Oregon Statutes - Chapter 419A - Juvenile Code: General Provisions and Definitions
- 419A.002 [1993 c.33 §1; 1993 c.546 §1; 1997 c.873 §1; repealed by 2003 c.396 §143]
- 419A.004 Definitions.
As used in this chapter and ORS chapters 419B and 419C, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “CASA Volunteer Program” means a program approved or...
- 419A.010 Appointment of counselors and director.
(1)(a) Subject to paragraph (b) of this subsection, the governing body of any county, after consultation with the judges of the juvenile court in that...
- 419A.012 Duties of director or counselor.
The director of a juvenile department or one of the counselors shall: (1) Make or cause to be made an investigation of every child, ward,...
- 419A.014 Reports by juvenile department.
The juvenile department of a county shall report annually to the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission the frequency with which runaway children held under ORS 419C.156,...
- 419A.015 Reports to school districts concerning youth offenders on probation.
(1)(a) Once each month, a county juvenile department shall provide to each school district in the county a list of all youth offenders enrolled in...
- 419A.016 Powers of director or counselor.
Any director or counselor has the power of a peace officer as to any child, ward, youth or youth offender committed to the care of...
- 419A.018 Juvenile department is county agency.
Except as provided in ORS 419A.010, the juvenile department of a county is and shall be considered a county agency for all purposes. [1993 c.33...
- 419A.022 Responsibility of counties over 400,000 population.
The board of county commissioners or county court of counties having more than 400,000 inhabitants, according to the latest federal decennial census, shall provide proper...
- 419A.044 [Formerly 423.310; repealed by 2001 c.904 §9 and 2001 c.905 §11]
- 419A.045 Policy and purpose.
It is declared to be the legislative policy of the State of Oregon to recognize county juvenile courts and departments as a basic foundation for...
- 419A.046 Definition for ORS 419A.046 to 419A.048.
As used in ORS 419A.046 to 419A.048, “state contribution” means the amount of money to which each county is entitled from the funds appropriated for...
- 419A.047 Financial aid to counties for court services.
(1) The state shall provide financial assistance to the counties for the implementation of local coordinated comprehensive plans from funds appropriated for that purpose for...
- 419A.048 Court to comply with fiscal reporting procedures.
Any court with juvenile court jurisdiction that receives financial assistance under ORS 419A.045 to 419A.048 shall comply with fiscal reporting procedures developed and approved by...
- 419A.050 Authority to acquire, equip and maintain detention and shelter facilities.
(1) Any county may acquire in any lawful manner, equip and maintain within the county suitable facilities for the shelter or detention of children, wards,...
- 419A.052 Specifications of facilities.
(1) Suitable detention facilities must be of Class I construction and comply with the State of Oregon Structural Specialty Code and Fire and Life Safety...
- 419A.055 Examination of facilities; capacity limits.
The county court or board of commissioners of a county may institute an examination of the county’s juvenile detention facility and establish its capacity in...
- 419A.057 Payment of maintenance expenses; admission of youth offenders.
(1) All expenses incurred in the maintenance of the facilities for detention and the personnel required for the facilities, except as otherwise provided in subsection...
- 419A.059 Designation of detention and shelter facilities.
The juvenile court of each county shall designate the place or places in which children, wards, youths or youth offenders are to be placed in...
- 419A.061 Inspection of detention facilities.
Inspection of juvenile detention facilities, including jails or lockups, and enforcement of the juvenile detention standards contained in ORS 419A.059 or otherwise established by statute,...
- 419A.063 Requirements for detention facilities.
(1) The juvenile court may not place a youth offender in a detention facility under ORS 419C.453 unless the facility: (a) Houses youth offenders in...
- 419A.090 Local citizen review boards.
Subject to the availability of funds, the Judicial Department shall establish local citizen review boards. There shall be at least one local citizen review board...
- 419A.092 Membership; training.
(1) Each local citizen review board shall be composed of at least three and not more than seven members appointed by the Chief Justice of...
- 419A.094 Additional boards; creation.
Local citizen review boards shall be added when the number of cases requiring review by existing boards exceeds a number per month established by rule...
- 419A.096 Duties of Judicial Department in administering boards.
(1) Subject to the availability of funds, the Judicial Department, in accordance with the direction of the Supreme Court of the State of Oregon, shall:...
- 419A.098 Rules.
The Chief Justice, in consultation with the Supreme Court, shall adopt rules under ORS 1.002 that may include any procedures for the administration of the...
- 419A.100 Confidentiality of information; penalty.
(1) Before beginning to serve on a local citizen review board, each member shall swear or affirm to the court that the member shall keep...
- 419A.102 Access to confidential information by boards; procedure.
(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of ORS 40.225 to 40.275, 412.074, 419B.035, 419B.045, 419B.440, 419B.443, 419B.446, 419B.449, 419B.452 and 419B.460, each local citizen review board shall...
- 419A.104 Report on children and wards in substitute care.
Within seven working days after the first of each month, the Department of Human Services shall send to the citizen review board state administrative office...
- 419A.106 Review of cases generally.
(1) Except for cases removed from review under procedures established under ORS 419A.098, the local citizen review board shall review the case of each child...
- 419A.107 Review of cases of youth offenders.
(1) Subject to the availability of funds, a local citizen review board shall review cases of youth offenders in the custody of the Oregon Youth...
