Pennsylvania Act 1947-499 — ESTABLISHING A JUVENILE HOME IN FIRST CLASS CITIES

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ESTABLISHING A JUVENILE HOME IN FIRST CLASS CITIES
                 Act of Jul. 3, 1947, P.L. 1228, No. 499              Cl. 23
                                  AN ACT

     To establish in cities of the first class a house of detention
        for delinquent, dependent and neglected children up to
        eighteen years of age, and providing for the management and
        the maintenance thereof.

        The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     hereby enacts as follows:

        Section 1.  House of Detention for Juvenile Offenders.--In
     every city of the first class there shall be provided in the way
     hereinafter mentioned, a house of detention for the reception of
     untried juvenile offenders and dependent and neglected children
     up to the age of eighteen years who may be in the custody of an
     officer appointed or elected under any law of this Commonwealth,
     and whose cases may be under judicial investigation under any
     laws of this Commonwealth, pending such investigation and final
     determination of such case or cases.
        Section 2.  Management.--A house of detention established
     under the provisions of this act, shall be provided and managed
     by the city in which the house of detention is located.
        (2 amended Dec. 7, 1982, P.L.839, No.232)
        Section 3.  Duties of the City.--The duties of a city of the
     first class shall be to provide a facility for the reception of
     children to be placed therein under the provisions of this act,
     to alter said facility for such purpose, to keep the same in
     repair, and generally to fit and furnish said facility so that
     the same may be suitable for the care of the children intended
     to be received, and especially to arrange such facility so that
     a separate room (so far as possible) may be provided for the
     accommodation of each child who may be received therein, and
     generally to supervise and oversee the management of said
     facility. A city of the first class shall, by ordinance,
     designate the department of the city under which said facility
     shall be managed, operated and controlled.
        (3 amended Dec. 7, 1982, P.L.839, No.232)
        Section 4.  Payment of Expenses.--Any city of the first class
     in which such facility is located shall be responsible for the
     payment of the expenses incurred in the management, operation
     and control of such facility.
        (4 amended Dec. 7, 1982, P.L.839, No.232)
        Section 5.  Appointment of Director; Compensation.--It shall
     be the duty of a city of the first class to establish the
     procedure and qualifications for the appointment to the position
     of director. The director shall take charge of the facility and
     children committed to such facility together with other adequate
     personnel, and generally to maintain order and discipline among
     the children so committed into their keeping. The salary or
     compensation to be paid to said director, and the personnel of
     such facility, shall be fixed by the city and paid by the city
     in which such facility is located.
        (5 amended Dec. 7, 1982, P.L.839, No.232)
        Section 6.  Alternative Placement of Delinquents.--It shall
     not be essential to commit a juvenile offender, a dependent or a
     neglected child to the house of detention established by this
     act, if in the judgment of the probation officer now or
     hereafter to be appointed under any present existing law or laws
     of this Commonwealth, it should be deemed expedient to otherwise
     dispose of said child.
        Section 7.  Payment of Costs of Maintenance and
     Construction.--The cost and expenses of construction and
     maintaining the houses of detention, by this act established,
     shall be provided by the city containing the said house of
     detention.
        Section 8.  Repeals.--The act, approved the second day of
     July, one thousand nine hundred one (Pamphlet Laws 601),
     entitled "An act to establish in cities of the first and second
     class a house or houses of detention for delinquent, dependent
     and neglected children, and providing for the management and
     maintenance thereof," insofar as it applied to cities of the
     first class, is hereby repealed.
        All other acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the
     provisions of this act are hereby repealed.