1. A child may be taken into custody:
a. By order of the court.
b. For a delinquent act pursuant to the laws relating to arrest.
c. By a peace officer for the purpose of reuniting a child with the child's family or removing the child to a shelter care facility when the peace officer has reasonable grounds to believe the child has run away from the child's parents, guardian, or custodian.
d. By a peace officer, juvenile court officer, or juvenile parole officer when the officer has reasonable grounds to believe the child has committed a material violation of a dispositional order.
2. When a child is taken into custody as provided in subsection 1 the person taking the child into custody shall notify the child's parent, guardian or custodian as soon as possible and shall not place bodily restraints, such as handcuffs, on the child unless the child physically resists or threatens physical violence when being taken into custody. However, if the child is thirteen years of age or older, the child may be restrained by metal handcuffs only, for the purpose of transportation in a vehicle which is not equipped with a rear seat cage for prisoner transport and if the child is being taken into custody for an alleged delinquent act of violence against a person. The child may also be restrained by handcuffs or other restraints at any time after the child is taken into custody if the child has a known history of physical violence to others. Unless the child is placed in shelter care or detention in accordance with the provisions of section 232.21 or 232.22, the child shall be released to the child's parent, guardian, custodian, responsible adult relative, or other adult approved by the court upon the promise of such person to produce the child in court at such time as the court may direct.
3. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a child shall not be placed in detention as a result of a violation by that child of section 123.47.
[SS15, § 254-a16; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 3630; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, § 232.14; C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, § 232.15, 232.16; C79, 81, § 232.19]
83 Acts, ch 186, § 10055, 10201; 90 Acts, ch 1251, § 25; 94 Acts, ch 1172, §13
Referred to in § 123.46, 232.20, 232.21, 232.149, 321J.1
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