Jurisdiction over intellectually disabled children
§ 231. Jurisdiction over intellectually disabled children. If it shall appear to the court that any child within its jurisdiction is intellectually disabled, the court may cause such child to be examined as provided in the mental hygiene law and if found to be intellectually disabled as therein defined, may commit such child in accordance with the provisions of such law.
If a child in the court's jurisdiction appears intellectually disabled, the court may order an exam under the Mental Hygiene Law and, if so found, commit the child per that law.
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 5 — The JG-22 Family Court Act and in Volume 1 — The JG-22 in Plain English.