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Chapter 13.40 RCW

JUVENILE JUSTICE ACT OF 1977

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RCW dispositions

Sections

HTMLPDF 13.40.010Short title—Intent—Purpose.
HTMLPDF 13.40.020Definitions.
HTMLPDF 13.40.030Security guidelines—Legislative review—Limitations on permissible ranges of confinement.
HTMLPDF 13.40.0351Equal application of guidelines and standards.
HTMLPDF 13.40.0357Juvenile offender sentencing standards.
HTMLPDF 13.40.038County juvenile detention facilities—Policy—Detention and risk assessment standards.
HTMLPDF 13.40.040Taking juvenile into custody, grounds—Detention of, grounds—Detention pending disposition—Release on bond, conditions—Bail jumping.
HTMLPDF 13.40.042Detention of juvenile suffering from mental disorder or substance use disorder.
HTMLPDF 13.40.043Prison riot offenses—Relief from disposition.
HTMLPDF 13.40.044Infraction—Prison riot offenses vacated.
HTMLPDF 13.40.045Escapees—Arrest warrants.
HTMLPDF 13.40.050Detention procedures—Notice of hearing—Conditions of release—Consultation with parent, guardian, or custodian.
HTMLPDF 13.40.054Probation bond or collateral—Modification or revocation of probation bond.
HTMLPDF 13.40.058Fines, administrative fees, costs, and surcharges prohibited.
HTMLPDF 13.40.060Jurisdiction of actions—Transfer of case and records, when—Change in venue, grounds.
HTMLPDF 13.40.070Complaints—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.
HTMLPDF 13.40.077Recommended prosecuting standards for charging and plea dispositions.
HTMLPDF 13.40.080Diversion agreement—Scope—Limitations—Restitution orders—Divertee's rights—Diversion unit's powers and duties—Interpreters—Modification.
HTMLPDF 13.40.082Diversion agreements—Applicability—Underlying offense.
HTMLPDF 13.40.087Youth who have been diverted—Alleged prostitution or prostitution loitering offenses—Services and treatment.
HTMLPDF 13.40.090Prosecuting attorney as party to juvenile court proceedings—Exception, procedure.
HTMLPDF 13.40.100Summons or other notification issued upon filing of information—Procedure—Order to take juvenile into custody—Contempt of court, when.
HTMLPDF 13.40.110Hearing on question of declining jurisdiction—Held, when—Findings.
HTMLPDF 13.40.120Hearings—Time and place.
HTMLPDF 13.40.127Deferred disposition.
HTMLPDF 13.40.130Procedure upon plea of guilty or not guilty to information allegations—Notice—Adjudicatory and disposition hearing—Disposition standards used in sentencing.
HTMLPDF 13.40.135Sexual motivation special allegation—Procedures.
HTMLPDF 13.40.140Juveniles entitled to usual judicial rights—Notice of—Open court—Privilege against self-incrimination—Waiver of rights, when.
HTMLPDF 13.40.150Disposition hearing—Scope—Factors to be considered prior to entry of dispositional order.
HTMLPDF 13.40.160Disposition order—Court's action prescribed—Disposition outside standard range—Right of appeal—Special sex offender disposition alternative.
HTMLPDF 13.40.162Special sex offender disposition alternative.
HTMLPDF 13.40.165Substance use disorder or mental health disposition alternative.
HTMLPDF 13.40.180Single disposition order—Consecutive terms when two or more offenses—Limitations—Separate disposition order—Concurrent period of community supervision.
HTMLPDF 13.40.185Disposition order—Confinement under departmental supervision or in juvenile facility, when.
HTMLPDF 13.40.190Disposition order—Restitution for loss or damage—Modification of restitution order.
HTMLPDF 13.40.192Restitution and other legal financial obligations—Enforceability—Treatment of obligations upon age of eighteen or conclusion of juvenile court jurisdiction—Extension of judgment.
HTMLPDF 13.40.193Firearms—Length of confinement.
HTMLPDF 13.40.196Firearms—Special allegation.
HTMLPDF 13.40.200Violation of order of restitution, community supervision, or confinement—Modification of order after hearing.
HTMLPDF 13.40.205Release from physical custody, when—Authorized leaves—Leave plan and order—Notice.
HTMLPDF 13.40.210Setting of release date—Administrative release authorized, when—Parole program, revocation or modification of, scope—Intensive supervision program—Parole officer's right of arrest.
