Sentencing - persons eighteen years of age or older - county jail community corrections.

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(1) Except as otherwise provided in section 19-2-601 for an aggravated juvenile offender, the court may commit a person eighteen years of age or older but less than twenty-one years of age to the department of human services if he or she is adjudicated a juvenile delinquent for an act committed prior to his or her eighteenth birthday or upon revocation of probation.

(2) Except as otherwise provided in section 19-2-601 for an aggravated juvenile offender, the court may sentence a person who is eighteen years of age or older on the date of a sentencing hearing to the county jail for a period not to exceed six months or to a community correctional facility or program for a period not to exceed one year, which may be served consecutively or in intervals, if he or she is adjudicated a juvenile delinquent for an act committed prior to his or her eighteenth birthday.

Source: L. 96: Entire article amended with relocations, p. 1663, § 1, effective January 1, 1997.

Editor's note: This section was formerly numbered as 19-2-703 (1)(b) and (1)(c). Prior to relocation in 1996, the said 19-2-703 (1)(b) and (1)(c) were contained in a title that was repealed and reenacted in 1987. Provisions of those sections, as they existed in 1987, are similar to those contained in 19-3-113 as said section existed in 1986, the year prior to the repeal and reenactment of this title.


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