                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

AUTHORITY OF DEPARTMENT AS TO JUVENILES COMMITTED TO IT; ESTABLISHMENT OF
FACILITIES; ARRANGEMENTS FOR TEMPORARY CARE (§ 66-13)

A. The Department is authorized and empowered to receive juveniles committed to
it by the courts of the Commonwealth. The Department shall establish, staff and
maintain facilities for the rehabilitation, education, training and confinement
of such juveniles. The Department may make arrangements with satisfactory
persons, institutions or agencies, or with cities or counties maintaining places
of detention for juveniles, for the temporary care of such juveniles.

B. The Department may by mutual agreement with a locality or localities and,
pursuant to standards promulgated pursuant to &#xA7; 16.1-309.9, establish
detention homes for use by a locality or localities for pre-trial and
post-dispositional detention pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA7; 16.1-248.1 and 16.1-284.1.
The Department may collect by mutual agreement with a locality or localities and
from any locality of this Commonwealth from which a juvenile is placed in such a
detention home, the reasonable cost of maintaining such juvenile in such
facility and a portion of the cost of construction of such facility. Such
agreements shall be subject to approval by the General Assembly in the general
appropriation act.

C. The Department shall collect data pertaining to the demographic
characteristics of juveniles incarcerated in state juvenile correctional
institutions, including, but not limited to, the race or ethnicity, age, and
gender of such persons, and the types of and extent to which health-related
problems are prevalent among such persons. Beginning July 1, 1997, such data
shall be collected, tabulated quarterly, and reported by the Director to the
Governor and the General Assembly at each regular session of the General
Assembly thereafter.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 53-324, 53-330, 63-291, 63-366, 63-367, 63-368, 63-369,
63.1-239, 63.1-245; 1950, p. 33; 1954, c. 262; 1956, cc. 127, 287; 1962, c. 437;
1968, c. 578; 1974, cc. 44, 45; 1975, c. 178; 1981, c. 487; 1982, c. 636, §
53.1-237; 1989, c. 733; 1991, c. 534; 1996, cc. 755, 914; 1997, c. 894; 2012,
cc. 803, 835; 2022, cc. 414, 415.