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2025 Delaware Code
Title 31 - Welfare
Chapter 3. CHILD WELFARE
Subchapter V. Private Child Welfare Agencies
§ 362. The Elizabeth W. Murphey School, Inc.; admission.
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§ 362. The Elizabeth W. Murphey School, Inc.; admission.
Either parent or, if there are no parents, the guardian or, if there is also no guardian, any relative or the Division of Family Services may place any poor and dependent child, resident in Kent County, between the ages of 2 and 10 years, in and under the charge and control of The Elizabeth W. Murphey School, Inc., and may surrender and deliver the child to The Elizabeth W. Murphey School, Inc., provided that the School is willing to receive the child. When the child is surrendered, delivered to and accepted by the School, the child is subject to all the rules, regulations, and discipline thereof as the same may have been or may hereafter be established by the directors of the School.
34 Del. Laws, c. 156, § 1; 37 Del. Laws, c. 85; Code 1935, § 2598; 31 Del. C. 1953, § 362; 58 Del. Laws, c. 64, § 1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1; 84 Del. Laws, c. 256, § 4;
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