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Ohio Rev. Code § 2152.18 (2026)

No designation of institution of commitment

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Effective:
September 28, 2012
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Senate Bill 337 - 129th General Assembly
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(A) When a juvenile court commits a delinquent child to the custody of the department of youth services pursuant to this chapter, the court shall not designate the specific institution in which the department is to place the child but instead shall specify that the child is to be institutionalized in a secure facility.

(B) When a juvenile court commits a delinquent child to the custody of the department of youth services pursuant to this chapter, the court shall state in the order of commitment the total number of days that the child has been confined in connection with the delinquent child complaint upon which the order of commitment is based. The court shall not include days that the child has been under electronic monitoring or house arrest or days that the child has been confined in a halfway house. The department shall reduce the minimum period of institutionalization that was ordered by both the total number of days that the child has been so confined as stated by the court in the order of commitment and the total number of any additional days that the child has been confined subsequent to the order of commitment but prior to the transfer of physical custody of the child to the department.

(C)(1) When a juvenile court commits a delinquent child to the custody of the department of youth services pursuant to this chapter, the court shall provide the department with the child's medical records, a copy of the report of any mental examination of the child ordered by the court, the Revised Code section or sections the child violated and the degree of each violation, the warrant to convey the child to the department, a copy of the court's journal entry ordering the commitment of the child to the legal custody of the department, a copy of the arrest record pertaining to the act for which the child was adjudicated a delinquent child, a copy of any victim impact statement pertaining to the act, and any other information concerning the child that the department reasonably requests. The court also shall complete the form for the standard predisposition investigation report that the department furnishes pursuant to section 5139.04 of the Revised Code and provide the department with the completed form.

The department may refuse to accept physical custody of a delinquent child who is committed to the legal custody of the department until the court provides to the department the documents specified in this division. No officer or employee of the department who refuses to accept physical custody of a delinquent child who is committed to the legal custody of the department shall be subject to prosecution or contempt of court for the refusal if the court fails to provide the documents specified in this division at the time the court transfers the physical custody of the child to the department.

(2) Within twenty working days after the department of youth services receives physical custody of a delinquent child from a juvenile court, the court shall provide the department with a certified copy of the child's birth certificate and the child's social security number or, if the court made all reasonable efforts to obtain the information but was unsuccessful, with documentation of the efforts it made to obtain the information.

(3) If an officer is preparing pursuant to section 2947.06 or 2951.03 of the Revised Code or Criminal Rule 32.2 a presentence investigation report pertaining to a person, the department shall make available to the officer, for use in preparing the report, any records or reports it possesses regarding that person that it received from a juvenile court pursuant to division (C)(1) of this section or that pertain to the treatment of that person after the person was committed to the custody of the department as a delinquent child.

(D)(1) Within ten days after an adjudication that a child is a delinquent child, the court shall give written notice of the adjudication to the superintendent of a city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district, and to the principal of the school the child attends, if the basis of the adjudication was the commission of an act that would be a criminal offense if committed by an adult, if the act was committed by the delinquent child when the child was fourteen years of age or older, and if the act is any of the following:

(a) An act that would be a felony or an offense of violence if committed by an adult, an act in the commission of which the child used or brandished a firearm, or an act that is a violation of section 2907.06, 2907.07, 2907.08, 2907.09, 2907.24, or 2907.241 of the Revised Code and that would be a misdemeanor if committed by an adult;

(b) A violation of section 2923.12 of the Revised Code or of a substantially similar municipal ordinance that would be a misdemeanor if committed by an adult and that was committed on property owned or controlled by, or at an activity held under the auspices of, the board of education of that school district;

(c) A violation of division (A) of section 2925.03 or 2925.11 of the Revised Code that would be a misdemeanor if committed by an adult, that was committed on property owned or controlled by, or at an activity held under the auspices of, the board of education of that school district, and that is not a minor drug possession offense;

(d) An act that would be a criminal offense if committed by an adult and that results in serious physical harm to persons or serious physical harm to property while the child is at school, on any other property owned or controlled by the board, or at an interscholastic competition, an extracurricular event, or any other school program or activity;

(e) Complicity in any violation described in division (D)(1)(a), (b), (c), or (d) of this section that was alleged to have been committed in the manner described in division (D)(1)(a), (b), (c), or (d) of this section, regardless of whether the act of complicity was committed on property owned or controlled by, or at an activity held under the auspices of, the board of education of that school district.

