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NH Rev Stat § 621:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 621 - Youth Development Center|Section 621:1 - New Hampshire Youth Development Center; Administration.

    621:1 New Hampshire Youth Development Center;  Administration. –||I. The New Hampshire youth development center, a juvenile correctional facility formerly known as the industrial school, may also be referred to as the YDC or the center. References to the industrial school or the YDC in statutes or other documents shall mean the youth development center.||II. The programs and policies of the New Hampshire youth development center shall be administered by the department of health and human services.||III. To ensure that juveniles are placed in the least restrictive environment consistent with their treatment needs, their safety, and the safety of the community, the department shall not establish treatment services at the youth development center or other architecturally secure facility which are not also available to children living in the community or in settings other than architecturally secure settings.|||Source. 1913, 101:3. PL 399:1. RL 463:1. 1953, 205:1, par. 1. RSA 621:1. 1973, 17:2. 1981, 539:3. 1983, 416:10. 1994, 81:3; 212:2. 1995, 181:12, eff. July 1, 1995. 2001, 286:19, eff. Sept. 14, 2001. 2013, 249:19, eff. Sept. 22, 2013.|
NH Rev Stat § 621:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 621 - Youth Development Center|Section 621:2 - Philosophy of the New Hampshire Youth Development Center.

    621:2 Philosophy of the New Hampshire Youth Development Center. –||The New Hampshire youth development center shall be administered to effect the following purposes and policies:||I. To provide a wholesome physical and emotional setting for each child detained at or committed to the center;||II. To provide protection, care, counseling, supervision, and rehabilitative services as required by the individual child;||III. To assure that the child has not been deprived of those rights to which he or she is entitled by law;||IV. To teach the child to accept responsibility for his or her actions;||V. To recognize that the child's interests are of major importance while also acknowledging the interests of public safety;||VI. To cooperate with the courts, law enforcement agencies, and other agencies in juvenile matters to ensure that the needs of each child who is involved with these agencies are met with minimum adverse impact upon the child; and||VII. To return each child committed to the center to a community setting with an improved attitude toward society.|||Source. 1981, 539:3, eff. June 30, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 621:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 621 - Youth Development Center|Section 621:3 - Definitions.

    621:3 Definitions. –||In this chapter:||I. "Administrative release to parole" means an administrative procedure to provide a period of community adjustment before parole status is granted.||I-a. "Board" means the juvenile parole board established in RSA 170-H:3.||II. "Child," "minor," or "juvenile" means a person under the age of 18 years.||II-a. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the department of health and human services.||III. "Commitment" or "committed" refers to children who are in the custody of the center as a result of being adjudicated delinquent by a district or superior court and who are placed in the custody and care of the center for their minority.||IV. "Court" means the district court, unless otherwise indicated.||V. "Delinquent" or "delinquent child" means a minor who has committed an offense before reaching the age of 18 years which would be a felony or misdemeanor under the criminal code of this state if committed by an adult.||V-a. "Department" means the department of health and human services.||VI. "Detention" means the care of a minor in a physically restricted facility while awaiting further action by a court.||VI-a. [Repealed.]||VI-b. [Repealed.]||VII. "Minority" means the period of time before the age of 18 years and terminates on the eighteenth birthday.||VIII. "Parole" means a conditional release from the center which allows the child to serve the remainder of his or her commitment outside the center, supervised by a juvenile probation and parole officer, contingent upon satisfactory compliance with the terms and conditions set forth in the parole agreement.|||Source. 1981, 539:3. 1983, 291:1, 416:11, 12, 20. 1994, 212:2. 1995, 181:13, 14, 20, 23, X; 308:114-116. 1999, 219:12. 2000, 294:8, eff. July 1, 2000. 2001, 286:19, eff. Sept. 14, 2001. 2014, 215:15-17, eff. July 1, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 621:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 621 - Youth Development Center|Section 621:4 - Duties Relative to Property.

    621:4 Duties Relative to Property. –||With the approval of the fiscal committee, the department shall be authorized to take, hold, and manage, in trust for the state, lands, money, or other property granted, devised, or bequeathed for the use of the center, and to sell and convey the lands, money, or other property and to invest the proceeds therefrom in such investments as are legal for New Hampshire savings banks or in the physical plant of the center.|||Source. 1981, 539:3. 1983, 416:13. 1995, 181:20, eff. July 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 621:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 621 - Youth Development Center|Section 621:5 - Repealed by 1983, 416:37, IV, eff. July 1, 1983.

