2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-I - Waterfront Commission Act › Title 2 - Facilities › 502 - Definitions.

§ 502. Definitions. Unless otherwise specified in this article:
1. "Director" means the director of the division for youth.
2. "Division" means the division for youth.
3.  "Detention" means the temporary care and maintenance of youth held
  away from their homes pursuant to article three of the family court act,
  or held pending a hearing for alleged violation  of  the  conditions  of
  release  from  an  office  of  children  and family services facility or
  authorized agency, or held pending a hearing for  alleged  violation  of
  the  condition  of  parole  as a juvenile offender, youthful offender or
  adolescent offender or held pending return to a jurisdiction other  than
  the one in which the youth is held, or held pursuant to a securing order
  of  a  criminal court if the youth named therein as principal is charged
  as a juvenile offender, youthful offender or adolescent offender or held
  pending a hearing on an extension of placement or held pending  transfer
  to  a  facility upon commitment or placement by a court. Only alleged or
  convicted juvenile offenders, youthful offenders or adolescent offenders
  who have not attained their eighteenth or, commencing October first, two
  thousand eighteen, their  twenty-first  birthday  shall  be  subject  to
  detention  in  a  detention  facility.  Commencing  October  first,  two
  thousand eighteen, a youth who  on  or  after  such  date  committed  an
  offense  when  the youth was sixteen years of age; or commencing October
  first, two thousand nineteen, a youth who committed  an  offense  on  or
  after  such date when the youth was seventeen years of age held pursuant
  to a securing order of a criminal court if the youth is  charged  as  an
  adolescent  offender  or held pending a hearing for alleged violation of
  the condition of parole as an adolescent offender, must  be  held  in  a
  specialized secure juvenile detention facility for older youth certified
  by  the state office of children and family services in conjunction with
  the state commission of correction.
4. For purposes of this article, the term "youth" shall mean a  person
  not  less than twelve years of age and not more than twenty-two years of
  age, unless such youth is over the age of seven  and  less  than  twelve
  years  and  is  alleged  to  be or adjudicated a juvenile delinquent, as
  applicable,  pursuant  to  subparagraph  (iii)  of  paragraph   (a)   of
  subdivision one of section 301.2 of the family court act.
5.  "Placement"  means  the  transfer of a youth to the custody of the
  division pursuant to the family court act.
6. "Commitment" means the transfer of a youth to the  custody  of  the
  division pursuant to the penal law.
7.  "Conditional  release" means the transfer of a youth from facility
  status to aftercare supervision  under  the  continued  custody  of  the
  division.
8. "Discharge" means the termination of division custody of a youth.
9.  "Aftercare"  means  supervision  of a youth on conditional release
  status under the continued custody of the division.