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Section 5139.01 | Department of Youth Services – Definitions.

Effective: April 6, 2017 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 319 – 131st General Assembly (A) As used in this chapter: (1) “Commitment” means the transfer of the physical custody of a child or youth from the court to the department of youth services. (2) “Permanent commitment” means a commitment that vests legal custody of a child […]

Section 5139.02 | Appointment of Managing Officers.

Effective: March 23, 2016 Latest Legislation: House Bill 56 – 131st General Assembly (A)(1) As used in this section, “managing officer” means a deputy director, an assistant deputy director, a superintendent, a regional administrator, a deputy superintendent, or the superintendent of schools of the department of youth services, a member of the release authority, the […]

Section 5139.03 | Control and Management of State Institutions or Facilities.

Effective: September 29, 2015 Latest Legislation: House Bill 64 – 131st General Assembly (A) The department of youth services shall control and manage all state institutions or facilities established or created for the training or rehabilitation of delinquent children committed to the department, except where the control and management of an institution or facility is […]

Section 5139.04 | Powers and Duties of Department.

Effective: July 1, 2013 Latest Legislation: House Bill 59 – 130th General Assembly The department of youth services shall do all of the following: (A) Support service districts through a central administrative office that shall have as its administrative head a deputy director who shall be appointed by the director of the department. When a […]

Section 5139.05 | Order to Commit.

Effective: September 15, 2014 Latest Legislation: House Bill 483 – 130th General Assembly (A) The juvenile court may commit any child to the department of youth services as authorized in Chapter 2152. of the Revised Code, provided that any child so committed shall be at least ten years of age at the time of the […]

Section 5139.06 | Disposition of Child.

Effective: October 12, 2016 Latest Legislation: House Bill 158 – 131st General Assembly (A) When a child has been committed to the department of youth services, the department shall do both of the following: (1) Place the child in an appropriate institution under the condition that it considers best designed for the training and rehabilitation […]

Section 5139.07 | Rehabilitation.

Effective: March 22, 2001 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 115, Senate Bill 179 – 123rd General Assembly (A)(1)(a) As a means of correcting the socially harmful tendencies of a child committed to it, the department of youth services may require a child to participate in vocational, physical, and corrective training and activities, and the conduct and […]

Section 5139.08 | Agreements With Other State Agencies.

Effective: October 12, 2016 Latest Legislation: House Bill 158 – 131st General Assembly The department of youth services may enter into an agreement with the director of rehabilitation and correction pursuant to which the department of youth services, in accordance with division (C)(2) of section 5139.06 and section 5120.162 of the Revised Code, may transfer […]

Section 5139.09 | Periodic Re-Examination of Children.

Effective: November 24, 1981 Latest Legislation: House Bill 440 – 114th General Assembly The department of youth services shall make periodic reexamination of all children under its control for the purpose of determining whether existing orders in individual cases should be modified or continued in force. These examinations shall be made with respect to every […]

Section 5139.10 | Final Discharges Ends Control by Department.

Effective: November 24, 1981 Latest Legislation: House Bill 440 – 114th General Assembly Unless the child has already received a final discharge, the control by the department of youth services of a child committed as a delinquent shall cease when the child reaches the age of twenty-one years.

Section 5139.11 | Prevention and Control of Juvenile Delinquency.

Effective: September 29, 2011 Latest Legislation: House Bill 153 – 129th General Assembly The department of youth services shall do all of the following: (A) Through a program of education, promotion, and organization, form groups of local citizens and assist these groups in conducting activities aimed at the prevention and control of juvenile delinquency, making […]

Section 5139.12 | Reporting Abuse of Delinquent Child.

Effective: October 12, 2016 Latest Legislation: House Bill 158 – 131st General Assembly 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 cause to suspect abuse or neglect or threat of abuse or neglect of a child under eighteen years […]

Section 5139.13 | Facilities for Treatment and Training of Children.

Effective: January 1, 2008 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 10 – 127th General Assembly (A) The department of youth services shall do all of the following: (1) Control and manage all institutions for the rehabilitation of delinquent children and youthful offenders that are operated by the state, except where the control and management of an institution […]

Section 5139.131 | Vocational Education Programs.

Effective: July 1, 1993 Latest Legislation: House Bill 152 – 120th General Assembly The department of youth services may conduct programs for the vocational education of children committed to the department or involved in aftercare services provided by the department, under which services are provided or products are made, and offered, for sale. Any profits […]

Section 5139.14 | Reentry Services by Nonprofit Faith-Based Organizations.

Effective: June 25, 2008 Latest Legislation: House Bill 113 – 127th General Assembly (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 with the department to enter institutions that are under the department’s control and management for the purpose of providing […]

Section 5139.16 | Accepting Gifts and Bequests.

Effective: November 24, 1981 Latest Legislation: House Bill 440 – 114th General Assembly The department of youth services may accept, hold, and use, for the benefit of the department or the children committed to it, any gift, donation, bequest, or devise, and may agree to and perform all conditions of the gift, donation, bequest, or […]

Section 5139.18 | Supervision of Children Released From Institutions.

Effective: September 30, 2011 Latest Legislation: House Bill 86 – 129th General Assembly (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 of the Revised Code, the department of youth services is responsible for locating homes or jobs for children […]

Section 5139.19 | Managing Officers of Institutions.

Effective: July 1, 1983 Latest Legislation: House Bill 291 – 115th General Assembly Subject to the rules of the department of youth services, each institution and community regional office under the jurisdiction of the department shall be under the control of a managing officer to be known as a superintendent or by other appropriate title. […]

Section 5139.191 | Apprehending Juvenile Escapees.

Effective: January 1, 2002 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 179 – 123rd General Assembly Any sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, officer of state or local police, or employee of the department of youth services shall apprehend any child who has escaped from an institution under the jurisdiction of the department and return the child. The written request […]

Section 5139.20 | Emergency Overcrowding Conditions.

Effective: September 30, 2011 Latest Legislation: House Bill 86 – 129th General Assembly (A) Notwithstanding any other provision of the Revised Code that sets forth the minimum periods or period for which a child committed to the department of youth services is to be institutionalized or institutionalized in a secure facility or the procedures for […]