Washington StatutesTitle 13 - Juvenile courts and juvenile offenders
- 13.04 - Basic juvenile court act.
- 13.06 - Juvenile offenders -- Consolidated juvenile services programs.
- 13.16 - Places of detention.
- 13.20 - Management of detention facilities -- Counties with populations of one million or more.
- 13.24 - Interstate compact on juveniles.
- 13.32A - Family reconciliation act.
- 13.34 - Juvenile court act -- Dependency and termination of parent-child relationship.
- 13.34.010 - Short title.
- 13.34.020 - Legislative declaration of family unit as resource to be nurtured -- Rights of child.
- 13.34.025 - Child dependency cases -- Coordination of services -- Remedial services.
- 13.34.030 - Definitions.
- 13.34.035 - Standard court forms -- Rules -- Administrative office of the courts to develop and establish -- Failure to use or follow -- Distribution.
- 13.34.040 - Petition to court to deal with dependent child -- Application of Indian child welfare act.
- 13.34.050 - Court order to take child into custody, when -- Hearing.
- 13.34.055 - Custody by law enforcement officer -- Release from liability.
- 13.34.060 - Shelter care -- Placement -- Custody -- Duties of parties.
- 13.34.062 - Shelter care -- Notice of custody and rights.
- 13.34.065 - Shelter care -- Hearing -- Recommendation as to further need -- Release (as amended by 2009 c 397).
- 13.34.067 - Shelter care -- Case conference -- Service agreement.
- 13.34.069 - Shelter care -- Order and authorization of health care and education records.
- 13.34.070 - Summons when petition filed -- Service procedure -- Hearing, when -- Contempt upon failure to appear -- Required notice regarding Indian children.
- 13.34.080 - Summons when petition filed -- Publication of notice.
- 13.34.090 - Rights under chapter proceedings.
- 13.34.092 - Rights under chapter proceedings -- Appointment of counsel -- Notice.
- 13.34.094 - Description of services provided to parents.
- 13.34.096 - Right to be heard -- Notice.
- 13.34.100 - Appointment of guardian ad litem -- Background information -- Rights -- Notification and inquiry -- Appointment of counsel for child -- Review.
- 13.34.102 - Guardian ad litem -- Training -- Registry -- Selection -- Substitution -- Exception.
- 13.34.105 - Guardian ad litem -- Duties -- Immunity -- Access to information.
- 13.34.107 - Guardian ad litem -- Ex parte communications -- Removal.
- 13.34.108 - Guardian ad litem -- Fees.
- 13.34.110 - Hearings -- Fact-finding and disposition -- Time and place, notice.
- 13.34.115 - Hearings -- Public excluded when in the best interests of the child--Notes and records -- Video recordings.
- 13.34.120 - Social study and reports made available at disposition hearing -- Contents -- Notice to parents.
- 13.34.125 - Voluntary adoption plan -- Consideration of preferences for proposed placement.
- 13.34.130 - Order of disposition for a dependent child, alternatives -- Petition seeking termination of parent-child relationship -- Placement with relatives, foster family home, group care facility,
- 13.34.132 - Petition seeking termination of parent-child relationship -- Requirements.
- 13.34.134 - Permanent placement of child.
- 13.34.136 - Permanency plan of care.
- 13.34.138 - Review hearings -- Findings -- Duties of parties involved -- In-home placement requirements -- Housing assistance.
- 13.34.141 - Entry, order of disposition -- Parent, guardian, or custodian of child to engage in services and maintain contact with child -- Notice.
- 13.34.142 - Current placement episode -- Calculation.
- 13.34.145 - Permanency planning hearing -- Purpose -- Time limits -- Goals -- Review hearing -- Petition for termination of parental rights -- Guardianship petition -- Agency responsibility to provide
- 13.34.150 - Modification of orders.
- 13.34.155 - Concurrent jurisdiction over nonparental actions for child custody (as amended by 2009 c 520).
- 13.34.160 - Order of support for dependent child.
- 13.34.161 - Order of support for dependent child -- Noncompliance -- Enforcement of judgment.
- 13.34.165 - Civil contempt -- Grounds -- Motion -- Penalty -- Detention review hearing.