    621:5 Repealed by 1983, 416:37, IV, eff. July 1, 1983. –|
NH Rev Stat § 621:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 621 - Youth Development Center|Section 621:6 - Books and Records of Account.

    621:6 Books and Records of Account. –||All books of account and documents relating to the center shall be open to examination by the bank commissioner, the governor and council, or either legislative branch.|||Source. 1913, 101:4. PL 399:4. RL 463:4. 1953, 205:1, par. 3. RSA 621:3. 1981, 539:3, eff. June 30, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 621:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 621 - Youth Development Center|Section 621:7 - Bylaws.

    621:7 Bylaws. –||The commissioner shall adopt and may amend bylaws for the governance of the center and for the management of its concerns, and shall prescribe in the bylaws the powers and duties of the persons connected with the center, in conformity with the rules of the department of personnel.|||Source. 1913, 101:5. PL 399:5. RL 463:5. 1953, 205:1, par. 4. RSA 621:4. 1981, 539:3. 1983, 416:20. 1994, 81:3. 1995, 181:15, eff. July 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 621:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 621 - Youth Development Center|Section 621:8 - Fire Code Compliance.

    621:8 Fire Code Compliance. –||The state fire marshal, with the assistance of the department of health and human services and the commissioner of the department of youth center development services, shall inspect all youth development facilities once every 6 months. In order to insure compliance with the fire safety rules which he is authorized to promulgate under RSA 153:5, the fire marshal shall assist the center administration in developing a plan to bring all center buildings into compliance with such rules.|||Source. 1981, 539:3. 1983, 416:21. 1994, 81:3. 1995, 181:21, eff. July 1, 1995; 310:181, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 621:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 621 - Youth Development Center|Section 621:9 - Care of Children.

    621:9 Care of Children. –||The department shall ensure that children sent to the center are properly accounted for and are provided with those services to which they are entitled by statute, the bylaws of the center, and other directives.|||Source. 1913, 101:6. PL 399:6. RL 463:6. 1953, 205:1, par. 6. RSA 621:5. 1981, 539:3. 1983, 416:20. 1995, 181:20, eff. July 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 621:9-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 621 - Youth Development Center|Section 621:9-a - Extended Commitment at the Center.

    621:9-a Extended Commitment at the Center. –||Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a minor over whom the court has exercised jurisdiction pursuant to RSA 169-B:4, I or retained jurisdiction pursuant to RSA 169-B:4, V(c), may be committed or continue to be committed at the center pursuant to RSA 169-B:19, I(j) until the minor's eighteenth birthday.|||Source. 2002, 170:5, eff. July 14, 2002.|
NH Rev Stat § 621:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 621 - Youth Development Center|Section 621:10 - Limits to Population at the Youth Development Center.

    621:10 Limits to Population at the Youth Development Center. –||I. No residential facility at or under the control of the youth development center shall exceed, for a period of more than 24 hours, Sundays and holidays excluded, the maximum capacity for the facility as fixed by a population oversight panel composed of the fire marshal, the commissioner of the department of health and human services, and the assistant commissioner of transportation.||II. The panel shall meet annually during the month of October to review or modify population limits for each residential facility controlled by the center. Minutes of annual meetings shall be kept for at least 7 years and shall be maintained by the commissioner. If new facilities are made available or existing facilities are modified, the panel shall convene to fix the population limit before any residential use is made of the new or modified facility. Population limits shall be supplied to the commissioner in letter form at the conclusion of each meeting.||III. Population limits fixed by the panel for each facility shall be prominently displayed in the administrative area of the center.||IV. When youth development center facilities used for detention approach maximum population capability as fixed by the panel, the district courts shall be notified by the commissioner or his agent so that the courts may determine alternatives to detention at the center. Courts shall be notified to consider other facilities when all space in the detention houses is assigned. Expenses arising from alternative detention shall be borne by the city or town in which the minor resides at the time the petition is filed or, if such place of residence cannot be determined, by the city or town in which the alleged offense occurred. Either city or town shall have a right of action for these expenses against the person chargeable by law for the minor's support and necessities. A court may make such order as to reimbursement as may be reasonable and just, based on the person's ability to pay.|||Source. 1981, 539:3. 1983, 416:21. 1994, 81:3. 1995, 181:21, eff. July 1, 1995; 310:182, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 621:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 621 - Youth Development Center|Section 621:11 - Repealed by 1983, 416:37, V, eff. July 1, 1983.

    621:11 Repealed by 1983, 416:37, V, eff. July 1, 1983. –|
NH Rev Stat § 621:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 621 - Youth Development Center|Section 621:12 - Department's Duties.

