Duties of private person before and after taking into custody
§ 723. Duties of private person before and after taking into custody. (a) Before taking into custody, a private person must inform the person to be taken into custody of the cause thereof and require him to submit.
(b) After taking into custody, a private person must take the person, without unnecessary delay, to his home, to a family court judge or deliver him to a peace officer, who is acting pursuant to his special duties, or a police officer.
Before: a private person must tell the child the reason and require them to submit. After: take the child without unnecessary delay home, to a Family Court judge, or hand off to a peace/police officer.
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.