California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 740.1

CA Welf & Inst Code § 740.1 (2017)  

(a) Any minor adjudged to be a ward of the court on the basis that he or she is a person described in Section 602 of the Welfare and Institutions Code and who is placed in a community care facility outside his or her county of residence who is then arrested and after receiving a jurisdictional hearing is remanded back to his or her county of residence shall not be placed back into the placement county without the testimony and documentation or request, if any, from the placement county pursuant to subdivision (b).

(b) The placement county may provide to the juvenile court relevant testimony and documentation pertaining to the ward’s conduct while residing in the placement county, and may request that the ward not be returned to the placement county.

(c) “Community care facility,” as used in this section, shall be defined as provided in Section 1502 of the Health and Safety Code.

(Added by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1153, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 1993.)

Last modified: October 25, 2018