Washington criminal code — chapter
Chapter 13.40: Juvenile Justice Act Of 1977
Chapter 13.40 of Title 13: Juvenile Courts and Juvenile Offenders, Revised Code of Washington. Statutory text on each section page is current through the legislative session it names.
Sections of Chapter 13.40
- RCW 13.40.010 — Short title—Intent—Purpose
- RCW 13.40.020 — Definitions
- RCW 13.40.030 — Security guidelines—Legislative review—Limitations on permissible ranges of confinement
- RCW 13.40.038 — County juvenile detention facilities—Policy—Detention and risk assessment standards
- RCW 13.40.040 — Taking juvenile into custody, grounds—Detention of, grounds—Detention pending disposition—Release on bond, conditions—Bail jumping
- RCW 13.40.042 — Detention of juvenile suffering from mental disorder or substance use disorder
- RCW 13.40.043 — Prison riot offenses—Relief from disposition
- RCW 13.40.044 — Infraction—Prison riot offenses vacated
- RCW 13.40.045 — Escapees—Arrest warrants
- RCW 13.40.050 — Detention procedures—Notice of hearing—Conditions of release—Consultation with parent, guardian, or custodian
- RCW 13.40.054 — Probation bond or collateral—Modification or revocation of probation bond
- RCW 13.40.058 — Fines, administrative fees, costs, and surcharges prohibited
- RCW 13.40.060 — Jurisdiction of actions—Transfer of case and records, when—Change in venue, grounds
- RCW 13.40.070 — Complaints—Screening—Filing information—Diversion—Modification of community supervision—Notice to parent or guardian—Probation counselor acting for prosecutor—Referral to community-based, restorative justice, mediation, or reconciliation programs
- RCW 13.40.077 — Recommended prosecuting standards for charging and plea dispositions
- RCW 13.40.080 — Diversion agreement—Scope—Limitations—Restitution orders—Divertee's rights—Diversion unit's powers and duties—Interpreters—Modification
- RCW 13.40.082 — Diversion agreements—Applicability—Underlying offense
- RCW 13.40.087 — Youth who have been diverted—Alleged prostitution or prostitution loitering offenses—Services and treatment
- RCW 13.40.090 — Prosecuting attorney as party to juvenile court proceedings—Exception, procedure
- RCW 13.40.100 — Summons or other notification issued upon filing of information—Procedure—Order to take juvenile into custody—Contempt of court, when
- RCW 13.40.110 — Hearing on question of declining jurisdiction—Held, when—Findings
- RCW 13.40.120 — Hearings—Time and place
- RCW 13.40.127 — Deferred disposition
- RCW 13.40.130 — Procedure upon plea of guilty or not guilty to information allegations—Notice—Adjudicatory and disposition hearing—Disposition standards used in sentencing
- RCW 13.40.135 — Sexual motivation special allegation—Procedures
- RCW 13.40.140 — Juveniles entitled to usual judicial rights—Notice of—Open court—Privilege against self-incrimination—Waiver of rights, when
- RCW 13.40.150 — Disposition hearing—Scope—Factors to be considered prior to entry of dispositional order
- RCW 13.40.160 — Disposition order—Court's action prescribed—Disposition outside standard range—Right of appeal—Special sex offender disposition alternative
- RCW 13.40.162 — Special sex offender disposition alternative
- RCW 13.40.165 — Substance use disorder or mental health disposition alternative
- RCW 13.40.180 — Single disposition order—Consecutive terms when two or more offenses—Limitations—Separate disposition order—Concurrent period of community supervision
- RCW 13.40.185 — Disposition order—Confinement under departmental supervision or in juvenile facility, when
- RCW 13.40.190 — Disposition order—Restitution for loss or damage—Modification of restitution order
- RCW 13.40.192 — Restitution and other legal financial obligations—Enforceability—Treatment of obligations upon age of eighteen or conclusion of juvenile court jurisdiction—Extension of judgment
- RCW 13.40.193 — Firearms—Length of confinement
- RCW 13.40.196 — Firearms—Special allegation
- RCW 13.40.200 — Violation of order of restitution, community supervision, or confinement—Modification of order after hearing
- RCW 13.40.205 — Release from physical custody, when—Authorized leaves—Leave plan and order—Notice
- RCW 13.40.210 — Setting of release date—Administrative release authorized, when—Parole program, revocation or modification of, scope—Intensive supervision program—Parole officer's right of arrest
- RCW 13.40.212 — Intensive supervision program—Elements
- RCW 13.40.213 — Juveniles alleged to have committed a prostitution loitering offense—Diversion
