Title 45 — Juvenile Justice
10 chapters · 136 sections in this title.
A.S.C.A. § 45.1001 Authority-Corrections Bureau
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(a) The Corrections Bureau, through the Department of Public Safety, establishes and operates facilities necessary for the care, education, training, treatment, and rehabilitation of those children legally committed to its custody under 45.0350. The Department of Public Safety in…
A.S.C.A. § 45.1002 Plans for shelter and detention services
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The Bureau and the Office of Youth Development, with the advice of the American Samoa Criminal Justice Planning Board, develops respective plans for providing detention and shelter facilities, and services for children pending Court action. The plans shall: include projected numb…
A.S.C.A. § 45.1003 Receiving centers-Designation
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The Territorial Correctional Facility is designated as the receiving center for delinquent children committed to the Bureau under 45.3050. History: 1980, PL 16-71 § 1.
A.S.C.A. § 45.1004 Juvenile detention services and facilities to be provided by Bureau- Education
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(a) Detention services for temporary care of a child under chapter 2 are provided by the Bureau, which consults on a regular basis with the court concerning the detention program at that facility. (b) The Department of Education furnishes teachers and any books or equipment neede…
A.S.C.A. § 45.1006 Contracts and agreements with public and private agencies
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(a) The Bureau may enter into agreements or contracts with any governmental unit or agency or private facility cooperating or willing to cooperate in a program to implement the purposes of this chapter. The contracts or agreements may provide, among other things, for the type of …
A.S.C.A. § 45.1007 Directors-Duties
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(a) The Department of Public Safety is authorized to appoint a Director for each facility established by 45.1001. (b) It is the duty of the Director of each facility established by 45.1001 to: (1) report to the Bureau at times and on matters the Bureau requires; (2) receive, subj…
A.S.C.A. § 45.1010 Rules-Academic and vocational courses
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(a) It is the duty of the Bureau to develop and adopt rules necessary for imparting instruction, preserving health, and enforcing discipline of children committed to the Bureau. (b) The academic courses of study and vocational training and instruction given in the facilities esta…
A.S.C.A. § 45.1015 Children committed to the bureau evaluation and placement
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(a) (1) Each child committed to the custody of the Bureau is examined and evaluated by the Bureau prior to institutional placement or other disposition. (2) A professional psychological and medical examination is completed within 30 days. The Bureau determines by rule provisions …
A.S.C.A. § 45.1020 Children committed to the bureau-Transfers
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(a) The Bureau may transfer any child committed under 45.0350 among the facilities established under 45.1001; except that before child is transferred, he is examined and evaluated, and the evaluation is reviewed by the bureau before it approves the transfer. (b) When the Bureau f…
A.S.C.A. § 45.1025 Length of placement
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Institutional placement under this chapter shall not exceed 2 years for children committed under 45.0350 except as provided in paragraphs (b)(2) to (b)(4) of 45.0360. History: 1980, PL 16-71 § 1.
A.S.C.A. § 45.1026 Runaways-Penalties
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Every person who aids or abets any child committed to the custody of the Bureau under 45.0350 in running away from the facility in whose care he has been placed, or who knowingly harbors the child, or who aids in abducting him from persons to whose care and service he has been pr…