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1994 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 18.2-477.1 of the Code of Virginia as it is currently effective and as it may become effective is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 18.2-477.1. Escapes from juvenile facility; penalty.
A. It shall be unlawful for any person eighteen years of age or older
to escape or remain away without proper authority from a group home or other
residential care facility for children in need of services, delinquent or
alleged delinquent youths in which he had been placed by the juvenile and
domestic relations court or as a result of his commitment as a juvenile to
the Department of Youth and Family Services. Any person violating this
subsection shall be taken into custody and brought before the juvenile and
domestic relations court. The court may find the person in violation of §
16.1-292 or, if the court finds the person amenable to further treatment in a
juvenile facility, the court may return him to the custody of the Department.
B. It shall be unlawful for any person to escape or remain away without
proper authority from a facility operated by the Department of Youth and
Family services or from a secure juvenile detention facility in which he
had been placed by the juvenile and domestic relations court or as a result
of his commitment as a juvenile to the Department of Youth and Family
Services. Any person violating this subsection shall be guilty of
who escapes from a facility specified in this subsection by force or by
violence shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony or, if violation of this
subsection occurs other than by force or violence, a Class 1
misdemeanor.
§ 18.2-477.1. (Delayed effective date) Escapes from residential care facility.
A. It shall be unlawful for any person eighteen years of age or older
to escape or remain away without proper authority from a group home or other
residential care facility for children in need of services, delinquent or
alleged delinquent youths in which he had been placed by the family court or
as a result of his commitment as a juvenile to the Department of Youth and
Family Services. Any person violating this subsection shall be taken into
custody and brought before the family court. The court may find the person
in violation of § 16.1-292 or, if the court finds the person amenable to
further treatment in a juvenile facility, the court may return him to the
custody of the Department.
B. It shall be unlawful for any person to escape or remain away without
proper authority from a facilty operated by the Department of Youth and
Family Service, or from a secure juvenile detention facility, in
which he had been placed by the juvenile and domestic relations court or as a
result of his commitment as a juvenile to the Department of Youth and Family
services. Any person violating this subsection shall be guilty who
escapes or attempts to escape from a facility specified in this subsection by
force or by violence shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony or, if other than by
force or violence, of a Class 1 misdemeanor.