- 13.34.174 - Order of alcohol or substance abuse diagnostic investigation and evaluation -- Treatment plan -- Breach of plan -- Reports.
- 13.34.176 - Violation of alcohol or substance abuse treatment conditions -- Hearing -- Notice -- Modification of order.
- 13.34.180 - Order terminating parent and child relationship -- Petition -- Filing -- Allegations (as amended by 2009 c 477).
- 13.34.190 - Order terminating parent and child relationship -- Findings.
- 13.34.200 - Order terminating parent and child relationship -- Rights of parties when granted.
- 13.34.210 - Order terminating parent and child relationship -- Custody where no one has parental rights.
- 13.34.215 - Petition reinstating terminated parental rights -- Notice -- Achievement of permanency plan -- Effect of granting the petition -- Hearing -- Child support liability -- Retroactive applicat
- 13.34.232 - Guardianship for dependent child -- Order, contents -- Rights and duties of dependency guardian.
- 13.34.233 - Guardianship for dependent child -- Modification or termination of order -- Hearing -- Termination of guardianship.
- 13.34.234 - Guardianship for dependent child -- Dependency guardianship subsidies.
- 13.34.235 - Guardianship for dependent child -- Review hearing requirements not applicable -- Exception.
- 13.34.237 - Guardianship for dependent child -- Subject to dependency and termination of parent-child relationship provisions -- Exceptions -- Request to convert dependency guardianship to guardianshi
- 13.34.240 - Acts, records, and proceedings of Indian tribe or band given full faith and credit.
- 13.34.245 - Voluntary consent to foster care placement for Indian child -- Validation -- Withdrawal of consent -- Termination.
- 13.34.250 - Preference characteristics when placing Indian child in foster care home.
- 13.34.260 - Foster home placement -- Parental preferences -- Foster parent contact with birth parents encouraged.
- 13.34.265 - Foster home placement -- Considerations.
- 13.34.270 - Child with developmental disability -- Out-of-home placement -- Permanency planning hearing.
- 13.34.300 - Relevance of failure to cause juvenile to attend school to neglect petition.
- 13.34.315 - Health care -- Evaluation and treatment.
- 13.34.320 - Inpatient mental health treatment -- When parental consent required -- Hearing.
- 13.34.330 - Inpatient mental health treatment -- Placement.
- 13.34.340 - Release of records -- Disclosure to treating physician.
- 13.34.350 - Dependent children -- Information sharing -- Guidelines.
- 13.34.360 - Transfer of newborn to qualified person -- Criminal liability -- Notification to child protective services -- Definitions.
- 13.34.370 - Evaluation of parties -- Selection of evaluators.
- 13.34.380 - Visitation policies and protocols -- Development -- Elements.
- 13.34.385 - Petition for visitation -- Relatives of dependent children -- Notice -- Modification of order -- Effect of granting the petition -- Retroactive application.
- 13.34.390 - Comprehensive services for drug-affected and alcohol-affected mothers and infants.
- 13.34.400 - Child welfare proceedings -- Placement -- Documentation.
- 13.34.800 - Drug-affected and alcohol-affected infants -- Model project.
- 13.34.801 - Rules -- Definition of "drug-affected infant."
- 13.34.802 - Rules -- Definition of "alcohol-affected infant."
- 13.34.820 - Permanency for dependent children -- Annual report.
- 13.34.830 - Child protection and child welfare -- Racial disproportionality -- Evaluation -- Report.
- 13.34.900 - Construction -- Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships -- 2009 c 521.
- 13.36 - Guardianship.
- 13.40 - Juvenile justice act of 1977.
- 13.40.005 - Juvenile disposition standards commission -- Abolished -- References to commission -- Transfer of powers, duties, and functions.
- 13.40.010 - Short title -- Intent -- Purpose.
- 13.40.020 - Definitions.
- 13.40.030 - Security guidelines -- Legislative review -- Limitations on permissible ranges of confinement.
- 13.40.0351 - Equal application of guidelines and standards.
- 13.40.0357 - Juvenile offender sentencing standards.
- 13.40.038 - County juvenile detention facilities -- Policy -- Detention and risk assessment standards.
