26-11A-6. Age limit for placement of child sentenced as adult into juvenile facility--Affect on status.A child under the age of eighteen years who has been sentenced as an adult felon to a term of imprisonment in a state correctional facility may be placed in a Department of Corrections juvenile facility by the secretary of corrections. This section does not affect the child's status as an adult offender and inmate of the state correctional facility. Source: SL 1996, ch 172, §56; SL 2023, ch 82, §95.
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