502. Definitions. Unless otherwise specified in this article:
1. "Director" means the director of the division for youth.
2. "Division" means the division for youth.
* 3. "Detention" means the temporary care and maintenance of youth held away from their homes pursuant to article three or seven of the family court act, or held pending a hearing for alleged violation of the conditions of release from an office of children and family services facility or authorized agency, or held pending a hearing for alleged violation of the condition of parole as a juvenile offender, or held pending return to a jurisdiction other than the one in which the youth is held, or held pursuant to a securing order of a criminal court if the youth named therein as principal is charged as a juvenile offender or held pending a hearing on an extension of placement or held pending transfer to a facility upon commitment or placement by a court. Only alleged or convicted juvenile offenders who have not attained their eighteenth birthday shall be subject to detention in a detention facility.
* NB Effective until October 1, 2018
* 3. "Detention" means the temporary care and maintenance of youth held away from their homes pursuant to article three or seven of the family court act, or held pending a hearing for alleged violation of the conditions of release from an office of children and family services facility or authorized agency, or held pending a hearing for alleged violation of the condition of parole as a juvenile offender, youthful offender or adolescent offender or held pending return to a jurisdiction other than the one in which the youth is held, or held pursuant to a securing order of a criminal court if the youth named therein as principal is charged as a juvenile offender, youthful offender or adolescent offender or held pending a hearing on an extension of placement or held pending transfer to a facility upon commitment or placement by a court. Only alleged or convicted juvenile offenders, youthful offenders or adolescent offenders who have not attained their eighteenth or, commencing October first, two thousand eighteen, their twenty-first birthday shall be subject to detention in a detention facility. Commencing October first, two thousand eighteen, a youth who on or after such date committed an offense when the youth was sixteen years of age; or commencing October first, two thousand nineteen, a youth who committed an offense on or after such date when the youth was seventeen years of age held pursuant to a securing order of a criminal court if the youth is charged as an adolescent offender or held pending a hearing for alleged violation of the condition of parole as an adolescent offender, must be held in a specialized secure juvenile detention facility for older youth certified by the state office of children and family services in conjunction with the state commission of correction.
* NB Effective October 1, 2018; see ch. 59/2017 Pt. WWW 106 sb b for further contingencies for 10/1/2019
* 4. For purposes of this article, the term "youth" shall be synonymous with the term "child" and means a person not less than seven years of age and not more than twenty years of age.
* NB Effective until October 1, 2018
* 4. For purposes of this article, the term "youth" shall mean a person not less than seven years of age and not more than twenty or commencing October first, two thousand nineteen, not more than twenty-two years of age.
* NB Effective October 1, 2018; see ch. 59/2017 Pt. WWW 106 sb b for further contingencies for 10/1/2019
5. "Placement" means the transfer of a youth to the custody of the division pursuant to the family court act.
6. "Commitment" means the transfer of a youth to the custody of the division pursuant to the penal law.
7. "Conditional release" means the transfer of a youth from facility status to aftercare supervision under the continued custody of the division.
8. "Discharge" means the termination of division custody of a youth.
9. "Aftercare" means supervision of a youth on conditional release status under the continued custody of the division.
Last modified: February 3, 2019