    621:12 Department's Duties. –||I. The department shall have charge of the lands, buildings, furniture, tools, implements, stock, provisions, and other property of the center. The department shall keep, in suitable books, regular and complete accounts of all receipts and expenditures, and of the debts, credits, contracts and property of the center, showing its income and expenses. Such accounts shall be specific and contain the dates and amounts of all receipts, and the date, quantity, and price of every article purchased or procured. There is specifically excepted from the foregoing such accounts and accountability as the department of administrative services otherwise requires. The department shall be responsible for the organization of the center to effect the maximum in economy and efficiency, and shall be the appointing authority for employees of the center. The department shall have custody and charge of the children committed to their care and shall provide maintenance to those children detained at the center awaiting further court action.||II. The commissioner shall develop and periodically revise a juvenile section of the comprehensive plan for the state's correctional system required by RSA 21-H:8, X which shall contain the elements required by law to be addressed in that plan. The juvenile section shall be fully integrated into the overall plan provided for by RSA 21-H:8, X.||III. The commissioner shall provide a monthly report to the fiscal committee of the general court of the average daily census and the estimated monthly cost per resident at the Sununu youth services center, including those funds used from accounting units not directly associated with the Sununu youth services center.|||Source. 1913, 101:12. PL 399:13. RL 463:13. 1953, 205:1, par. 7. RSA 621:7. 1981, 539:3. 1983, 416:54. 1995, 181:16, 20, eff. July 1, 1995. 2018, 355:6, eff. July 2, 2018.|
NH Rev Stat § 621:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 621 - Youth Development Center|Section 621:13 - Repealed by 1983, 416:37, VI, eff. July 1, 1983.

    621:13 Repealed by 1983, 416:37, VI, eff. July 1, 1983. –|
NH Rev Stat § 621:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 621 - Youth Development Center|Section 621:14 - Repealed by 1983, 416:37, VII, eff. July 1, 1983.

    621:14 Repealed by 1983, 416:37, VII, eff. July 1, 1983. –|
NH Rev Stat § 621:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 621 - Youth Development Center|Section 621:15 - Records of Children Committed or Detained.

    621:15 Records of Children Committed or Detained. –||The commissioner shall cause accurate records to be kept which shall contain, as a minimum, the child's name, address, age, parents' or guardians' names and addresses, commitment documents, and such other data as may be appropriate. The commissioner shall issue directives to ensure compliance with state and federal privacy laws and regulations.|||Source. 1913, 101:13. PL 399:14. RL 463:14. 1953, 205:1, par. 9. RSA 621:10. 1981, 539:3. 1983, 416:21. 1994, 81:3. 1995, 181:21, eff. July 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 621:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 621 - Youth Development Center|Section 621:16 - Erroneous Committal Elsewhere.

    621:16 Erroneous Committal Elsewhere. –||If a child shall be committed by error of any court to a correctional institution other than the center, the commissioner, the county attorney, the minor, or any person interested in the minor may apply to a justice of the superior court for an order for the commitment of the minor to the center for the term of minority, and the justice shall issue a new mittimus accordingly.|||Source. 1913, 101:17. PL 399:18. RL 463:18. 1953, 205:1, par. 12. RSA 621:13. 1965, 256:8. 1973, 72:46. 1981, 539:3. 1983, 416:15. 1995, 181:19, eff. July 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 621:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 621 - Youth Development Center|Section 621:17 - Committal by the United States.

    621:17 Committal by the United States. –||The department may receive and maintain juvenile offenders sent to the center by virtue of any act of the Congress of the United States for such reasonable compensation as may be agreed upon with the United States authorities. The commissioner shall receive, detain, and treat these offenders as if they had been detained or committed by a juvenile proceeding in a New Hampshire court, except that no such juvenile shall be released to parole or furlough without approval of the United States authorities.|||Source. 1913, 101:19. PL 399:20. RL 463:20. 1953, 205:1, par. 14. RSA 621:15. 1981, 539:3. 1983, 416:20, 21. 1994, 81:3. 1995, 181:20, 21, eff. July 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 621:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 621 - Youth Development Center|Section 621:18 - Detention.

    621:18 Detention. –||Children detained at the center under RSA 169-B shall not be subject to the provisions of this chapter relative to release, administrative release to parole, parole, and discharge, but shall be subject to the transfer provided for incorrigibles until the court disposes of their cases.|||Source. 1913, 101:20. PL 399:21. RL 463:21. 1953, 205:1, par. 15. RSA 621:16. 1981, 539:3, eff. June 30, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 621:20 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 621 - Youth Development Center|Section 621:20 - Contract for Board.

