Ohio · statute · Ohio Rev. Code ch. 5139 · 56 active provisions
(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 in the department of youth services.(3) "Legal custody," insofar as it pertains…
(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 chief of staff to the release author…
(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 vested by law in another agency. The d…
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 vacancy occurs in the office of that deputy director, an ass…
(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 child's delinquent act, and, if the child is ten or eleven years of age, the delinquent act is a…
(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 of the child and the protection of the public, provided that th…
(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 modes of life that seem best adapted to rehabilitate the child and fit t…
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 to a correctional medical center established by…
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 child at least once annually.
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.
(A) The department of youth services, in coordination with any other agencies deemed necessary, may develop a program to assist a youth leaving the supervision, control, and custody of the department at twenty-one years of age. The program shall provide supportive services for specific educational or rehabilitative pur…
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 use of local people and resources for the fo…
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 of age or a person with a developmental disability or physical impairment under…
(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 is vested by law in another agency;(2) Provide treatm…
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 made from the selling of such products or se…
(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 ree…
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 devise, not contrary to law.
(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 released from its institutions, for supervision of children released…
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. Such managing officer shall be appointed by the director of th…
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 of the superintendent of the institution from which t…
(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 the judicial release to court supervision or judicial relea…
No person shall influence or attempt to influence any child under supervision of the department of youth services, to leave the institution or home in which he was placed, his home, or place of employment or to violate any of the conditions upon which he was released under supervision.
Each county shall bear all of the expenses incident to the transportation of a child committed to the department of youth services by the juvenile court of that county from that county to the institution to which the department has assigned the child and shall bear the fees and costs allowed in similar cases. The fees,…
The department of youth services shall lease capital facilities constructed, reconstructed, or improved, which facilities are financed by the treasurer of state pursuant to section 307.021 and Chapter 154. of the Revised Code, for the use of the department, and may enter into any other agreements with the Ohio public f…
The department of youth services may designate the institutions under its management and control, present and future, by appropriate respective names, regardless of present statutory designation.