Ohio Revised Code Chapter 5139 - Youth Services

• Section 5139.01 - Department Of Youth Services - Definitions.
  (A) As used in this chapter: (1) "Commitment" means the transfer of the physical custody of a child or youth from the court to...
• Section 5139.02 - [Effective Until 3/23/2016] Appointment Of Managing Officers.
  (A) (1) As used in this section, "managing officer" means a deputy director, an assistant deputy director, a superintendent, a regional administrator, a deputy...
• Section 5139.02 - [Effective 3/23/2016] Appointment Of Managing Officers.
  (A) (1) As used in this section, "managing officer" means a deputy director, an assistant deputy director, a superintendent, a regional administrator, a deputy...
• Section 5139.03 - Control And Management Of State Institutions Or Facilities.
  (A) The department of youth services shall control and manage all state institutions or facilities established or created for the training or rehabilitation of...
• Section 5139.031 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 09-04-2000
• Section 5139.04 - Powers And Duties Of Department.
  The department of youth services shall do all of the following: (A) Support service districts through a central administrative office that shall have as...
• Section 5139.05 - Order To Commit.
  (A) The juvenile court may commit any child to the department of youth services as authorized in Chapter 2152. of the Revised Code, provided...
• Section 5139.06 - Disposition Of Child.
  (A) When a child has been committed to the department of youth services, the department shall do both of the following: (1) Place the...
• Section 5139.07 - Rehabilitation.
  (A) (1) (a) As a means of correcting the socially harmful tendencies of a child committed to it, the department of youth services may...
• Section 5139.08 - Agreements With Other State Agencies.
  The department of youth services may enter into an agreement with the director of rehabilitation and correction pursuant to which the department of youth...
• Section 5139.09 - Periodic Re-examination Of Children.
  The department of youth services shall make periodic re-examination of all children under its control for the purpose of determining whether existing orders in...
• Section 5139.10 - Final Discharges Ends Control By Department.
  Unless the child has already received a final discharge, the control by the department of youth services of a child committed as a delinquent...
• Section 5139.11 - Prevention And Control Of Juvenile Delinquency.
  The department of youth services shall do all of the following: (A) Through a program of education, promotion, and organization, form groups of local...
• Section 5139.12 - Reporting Abuse Of Delinquent Child.
  Any person who is required, pursuant to division (A) of section 2151.421 of the Revised Code, to report the person's knowledge of or reasonable...
• Section 5139.13 - Facilities For Treatment And Training Of Children.
  (A) The department of youth services shall do all of the following: (1) Control and manage all institutions for the rehabilitation of delinquent children...
• Section 5139.131 - Vocational Education Programs.
  The department of youth services may conduct programs for the vocational education of children committed to the department or involved in aftercare services provided...
• Section 5139.14 - Reentry Services By Nonprofit Faith-based Organizations.
  (A) (1) The department of youth services shall permit representatives of all nonprofit faith-based, business, professional, civic, educational, and community organizations that are registered...
• Section 5139.15 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 12-22-1992
• Section 5139.16 - Accepting Gifts And Bequests.
  The department of youth services may accept, hold, and use, for the benefit of the department or the children committed to it, any gift,...
• Section 5139.17 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-1993
• Section 5139.171 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 11-23-1981
• Section 5139.18 - Supervision Of Children Released From Institutions.
  (A) Except with respect to children who are granted a judicial release to court supervision pursuant to division (B) or (D) of section 2152.22...
• Section 5139.19 - Managing Officers Of Institutions.
  Subject to the rules of the department of youth services, each institution and community regional office under the jurisdiction of the department shall be...
• Section 5139.191 - Apprehending Juvenile Escapees.
  Any sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, officer of state or local police, or employee of the department of youth services shall apprehend any child who...
• Section 5139.20 - Emergency Overcrowding Conditions.
  (A) Notwithstanding any other provision of the Revised Code that sets forth the minimum periods or period for which a child committed to the...
• Section 5139.21 - Prohibited Acts.
  No person shall influence or attempt to influence any child under supervision of the department of youth services, to leave the institution or home...
• Section 5139.22 - Transportation Costs.
  Each county shall bear all of the expenses incident to the transportation of a child committed to the department of youth services by the...
• Section 5139.23 - Leasing Capital Facilities.
  The department of youth services shall lease capital facilities constructed, reconstructed, or improved, which facilities are financed by the treasurer of state pursuant to...
• Section 5139.24 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 01-01-2002
• Section 5139.25 - Designating Names Of Institutions.
  The department of youth services may designate the institutions under its management and control, present and future, by appropriate respective names, regardless of present...
• Section 5139.251 - Rules For Searching Visitors.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Body cavity search" and "strip search" have the same meanings as in section 5120.421 of the Revised...
• Section 5139.26 - Acquiring And Disposing Of Land Or Property.
  The department of youth services, with the approval of the governor and the attorney general, may buy, sell, lease, or exchange portions of land...
• Section 5139.27 - Financial Assistance Rules.
  The department of youth services shall adopt rules prescribing the minimum standards of construction for a school, forestry camp, or other facility established under...
• Section 5139.271 - Granting Financial Assistance To Counties.
  Subject to the approval of the controlling board, the department of youth services may grant and pay financial assistance to defray the county's share...
