Sec. 262.008. ABANDONED CHILDREN. (a) An authorized representative of the Department of Family and Protective Services may assume the care, control, and custody of a child:
(1) who is abandoned without identification or a means for identifying the child; and
(2) whose identity cannot be ascertained by the exercise of reasonable diligence.
(b) The department shall immediately file a suit to terminate the parent-child relationship of a child under Subsection (a).
(c) Repealed by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1, Sec. 1.203(5), eff. April 2, 2015.
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 600, Sec. 4, eff. Jan. 1, 1998.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 1.153, eff. April 2, 2015.
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 1.203(5), eff. April 2, 2015.
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