(a) If a youth comes into or is brought to the office of a youth service team worker or is located at home or elsewhere by a Division for Youth worker:

1. (1) a youth who is an adjudicated juvenile delinquent must be taken personnaly to the local nonsecure or secure detention center or to the facility from which the youth absconded;
2. (2) a youth who is an adjudicated person in need of supervision must be personally taken to nonsecure detention or returned to the facility from which he/she absconded (see section 181.10 of this Part on travel arrangements for return to facility and section 181.14 of this Part for information about nonsecure detention); and
3. (3) detention facilities shall not hold AWOL's more than 72 hours.

(b) If a youth is found by the police or Division for Youth transfer agents:

1. (1) the director of the facility or program from which the youth was AWOL shall be notified immediately;
2. (2) a youth who is an adjudicated juvenile delinquent and placed in a title III facility or voluntary agency must be taken to the local detention center or to the facility, if possible. If the youth is foud in an area which is remote from a detention center or the facility, the facility director shall be contacted. The facility director shall make arrangements to pick up the youth. The home district supervisor may be contacted for assistance; and
3. (3) a youth who is an adjudicated juvenile delinquent and placed in a title II facility or voluntary agency or an adjudicated person in need of supervision must be taken to the local youth service team office so that arrangements may be made for the return of the youth to the facility from which he/she absconded. Whenever the youth service team office is closed (e.g., weekends, holidays, after 5 p.m. on weekdays), these youth must be taken to the place designated by the district supervisor or regional director for the handling of emergencies during times in which offices are closed.