(a) A judge committing a child under eighteen (18) years of age to the department shall make out and sign a commitment on a form provided by the department and certified to by the clerk under the seal of the court.(b) Such commitment form, together with information of a social nature, shall be forwarded with the child.Acts 1955, ch. 127, § 9; impl. am. Acts 1955, ch. 102, § 1; T.C.A., § 41-835; Acts 1989, ch. 278, § 65; T.C.A., § 41-5-113; Acts 1996, ch. 1079, § 137.
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