• Section 5139.28 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 09-05-2001
• Section 5139.281 - Granting Financial Assistance To Detention Facilities.
  The department of youth services shall adopt rules prescribing the manner of application for financial assistance under this section for the operation and maintenance...
• Section 5139.29 - Payment Of Assistance Rules.
  The department of youth services shall adopt and promulgate regulations prescribing the method of calculating the amount of and the time and manner for...
• Section 5139.30 - Transferring Children.
  The department of youth services may, by mutual agreement with the governing board of a school, forestry camp, or other facility established under section...
• Section 5139.31 - Inspections.
  The department of youth services may inspect any school, forestry camp, district detention facility, or other facility for which an application for financial assistance...
• Section 5139.32 - Child Unable To Benefit From Programs.
  (A) Whenever a child committed to the department of youth services is unable to benefit from the programs conducted by the department, as found...
• Section 5139.33 - Grants For County Community-based Programs And Services For Adjudicated Delinquent Children For Commission Of Acts That Would Be Felonies If Committed By Adult.
  (A) The department of youth services shall make grants in accordance with this section to encourage counties to use community-based programs and services for...
• Section 5139.34 - Granting State Subsidies To Counties.
  (A) Funds may be appropriated to the department of youth services for the purpose of granting state subsidies to counties. A county or the...
• Section 5139.35 - Prior Consent Of Committing Court Required For Placement In Less Restrictive Setting.
  (A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section and division (C)(2) of section 5139.06 of the Revised Code, the department of youth...
• Section 5139.36 - Grants To Operate Community Corrections Facilities For Felony Delinquents.
  (A) In accordance with this section and the rules adopted under it and from funds appropriated to the department of youth services for the...
• Section 5139.37 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-1993
• Section 5139.38 - Transferring Felony Delinquent To Community Facility For Supervised Treatment Prior To Ordering Release.
  Within ninety days prior to the expiration of the prescribed minimum period of institutionalization of a felony delinquent committed to the department of youth...
• Section 5139.39 - Transfer To Certified Foster Care Facility.
  The department of youth services, in the manner provided in this chapter and Chapter 2151. of the Revised Code, may transfer to a foster...
• Section 5139.40 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-1993
• Section 5139.41 - Formula For Expending Appropriation For Care And Custody Of Felony Delinquents.
  The appropriation made to the department of youth services for care and custody of felony delinquents shall be expended in accordance with the following...
• Section 5139.42 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 09-26-2003
• Section 5139.43 - Felony Delinquent Care And Custody Program.
  (A) The department of youth services shall operate a felony delinquent care and custody program that shall be operated in accordance with the formula...
• Section 5139.44 - Reclaim Advisory Committee.
  (A) (1) There is hereby created the RECLAIM advisory committee that shall be composed of the following nine members: (a) Two members shall be...
• Section 5139.45 - Office Of Quality Assurance And Improvement.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Institution" means a state facility that is created by the general assembly and that is under the...
• Section 5139.46 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 12-02-1996
• Section 5139.47 To 5139.49 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 06-29-1975
• Section 5139.50 - Release Authority - Appointment - Duties.
  (A) The release authority of the department of youth services is hereby created as a bureau in the department. The release authority shall consist...
• Section 5139.51 - Supervised Release Or Discharge.
  (A) The release authority of the department of youth services shall not release a child who is in the custody of the department of...
• Section 5139.511 - Verification Of Identity Prior To Release.
  Before a youth is released from a secure facility under the control of the department of youth services, the department of youth services shall...
• Section 5139.52 - Violating Term Or Condition Of Supervised Release Or Judicial Release.
  (A) At any time during a child's supervised release or during the period of a child's judicial release to department of youth services supervision,...
• Section 5139.53 - Employees Authorized To Apprehend Violators.
  (A) (1) The director of youth services shall designate certain employees of the department of youth services, including regional administrators, as persons who are...
• Section 5139.54 - Medical Release Or Discharge.
  (A) Notwithstanding any other provision for determining when a child shall be released or discharged from the legal custody of the department of youth...
• Section 5139.55 - Office Of Victims' Services.
  (A) (1) The office of victims' services is hereby created within the release authority of the department of youth services. The office of victims'...
• Section 5139.56 - Notice To Victim Of All Release Reviews, Pending Release Hearings, Supervised Release Revocation Hearings, And Discharge Reviews.
  (A) The victim of an act for which a child has been committed to the legal custody of the department of youth services may...
• Section 5139.84 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 08-18-1969
• Section 5139.85 - Disposing Of Property Of Former Inmates.
  (A) Whenever any child under the jurisdiction of the department of youth services dies, and any personal funds or property of the child remain...
• Section 5139.86 - Cafeteria Fund - Industrial And Entertainment Fund - Youth Benefit Fund - Employee Food Service Fund.
  (A) Each managing officer of an institution or regional office under the jurisdiction of the department of youth services, with the approval of the...
• Section 5139.87 - Federal Juvenile Justice Programs Funds.
  (A) The department of youth services shall serve as the state agent for the administration of all federal juvenile justice grants awarded to the...
• Section 5139.99 - Penalty.
  Whoever violates section 5139.21 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than ten nor more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not...

Last modified: October 10, 2016