2025 Delaware Code
Title 31 - Welfare
Chapter 3. CHILD WELFARE
Subchapter VI. Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children [Effective upon enactment by 35 states and upon promulgation of rules by the Interstate Commission]
§ 384. “Appropriate authority”; Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families [Effective until enactment of the new Compact by 35 states and upon promulgation of rules by the Interstate Commission].

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31 DE Code § 384 (2025)
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§ 384. “Appropriate authority”; Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families [Effective until enactment of the new Compact by 35 states and upon promulgation of rules by the Interstate Commission].

As used in paragraph (a) of Article V of this Compact, the phrase “appropriate authority in the receiving state” shall, with reference to this State, mean the Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families.

31 Del. C. 1953, § 384;  57 Del. Laws, c. 501;  64 Del. Laws, c. 108, § 6; 
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