All such asylums or houses at the option of its board may receive or take charge of any destitute orphan or indigent child of either sex, or children of indigent parents, under eighteen (18) years of age, from any part of the state.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 71-3-603
Admission of children
Acts 1885, ch. 92, § 3; Shan., § 4345; mod
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