221.044. Persons under seventeen may not be confined in adult jails, exceptions--commitment to juvenile detention facilities, when. - Missouri Statutes

Persons under seventeen may not be confined in adult jails,exceptions--commitment to juvenile detention facilities, when.

221.044. No person under the age of seventeen years, exceptthose transferred to the court of general jurisdiction under theprovisions of section 211.071, RSMo, shall be detained in a jailor other adult detention facility as that term is defined insection 211.151, RSMo. A traffic court judge may request thejuvenile court to order the commitment of a person under the ageof seventeen to a juvenile detention facility.

(L. 1989 H.B. 502, et al.)