- 13.40.040 - Taking juvenile into custody, grounds -- Detention of, grounds -- Detention pending disposition -- Release on bond, conditions -- Bail jumping.
- 13.40.045 - Escapees -- Arrest warrants.
- 13.40.050 - Detention procedures -- Notice of hearing -- Conditions of release -- Consultation with parent, guardian, or custodian.
- 13.40.054 - Probation bond or collateral -- Modification or revocation of probation bond.
- 13.40.056 - Nonrefundable bail fee.
- 13.40.060 - Jurisdiction of actions -- Transfer of case and records, when -- Change in venue, grounds.
- 13.40.070 - Complaints -- Screening -- Filing information -- Diversion -- Modification of community supervision -- Notice to parent or guardian -- Probation counselor acting for prosecutor -- Referral
- 13.40.077 - Recommended prosecuting standards for charging and plea dispositions.
- 13.40.080 - Diversion agreement -- Scope -- Limitations -- Restitution orders -- Divertee's rights -- Diversion unit's powers and duties -- Interpreters -- Modification -- Fines.
- 13.40.085 - Diversion services costs -- Fees -- Payment by parent or legal guardian.
- 13.40.087 - Youth who have been diverted -- Alleged prostitution or prostitution loitering offenses -- Services and treatment.
- 13.40.090 - Prosecuting attorney as party to juvenile court proceedings -- Exception, procedure.
- 13.40.100 - Summons or other notification issued upon filing of information -- Procedure -- Order to take juvenile into custody -- Contempt of court, when.
- 13.40.110 - Hearing on question of declining jurisdiction -- Held, when -- Findings.
- 13.40.120 - Hearings -- Time and place.
- 13.40.127 - Deferred disposition.
- 13.40.130 - Procedure upon plea of guilty or not guilty to information allegations -- Notice -- Adjudicatory and disposition hearing -- Disposition standards used in sentencing.
- 13.40.135 - Sexual motivation special allegation -- Procedures.
- 13.40.140 - Juveniles entitled to usual judicial rights -- Notice of -- Open court -- Privilege against self-incrimination -- Waiver of rights, when.
- 13.40.145 - Payment of fees for legal services by publicly funded counsel -- Hearing -- Order or decree -- Entering and enforcing judgments.
- 13.40.150 - Disposition hearing -- Scope -- Factors to be considered prior to entry of dispositional order.
- 13.40.160 - Disposition order -- Court's action prescribed -- Disposition outside standard range -- Right of appeal -- Special sex offender disposition alternative.
- 13.40.165 - Chemical dependency disposition alternative.
- 13.40.167 - Mental health disposition alternative.
- 13.40.180 - Disposition order -- Consecutive terms when two or more offenses -- Limitations.
- 13.40.185 - Disposition order -- Confinement under departmental supervision or in juvenile facility, when.
- 13.40.190 - Disposition order -- Restitution for loss or damage -- Modification of restitution order.
- 13.40.192 - Legal financial obligations -- Enforceability -- Treatment of obligations upon age of eighteen or conclusion of juvenile court jurisdiction -- Extension of judgment.
- 13.40.193 - Firearms -- Length of confinement.
- 13.40.196 - Firearms -- Special allegation.
- 13.40.198 - Penalty assessments -- Jurisdiction of court.
- 13.40.200 - Violation of order of restitution, community supervision, fines, penalty assessments, or confinement -- Modification of order after hearing -- Scope -- Rights -- Use of fines.
- 13.40.205 - Release from physical custody, when -- Authorized leaves -- Leave plan and order -- Notice.
- 13.40.210 - Setting of release date -- Administrative release authorized, when -- Parole program, revocation or modification of, scope -- Intensive supervision program -- Parole officer's right of
- 13.40.212 - Intensive supervision program -- Elements -- Report.
- 13.40.213 - Juveniles alleged to have committed offenses of prostitution or prostitution loitering -- Diversion.
- 13.40.215 - Juveniles found to have committed violent or sex offense or stalking -- Notification of discharge, parole, leave, release, transfer, or escape -- To whom given -- School attendance -- Defi
- 13.40.217 - Juveniles adjudicated of sex offenses -- Release of information authorized.
