§352-28  Transfer to correctional facility. Any person after the person's sixteenth birthday, who has been committed to thecare of the director and disrupts the order and the discipline of anystate-operated youth correctional facility or injures the staff or other personcommitted to the facility or for other good cause, may be transferred by thedirector to an adult correctional facility, with the prior approval of thefamily court, for the balance of the term provided for by the court.  If suchperson demonstrates sufficient improvement or progress, or for other goodreason, the family court may order the person's return to a youth correctionalfacility. [L 1980, c 303, pt of §8(1); am L 1997, c 325, §3]

 

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  Family court is not authorized to commit a person to an adultcorrectional facility except as authorized by this section.  86 H. 517 (App.),950 P.2d 701.