Revised Code of Washington
2024 Archive

Chapter 13.40 RCW
JUVENILE JUSTICE ACT OF 1977
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Sections
13.40.010Short title—Intent—Purpose.
13.40.020Definitions.
13.40.030Security guidelines—Legislative review—Limitations on permissible ranges of confinement.
13.40.0351Equal application of guidelines and standards.
13.40.0357Juvenile offender sentencing standards.
13.40.038County juvenile detention facilities—Policy—Detention and risk assessment standards.
13.40.040Taking juvenile into custody, grounds—Detention of, grounds—Detention pending disposition—Release on bond, conditions—Bail jumping.
13.40.042Detention of juvenile suffering from mental disorder or substance use disorder.
13.40.045Escapees—Arrest warrants.
13.40.050Detention procedures—Notice of hearing—Conditions of release—Consultation with parent, guardian, or custodian.
13.40.054Probation bond or collateral—Modification or revocation of probation bond.
13.40.058Fines, administrative fees, costs, and surcharges prohibited.
13.40.060Jurisdiction of actions—Transfer of case and records, when—Change in venue, grounds.
13.40.070Complaints—Screening—Filing information—Diversion—Modification of community supervision—Notice to parent or guardian—Probation counselor acting for prosecutor—Referral to community-based, restorative justice, mediation, or reconciliation programs.
13.40.077Recommended prosecuting standards for charging and plea dispositions.
13.40.080Diversion agreement—Scope—Limitations—Restitution orders—Divertee's rights—Diversion unit's powers and duties—Interpreters—Modification.
13.40.087Youth who have been diverted—Alleged prostitution or prostitution loitering offenses—Services and treatment.
13.40.090Prosecuting attorney as party to juvenile court proceedings—Exception, procedure.
13.40.100Summons or other notification issued upon filing of information—Procedure—Order to take juvenile into custody—Contempt of court, when.
13.40.110Hearing on question of declining jurisdiction—Held, when—Findings.
13.40.120Hearings—Time and place.
13.40.127Deferred disposition.
13.40.130Procedure upon plea of guilty or not guilty to information allegations—Notice—Adjudicatory and disposition hearing—Disposition standards used in sentencing.
13.40.135Sexual motivation special allegation—Procedures.
13.40.140Juveniles entitled to usual judicial rights—Notice of—Open court—Privilege against self-incrimination—Waiver of rights, when.
13.40.150Disposition hearing—Scope—Factors to be considered prior to entry of dispositional order.
13.40.160Disposition order—Court's action prescribed—Disposition outside standard range—Right of appeal—Special sex offender disposition alternative.
13.40.162Special sex offender disposition alternative.
13.40.165Substance use disorder or mental health disposition alternative.
13.40.180Single disposition order—Consecutive terms when two or more offenses—Limitations—Separate disposition order—Concurrent period of community supervision.
13.40.185Disposition order—Confinement under departmental supervision or in juvenile facility, when.
13.40.190Disposition order—Restitution for loss or damage—Modification of restitution order.
13.40.192Restitution and other legal financial obligations—Enforceability—Treatment of obligations upon age of eighteen or conclusion of juvenile court jurisdiction—Extension of judgment.
13.40.193Firearms—Length of confinement.
13.40.196Firearms—Special allegation.
13.40.200Violation of order of restitution, community supervision, or confinement—Modification of order after hearing.
13.40.205Release from physical custody, when—Authorized leaves—Leave plan and order—Notice.
13.40.210Setting of release date—Administrative release authorized, when—Parole program, revocation or modification of, scope—Intensive supervision program—Parole officer's right of arrest.
13.40.212Intensive supervision program—Elements.
13.40.213Juveniles alleged to have committed a prostitution loitering offense—Diversion.
13.40.215Juveniles found to have committed violent or sex offense or stalking—Notification of discharge, parole, leave, release, transfer, or escape—To whom given—School attendance—Definitions.
13.40.217Juveniles adjudicated of sex offenses—Release of information authorized.
13.40.219Arrest for prostitution or prostitution loitering—Alleged offender—Victim of severe form of trafficking, commercial sex abuse of a minor.
13.40.230Appeal from order of disposition—Jurisdiction—Procedure—Scope—Release pending appeal.
13.40.240Construction of RCW references to juvenile delinquents or juvenile delinquency.
13.40.250Traffic infraction, transit infraction, and civil infraction cases—Diversion agreements.
13.40.265Firearm, alcohol, and drug violations.
13.40.280Transfer of juvenile to department of corrections facility—Grounds—Hearing—Term—Retransfer to a facility for juveniles.
13.40.285Juvenile offender sentenced to terms in juvenile and adult facilities—Transfer to department of corrections—Term of confinement.
13.40.300Commitment of juvenile beyond age 21 prohibited—Exceptions—Commitment up to age 25 permitted under certain circumstances—Jurisdiction of juvenile court after juvenile's 18th birthday.
13.40.301Department to protect younger children in confinement from older youth confined pursuant to 2018 c 162.
13.40.305Juvenile 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 in the second degree—Local sanctions—Evaluation.
13.40.308Juvenile 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 permission in the second degree—Minimum sentences.
13.40.310Transitional treatment program for gang and drug-involved juvenile offenders.
13.40.320Juvenile offender basic training camp program.
13.40.400Applicability of RCW 10.01.040 to chapter.
13.40.430Disparity in disposition of juvenile offenders—Data collection.
13.40.460Juvenile rehabilitation programs—Administration.
13.40.462Reinvesting in youth program.
13.40.464Reinvesting in youth program—Guidelines.
13.40.468Juvenile rehabilitation administration—State quality assurance program.
13.40.470Vulnerable youth committed to residential facilities—Protection from sexually aggressive youth—Assessment process.
13.40.480Student records and information—Reasons for release—Who may request.
13.40.500Community juvenile accountability programs—Findings—Purpose.
13.40.510Community juvenile accountability programs—Establishment—Proposals—Guidelines.
13.40.511Community juvenile accountability programs—Stop loss policy—Funding for juvenile courts—Report to legislature.
13.40.520Community juvenile accountability programs—Grants.
13.40.530Community juvenile accountability programs—Effectiveness standards.
13.40.540Community juvenile accountability programs—Information collection—Report.
13.40.550Community juvenile accountability programs—Short title.
13.40.560Juvenile accountability incentive account.
13.40.570Sexual misconduct by state employees, contractors.
13.40.580Youth courts—Diversion.
13.40.590Youth court programs.
13.40.600Youth court jurisdiction.
13.40.610Youth court notification of satisfaction of conditions.
13.40.620Appearance before youth court with parent, guardian, or legal custodian.
13.40.630Youth court dispositions.
13.40.650Use of restraints on pregnant youth in custody—Allowed in extraordinary circumstances.
13.40.651Use of restraints on pregnant youth in custody—Provision of information to staff and pregnant youth in custody.
13.40.660Exchange of intimate images by minors—Findings—Work group.
13.40.720Imposition of legal financial obligations—City, town, or county authority.
13.40.730Community transition services program.
13.40.735Planned release—Notice to health care insurance provider.
13.40.740Juvenile access to an attorney.
13.40.745Program grants—Sex offender evaluation and treatment programs.
13.40.900Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.
NOTES:
Health and dental examination and care for juveniles in detention facility—Consent: RCW 13.04.047.
Juvenile may be both dependent and an offender: RCW 13.04.300.
Treatment of juvenile offenders: RCW 74.14A.030, 74.14A.040.