- 13.40.219 - Arrest for prostitution or prostitution loitering -- Alleged offender -- Victim of severe form of trafficking, commercial sex abuse of a minor.
- 13.40.220 - Costs of support, treatment, and confinement -- Order -- Contempt of court.
- 13.40.230 - Appeal from order of disposition -- Jurisdiction -- Procedure -- Scope--Release pending appeal.
- 13.40.240 - Construction of RCW references to juvenile delinquents or juvenile delinquency.
- 13.40.250 - Traffic and civil infraction cases.
- 13.40.265 - Firearm, alcohol, and drug violations.
- 13.40.280 - Transfer of juvenile to department of corrections facility -- Grounds -- Hearing -- Term -- Retransfer to a facility for juveniles.
- 13.40.285 - Juvenile offender sentenced to terms in juvenile and adult facilities -- Transfer to department of corrections -- Term of confinement.
- 13.40.300 - Commitment of juvenile beyond age twenty-one prohibited -- Jurisdiction of juvenile court after juvenile's eighteenth birthday.
- 13.40.305 - Juvenile offender adjudicated of theft of motor vehicle, possession of stolen vehicle, taking motor vehicle without permission in the first degree, taking motor vehicle without permission
- 13.40.308 - Juvenile offender adjudicated of taking motor vehicle without permission in the first degree, theft of motor vehicle, possession of a stolen vehicle, taking motor vehicle without permissio
- 13.40.310 - Transitional treatment program for gang and drug-involved juvenile offenders.
- 13.40.320 - Juvenile offender basic training camp program.
- 13.40.400 - Applicability of RCW 10.01.040 to chapter.
- 13.40.430 - Disparity in disposition of juvenile offenders -- Data collection.
- 13.40.440 - Chapter 9.92 RCW not to affect dispositions under juvenile justice act.
- 13.40.450 - Chapters 13.04 and 13.40 RCW as exclusive authority for adjudication and disposition of juvenile offenders.
- 13.40.460 - Juvenile rehabilitation programs -- Administration.
- 13.40.462 - Reinvesting in youth program.
- 13.40.464 - Reinvesting in youth program -- Guidelines.
- 13.40.466 - Reinvesting in youth account.
- 13.40.468 - Juvenile rehabilitation administration -- State quality assurance program.
- 13.40.470 - Vulnerable youth committed to residential facilities -- Protection from sexually aggressive youth -- Assessment process.
- 13.40.480 - Student records and information -- Reasons for release -- Who may request.
- 13.40.500 - Community juvenile accountability programs -- Findings -- Purpose.
- 13.40.510 - Community juvenile accountability programs -- Establishment -- Proposals -- Guidelines.
- 13.40.520 - Community juvenile accountability programs -- Grants.
- 13.40.530 - Community juvenile accountability programs -- Effectiveness standards.
- 13.40.540 - Community juvenile accountability programs -- Information collection -- Report.
- 13.40.550 - Community juvenile accountability programs -- Short title.
- 13.40.560 - Juvenile accountability incentive account.
- 13.40.570 - Sexual misconduct by state employees, contractors.
- 13.40.580 - Youth courts -- Diversion.
- 13.40.590 - Youth court programs.
- 13.40.600 - Youth court jurisdiction.
- 13.40.610 - Youth court notification of satisfaction of conditions.
- 13.40.620 - Appearance before youth court with parent, guardian, or legal custodian.
- 13.40.630 - Youth court dispositions.
- 13.40.640 - Youth court nonrefundable fee.
- 13.40.650 - Use of restraints on pregnant youth in custody -- Allowed in extraordinary circumstances.
- 13.40.651 - Use of restraints on pregnant youth in custody -- Provision of information to staff and pregnant youth in custody.
- 13.40.900 - Construction -- Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships -- 2009 c 521.
- 13.50 - Keeping and release of records by juvenile justice or care agencies.
- 13.60 - Missing children clearinghouse.
- 13.64 - Emancipation of minors.
- 13.80 - Learning and life skills grant program.
- RCW Dispositions
- Notes