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06FlCE OF THE A’ITORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS 

AUSTIN 

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Honorable char. Y. Castnac,~chlof 

Rleemos~ Dlrfrion 

state Board of Control 

Aurtln, Texas 

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ed la the lest pet 

2338, R. and 

In Opinion Ro. O-2746,tbia department held that the 

Board of Control ham aumaary authopltp to effaat a transfer of 

inmates from the jumenile training aohools to other proper eleemorynary institutions when sucrh inmates are iouad to be feeble 

minded, epileptla of insane. The oonoluslon vns predloated upon 

the provlslon of Seotlon 4 of Arttiole 5143a, Vernon’s Annotated 

(llrll Statutes, OOnt8ined in the folloving rentenw of th@ rtatute I 
Eonorable Char. W. Caatnor, ?qe 2 

838 

a* 6 6. lrQper8on&allbe 0Qtmlttod 

to olther l ohool who 18 feeble minded, eplleptla 

ati ln8an0, but ii 80 ooamlttd the State Board 

of Cantcol 8hall ham the euthorLtJ to imedietoly tr a n~f~rthe *tlJ proper l lwmo 8y M rinmtltu- y 

tion. . 

. 

The provl~ion va8 held aonatltutlonal upon the thaorp 

that, a ahlld having onoe bun judlalally deetired a 'delinquent 

ohlld' by due prooe88 of lav, it become8 a ward ot the State and 

the State'arswr the porltlon of mn8 patriae. In ouch a 

oapaolty a8 la pointed out ln our i.nlan lo. O-2746, the State 

may plaoe a minor oommitted to a ntats juvdnlle training 8ohool 

in the proper eleemoryna~ ln8tltutlon in hi8 ovn intersrt,ln 

order that ruoh minor map reaelve better treatPent,snd aarei 

R0Y.rthe1.88, the ohlld under rueh oLmlm8tanaer f.8 

the uard Of the stat., and the atate oaellpie8 the po8ltloa of 

paren pataloe sole17 becaure of the adjudleazion o? the trlal~ 

court that ah ohlld 18 a 'd~l.inqueskt ohlld and found to be 

such under & provl8lonm of Title 16 OS th@'Code of' Crbninal 

Proaedure, titloles 1083 to 1093, lnolu8i~0, and Title 43 Artic188 2329 to 2338, laolurloe, Revlred Civil Bt8tuter o? Texerr. 

And the latter pert of Artlale 2338 a&err 8 oontlnuous jurlcldiotlon over the person of the juvealle thur oomm.ltteiiI upon the 

trial oourt, regardlsra of vharo ruoh child say be, if there by 

virtue at 8uch oonraltmerit. Bze l pplloable language of suah ATtitle read8 a8 followrt 

*a l #* The o r der or the o o ur t c o lmlttlng 

much ohild ta the aare and cwtodj of 8ny psrson 

8hall pre8ariM the length aftlae and the oonditlona of awh aommltmmnt. Suah order 8hal.l 

Under thm Qlr~hanC6~, it 18 our oplnlon that the 

above quoted langusge vould aontrol, derplte the Provir~on8 of 

Aptlole 3236, Revieed Civil Statuter of Texan. Such artiole~ 18 

here quotedt 
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Bonorable Cham. ti. Ca5tner, Page 3 

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"All per8ons oomltted or admitted to 

said institution (Austin State School) shall 

remain in it6 cuatoag a3 perwnent uards al 

z:hetate until released by the management 

. The muporint~ndent and Board may 

in their discretion and subject to rovocatlon at any time, parole any such person In 

the auatody of parent or guardian for an 

indefinite pcrlod. lbtloe 31 all pmolss 

of longer duration thsn thirty darn shall 

be sent by the superintendent on the date 

of the parole to the coamltt OoUPt." 

(Parenthetical inaartion oum. 

It is apparent that thin statute would apply to all 

patients aommltted to the Austin State School am auah, in aooordaace vlth the procedure outlined in Tltle 59, Artlelea 3867- 

3871, Revised Civil StOtUtbS. We do not ngwe that it applies 

to a dsllnquent ohlld transferred to the Austin Stste Sohool by 

the Board of Control from either the Oatesvllle State Sahool for 

Boya or the Oelnesvllle 3tate School for Olrla. 

We therefore r%e~ectfully advieo that In our opinion 

your question should be anaverod in th6 efflrmatlve. 

Yours very truly 

ATTi)RNdY GIWZRAL 

ASSiStNit 

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