The court exercising criminal jurisdiction shall transfer to the juvenile court a child who is charged with an offense other than which four charges?

• A. Perjury
• B. Traffic offenses
• C. City ordinances
• D. Perjury, Traffic offenses, Misdemeanors punishable by fine only, and city ordinances

Answer: (D)

In this rule, transfer to the juvenile court applies when a charged offense is serious enough to not fit the usual juvenile-handling path, but there are four specific exemptions that stay with the criminal system. The four exemptions are perjury, traffic offenses, misdemeanors punishable by a fine only, and city ordinances. Because these offenses are considered outside the scope of transfer to juvenile court, a case involving any of them is not transferred. Any offense other than these four is eligible for transfer to the juvenile court for potential juvenile jurisdiction. So the correct understanding is that the four listed exemptions—perjury, traffic offenses, misdemeanors punishable by a fine only, and city ordinances—cannot be transferred, while offenses not in these categories can be.