California Welfare and Institutions Code ARTICLE 4 - Powers and Duties of Youth Authority

• Section 1750.
  The Authority is limited in its expenditures to funds specifically made available for its use.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 937.)
• Section 1752.
  To the extent that necessary funds are available for the purposes, the director may(a) Establish and operate a treatment and training service and such other services...
• Section 1752.a.
  To the extent that necessary funds are available for the purposes the director may:(a) Establish and operate a treatment and training service and such other services...
• Section 1752.05.
  (a) The director shall provide for the development and implementation of a disciplinary matrix with offenses and associated punishments applicable to all department employees, in order...
• Section 1752.1.
  The director may enter into contracts with the approval of the Director of Finance with any county of this state, upon request of the board...
• Section 1752.15.
  The director may enter into contracts, with the approval of the Director of Finance, with any county of this state upon request of the board...
• Section 1752.16.
  (a) The Chief of the Division of Juvenile Facilities, with approval of the Director of Finance, may enter into contracts with any county of this state...
• Section 1752.3.
  The director may, from any moneys made available for such purposes, allocate funds to local governmental and nongovernmental agencies to share in the cost of...
• Section 1752.5.
  The director may establish and maintain at any institution or camp under his jurisdiction a canteen for the sale to persons confined therein of candy,...
• Section 1752.6.
  The director may, with the approval of the Director of General Services, enter into contracts with colleges, universities, and other organizations for the purposes of...
• Section 1752.7.
  The director may collect statistics and information regarding juvenile delinquency, crimes reported and discovered, arrests made, complaints, informations, and indictments filed and the disposition made...
• Section 1752.8.
  The Director of the Youth Authority may deposit any funds of wards committed to the authority in the director’s possession in trust with the Treasurer...
• Section 1752.81.
  (a) Whenever the Director of the Division of Juvenile Justice has in his or her possession in trust funds of a ward committed to the division,...
• Section 1752.82.
  (a) Whenever an adult or minor is committed to or housed in a Youth Authority facility and he or she owes restitution to a victim or...
• Section 1752.83.
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that wards of the Youth Authority be held accountable for intentional damage and destruction of public property committed...
• Section 1752.85.
  The Director of the Youth Authority may authorize the sale of articles of handiwork made by wards under the jurisdiction of the authority to the...
• Section 1752.9.
  The Department of the Youth Authority, with the approval of the Director of General Services, may lease land at any institution under its jurisdiction, at...
• Section 1752.95.
  The director may, from time to time, and as often as occasion may require, but not to exceed two meetings in any one calendar year...
• Section 1753.
  For the purpose of carrying out its duties, the department is authorized to make use of law enforcement, detention, probation, parole, medical, educational, correctional, segregative...
• Section 1753.1.
  (a) The Director of the Youth Authority may enter into agreements with any federal agency authorizing the use of the Youth Authority’s facilities and services for...
• Section 1753.3.
  (a) The Director of the Youth Authority may enter into an agreement with a city, county, or city and county, to permit transfer of wards in...
• Section 1753.4.
  (a) Pursuant to Section 1753.3 the Director of the Youth Authority may enter into a long-term agreement not to exceed 20 years with a city, county,...
• Section 1753.6.
  In any case in which a ward of the Youth Authority is temporarily released from actual confinement in an institution of the authority and placed...
• Section 1753.7.
  (a) Any female confined in a Department of the Youth Authority facility shall, upon her request, be allowed to continue to use materials necessary for (1)...
• Section 1754.
  Nothing in this chapter shall be taken to give the Youth Authority Board or the director control over existing facilities, institutions or agencies; or to...
• Section 1755.
  Public institutions and agencies are hereby required to accept and care for persons sent to them by the authority in the same manner as they...
• Section 1755.3.
  Whenever any person under the jurisdiction of the Youth Authority, or any minor under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections, is in need of...
• Section 1755.4.
  The Department of the Youth Authority, in consultation with the State Department of Mental Health shall establish, by regulations adopted at the earliest possible date,...
• Section 1755.5.
  The Department of the Youth Authority may transfer to and cause to be confined in the medical facility, the Correctional Training Facility at Soledad, the...
• Section 1756.
  Notwithstanding any other law, if, in the opinion of the Chief Deputy Secretary for the Division of Juvenile Justice, the rehabilitation of a person with...
• Section 1757.
  The director may inspect all public institutions and agencies whose facilities he or she is authorized to utilize and all private institutions and agencies whose...
• Section 1758.
  Placement of a person by the authority in any institution or agency not operated by the authority, or the discharge of such person by such...
• Section 1759.
  No person placed in such an institution or under such an agency may be released by the institution or agency until after approval of the...
• Section 1760.
  The director is hereby authorized when necessary and when funds are available for these purposes to establish and operate any of the following:(a) Places for the...
• Section 1760.4.
  (a) The wards housed in forestry camps established by the Department of the Youth Authority may be required to labor on the buildings and grounds of...
• Section 1760.5.
  The director may require persons committed to the authority to perform work necessary and proper to be done by the Department of Forestry and Fire...
• Section 1760.6.
  The department may provide for the payment of wages to wards for work performed pursuant to Section 2816 of the Penal Code, the sums earned...
• Section 1760.7.
