§ 14-1-36 - Commitment of delinquent and wayward children.
SECTION 14-1-36
§ 14-1-36 Commitment of delinquent andwayward children. – (a) In all proceedings under this chapter, the court may order a delinquent orwayward child to be committed to the training school for youth for a sentenceno longer than the youth's nineteenth birthday. However, nothing contained inthis section shall be construed to prohibit the placing of any child in thecustody of the department of children, youth and families or any other agency,society, or institution, pursuant to § 14-1-32. The commitment ofdelinquent or wayward children shall be by an order and all assignments of thecustody of dependent, neglected, delinquent, or wayward children to the statetraining school for youth or to the custody of the department of children,youth and families or to any of the private institutions, agencies, orsocieties mentioned in this chapter shall be by a decree signed by the justiceof the court by whom the order or decree is issued, and that order or decreeshall be directed to any person that the court may designate, and shall requirethat person to take the child and deliver him or her to the officer in chargeof the training school for youth or to the custody of the director of children,youth and families or of the public or private institution, agency, or society,and the order or decree shall constitute the person charged with it, while heor she has the order in his or her possession for service, an officer for allpurposes under this chapter, in any county of the state in which it may benecessary for him or her to go. The person charged with carrying out the orderor decree shall also deliver to the officer of the public or privateinstitution, agency, or society or to the training school for youth or thedirector of children, youth and families a copy of the order or the decreesigned by the justice of the court issuing it, and subject to the provisions ofthis chapter, the officer and other authorities in charge of the trainingschool for youth or the director of children, youth and families or any publicor private institution, agency, or society shall hold the child according tothe terms of any other order or decree that may from time to time thereafter beissued by the court in relation to the child.
(b) Whenever the court shall commit a child to the trainingschool for youth or to the director of children, youth and families or anyother institution or agency, it shall transmit with the order of commitment asummary of its information concerning the child.