CHAPTER 50.
SUPERVISION OF DEPENDENT CHILDREN
AN ACT to further amend Chapter 41 of the Revised Code of the State of Delaware and making provisions for the supervision of the Importation of dependent children, and to repeal Sections 194 to 197 inclusive of Chapter 71 of the Revised Code of the State of Delaware, entitled, "School Laws of the State of Delaware."
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware, in General Assembly met:
Section 1. That Chapter 41 of the Revised Code of the State of Delaware, as amended, be further amended by adding the following sections:
1005 D. Section 3 D. It shall be unlawful for any person, association or corporation to bring or send, or cause to be brought or sent into the State of Delaware, any dependent child for the purpose of placing such child in any home in this State, or for the purpose of procuring the placing of such child in any home by indenture, adoption, boarding or otherwise, without first obtaining the written consent of the State Board of Charities, and giving bond, as hereinafter provided.
1005 E. Section 3 E. Before any child shall be brought into this State for any of the purposes provided in 1005 D. Section 3 D. of this Article, the person, association, or corporation desiring to bring or send any such child into this State, or the individual desiring to receive a child or both as the State Board of Charities may require, shall execute a bond to the State of Delaware in the penal sum of Three Thousand Dollars to be approved by the State Board of Charities, and to be with surety, if the said State Board of Charities shall so require. The condition of said bond shall be substantially that such person, association or corporation shall not bring or send, or cause to be brought or sent, or receive, into this State any child that is incorrigible, that is of unsound mind or body, or is mentally subnormal; and that such person, association, corporation, or individual shall abide by all rules laid down by the State Board of Charities under 1005 G. Section 3 G. of this Act. If any such child shall become a public charge, or be convicted of any crime or misdemeanor before reaching the age of twenty-one years, such person, association or corporation responsible for such child, shall, within thirty days after written notice given by the State Board of Charities, remove such child from the State, and shall pay to the State, County or Municipality such sum as may have been expended in the care or prosecution of such child.
1005 F. Section 3 F. The State Board of Charities shall examine the proceedings of societies for securing homes for children, and whenever satisfied that a child has been placed by such society in an improper home, it may order its transfer to a proper one or its removal from the State ; and if said order is not obeyed within thirty days, it shall itself take charge of the child, returning it to the society responsible, or otherwise providing for it. Any society failing to remove a child after such notice shall at once pay to the State such sum as the State may have expended in the care, maintenance or transportation of such child.
1005 G. Section 3 G. Any person, association or corporation placing any child under the provision of this Act shall abide by all rules made by the State Board of Charities pertaining to the rejection, importation, placing, supervision, education, health, removal and general welfare of all such children.
1005 H. Section 3 H. That for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of the foregoing sections and of 1004, Section 2 of this Chapter, an additional sum of Two Thousand Dollars is appropriated annually from any moneys in the hands of the State Treasurer, not otherwise appropriated, which shall be paid out as provided in 1005, Section 3 of this Chapter.
1005 I. Section 3 I. That any person, association or corporation, or any officer, agent or employee thereof, who shall violate any of the provisions of the foregoing Sections, 1005 D. Section 3 D. to 1005 G. Section 3 G. inclusive, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than Fifty Dollars or more than One Hundred Dollars, and any such person, association or corporation, or officer, agent or employee thereof who shall continue to disregard any of the provisions of the said sections for a period of ten days after notification from the State Board of Charities shall be guilty of a new, separate and distinct offense and misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined for each such offense not less than One Hundred Dollars or more than One Thousand Dollars.
1005 J. Section 3 J. That Section 194 to 197 inclusive, of Chapter 71 of the Revised Code of the State of Delaware, entitled, "School Laws of the State of Delaware," and all other Acts inconsistent herewith be and the same are hereby repealed.
Approved April 19, A. D. 1921.