37-10-202 - Initial missing child report Statement of identification information.

37-10-202. Initial missing child report Statement of identification information.

Whenever the parent knows, learns or believes that a child under the parent's charge and care is missing, such parent shall report the child to a police or sheriff's office, Tennessee bureau of investigation or any law enforcement officer and make a statement to the agency of all available facts that will aid in the recognition, identification or location and recovery of the child.

[Acts 1985, ch. 158, § 2.]