ENROLLED
Senate Bill No. 620
(By Senators Wooton, Craigo Jackson, Mitchell, Prezioso, Redd, McKenzie and
Plymale)
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[Passed March 5, 2002; in effect from passage.]
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AN ACT to amend and reenact section thirteen-a, article five,
chapter forty-nine of the code of West Virginia, one thousand
nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to examination,
diagnosis and classification of juveniles; and increasing the
time of the period of custody.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section thirteen-a, article five, chapter forty-nine of
the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 5. JUVENILE PROCEEDINGS.
§49-5-13a. Examination, diagnosis and classification; period of
custody.
As a part of the dispositional proceeding for a juvenile who
has been adjudicated delinquent, the court may, upon its own motion
or upon request of counsel, order the juvenile to be delivered into the custody of the director of the division of juvenile services,
who shall cause the juvenile to be transferred to a juvenile
diagnostic center for a period not to exceed sixty days. During
this period, the juvenile shall undergo examination, diagnosis,
classification and a complete medical examination and shall at all
times be kept apart from the general juvenile inmate population in
the director's custody. Not later than sixty days after commitment
pursuant to this section the juvenile shall be remanded and
delivered to the custody of the director, an appropriate agency or
any other person that the court by its order directs. Within ten
days after the end of the examination, diagnosis and
classification, the director of the division of juvenile services
shall make or cause to be made a report to the court containing the
results, findings, conclusions and recommendations of the director
with respect to that juvenile.
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