Sec. 17a-13. (Formerly Sec. 17-420a). Jurisdiction over person transferred to correctional facility at Cheshire or Niantic. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 17a-13. (Formerly Sec. 17-420a). Jurisdiction over person transferred to correctional facility at Cheshire or Niantic. Any person committed to the Department of Children and Families who is transferred to the John R. Manson Youth Institution, Cheshire, or the Connecticut Correctional Institution, Niantic, pursuant to section 17a-12 shall be deemed, while so transferred, to be under the jurisdiction of the Department of Correction except that the Commissioner of Children and Families shall retain his powers to remove such person and to place him in another facility or in the community or to terminate the commitment.

      (1971, P.A. 13, S. 2; P.A. 78-300, S. 2; P.A. 86-186, S. 9; P.A. 93-91, S. 1, 2.)

      History: P.A. 78-300 added reference to transfers to Niantic Correctional Institution; P.A. 86-186 changed the name of the Connecticut Correctional Institution, Cheshire to the John R. Manson Youth Institution, Cheshire; Sec. 17-420a transferred to Sec. 17a-13 in 1991; P.A. 93-91 substituted commissioner and department of children and families for commissioner and department of children and youth services, effective July 1, 1993; (Revisor's note: In 1997 the phrase "Commissioner of the Department of Children and Families" was replaced editorially by the Revisors with "Commissioner of Children and Families" for consistency with customary statutory usage).