Escape from the custody of the children, youth and families department consists of any person who has been adjudicated as a delinquent child and has been committed lawfully to the custody of a department juvenile justice facility or who is alleged to be a delinquent child and has been lawfully detained in a juvenile detention facility:

A. escaping or attempting to escape from custody within the confines of a children, youth and families department juvenile justice facility; or

B. escaping or attempting to escape from another lawful place of custody or confinement that is not within the confines of a children, youth and families department juvenile justice facility. Any person who commits escape from the custody of a children, youth and families department juvenile justice facility is guilty of a misdemeanor.

History: Laws 1993, ch. 121, § 1; 2009, ch. 239, § 3.

Effective dates. — Laws 1993, ch. 121, § 2 made the act effective on July 1, 1993.

Applicability. — Laws 2009, ch. 239, § 71, provided that the provisions of this act apply to all children who, on July 1, 2009, are on release or are otherwise eligible to be placed on release as if the Juvenile Public Safety Advisory Board Act had been in effect at the time they were placed on release or became eligible to be released.

The 2009 amendment, effective July 1, 2009, in the first paragraph, after "juvenile justice facility", added the remainder of the sentence.

Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — Validity, construction, and application of juvenile escape statues, 46 A.L.R.5th 523.