- RCW 13.40.215 — Juveniles found to have committed violent or sex offense or stalking—Notification of discharge, parole, leave, release, transfer, or escape—To whom given—School attendance—Definitions
- RCW 13.40.217 — Juveniles adjudicated of sex offenses—Release of information authorized
- RCW 13.40.219 — Arrest for prostitution or prostitution loitering—Alleged offender—Victim of severe form of trafficking, commercial sex abuse of a minor
- RCW 13.40.230 — Appeal from order of disposition—Jurisdiction—Procedure—Scope—Release pending appeal
- RCW 13.40.240 — Construction of RCW references to juvenile delinquents or juvenile delinquency
- RCW 13.40.250 — Traffic infraction, transit infraction, and civil infraction cases—Diversion agreements
- RCW 13.40.265 — Firearm, alcohol, and drug violations
- RCW 13.40.280 — Transfer of juvenile to department of corrections facility—Grounds—Hearing—Term—Retransfer to a facility for juveniles
- RCW 13.40.285 — Juvenile offender sentenced to terms in juvenile and adult facilities—Transfer to department of corrections—Term of confinement
- RCW 13.40.300 — Commitment of juvenile beyond age 21 prohibited—Exceptions—Commitment up to age 25 permitted under certain circumstances—Jurisdiction of juvenile court after juvenile's 18th birthday
- RCW 13.40.301 — Department to protect younger children in confinement from older youth confined pursuant to 2018 c 162
- RCW 13.40.305 — Juvenile offender adjudicated of theft of motor vehicle, possession of stolen vehicle, taking motor vehicle without permission in the first degree, taking motor vehicle without permission in the second degree—Local sanctions—Evaluation
- RCW 13.40.308 — Juvenile offender adjudicated of taking motor vehicle without permission in the first degree, theft of motor vehicle, possession of a stolen vehicle, taking motor vehicle without permission in the second degree—Minimum sentences
- RCW 13.40.310 — Transitional treatment program for gang and drug-involved juvenile offenders
- RCW 13.40.320 — Juvenile offender basic training camp program
- RCW 13.40.0351 — Equal application of guidelines and standards
- RCW 13.40.0357 — Juvenile offender sentencing standards
- RCW 13.40.400 — Applicability of RCW 10.01.040 to chapter
- RCW 13.40.430 — Disparity in disposition of juvenile offenders—Data collection
- RCW 13.40.460 — Juvenile rehabilitation programs—Administration
- RCW 13.40.462 — Reinvesting in youth program
- RCW 13.40.464 — Reinvesting in youth program—Guidelines
- RCW 13.40.468 — Juvenile rehabilitation administration—State quality assurance program
- RCW 13.40.470 — Vulnerable youth committed to residential facilities—Protection from sexually aggressive youth—Assessment process
- RCW 13.40.480 — Student records and information—Reasons for release—Who may request
- RCW 13.40.500 — Community juvenile accountability programs—Findings—Purpose
- RCW 13.40.510 — Community juvenile accountability programs—Establishment—Proposals—Guidelines
- RCW 13.40.511 — Community juvenile accountability programs—Stop loss policy—Funding for juvenile courts—Report to legislature
- RCW 13.40.520 — Community juvenile accountability programs—Grants
- RCW 13.40.530 — Community juvenile accountability programs—Effectiveness standards
- RCW 13.40.540 — Community juvenile accountability programs—Information collection—Report
- RCW 13.40.550 — Community juvenile accountability programs—Short title
- RCW 13.40.570 — Sexual misconduct by state employees, contractors
- RCW 13.40.580 — Youth courts—Diversion
- RCW 13.40.590 — Youth court programs
- RCW 13.40.600 — Youth court jurisdiction
- RCW 13.40.610 — Youth court notification of satisfaction of conditions
- RCW 13.40.620 — Appearance before youth court with parent, guardian, or legal custodian
- RCW 13.40.630 — Youth court dispositions
- RCW 13.40.650 — Use of restraints on pregnant youth in custody—Allowed in extraordinary circumstances
- RCW 13.40.651 — Use of restraints on pregnant youth in custody—Provision of information to staff and pregnant youth in custody
- RCW 13.40.660 — Exchange of intimate images by minors—Findings—Work group
- RCW 13.40.720 — Imposition of legal financial obligations—City, town, or county authority
- RCW 13.40.730 — Community transition services program
- RCW 13.40.735 — Planned release—Notice to health care insurance provider
- RCW 13.40.740 — Juvenile access to an attorney
- RCW 13.40.745 — Program grants—Sex offender evaluation and treatment programs
- RCW 13.40.900 — Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521
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