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1983 Arizona Attorney General Reports and Opinions 1 (1983)

handle is hein.sag/sagaz0006 and id is 1 raw text is: STATE CAPITOL 3Eubert 3. (!~orbin January 4, 1983 INI'ERAGENCY Mr. Harold Carden, Acting Director Department of Corrections 321 West Indian School Phoenix, Arizona 85013 Re: 183-001 (R82-133) Dear Mr. MacDougall: This letter is in response to your predecessor's July 27, 1982 request for our opinion whether the Department of Corrections has authority to require juveniles to pay restitution to the victims of their delinquent acts. We conclude that only the juvenile court has such authority. A.R.S. § 8-202.A provides as follows: The juvenile court has exclusive original jurisdiction over all proceedings brought under the authority of this chapter. A.R.S. § 8-201.14 provides that: Juvenile court means the juvenile division of the superior court when exercising its jurisdiction over children in any proceeding relating to delinquency, dependency or incorrigibility. The.juvenile court may exercise jurisdiction over a child in many different circumstances. However, the power of the juvenile court to make a particular disposition of a delinquent child is limited to the powers expressly granted to it by the legislature. Matter of appeal in Maricopa County, Juvenile Action No. J-85871, 120 Ariz. 154, 584 P.2d 618 (Ct.App. 1978). The juvenile court is expressly authorized to require a child that it has adjudicated delinquent pursuant to A.R.S. §§ 8-231 and 8-231.02 to pay restitution to the victim of his delinquent act: