Connecticut General Statutes/Title 17a/Chapter 319a/Section 17a-201a

CGS § 17a-201a. (Formerly Sec. 17-408). Commitment under sixteen restricted.

No court shall commit any child under sixteen years of age to any community correctional center or almshouse.

Short History

(1949 Rev., S. 2844; 1955, S. 1587d; 1961, P.A. 517, S. 55; 1969, P.A. 297.)

Long History

History: 1961 act deleted reference to commitment by trial justice, trial justices having been abolished; 1969 act substituted “community correctional center” for “jail”; Sec. 17-408 transferred to Sec. 17a-201a in 2011.

Citations

Annotation to former section 17-408:

Cited. 115 C. 596.

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