People v. F. E.

Appellant, a juvenile, appeals from an order denying his motion, made under section 567 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, for a rehearing of an adverse decision by a traffic referee of the juvenile court. We affirm the order.

I

We consider, first, a procedural issue. Appellant’s motion for a rehearing was not made until 13 days after the referee’s order. Section 800 of the Welfare and Institutions Code provides in pertinent part as follows: “A judgment or decree of a juvenile court or final order of a referee which becomes effective without approval of a judge of the *224 juvenile court assuming jurisdiction and declaring any person to be a person described in Section 600, 601, or 602, or on denying a motion made pursuant to Section 567, may be appealed from in the same manner as any final judgment, and any subsequent order may be appealed from as from an order after judgment.”

Section 567 of that code provides: “Upon motion of the minor or his parent or guardian for good cause, or upon his own motion, a judge of the juvenile court may set aside or modify any order of a traffic hearing officer, or may order or himself conduct a rehearing. If the minor or parent or…