502 - Definitions.
§ 502. Definitions. Unless otherwise specified in this article: 1. "Director" means the director of the division for youth. 2. "Division" means the division for youth. 3. "Detention" means the temporary care and maintenance of youth held away from their homes pursuant to article three or seven of the family court act, or held pending a hearing for alleged violation of the conditions of release from a division facility or authorized agency, or held pending a hearing for alleged violation of the condition of parole as a juvenile offender, or held pending return to a jurisdiction other than the one in which the youth is held, or held pursuant to a securing order of a criminal court if the youth named therein as principal is charged as a juvenile offender or held pending a hearing on an extension of placement or held pending transfer to a facility upon commitment or placement by a court. Only alleged or convicted juvenile offenders who have not attained their eighteenth birthday shall be subject to detention in a detention facility. 4. For purposes of this article, the term "youth" shall be synonymous with the term "child" and means a person not less than seven years of age and not more than twenty years of age. 5. "Placement" means the transfer of a youth to the custody of the division pursuant to the family court act. 6. "Commitment" means the transfer of a youth to the custody of the division pursuant to the penal law. 7. "Conditional release" means the transfer of a youth from facility status to aftercare supervision under the continued custody of the division. 8. "Discharge" means the termination of division custody of a youth. 9. "Aftercare" means supervision of a youth on conditional release status under the continued custody of the division.