§ 74-9. Assignment to status of youthful trainee; exceptions.

(a)

If an individual pleads guilty to a criminal offense, committed on or after the individual's seventeenth birthday but before his or her 21st birthday, the court of record having jurisdiction of the criminal offense may, without entering a judgment of conviction and with the consent of that individual, consider and assign that individual to the status of youthful trainee. This section of youthful trainee statutes does not apply to traffic offenses pursuant to the Michigan Motor Vehicle Code, the Uniform Traffic Code, or like local ordinance.

(b)

The court shall not assign an individual to the status of youthful trainee if any of the following apply:

(1)

The individual was previously convicted of or adjudicated for a listed offense for which registration is required under the sex offenders registration act, 1994 PA 295, MCL 28.721 to 28.732.

(2)

The individual has previously received the youthful trainee status in a prior case, whether under this section or any similar provision under the laws of this state or another local unit of government.

(Ord. No. 1957, 4-7-08)

Editor's note

Ord. No. 1957, adopted April 7, 2008, enacted provisions intended for use as subsections (1) and (2). To preserve the style of this Code, and at the discretion of the editor, said provisions have been redesignated as subsections (a) and (b).