be filed in a circuit court by any party to a dependency-neglect, dependency, family in need of services,...
- § 9-27-363 - Foster Youth Transition.
(a) The General Assembly finds that: (1) A juvenile in foster care should have a family for a lifetime, but too many juveniles in...
- § 9-27-364 - Division of Youth Services Aftercare.
(a) (1) After an adjudication of delinquency and upon commitment to the Division of Youth Services of the Department of Human Services, the court...
- § 9-27-365 - No Reunification Hearing.
(a) (1) (A) Any party can file a motion for no reunification services at any time. (B) The motion shall be provided to all...
- § 9-27-366 - Confessions.
In determining whether a juvenile's confession was voluntarily, knowingly, and intelligently made, the court shall consider all circumstances surrounding the confession, including without limitation...
- § 9-27-367 - Court Costs, Fees, and Fines.
(a) The juvenile division of the circuit court may order the following court costs, fees, and fines to be paid by adjudicated defendants to...
- § 9-27-368 - Risk and Needs Assessments.
(a) The Administrative Office of the Courts shall work with the circuit courts to implement a validated risk and needs assessment that shall be...
Last modified: November 15, 2016