L. R., a juvenile, entered an admission to acts which, if committed by an adult, would constitute the crime of aggravated assault, and further admitted to possession of a weapon by an underage person. Following a dispositional hearing, the juvenile court adjudicated L. R. to be a designated felon and entered a restrictive custody commitment order requiring that he be confined in a youth development center for a statutorily authorized period of time, but expressly declined to give him credit for the time he served in pre-disposition detention. On appeal, L. R. argues that his sentence is unlawful because the governing statute requires that the juvenile court give him credit for time served. For the reasons noted infra, we vacate the trial court’s order and remand for resentencing.
The undisputed facts show that the State filed a delinquency petition alleging that L. R. committed criminal attempt to commit murder, aggravated assault, possession of a weapon by an underage person, and participation in a criminal street gang. The allegations *375arose out of an incident in which L. R. engaged in a fight with the victim and subsequently shot him, inflicting a nonlethal wound.
At the time of the dispositional hearing on July 15, 2011, L. R. had been detained since December 3, 2010 — a total of 225 days1 — as his case was being transferred between the juvenile and superior courts.2 The juvenile court accepted L. R.’s admission to acts which, if committed by an adult, would constitute aggravated assault and to possession of a weapon by an underage person.3 The court also adjudicated L. R. to be a designated felon.4 The juvenile court then recognized that L. R. had “been incarcerated for quite a while,” but nonetheless ordered that L. R. be committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice for roughly 45 months, with no less than 24 months to be served in a youth development center, and expressly stated in its order that L. R. would receive “no credit for time served.”
L. R. does not challenge the juvenile court’s findings of fact nor does he assert that the court’s imposition of restrictive custody fell outside of the statutorily authorized range of confinement. Rather, in his sole enumeration of error, L. R. contends that the juvenile court’s failure to give him credit for time served renders the restrictive custody order unlawful pursuant to OCGA § 15-11-63 (e) (1) (B), which provides, in pertinent part, that when a court orders
restrictive custody in the case of a child found to have committed a designated felony act . . . [t]he order shall provide that . . . [t]he child shall initially be confined in a youth development center for a period set by the order, to be not less than 12 nor more than 60 months; provided, however, that time spent in secure detention prior to placement in a youth development center shall be counted toward the period set by the order . . . .5
Given the foregoing statutory language, we are constrained to agree with L. R. that the juvenile court’s commitment order on its face violates the plain language of OCGA § 15-11-63 (e) (1) (B) to the *376extent that the statute mandates that a juvenile’s pre-disposition detainment must be credited to the time set for confinement.6 We note, however, that to the extent the juvenile court intended that L. R. serve 24 months in restrictive custody above and beyond the pre-disposition detainment time served, the extended period of confinement would still fall within the statutorily authorized range.7 We nonetheless must vacate the trial court’s dispositional order of commitment as written and remand this case to the trial court for resentencing in accordance with this opinion.8
Decided June 25, 2012.
Stephen M. Reba, L. Elizabeth Lane, for appellant.
Gregory W. Winters, District Attorney, Ashley A. Cooper, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.
Judgment vacated and case remanded.
Ellington, C. J., and Phipps, P. J., concur.