    621:20 Contract for Board. –||The department may contract to pay the board of a released child when the child, because of age or other conditions, is unable to earn board and no proper place may be found for him or her without payment of board.|||Source. 1913, 101:22. PL 399:24. RL 463:24. 1953, 205:1, par. 17. RSA 621:18. 1981, 539:3. 1983, 416:20. 1995, 181:20, eff. July 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 621:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 621 - Youth Development Center|Section 621:21 - Payment of Board.

    621:21 Payment of Board. –||Payments of board shall be charged to the expenses of the center as if they were payments for boarding, instructing, and disciplining the child at the center, with a right of recovery against the legally liable unit in accordance with RSA 169-B:40 and RSA 621:31.|||Source. 1913, 101:22. PL 399:25. RL 463:25. 1953, 205:1, par. 18. RSA 621:19. 1981, 539:3, eff. June 30, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 621:22 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 621 - Youth Development Center|Section 621:22 - Children in Residential Care.

    621:22 Children in Residential Care. –||Notwithstanding the provisions of any other statute, whenever the department releases a child and contracts for the child's residential care in a facility which has been approved by the department of health and human services, payment for the care shall be charged in accordance with RSA 169-B:40 and RSA 621:31.|||Source. 1967, 174:1. 1981, 539:3. 1983, 291:1; 416:20. 1995, 181:20, eff. July 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 621:23 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 621 - Youth Development Center|Section 621:23 - Religious Preference.

    621:23 Religious Preference. –||In all questions of release, the department shall investigate the religious and moral character of those into whose custody a released child is placed.|||Source. 1913, 101:24. PL 399:27. RL 463:27. 1953, 205:1, par. 19. RSA 621:20. 1981, 539:3. 1983, 416:20. 1995, 181:20, eff. July 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 621:24 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 621 - Youth Development Center|Section 621:24 - Effect of Release.

    621:24 Effect of Release. –||No administrative release or parole of a child shall operate as a discharge of the child from the center. The department shall continue to have control of children on administrative release to parole or parole until they reach the age of 18 years, and the control conferred by the department upon others shall be conferred upon them as agents of the department, except where a child is discharged under RSA 621:19.|||Source. 1913, 101:25. PL 399:28. RL 463:28. 1953, 205:1, par. 20. RSA 621:21. 1973, 72:42. 1981, 539:3. 1983, 416:20. 1995, 181:20, eff. July 1, 1995; 308:117, eff. Jan. 1, 1996. 2002, 170:6, eff. July 14, 2002. 2014, 215:18, eff. July 1, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 621:25 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 621 - Youth Development Center|Section 621:25 - Remands and Changes in Conditions of Release.

    621:25 Remands and Changes in Conditions of Release. –||The board or the commissioner, subject to the approval of the board, may modify or cancel any arrangements or conditions relative to release, other than discharge of a child, or may order a child remanded to the center, until the child reaches the age of 18 years or is discharged under RSA 621:19. Under the direction of the board and subject to rules adopted by the commissioner the department shall:||I. Seek out proper places for children who are qualified for administrative release to parole or parole and keep in contact with these children after they are so released;||II. Make reports of its activities to the board when so required. When the department deems it to be in the best interest of a child on administrative release to parole or parole to be placed under different conditions, it shall report the case fully to the board, together with its recommendations, and the board shall act on the case in whatever manner seems to them to be in the best interests of the child; and||III. Remand children to the center with the same power and authority as provided to the board or under such terms and conditions as the board may prescribe.|||Source. 1913, 101:25. PL 399:29. RL 463:29. 1953, 205:1, par. 21. RSA 621:22. 1973, 72:43. 1981, 539:3. 1983, 416:17. 1995, 181:19, 20, eff. July 1, 1995; 308:117, eff. Jan. 1, 1996. 2002, 170:6, eff. July 14, 2002. 2014, 215:18, eff. July 1, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 621:26 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 621 - Youth Development Center|Section 621:26 - Discharge by Superior Court.

    621:26 Discharge by Superior Court. –||A minor erroneously committed to the center may be discharged by a justice of the superior court, upon petition of the county attorney or a selectman of the town or mayor of the city in which the minor resides, when continued commitment is unnecessary. Upon petition to the superior court by the division or the board, the court may review the case of a child, modify or amend the order of commitment, or order the release of the child.|||Source. 1913, 183:1. PL 399:31. RL 463:31. 1953, 205:1, par. 22. RSA 621:23. 1981, 539:3. 1983, 416:18, eff. July 1, 1983.|