- 419A.108 Procedure for conflicts of interest.
Whenever a member of a local citizen review board has a potential conflict of interest in a case being reviewed, the member shall declare to...
- 419A.109 Review of cases of wards for whom guardian has been appointed; rules.
(1) Subject to the availability of funds and upon request of a court under ORS 419B.367, a local citizen review board shall review the case...
- 419A.110 Immunity of participants in case review.
Anyone participating in a case review by a local citizen review board shall have: (1) Immunity from any liability, civil or criminal, for defamation for...
- 419A.112 Disclosure of information to participants in case review; confidentiality.
(1) The local citizen review board may disclose records disclosed to the local board under ORS 419A.102 to: (a) Parents and their attorneys; (b) Foster...
- 419A.114 When presence of agency personnel at board hearings required.
(1) Unless excused from doing so by the local citizen review board, the Department of Human Services and any other agency directly responsible for the...
- 419A.116 Findings and recommendations; judicial review.
(1) After reviewing each case, the local citizen review board shall make written findings and recommendations with respect to: (a) Whether reasonable efforts were made...
- 419A.118 Records; disclosure of findings and recommendations.
The local citizen review board shall keep accurate records and retain these records on file. The local citizen review board shall send copies of its...
- 419A.120 Court use of findings and recommendations.
Upon receipt of findings and recommendations from the local citizen review board, the court shall: (1) Review the findings and recommendations of the local citizen...
- 419A.122 Use of findings and recommendations by Department of Human Services.
Upon receipt of findings and recommendations from the local citizen review board, the Department of Human Services shall: (1) Review the findings and recommendations of...
- 419A.124 Policy and procedure recommendations.
In addition to reviewing individual cases of children and wards in substitute care, local citizen review boards may make recommendations to the court and the...
- 419A.128 State Citizen Review Board Operating Account.
(1) There is created a State Citizen Review Board Operating Account in the General Fund which is continuously appropriated to the State Court Administrator to...
- 419A.150 Appointment; qualifications; hearings; orders; rehearings.
(1) The judge of the juvenile court may appoint one or more persons as referee of the juvenile court. A referee shall be appointed in...
- 419A.170 Appointment; duties; immunity; access to information; CASA Fund; rules.
(1) In every case under ORS chapter 419B, the court shall appoint a court appointed special advocate. The court appointed special advocate is deemed a...
- 419A.180 Power of court to enforce orders by contempt order.
In case of failure to comply with any order of the juvenile court, the court may proceed for contempt of court against the person failing...
- 419A.190 Effect of adjudicatory hearing or admission.
Except as provided in ORS 153.108 (1), proceedings in adult criminal court and other juvenile court adjudicatory proceedings based on an act alleged in a...
- 419A.200 Who may appeal; time limitations; procedure; scope of review; effect of filing appeal.
(1) Except as provided in ORS 419A.190, any person or entity, including, but not limited to, a party to a juvenile court proceeding under ORS...
- 419A.205 Judgments described; jurisdiction of juvenile court during pendency of appeal; disposition.
(1) For the purpose of being appealed, the following are judgments: (a) A judgment finding a child or youth to be within the jurisdiction of...
- 419A.208 Orders subject to appeal by state; effect of appeal of preadjudicatory order.
(1) In addition to the state’s right to appeal under ORS 419A.200, the state may appeal from any of the following orders of a judge...
- 419A.211 Appointment of counsel.
(1) If the child, ward, youth, youth offender, parent or guardian is determined to be entitled to, and financially eligible for, appointment of counsel at...
- 419A.250 Authority; segregation of records; access; when records may be kept with those of adults; destruction of records; missing children.
(1) A child, ward, youth or youth offender may be photographed or fingerprinted by a law enforcement agency: (a) Pursuant to a search warrant; (b)...
- 419A.253 When information in report or material considered by court must be identified in record.
(1) When, for the purpose of a hearing or proceeding that will result in the entry of an order or judgment, the juvenile court considers...
- 419A.255 Maintenance; disclosure; providing transcript; exceptions to confidentiality.
(1) The clerk of the court shall keep a record of each case, including therein the summons and other process, the petition and all other...
- 419A.256 When transcript of proceeding is part of record of case; disclosure.
(1)(a) Once prepared and filed with the court, a transcript of a juvenile court proceeding is part of the record of the case maintained by...
- 419A.257 Disclosure to district attorney and other state and county entities.
(1) The district attorney or assistant attorney general representing the state in a juvenile court proceeding, the juvenile department, the Department of Human Services and...
- 419A.260 Expunction; definitions.
(1) As used in this section and ORS 419A.262: (a) “Contact” means any instance in which a person’s act or behavior, or alleged act or...
- 419A.262 Expunction proceeding; notice to victim; effect of expunction; confidentiality; penalties.
(1) An expunction proceeding shall be commenced in the county where the subject person resided at the time of the most recent termination. (2) Upon...
- 419A.290 [1993 c.33 §52; 1993 c.546 §114; repealed by 1995 c.422 §138]
- 419A.295 [Formerly 419.494; repealed by 1995 c.79 §215]
- 419A.300 Reports to school districts concerning young persons on conditional release.
(1)(a) Once each month, the Department of Human Services shall provide to each school district a list of all young persons enrolled in a school...
Last modified: August 7, 2008