ARTICLE 3. Commitments to Youth Authority

Heading of Article 3 amended by Stats. 1943, Ch. 690.

§§ 1730–1742 · 24 sections

§ 1730 (a) No person may be committed to the Authority until the Authority has certified in writing to the Governor that it has approved or established places of…
§ 1731 (a) When in any criminal proceeding in a court of this State a person has been convicted of a public offense and the person was a minor when he or she…
§ 1731.5 (a) After certification to the Governor as provided in this article, a court may, until July 1, 2021, commit to the Division of Juvenile Justice any person who…
§ 1731.6 (a) In any county in which there is in effect a contract made pursuant to Section 1752.1, if a court has determined that a person comes within the provisions…
§ 1731.7 (a) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Justice, shall establish and operate a seven-year pilot program for transition-aged…
§ 1731.8 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, within 60 days of the commitment of a ward to the Department of the Youth Authority, the department shall set an…
§ 1732 No person convicted of violating Section 261, 262, or 264.1 of, subdivision (b) of Section 288 of, Section 289 of, or of sodomy or oral copulation by force,…
§ 1732.5 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person convicted of murder, rape or any other serious felony, as defined in Section 1192.7 of the Penal Code,…
§ 1732.6 (a) No minor shall be committed to the Youth Authority when he or she is convicted in a criminal action for an offense described in subdivision (c) of Section…
§ 1732.7 A person who is convicted of a public offense for which the maximum penalty provided by law is imprisonment for not more than 90 days, and who is found to be…
§ 1732.8 (a) Notwithstanding any other law and subject to the provisions of this section, the Director of the Youth Authority may transfer to and cause to be confined…
§ 1732.9 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, immediately prior to closure of the Division of Juvenile Justice, a person 18 years of age or older who is subject to the…
§ 1732.10 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, unless the committing court orders an alternative placement, upon closure of the Division of Juvenile Justice, the State…
§ 1733 Nothing in this chapter prevents a court from revoking or suspending any license issued to the defendant under any law of this State where such revocation or…
§ 1735 If the court sentences a person under 21 years of age at the time of his apprehension to the payment of a fine and the fine is not paid, the court may either…
§ 1736 The juvenile court may in its discretion commit persons subject to its jurisdiction to the authority, and the authority may in its discretion accept such…
§ 1737 When a person has been committed to the custody of the authority, if it is deemed warranted by a diagnostic study and recommendation approved by the director,…
§ 1737.1 Whenever any person who has been convicted of a public offense in adult court and committed to and accepted by the Department of the Youth Authority appears to…
§ 1737.5 A commitment to the Authority is a judgment within the meaning of Chapter 1 of Title 8 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, and is appealable.
§ 1738 When the court commits a person to the authority the court may order him conveyed to some place of detention approved or established by the authority or may…
§ 1739 (a) The right of a person who has been convicted of a public offense to a new trial or to an appeal from the judgment of conviction shall not be affected by…
§ 1740 When a court commits a person to the Authority such court shall at once forward to the Authority a certified copy of the order of commitment.
§ 1741 The judge before whom the person was tried and committed, the district attorney or other official who conducted the prosecution, and the probation officer of…
§ 1742 When the juvenile court commits to the Youth Authority a person identified as an individual with exceptional needs, as defined by Section 56026 of the…