OAR 416-260-0010: Purpose

(1) These rules describe how OYA establishes and maintains Youth Welfare Accounts and trust accounts for youth in its custody. (2) Definitions: (a) Care: Services provided to meet the needs of a youth in custody (i.e., food, shelter, clothing, medical care, schooling, protection, supervision). (b) Financial accounting: A detailed accounting of money spent by OYA for care of a youth in custody and the amount of trust money, by funding source, reimbursed to OYA for these items. (c) Maintenance account: A sub-section of a youth in custody’s trust account used to account for funds that may be used to pay for the youth in custody’s cost of care. (d) OYA: Oregon Youth Authority. (e) Special account: A sub-section of a youth in custody’s trust account used to account for funds received for a youth in custody for purposes other than paying for the youth in custody’s cost of care. (f) Termination of custody: Relinquishment of OYA custody as a result of a court order, the youth in custody’s age, or transfer to a supervising authority other than OYA. (g) Youth in custody: A person in the legal and physical custody of OYA either in an OYA close-custody facility or placed in the community under supervision, or a person in the legal custody of the Department of Corrections and the physical custody of OYA in an OYA close-custody facility. (h) Youth Welfare Account: A general account established by OYA dedicated to providing monies to benefit the close-custody youth in custody population and enhance youth in custody activities and programs.