HTMLPDF 13.40.212Intensive supervision program—Elements.
HTMLPDF 13.40.213Juveniles alleged to have committed a prostitution loitering offense—Diversion.
HTMLPDF 13.40.215Juveniles 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.
HTMLPDF 13.40.217Juveniles adjudicated of sex offenses—Release of information authorized.
HTMLPDF 13.40.219Arrest for prostitution or prostitution loitering—Alleged offender—Victim of severe form of trafficking, commercial sex abuse of a minor.
HTMLPDF 13.40.230Appeal from order of disposition—Jurisdiction—Procedure—Scope—Release pending appeal.
HTMLPDF 13.40.240Construction of RCW references to juvenile delinquents or juvenile delinquency.
HTMLPDF 13.40.250Traffic infraction, transit infraction, and civil infraction cases—Diversion agreements.
HTMLPDF 13.40.265Firearm, alcohol, and drug violations.
HTMLPDF 13.40.280Transfer of juvenile to department of corrections facility—Grounds—Hearing—Term—Retransfer to a facility for juveniles.
HTMLPDF 13.40.285Juvenile offender sentenced to terms in juvenile and adult facilities—Transfer to department of corrections—Term of confinement.
HTMLPDF 13.40.300Commitment 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.
HTMLPDF 13.40.301Department to protect younger children in confinement from older youth confined pursuant to 2018 c 162.
HTMLPDF 13.40.305Juvenile 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.
HTMLPDF 13.40.308Juvenile 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.
HTMLPDF 13.40.310Transitional treatment program for gang and drug-involved juvenile offenders.
HTMLPDF 13.40.320Juvenile offender basic training camp program.
HTMLPDF 13.40.400Applicability of RCW 10.01.040 to chapter.
HTMLPDF 13.40.430Disparity in disposition of juvenile offenders—Data collection.
HTMLPDF 13.40.460Juvenile rehabilitation programs—Administration.
HTMLPDF 13.40.462Reinvesting in youth program.
HTMLPDF 13.40.464Reinvesting in youth program—Guidelines.
HTMLPDF 13.40.468Juvenile rehabilitation administration—State quality assurance program.
HTMLPDF 13.40.470Vulnerable youth committed to residential facilities—Protection from sexually aggressive youth—Assessment process.
HTMLPDF 13.40.480Student records and information—Reasons for release—Who may request.
HTMLPDF 13.40.500Community juvenile accountability programs—Findings—Purpose.
HTMLPDF 13.40.510Community juvenile accountability programs—Establishment—Proposals—Guidelines.
HTMLPDF 13.40.511Community juvenile accountability programs—Stop loss policy—Funding for juvenile courts—Report to legislature.
HTMLPDF 13.40.520Community juvenile accountability programs—Grants.
HTMLPDF 13.40.530Community juvenile accountability programs—Effectiveness standards.
HTMLPDF 13.40.540Community juvenile accountability programs—Information collection—Report.
HTMLPDF 13.40.550Community juvenile accountability programs—Short title.
HTMLPDF 13.40.570Sexual misconduct by state employees, contractors.
HTMLPDF 13.40.580Youth courts—Diversion.
HTMLPDF 13.40.590Youth court programs.
HTMLPDF 13.40.600Youth court jurisdiction.
HTMLPDF 13.40.610Youth court notification of satisfaction of conditions.
HTMLPDF 13.40.620Appearance before youth court with parent, guardian, or legal custodian.
HTMLPDF 13.40.630Youth court dispositions.
HTMLPDF 13.40.650Use of restraints on pregnant youth in custody—Allowed in extraordinary circumstances.
HTMLPDF 13.40.651Use of restraints on pregnant youth in custody—Provision of information to staff and pregnant youth in custody.
HTMLPDF 13.40.660Exchange of intimate images by minors—Findings—Work group.
HTMLPDF 13.40.720Imposition of legal financial obligations—City, town, or county authority.
HTMLPDF 13.40.730Community transition services program.
HTMLPDF 13.40.735Planned release—Notice to health care insurance provider.
HTMLPDF 13.40.740Juvenile access to an attorney.
HTMLPDF 13.40.745Program grants—Sex offender evaluation and treatment programs.
HTMLPDF 13.40.900Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.

Notes:

Health and dental examination and care for juveniles in detention facility—Consent: RCW 13.04.047.
Juvenile may be both dependent and an offender: RCW 13.04.300.
Treatment of juvenile offenders: RCW 74.14A.030, 74.14A.040.