  The director shall investigate, examine, and make reports upon adult and juvenile probation.The director may establish standards for the performance of probation duties, and upon...
• Section 1760.8.
  (a) The Department of the Youth Authority shall annually develop a population management and facilities master plan presenting projected population and strategies for treatment and housing...
• Section 1761.
  The Youth Authority shall establish policies for a background assessment of all persons committed to the Youth Authority in order to supplement the case history...
• Section 1763.
  The authority shall keep written records of all examinations and of the conclusions predicated thereon and of all orders concerning the disposition or treatment of...
• Section 1764.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any of the following information in the possession of the Youth Authority regarding persons 16 years of age or...
• Section 1764.1.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director or his or her designee may release the information described in Section 1764 regarding a person committed...
• Section 1764.2.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director of the Division of Juvenile Justice or the director’s designee shall release the information described in Section...
• Section 1764.3.
  (a) Whenever a person is committed to the Youth Authority by a court of criminal jurisdiction, or is committed to the Department of Corrections and subsequently...
• Section 1764.5.
  Whenever a minor is incarcerated in a Youth Authority facility for a period of at least 30 consecutive days, the Youth Authority shall inform the...
• Section 1765.
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the Department of the Youth Authority and the Youth Authority Board shall keep under continued study a person...
• Section 1766.
  (a) Subject to Sections 733 and 1767.35, and subdivision (b) of this section, if a person has been committed to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation,...
• Section 1766.1.
  When permitting an adult or minor committed to the Department of the Youth Authority his or her liberty pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1766,...
• Section 1766.2.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), all applicable wards shall be placed on supervised parole within the period of 120 to 90 days prior to...
• Section 1766.5.
  The director shall establish and maintain a fair, simple, and expeditious system for resolution of grievances of all persons committed to the Youth Authority regarding...
• Section 1767.
  (a) Upon request, written notice of any hearing to consider the release on parole of any person under the control of the Youth Authority for the...
• Section 1767.1.
  At least 30 days before the Youth Authority Board meets to review or consider the parole of any person who has been committed to the...
• Section 1767.2.
  Every order granting probation or parole to any person under the control of the authority who has been convicted of any of the offenses enumerated...
• Section 1767.3.
  (a) The written order of the Director of the Division of Juvenile Justice is a sufficient warrant for any peace officer to return to custody any...
• Section 1767.35.
  (a) For a ward discharged from the Division of Juvenile Facilities to the jurisdiction of the committing court, that person may be detained by probation, for...
• Section 1767.4.
  Whenever any person paroled by the Youth Authority Board is returned to the department upon the order of the director by a peace officer or...
• Section 1767.5.
  The authority may pay any private home for the care of any person committed to the authority and paroled by the Youth Authority Board to...
• Section 1767.6.
  In parole revocation proceedings, a parolee or his attorney shall receive a copy of any police, arrest, and crime reports pertaining to such proceedings. Portions...
• Section 1767.7.
  A sum may be withdrawn by the authority from the funds available for the support of the authority without at the time furnishing vouchers and...
• Section 1767.9.
  Any person authorized to appear at a parole hearing pursuant to Section 1767 shall have the right to speak last before the board in regard...
• Section 1768.
  As a means of correcting the socially harmful tendencies of a person committed to the authority, the director may(a) Require participation by him in vocational, physical,...
• Section 1768.1.
  No contract shall be executed with an employer that will initiate employment by persons committed to the authority in the same job classification as other...
• Section 1768.7.
  (a) Any person committed to the authority who escapes or attempts to escape from the institution or facility in which he or she is confined, who...
• Section 1768.8.
  (a) An assault or battery by any person confined in an institution under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Youth Authority upon the person of...
• Section 1768.85.
  (a) Every person confined under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Youth Authority who commits a battery by gassing upon the person of any peace...
• Section 1768.9.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person under the jurisdiction or control of the Department of the Youth Authority is obligated to submit to...
• Section 1768.10.a.
  Notwithstanding any other law, the Youth Authority Board may require a person under its jurisdiction or control to submit to an examination or test for...
• Section 1769.
  (a) Every person committed to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities, by a juvenile court shall, except as provided in subdivision (b),...
• Section 1770.
  Every person convicted of a misdemeanor and committed to the authority shall be discharged upon the expiration of a two-year period of control or when...
• Section 1771.
  (a) Every person convicted of a felony and committed to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities, shall be discharged when he or...
• Section 1772.
  (a) Subject to subdivision (b), every person discharged by the Board of Juvenile Hearings may petition the court that committed him or her, and the court...
• Section 1773.
  (a) No condition or restriction upon the obtaining of an abortion by a female committed to the Division of Juvenile Facilities, pursuant to the Therapeutic Abortion...
• Section 1774.
  (a) A female who has been committed to the Division of Juvenile Facilities shall have the right to summon and receive the services of a physician...
• Section 1776.
  Whenever an alleged parole violator is detained in a county detention facility pursuant to a valid exercise of the powers of the Department of Corrections...
• Section 1777.
  Any moneys received pursuant to the Federal Social Security Act by a ward who is incarcerated by the Youth Authority are liable for the reasonable...
• Section 1778.
  Notwithstanding Section 11425.10 of the Government Code, Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 11400) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government...

Last modified: October 22, 2018