Warrant.

Contempt of court.

stance issue a warrant for the arrest of such minor or for any person named in such affidavit and charged therein with having abandoned, or charged therein with neglect of or being responsible for or having encouraged, aided or abetted the delinquency or dependency of such child. Any parent, guardian, or other person not cited may be subpoenaed to appear and testify at the hearing; and any one cited or subpoenaed to appear who fails to do so may be punished as in other cases in the common pleas court for contempt of court, and whenever any person charged with violating any provision of this act, shall have fled from justice in this state, the said judge shall have all the powers of a magistrate under section 95 of the Revised Statutes.

SECTION 9. The county commissioners shall provide a Special room. special room not used for the trial of criminal cases, when avoidable, for the hearing of juvenile cases.

Trial.

Jury trial.

SECTION IO. On the day named in the citation or upon the return of the warrant of arrest, or as soon thereafter as may be, the judge shall proceed, in a summary manner to hear and dispose of the case and the person cited to appear or arrested may be punished in the manner hereinafter in this act provided.

SECTION II. Any person charged with being responsible for or with causing, aiding, abetting or contributing to the delinquency, dependency or neglect of a child arrested or cited to appear before such court may, at any time before hearing, demand a trial by jury, or the judge upon his own motion may call a jury. The statutes relating to the drawing and impaneling of jurors in criminal cases in the court of common pleas (other than in capital cases) shall in all respects apply to such jury trial; provided, however, that when a jury trial shall be demanded, or when ordered by him, the judge shall issue a precipe to the clerk of the common pleas court, who shall thereupon proceed to draw from the jury wheel, as in other criminal cases, and issue the venire to the sheriff of the county for the persons whose names are so drawn, who shall serve and return the same as in other cases. The compensation of the jurors, and the costs of the clerk and sheriff shall be taxed and paid as in other criminal cases in the common pleas court. SECTION 12. In case of a delinquent child the judge continue the hearing from time to time, and may commay bation officer, mit the child to the care or custody of a probation officer, and may allow such child to remain at its own home, subject to the visitation of the probation officer; and subject to be returned to the judge for further or other proceedings whenever such action may appear to be necessary; or the judge may cause the child to be placed in a suitable family home, subject to the friendly supervision of a probation officer, and the further order of the judge, or it may authorize the child to be boarded in some suitable family home in case provision be made by voluntary contribution or otherwise for the payment of the board of such child, until suit

Costs.

Judge may commit child to care of pro

etc.

Boys' Indus

Girls'

Indus

able provision be made for the child in a home without such payment; or the judge may commit such child, if a boy to a training school for boys, or, if a girl, to an industrial school for girls, or the judge may commit the child to any institution within the county that may care for delinquent children, or be provided by a city or county suitable for the care of such children, or to the boys' industrial school at trial School. Lancaster, or where it appears upon the hearing that such delinquent child is sixteen years of age, or over, and has committed a felony, to the Ohio state reformatory at Mansfield; or to any state institution which may be established for the care of delinquent boys, or, if a girl over the age of nine years, to the girls' industrial home at Delaware, trial School. or to any state institution which may be established for the care of delinquent girls. In no case shall a child, committed to such institution under this act, be confined under such commitment after attaining the age of twenty-one years. A child committed to such institution shall be subject to the control of the board of trustees thereof, and such board shall have power to parole such child on such conditions as it may prescribe, and, on the recommendation of the board of trustees, the superintendent shall have power to discharge such child from custody; or the judge may commit the child to the care and custody of some association that will receive it, embracing in its objects the care of neglected or dependent children, and that has been duly accredited as hereinafter provided.

Parole.

judge.

