California Welfare and Institutions Code ARTICLE 3 - Commitments to Youth Authority

• Section 1730.
  (a) No person may be committed to the Authority until the Authority has certified in writing to the Governor that it has approved or established places...
• Section 1731.
  (a) When in any criminal proceeding in a court of this State a person has been convicted of a public offense and the person was a...
• Section 1731.5.
  (a) After certification to the Governor as provided in this article, a court may commit to the Division of Juvenile Facilities any person who meets all...
• Section 1731.6.
  (a) In any county in which there is in effect a contract made pursuant to Section 1752.1, if a court has determined that a person comes...
• Section 1731.8.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, within 60 days of the commitment of a ward to the Department of the Youth Authority, the department shall...
• Section 1732.
  No person convicted of violating Section 261, 262, or 264.1, subdivision (b) of Section 288, Section 289, or of sodomy or oral copulation by force,...
• Section 1732.5.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person convicted of murder, rape or any other serious felony, as defined in Section 1192.7 of the Penal...
• Section 1732.6.
  (a) No minor shall be committed to the Youth Authority when he or she is convicted in a criminal action for an offense described in subdivision...
• Section 1732.7.
  A person who is convicted of a public offense for which the maximum penalty provided by law is imprisonment for not more than 90 days,...
• Section 1732.8.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law and subject to the provisions of this section, the Director of the Youth Authority may transfer to and cause to be...
• Section 1733.
  Nothing in this chapter prevents a court from revoking or suspending any license issued to the defendant under any law of this State where such...
• Section 1735.
  If the court sentences a person under 21 years of age at the time of his apprehension to the payment of a fine and the...
• Section 1736.
  The juvenile court may in its discretion commit persons subject to its jurisdiction to the authority, and the authority may in its discretion accept such...
• Section 1737.
  When a person has been committed to the custody of the authority, if it is deemed warranted by a diagnostic study and recommendation approved by...
• Section 1737.1.
  Whenever any person who has been convicted of a public offense in adult court and committed to and accepted by the Department of the Youth...
• Section 1737.5.
  A commitment to the Authority is a judgment within the meaning of Chapter 1 of Title 8 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, and...
• Section 1738.
  When the court commits a person to the authority the court may order him conveyed to some place of detention approved or established by the...
• Section 1739.
  (a) The right of a person who has been convicted of a public offense to a new trial or to an appeal from the judgment of...
• Section 1740.
  When a court commits a person to the Authority such court shall at once forward to the Authority a certified copy of the order of...
• Section 1741.
  The judge before whom the person was tried and committed, the district attorney or other official who conducted the prosecution, and the probation officer of...
• Section 1742.
  When the juvenile court commits to the Youth Authority a person identified as an individual with exceptional needs, as defined by Section 56026 of the...

Last modified: October 22, 2018