37-5-402 - Placement of imported child.

37-5-402. Placement of imported child.

(a)  The person, agency or corporation with whom a child is placed for either of the purposes set out in § 37-5-401 shall be responsible for its proper care and training.

(b)  The department of human services, through its agents, shall permit the placing of such child only with a licensed child-caring or child-placing agency or maternity home or in a family home that has been studied and approved by the department's own agent.

[Acts 1951, ch. 116, § 1 (Williams, § 4737.1); impl. am. Acts 1975, ch. 219, § 1 (a, b); T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 14-1506, 14-9-202; T.C.A., § 71-3-402; Acts 1996, ch. 1079, § 157.]