SECTION 13. When any minor under the age of seventeen years shall be found to be dependent or neglected, within the meaning of this act, the judge may make an or- Order of the der committing such child to the care of some suitable state or county institution, or to the care of some reputable citizen of good moral character, or to the care of some training school or an industrial school, as provided by law, or to the care of some association willing to receive it, which association embraces within its objects the purposes of caring for or obtaining homes for dependent, neglected or delinquent children or any of them, and which association shall have been accredited as hereinafter provided. The judge may, when the health or condition of the child shall require it, cause the child to be placed in a public hospital or institution for treatment or special care, or in a private hospital or institution which will receive it for like purposes without charge.

SECTION 14. Whoever aids, abets, induces, causes, encourages or contributes toward the delinquency of a minor under the age of seventeen years, as defined in this act, shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not less than ten days nor more than one year, or both; and every day's such contribution to such delinquency shall be deemed a separate offense and the judge may, if in his judgment it be for the best interest of any delinquent minor under the age of seventeen years, impose a fine upon such delinquent of not exceeding

Aiding or abetting depenalty.

linquency,

Failure or neglect to support, pen

alty.

ten dollars, and the judge may order such person to stand committed until fine and costs are paid.

SECTION 15. Whoever is charged by law with the care, support, maintenance or education of any minor under the age of seventeen years, and being able to support or contribute toward the support or education of such minor, fails, neglects, or refuses so to do, or who abandons such minor shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than ten days nor more than one year, or both, and such neglect, non-support or abandonment shall be deemed to have been committed in the county in which such minor may be at the time of such neglect, non-support or abandonment; and every day's such failure, neglect or refusal shall constitute a separate offense, where deemed and the judge may order that such person stand committed until all such fines and costs are paid.

Offense,

committed.

SECTION 16. When a person is convicted and sentenced under this act for the abandonment of or for the neglect of or for failure to maintain or support a minor, to imprisonment in a workhouse, the county from which said prisoner is so sentenced shall, out of the general revenue fund, pay forty cents for each day said prisoner is so confined, to the chief probation officer of said county, to be by him expended, under the direction of the judge, for the maintenance of the dependent minors of such prisoner, of which expenditure such officer shall make monthly reports to such judge; and it shall be the duty of the county commissioners of any such county to make the allowances herein provided for, which shall be paid by the county treasurer out of the county treasury upon the warrant of the county auditor in favor of such probation officer.

SECTION 17. Pending final disposition of any case the judge may commit any person, except the minor under fourteen years of age, cited to appear or arrested, to the county jail until the case is disposed of, but such trial shall be commenced within four days of such commitment unless upon the request of the defendant. The judge may, pending final disposition, direct that the minor in question be left in the possession of the person having charge of such minor, or that he may be kept in some suitable place provided by the county or city authorities.

SECTION 18. If it appear upon the hearing that any person not cited to appear, has probably aided, induced, caused, encouraged, or contributed to the delinquency of a minor under the age of seventeen years, or that any person, charged by law, with the care, support, education and maintenance of any minor, has abandoned or has failed, or has refused, or has neglected, being able so to do, to support or sufficiently contribute toward the support, education and maintenance of such minor, the judge may order such person to be cited to appear at a subsequent day, or may issue a warrant to arrest such person as hereinbefore provided, and upon citation, warrant and hearing the same proceedings may be had as if the same were in the first instance.

SECTION 19. When any minor, under the age of seventeen years, is arrested, such child, instead of being taken before a justice of the peace or police judge, shall be taken directly before such juvenile judge; or, if the child is taken before a justice of the peace or judge of police court, it shall be the duty of such justice of the peace or such judge of the police court, to transfer the case to the judge exercising the jurisdiction provided for in this act, and the offi- nile judge. cers having such child in charge shall take the child before such judge, who shall proceed to hear and dispose of the case in the same manner as if the child had been brought before such judge in the first instance as herein provided.

SECTION 20. The warrants, citations, subpoenaes and other writs of such judge may issue to a probation officer of any such court or to the sheriff of any county, and the provisions of section 7287 of the Revised Statutes shall apply in so far as the same are applicable.

Transfer of case to juve

Writs, to

whom

paid.

issued.

