Pennsylvania Code
Title 37 - LAW
Part III - Agencies and Offices
Subpart N - Juvenile Court Judges' Commission
Chapter 200 - JUVENILE COURT JUDGES' COMMISSION
Subchapter A - STANDARDS GOVERNING THE USE OF SECURE DETENTION UNDER THE JUVENILE ACT
Section 200.4 - Detention required because the juvenile may abscond or be removed from the jurisdiction of the court

(1) The juvenile is an absconder from an institution or other placement to which the juvenile was committed as a result of a previous adjudication of delinquency.

(2) The juvenile has willfully failed to appear at the hearing on the petition or other hearing after having been served with a court order or summons to appear.

(3) The juvenile has a recent demonstrable record of willful failure to appear at previous juvenile proceedings.

(4) The juvenile has been verified to be a fugitive from another jurisdiction, an official from which has requested that the juvenile be detained.

(5) The juvenile absconded from secure detention, shelter care, in-home detention, house arrest or other nonsecure placement, or while subject to electronic monitoring, ordered or authorized pending a court hearing or placement.

(6) The juvenile presents extraordinary circumstances requiring secure detention to prevent the juvenile from absconding. The circumstances may include, but are not limited to, the juvenile's age, character, mental condition, ties to the community, the nature of the juvenile's family relationships, drug or alcohol addiction or substance abuse.