(a) For the detention, treatment, rehabilitation and education of children found to be delinquent, there shall be youth development centers. Such centers shall be under the supervision and control of the commissioner of children's services.(b) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed so as to restrict or prohibit coeducational programs in any youth center for delinquent children.(c) The youth development center located in Fayette County is hereby renamed 'The John S. Wilder Youth Development Center.'(d) The educational facility located on the campus of the John S. Wilder Youth Development Center is named 'The Barbara Ward Cooper Education Center.'Amended by 2023 Tenn. Acts, ch. 98, s 1, eff. 3/31/2023.Acts 1955, ch. 127, § 1; modified; 1974, ch. 595, § 1; 1975, ch. 160, § 1; T.C.A., § 41-827; Acts 1989; ch. 278, § 57; T.C.A., § 41-5-105; Acts 1996, ch. 1079, § 137.
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