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Youth Authority Act

California · WIC · §§ 1700 to 1915 · 189 sections

Overview

The Youth Authority Act governs California's system for the custody, treatment, and rehabilitation of youthful offenders. It establishes the Department of the Youth Authority as the agency responsible for administering that system, along with a Board of Juvenile Hearings to decide matters affecting individual wards. The act also sets out the general provisions and definitions that frame the system and the procedures by which offenders are committed to the Youth Authority's custody.

Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.

In the courts

Sections of this act have been cited in 83 court decisions.

Most-cited authority: 421 U.S. 519 - Breed v. Jones

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