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Revised Code of Washington
Title 13
Chapter 13.40
Wash. Rev. Code ch. 13.40
Juvenile justice act of 1977.
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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.
13.40.042
Detention of juvenile suffering from mental disorder or substance use disorder.
13.40.043
Prison riot offenses—Relief from disposition.
13.40.044
Infraction—Prison riot offenses vacated.
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.
13.40.058
Fines, administrative fees, costs, and surcharges prohibited.
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 to community-based, restorative justice, mediation, or reconciliation programs.
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.
13.40.082
Diversion agreements—Applicability—Underlying offense.
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.
13.40.150
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.
13.40.162
Special sex offender disposition alternative.
13.40.165
Substance use disorder or mental health disposition alternative.
13.40.180
Single disposition order—Consecutive terms when two or more offenses—Limitations—Separate disposition order—Concurrent period of community supervision.
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
Restitution and other 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.
13.40.200
Violation of order of restitution, community supervision, or confinement—Modification of order after hearing.
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 arrest.
13.40.212
Intensive supervision program—Elements.
13.40.213
Juveniles alleged to have committed a prostitution loitering offense—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—Definitions.
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.
13.40.230
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 infraction, transit infraction, and civil infraction cases—Diversion agreements.
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 21 prohibited—Exceptions—Commitment up to age 25 permitted under certain circumstances—Jurisdiction of juvenile court after juvenile's 18th birthday.
13.40.301
Department to protect younger children in confinement from older youth confined pursuant to 2018 c 162.
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 in the second degree—Local sanctions—Evaluation.
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 permission in the second degree—Minimum sentences.
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.
13.40.460
Juvenile rehabilitation programs—Administration.
13.40.462
Reinvesting in youth program.
13.40.464
Reinvesting in youth program—Guidelines.
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.
13.40.511
Community juvenile accountability programs—Stop loss policy—Funding for juvenile courts—Report to legislature.
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.
13.40.570
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.
13.40.650
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.
13.40.660
Exchange of intimate images by minors—Findings—Work group.
13.40.720
Imposition of legal financial obligations—City, town, or county authority.
13.40.730
Community transition services program.
13.40.735
Planned release—Notice to health care insurance provider.
13.40.740
Juvenile access to an attorney.
13.40.745
Program grants—Sex offender evaluation and treatment programs.
13.40.900
Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.