(2) The notice given pursuant to division (D)(1) of this section shall include the name of the child who was adjudicated to be a delinquent child, the child's age at the time the child committed the act that was the basis of the adjudication, and identification of the violation of the law or ordinance that was the basis of the adjudication.

(3) Within fourteen days after committing a delinquent child to the custody of the department of youth services, the court shall give notice to the school attended by the child of the child's commitment by sending to that school a copy of the court's journal entry ordering the commitment. As soon as possible after receipt of the notice described in this division, the school shall provide the department with the child's school transcript. However, the department shall not refuse to accept a child committed to it, and a child committed to it shall not be held in a county or district detention facility, because of a school's failure to provide the school transcript that it is required to provide under this division.

(4) Within fourteen days after discharging or releasing a child from an institution under its control, the department of youth services shall provide the court and the superintendent of the school district in which the child is entitled to attend school under section 3313.64 or 3313.65 of the Revised Code with the following:

(a) An updated copy of the child's school transcript;

(b) A report outlining the child's behavior in school while in the custody of the department;

(c) The child's current individualized education program, as defined in section 3323.01 of the Revised Code, if such a program has been developed for the child;

(d) A summary of the institutional record of the child's behavior.

The department also shall provide the court with a copy of any portion of the child's institutional record that the court specifically requests, within five working days of the request.

