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SECTION 1. That whenever a male child between the ages of 12 and 18 within the jurisdiction of the Juvenile Court has been declared delinquent by a Juvenile Court of Memphis or Shelby County, Tennessee, and committed to the State Department of Correction and after such child has been processed by the Tennessee State Department of Correction, and it has been determined by said Department of Correction that the proper place of confinement for said child is TALL TREES, Youth Guidance School, in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, said Department of Correction is hereby authorized to transfer said child to said TALL TREES, Youth Guidance School, for continued rehabilitation.
SECTION 2. That no such child found by the Department of Correction to be psychotic, mentally retarded, sexually deviant, epileptic, or to have a social disease, or physically disabled to the extent that he would not adjust to the normal routine of said TALL TREES may be transferred to the TALL TREES facility.
SECTION 3. That the discharge of any such child transferred to the TALL TREES facility as provided herein, when such child has been committed for an indefinite period of time, shall be accomplished by the recommendation for the discharge of such child by the State Department of Corrections who would then make a formal recommendation to the committing court that the child's adjustment is satisfactory and such child should be discharged.
SECTION 4. That when any such child is transferred by the State Department of Correction to the TALL TREES facility as herein provided, the State of Tennessee, either from the budgetary funds of the said Department of Correction or from a miscellaneous appropriation of the General Assembly, shall pay to the TALL TREES facility a per diem allowance for each such child so transferred for the period of time each such child is confined to said TALL TREES facility, said per diem allowance to be determined by agreement between said Department of Correction and said TALL TREES facility.
SECTION 5. That this Act shall take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it.
Passed: March 18, 1965.