A. It shall be unlawful for any person to escape or remain away without proper authority from a group home or other residential care facility for children in need of services, delinquent or alleged delinquent youths in which he had been placed by the juvenile and domestic relations court or as a result of his commitment as a juvenile to the Department of Juvenile Justice. Any person violating this subsection shall be taken into custody and brought before the juvenile and domestic relations court. The court may find the person in violation of § 16.1-292 or, if the court finds the person amenable to further treatment in a juvenile facility, the court may return him to the custody of the Department.
B. It shall be unlawful for any person to escape or remain away without proper authority from a secure facility operated by or under contract with the Department of Juvenile Justice or from a secure juvenile detention facility in which he had been placed by the juvenile and domestic relations court or as a result of his commitment as a juvenile to the Department of Juvenile Justice. Any person who escapes from a facility specified in this subsection by force or by violence shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony or, if violation of this subsection occurs other than by force or violence, a Class 1 misdemeanor.
1985, c. 435; 1989, c. 733; 1993, c. 840; 1994, c. 490; 1997, c. 749.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 18.2 - Crimes and Offenses Generally
Chapter 10 - Crimes Against the Administration of Justice
§ 18.2-434. What deemed perjury; punishment and penalty
§ 18.2-436. Inducing another to give false testimony; sufficiency of evidence
§ 18.2-437. Immunity of witnesses
§ 18.2-438. Bribes to officers or candidates for office
§ 18.2-439. Acceptance of bribe by officer or candidate
§ 18.2-440. Bribes to officers to prevent service of process
§ 18.2-441. Giving bribes to, or receiving bribes by, commissioners, jurors, etc.
§ 18.2-441.1. Bribery of witnesses
§ 18.2-442. Bribery of participants in games, contests or sports
§ 18.2-443. Solicitation or acceptance of bribes by participants or by managers, coaches or trainers
§ 18.2-444. Corruptly influencing, or being influenced as, agents, etc.
§ 18.2-445. Immunity of witnesses
§ 18.2-447. When person guilty of bribery
§ 18.2-448. Certain matters not to constitute defenses
§ 18.2-450. Immunity of witnesses
§ 18.2-451. Definitions; application and construction of article
§ 18.2-453. Aiders and abettors
§ 18.2-454. Enjoining barratry
§ 18.2-455. Unprofessional conduct; revocation of license
§ 18.2-456. Cases in which courts and judges may punish summarily for contempt
§ 18.2-457. Fine and imprisonment by court limited unless jury impaneled
§ 18.2-458. Power of judge of district court to punish for contempt
§ 18.2-459. Appeal from sentence of such judge
§ 18.2-460. Obstructing justice; resisting arrest; fleeing from a law-enforcement officer; penalties
§ 18.2-461. Falsely summoning or giving false reports to law-enforcement officials
§ 18.2-462. Concealing or compounding offenses; penalties
§ 18.2-462.1. Use of police radio during commission of crime
§ 18.2-463. Refusal to aid officer in execution of his office
§ 18.2-464. Failure to obey order of conservator of the peace
§ 18.2-465. Officer summoning juror to act impartially
§ 18.2-465.1. Penalizing employee for court appearance or service on jury panel
§ 18.2-466. Corruptly procuring juror to be summoned
§ 18.2-467. Fraud in drawing jurors, etc.
§ 18.2-468. Making sound recordings of jury deliberations
§ 18.2-469. Officer refusing, delaying, etc., to execute process for criminal
§ 18.2-470. Extortion by officer
§ 18.2-471. Fraudulent issue of fee bills
§ 18.2-471.1. Destruction of human biological evidence; penalty
§ 18.2-472. False entries or destruction of records by officers
§ 18.2-473. Persons aiding escape of prisoner or child
§ 18.2-473.1. Communication with prisoners or committed person; penalty
§ 18.2-473.2. Covering a security camera in a correctional facility; penalty
§ 18.2-474. Delivery of articles to prisoners or committed person
§ 18.2-474.1. Delivery of drugs, firearms, explosives, etc., to prisoners or committed persons
§ 18.2-474.2. Bribery in correctional facilities; penalty
§ 18.2-477. Prisoner escaping from jail; how punished
§ 18.2-477.1. Escapes from juvenile facility; penalty
§ 18.2-478. Escape from jail or custody by force or violence without setting fire to jail
§ 18.2-479. Escape without force or violence or setting fire to jail
§ 18.2-480. Escape, etc., by setting fire to jail
§ 18.2-480.1. Admissibility of records of Department of Corrections in escape cases