Oregon Statutes - Chapter 420A - Oregon Youth Authority; Youth Correction Facilities

• 420A.005   Definitions.
  As used in ORS 420A.005 to 420A.155, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Cognitive restructuring” means any rehabilitation process that redirects the thinking of an...
• 420A.010   Creation and duties.
  (1) The Oregon Youth Authority is established. The youth authority shall: (a) Supervise the management and administration of youth correction facilities, state parole and probation...
• 420A.012   Recidivism; definition; reporting system; duties of Oregon Youth Authority and juvenile departments.
  (1) The Oregon Youth Authority, in consultation with the Oregon Juvenile Department Directors’ Association, shall adopt one or more definitions of recidivism and establish a...
• 420A.014   Enumeration of duties not exclusive.
  The enumeration of duties, functions and powers in ORS 420A.010 is not intended to be exclusive nor limit the duties, functions and powers imposed on...
• 420A.015   Director; appointment.
  (1) The Oregon Youth Authority is under the supervision and control of a director, who is responsible for the performance of the duties, functions and...
• 420A.017   Senate confirmation of director.
  The appointment of the Director of the Oregon Youth Authority is subject to confirmation by the Senate in the manner prescribed in ORS 171.562 and...
• 420A.020   Subordinate officers and employees; appointment.
  (1) The Director of the Oregon Youth Authority may appoint, subject to the approval of the Governor, a deputy director to serve at the pleasure...
• 420A.021   Authority of Oregon Youth Authority to require fingerprints.
  For the purpose of requesting a state or nationwide criminal records check under ORS 181.534, the Oregon Youth Authority may require the fingerprints of a...
• 420A.023   Authority of youth correction officers to exercise power of peace officer.
  (1) The Director of the Oregon Youth Authority may authorize an individual youth correction officer or group of youth correction officers to exercise the powers...
• 420A.025   Rulemaking authority; general.
  In accordance with applicable provisions of ORS chapter 183, the Director of the Oregon Youth Authority may adopt rules necessary for the administration of the...
• 420A.030   Oregon Youth Authority Account.
  (1) The Oregon Youth Authority Account is established in the General Fund of the State Treasury. Except for moneys otherwise designated by statute, all fees,...
• 420A.032   Revolving fund.
  (1) Upon written request of the Oregon Youth Authority, the Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall establish a revolving fund by drawing warrants on amounts...
• 420A.035   Authorization to deposit money belonging to youth offenders in trust account.
  The Oregon Youth Authority may deposit money belonging to youth offenders in a trust account in the State Treasury separate and distinct from the General...
• 420A.040   Provision of juvenile corrections programs to tribal youth offender; agreements.
  An agency that provides juvenile corrections programs may enter into an agreement with a tribe for the purposes of placing a tribal youth offender into...
• 420A.100   Authority to establish and operate.
  (1) The Oregon Youth Authority may establish and operate youth correction facilities. If the youth authority establishes youth correction facilities, the youth authority shall site...
• 420A.105   Rulemaking authority.
  The Director of the Oregon Youth Authority may adopt rules necessary to carry out the provisions of ORS 420A.105 to 420A.155. The rules must include...
• 420A.108   Policy regarding rules and dispositions for violations of rules; review of dispositions.
  (1) It is the policy of the State of Oregon that: (a) Rules regulating the conduct of youth offenders be based on the following principles...
• 420A.111   Levels of custody; transfer between levels; significance.
  (1) The Director of the Oregon Youth Authority may authorize the transfer of a youth offender from one level of custody to another. (2) Before...
• 420A.115   Parole of youth offenders.
  (1) The Director of the Oregon Youth Authority may authorize any youth offender to go on parole, subject to conditions of supervision and custody established...
• 420A.120   Suspension of parole or conditional release; rules.
  (1) The Oregon Youth Authority, upon being informed and having reasonable grounds to believe that a youth offender under the youth authority’s supervision or control...
• 420A.122   Notice of release or discharge of youth offender.
  (1) Prior to a youth offender’s release or discharge from a youth correction facility, the Oregon Youth Authority shall notify the following of the release...
• 420A.125   Youth offenders; intake assessments; reformation plan; placement.
  (1) The Oregon Youth Authority shall conduct, or cause to be conducted, intake assessments when youth offenders and other persons are initially placed in a...
• 420A.135   Secure regional youth facilities.
  (1) The Oregon Youth Authority may establish up to five secure regional youth facilities. (2) A secure regional youth facility shall: (a) Provide secure incarceration;...
• 420A.145   Regional youth accountability camps.
  (1) The Oregon Youth Authority may establish up to eight regional youth accountability camps. (2) A regional youth accountability camp shall: (a) Be based on...
• 420A.147   Placement in regional youth accountability camps.
  (1) The Director of the Oregon Youth Authority is solely responsible for determining which persons committed to, or placed in the custody of, the youth...
• 420A.155   Regional residential academies.
  (1) The Oregon Youth Authority may establish up to four regional residential academies. (2) A regional residential academy shall: (a) Provide a secure, closed residential...
• 420A.200   Duration of custody of Oregon Youth Authority.
  (1) A person may not continue in the legal or physical custody of the Oregon Youth Authority after the person attains 25 years of age....
• 420A.203   Eligibility for second look; report to sentencing court; hearing; disposition.
  (1)(a) This section and ORS 420A.206 apply only to persons who were under 18 years of age at the time of the commission of the...
• 420A.206   Conditional release; release plan; conditions; effect of violation of release plan; revocation.
  (1)(a) If, after the hearing required by ORS 420A.203, the court determines that conditional release is the appropriate disposition, the court shall direct the Department...
• 420A.220   Damage to property of employee of Oregon Youth Authority; claims; payment.
  (1) The Oregon Youth Authority may audit, allow and pay a claim for damage to property made by an employee from funds appropriated to the...
• 420A.223   Juvenile Justice Information System; establishment; rules.
  (1) The Juvenile Justice Information System, an electronic information system administered by the state through the Oregon Youth Authority, is established. The youth authority shall...

Last modified: August 7, 2008