Delinquent act; leaving home without permission of parent, guardian, or custodian
Applied in 12 court decisions — leading case A.D. v. State (2000)
Most recently applied in Temple v. State (September 2011)
As added by P.L.1-1997, SEC.20
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Sec. 2. A child commits a delinquent act if, before becoming eighteen (18) years of age, the child leaves home or a specific location previously designated by the child's parent, guardian, or custodian:
(1) without reasonable cause; and
(2) without permission of the parent, guardian, or custodian, who requests the child's return.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.