SECTION 21. Whenever a warrant is issued to any such officer, the expense incurred in pursuing and bringing the Expense, how person named therein before such judge shall be paid by the county in the manner prescribed by section 19 of the act of March 22, 1906 (98 Ohio L., 89), entitled "An act to fix the salaries of probate judges, county auditors, county treasurers, county recorders, clerk of the court of common pleas, and sheriffs, and to provide for the employment and compensation of their clerks, deputies and assistants."

an

SECTION 22. The judge designated to exercise said jurisdiction may appoint one or more discreet persons of good moral character, one or more of whom may be women, to serve as probation officers, during the pleasure of the Probation officers, appointjudge. One of said officers shall be known as chief proba- ment of. tion officer and there may be first, second and third assistants; said chief probation officer and the first, second and third assistant shall receive such compensation as the judge Compensation. appointing them may designate at the time of the appointment, but the compensation of the chief probation officer shall not exceed twenty-five hundred dollars per num, and that of the first assistant shall not exceed twelve hundred dollars per annum, and of the second and third assistants shall not exceed one thousand dollars per annum, to each, payable monthly. Said judge may appoint other probation officers, with or without compensation, but the entire compensation of all probation officers in any county shall not exceed the sum of forty dollars for each full thousand inhabitants of said county at the last in any county. federal census, but in no case shall the entire compensation of all probation officers in any county exceed the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars. The compensation of the probation officers shall be paid by the county treasurer out of the county treasury upon the warrant of the county auditor, which shall be issued upon itemized vouchers sworn to by said probation officers and certified to by the judge of the juvenile court.

Maximum compensation

SECTION 23. When any complaint is made or filed Duties of pro- against any minor, under this act, it shall be the duty of the

bation offi

cers.

Powers.

Prosecuting attorney, duty. of.

Bail.

probation officer to proceed to inquire into and make full examination and investigation into the facts and circumstances surrounding the alleged delinquency, neglect, or dependency; the parentage and surroundings of said minor, his exact age, habits, school record, and every fact that will tend to throw light upon his life and character; to be present in court to represent the interests of the child when the case is heard; to furnish to the judge such information and assistance as he may require, and to take charge of any child before and after the trial as the judge may direct; to serve the warrants and other process of the court within or without the county, and in that respect they are hereby clothed with the powers and authority of sheriffs; make arrests without warrant upon reasonable information or upon view of the violation of any of the provisions of this act and detain the person so arrested pending the issuance of a warrant, and perform such other duties, incident to their offices, as the judge may direct; and all sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, constables, marshals and police officers are required to render assistance to probation officers, in the performance of their duties, when requested so to do.

SECTION 24. It shall be the duty of the prosecuting attorney of the county, on request of the judge exercising the jurisdiction provided for in this act, to prosecute all persons charged with violating any of the provisions of this

act.

SECTION 25. The provisions of the Revised Statutes relating to bail in criminal cases in the common pleas court shall apply to persons committed or held under the provisions of this act in so far as the same may be applicable.

SECTION 26. In every case of conviction under this act and where imprisonment is imposed as part of the punSuspension of ishment, the judge may suspend such sentence upon such terms as he may impose.

sentence.

forfeited.

SECTION 27. Whenever, as one of the conditions of such suspension of sentence, bond is required and given, upon the failure of any such person giving such bond to comply with the terms and conditions thereof imposed by the judge, Bond declared such bond may be declared forfeited and the said suspension terminated by the judge, and the original sentence executed as though it had never been suspended, and the term of any jail or workhouse sentence imposed in such case shall commence from the date of imprisonment of any such person after such forfeiture and termination of suspension. There shall, however, be deducted from any such period of imprisonment any part of such sentence which may theretofore have been served.

Error proceedings.

SECTION 28. The provisions of law relating to error proceedings from the court of common pleas, including the allowance and signing of bills of exceptions shall apply to prosecutions of persons over seventeen years of age under