(E) At any hearing at which a child is adjudicated a delinquent child or as soon as possible after the hearing, the court shall notify all victims of the delinquent act who may be entitled to a recovery under any of the following sections of the right of the victims to recover, pursuant to section 3109.09 of the Revised Code, compensatory damages from the child's parents; of the right of the victims to recover, pursuant to section 3109.10 of the Revised Code, compensatory damages from the child's parents for willful and malicious assaults committed by the child; and of the right of the victims to recover an award of reparations pursuant to sections 2743.51 to 2743.72 of the Revised Code.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 32 cases (6 in the last 5 years), 2003–2025 · leading case: In Re D.S., 2016 Ohio 7369 (Ohio 2016).
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In Re D.S., 2016 Ohio 7369 (Ohio 2016). · cites it 30× “{¶ 1} In this appeal, we address whether R.C. 2152.18(B) requires a juvenile court to credit the days a juvenile has been held in confinement pending disposition of a delinquency charge against the term of confinement the court imposes on the juvenile for that charge at final…”
In re J.C.E., 2016 Ohio 7843 (Ohio Ct. App. 2016). · cites it 21× “{¶11} Former R.C. 2152.18(B), regarding credit for time served for juveniles, provided in pertinent part: {¶12} When a juvenile court commits a delinquent child to the custody of the department of youth services, * * * the court shall state in the order of commitment the total…”
State ex rel. M.A. v. Reed, 2016 Ohio 3079 (Ohio Ct. App. 2016). · cites it 23× “" {¶ 7} In ruling on the motion to dismiss, the magistrate observed that "nothing in R.C. 2152.18 nor elsewhere, makes any reference to whether or not the days of credit are used to reduce the term being served for a firearm specification.”
In re D.P., 2014 Ohio 5414 (Ohio Ct. App. 2014). · cites it 10× “argues that the juvenile court erred by failing to credit the 310 days he had spent at the Hillcrest School towards the balance of his commitment to DYS, in violation of R.C. 2152.18. {¶10} In 2012 the General Assembly amended R.”
In re T.W., 2016 Ohio 3131 (Ohio Ct. App. 2016). · cites it 9× “’s DYS commitment. {¶3} The state now appeals. In a single assignment of error it contends that T.”
In re H.V., 2014 Ohio 812 (Ohio 2014). · cites it 2× “R.C. 2152.18(B).3 {¶ 35} Because the juvenile court committed H.”
In re J.A., 2018 Ohio 1609 (Ohio Ct. App. 2018). · cites it 6× “{¶ 35} Accordingly, in the case at bar, the probation violation alleged as a violation of a prior court order in case number 2016 JCR 01450 is sufficiently linked to the adjudication of the original charges that credit relates back to the complaint of delinquency in case number…”
In re D.P., 2016 Ohio 747 (Ohio Ct. App. 2016). · cites it 15× “In that motion, he argued that he should be credited under R.C. 2152.18(B) with an additional 353 days of confinement credit, consisting of 123 days spent at the West Central Juvenile Detention Center (“Detention Center”) and 230 days spent at the Rehabilitation Center.”
In re Thomas, 796 N.E.2d 908 (Ohio 2003). · cites it 2× “355(F)(6) (now R.C. 2152.18[B]) required a juvenile court to grant credit toward a delinquent child’s commitment to the Department of Youth Services for time served by the child in a rehabilitation or treatment facility only if the time was served awaiting the adjudication or…”
In Re J.D., 874 N.E.2d 858 (Ohio Ct. App. 2007). · cites it 2× “In support of its reasoning, the court noted that R.C. 2152.18(A) specifically prohibits the juvenile court from designating a specific facility after committing a child to DYS but that no parallel provision restricts the court concerning FCCS commitments.”
The State Ex Rel. T.L.M. v. Judges of the First Dist. Court of Appeals, 2016 Ohio 1601 (Ohio 2016). “moved the juvenile court to recalculate his confinement credit under R.C. 2152.18(B) to include an additional 374 days.”
In re A.S., 2019 Ohio 2558 (Ohio Ct. App. 2019). · cites it 7× “R.C. 2152.18(B) governs confinement credit for juveniles, and it states: When a juvenile court commits a delinquent child to the custody of the department of youth services pursuant to this chapter, the court shall state in the order of commitment the total number of days that…”
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— Ohio Rev. Code § 2152.18(A) — 1 case
In Re J.D., 874 N.E.2d 858 (Ohio Ct. App. 2007). “In support of its reasoning, the court noted that R.C. 2152.18(A) specifically prohibits the juvenile court from designating a specific facility after committing a child to DYS but that no parallel provision restricts the court concerning FCCS commitments.”
— Ohio Rev. Code § 2152.18(B) — 28 cases
In Re D.S., 2016 Ohio 7369 (Ohio 2016). “{¶ 1} In this appeal, we address whether R.C. 2152.18(B) requires a juvenile court to credit the days a juvenile has been held in confinement pending disposition of a delinquency charge against the term of confinement the court imposes on the juvenile for that charge at final…”
In re J.C.E., 2016 Ohio 7843 (Ohio Ct. App. 2016). “{¶11} Former R.C. 2152.18(B), regarding credit for time served for juveniles, provided in pertinent part: {¶12} When a juvenile court commits a delinquent child to the custody of the department of youth services, * * * the court shall state in the order of commitment the total…”
State ex rel. M.A. v. Reed, 2016 Ohio 3079 (Ohio Ct. App. 2016). “" {¶ 7} In ruling on the motion to dismiss, the magistrate observed that "nothing in R.C. 2152.18 nor elsewhere, makes any reference to whether or not the days of credit are used to reduce the term being served for a firearm specification.”
In re T.W., 2016 Ohio 3131 (Ohio Ct. App. 2016). “’s DYS commitment. {¶3} The state now appeals. In a single assignment of error it contends that T.”
In re D.P., 2014 Ohio 5414 (Ohio Ct. App. 2014). “argues that the juvenile court erred by failing to credit the 310 days he had spent at the Hillcrest School towards the balance of his commitment to DYS, in violation of R.C. 2152.18. {¶10} In 2012 the General Assembly amended R.”
— Ohio Rev. Code § 2152.18(D)(8) — 1 case
In re D.W., 2025 Ohio 1255 (Ohio Ct. App. 2025).
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