§ 66-24. Community group homes and other residential facilities for certain juveniles; licensure; personnel; summary suspension under certain circumstances; penalty
A. The Department of Juvenile Justice shall cooperate with other state departments in fulfilling their respective licensing and certification responsibilities of children’s residential facilities. The Board shall promulgate regulations that shall allow the Department to so assist and cooperate with other state departments. The Board’s regulations shall establish the Department as the single licensing agency, […]
§ 66-25. Collection of information concerning religious preferences by correctional facilities
A. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any correctional facility established pursuant to this chapter or Chapter 11 (§ 16.1-226 et seq.) of Title 16.1 may collect and disseminate information concerning the religious preferences and affiliations of persons committed to its custody. No person shall be required to indicate his religious preference or […]
§ 66-25.1. Work programs
A. The Director or his designee may enter into an agreement with a public or private entity for the operation of a work program for juveniles committed to the Department. B. The primary purpose of such work program shall be the training of such juveniles, not the production of goods or the rendering of service […]
§ 66-25.1:1. Juvenile academic and career training
The Director or his designee shall assess, in accordance with criteria established pursuant to § 66-25.1:3, whether a juvenile committed to the Department is an appropriate candidate for participation in a work release program, apprenticeship program, job enterprise program, or any other work experience opportunity located at or through the juvenile correctional center where the […]
§ 66-21. Superintendents and agents of facilities to have powers of sheriff
The superintendents of the facilities established by the Department pursuant to § 66-13 and their authorized agents shall have the powers of a sheriff for the purpose of preserving order at their facilities and for the conveyance of children committed to their care to and from such facilities. Code 1950, §§ 53-332, 63-371, 63.1-247; 1968, […]
§ 66-22. Daily and additional allowance to children
The Director may allow every child in any facility established by the Department a daily allowance in an amount established by the Board. Additional allowance may be made by the Director to provide necessary funds for incidental needs for required activities in schools, foster care and other special placements for other special activities that such […]
§ 66-22.1. Establishment of stores in juvenile correctional facilities
The Director is hereby authorized to provide for the establishment and operation of stores or commissaries in state juvenile correctional facilities to deal in such articles as he deems proper. The profits from the operation of such stores shall be used for educational, recreational, or other purposes beneficial to the juveniles committed to the Department […]
§ 66-23. Authority of superintendents with regard to application for operator’s licenses and employment certificates
The superintendents of facilities established by the Department shall have the authority, commensurate with that of a parent in like cases, to give consent for those children placed in their respective facilities to (i) application for a motor vehicle operator’s license and (ii) issuance of an employment certificate. Code 1950, § 53-334; 1977, c. 643; […]
§ 66-18. Examination and placing of such children
The Department shall make a careful physical and mental examination of every child committed to it by the courts, investigate the personal and family history of the child and his environment, and place such children at such facilities as are available. Any children committed to the Department and afterwards found to be eligible for commitment […]
§ 66-19. Behavioral services unit; director and personnel; examination of children
To assist in the performance of the duties imposed by § 66-18, the Department shall maintain a behavioral services unit and employ as director thereof a clinically competent person. The Department shall also employ such other medical, technical and clinical personnel skilled in the diagnosis and treatment of physical diseases or mental illnesses of children […]