2012 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 17a - Social and Human Services and Resources
Chapter 319a - Child Welfare
Section 17a-201a - (Formerly Sec. 17-408). Commitment under sixteen restricted.


CT Gen Stat § 17a-201a (2012) What's This?

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

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

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.

Cited. 115 C. 596.

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