A child under the age of eighteen years who has been sentenced as an adult felon to a term of imprisonment in a state correctional facility may be placed in a Department of Corrections juvenile facility by the secretary of corrections. This section does not affect the child's status as an adult offender and inmate of the state correctional facility.

Source: SL 1996, ch 172 , § 56; SL 2023, ch 82 , § 95.