Section 502. Definitions

Unless otherwise specified in this article:
    1. "Director" means the director of the division for youth.
    2. "Division" means the division for youth.
    3.  "Detention" means the temporary care and maintenance of youth held
  away from their homes pursuant to article three or seven of  the  family
  court  act,  or  held  pending  a  hearing  for alleged violation of the
  conditions of release from a division facility or authorized agency,  or
  held  pending a hearing for alleged violation of the condition of parole
  as a juvenile offender, or held pending return to a  jurisdiction  other
  than  the one in which the youth is held, or held pursuant to a securing
  order of a criminal court if the youth named  therein  as  principal  is
  charged as a juvenile offender or held pending a hearing on an extension
  of  placement  or held pending transfer to a facility upon commitment or
  placement by a court. Only alleged or convicted juvenile  offenders  who
  have  not  attained  their  eighteenth  birthday  shall  be  subject  to
  detention in a detention facility.
    4. For purposes of this article, the term "youth" shall be  synonymous
  with  the  term  "child" and means a person not less than seven years of
  age and not more than twenty years of age.
    5. "Placement" means the transfer of a youth to  the  custody  of  the
  division pursuant to the family court act.
    6.  "Commitment"  means  the transfer of a youth to the custody of the
  division pursuant to the penal law.
    7. "Conditional release" means the transfer of a youth  from  facility
  status  to  aftercare  supervision  under  the  continued custody of the
  division.
    8. "Discharge" means the termination of division custody of a youth.
    9. "Aftercare" means supervision of a  youth  on  conditional  release
  status under the continued custody of the division.