# Title 12 — Corrections, Parole, and Probation

## Chapter 12-52 — Aftercare Program for Youth Correctional Center

### § 12-52-01. Department of corrections and rehabilitation to administer juvenile aftercare

program and other treatment and rehabilitation programs.
The division of juvenile services with the approval of the director of the department of
corrections and rehabilitation may provide a juvenile aftercare program and other treatment and
rehabilitation programs and may contract with public and private agencies to provide services
for persons committed to the division of juvenile services and may establish facilities in, and
rules under, which such persons may receive services.
### § 12-52-02. Aftercare granted on recommendation of superintendent.

No aftercare program may be provided for any person committed to the North Dakota youth
correctional center or placed under the guardianship, control, and custody of the
superintendent, unless the superintendent recommends the program to the director of the
division of juvenile services and some suitable person will receive the person to be placed in the
aftercare program under conditions approved by the superintendent. Nothing in this chapter
prevents the placing of any person into the person's own home or into a licensed foster home
under any program administered by the department of health and human services.
### § 12-52-03. Recommitment to the youth correctional center for violation of aftercare

rules.
A person placed in an aftercare program must be under the guardianship and control of the
director of the division of juvenile services and is subject, at any time until the expiration of the
time for which the person was committed, to be taken into actual custody and returned to the
North Dakota youth correctional center. The director may enforce the rules and regulations
made for the administration of aftercare programs and the placement of students in them, and
when the director is satisfied that a person placed in an aftercare program has violated any of
the rules or regulations, the director may order that person to be taken into actual custody and
returned to the North Dakota youth correctional center and to be detained therein until the
expiration of the time for which the person was committed, or until the person is again placed in
an aftercare program. The director shall maintain a record of any such order, and a certified
copy of the order may be delivered to any peace officer, or any officer or employee of the North
Dakota youth correctional center, for service and return. It is the duty of the officer or employee
to receive the order and to apprehend and immediately deliver the person named in the order to
the superintendent of the North Dakota youth correctional center.
### § 12-52-04. Officer's or employee's return on order of recommitment.

The officer or employee executing an order of the director of the division of juvenile services
for the apprehension and return of a person to the North Dakota youth correctional center shall
endorse on the order a return of the officer's doings thereunder and deliver the same, together
with the person named therein, to the superintendent of the center. The superintendent shall
give to the officer or employee a certificate acknowledging the receipt of the person, order, and
return.
### § 12-52-05. Officer's fee on recommitment - Exception.

The fee of any officer, except an officer or employee of the North Dakota youth correctional
center, executing an order of the director of the division of juvenile services for the apprehension
and return of a person to the North Dakota youth correctional center must be the same as that
for like service in criminal actions.
### § 12-52-06. Parole violator guilty of misdemeanor.

Repealed by S.L. 1975, ch. 106, § 673; 1975, ch. 109, § 8.

### § 12-52-07. Discharge for good conduct.

The director of the division of juvenile services may discharge any student from the North
Dakota youth correctional center at any time upon satisfactory evidence of reformation and as a
reward for good conduct and diligence in study. If the student has no parent, guardian, or other
person to whom to return, the director shall arrange for and procure some suitable person to
receive, employ, and care for the person so discharged.
