Sec. 262.008. ABANDONED CHILDREN

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(a) An authorized representative of the Department of Protective and Regulatory 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) A child for whom possession is assumed under this section need not be delivered to the court except on the order of the court.

Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 600, Sec. 4, eff. Jan. 1, 1998.

                    
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