                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ESCAPES FROM JUVENILE FACILITY; PENALTY (§ 18.2-477.1)

A. It shall be unlawful for any person 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 Juvenile Justice. 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 &#xA7; 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 secure facility operated by or under contract with the
Department of Juvenile Justice 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 Juvenile Justice.
Any person 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.

HISTORY: 1985, c. 435; 1989, c. 733; 1993, c. 840; 1994, c. 490; 1997, c. 749.