§ 507-B — Placement and commitment; papers to be furnished

§ 507-b. Placement and commitment; papers to be furnished. 1. No\nplacement or commitment order to the division which recites the facts\nupon which it was based shall be deemed or held to be invalid by reason\nof any imperfection or defect in form.\n 2. The court shall immediately notify the division of the placement or\ncommitment of any youth therewith. The orders of the court and copies\nof the probation report and all other relevant evaluative records in the\npossession of the court, detention facility, and probation department\nrelated to such youth, including but not limited to any diagnostic,\neducational, medical, psychological and psychiatric records,\nfingerprints, photographs, a certified copy of the sentence and any\npre-sentence memoranda filed with the court, where applicable, and\nreports relating to assaults or other violent acts, attempts at suicide\nor escape by the youth shall be delivered together with the youth or\nearlier to a person authorized by the director to receive the child,\nnotwithstanding any contrary provision of law.\n 3. The court shall, before placing or committing any such youth,\ninquire into and determine the age of the youth at the time of placement\nor commitment, and the youth's age as so determined shall be stated in\nthe order. The statement of the age of such youth in such order shall\nbe conclusive evidence as to such age in any action to recover damages\nfor allegedly unlawful detention under such order, and shall be\npresumptive evidence thereof in any other inquiry, action or proceeding\nrelating to such detention.\n 4. Notwithstanding the time frames provided in paragraph (b) of\nsubdivision four of section five hundred seven-a of this article, the\ndivision may delay acceptance of a youth placed or committed to the\ndivision in accordance with division regulations promulgated prior to\nthe effective date of this subdivision.\n