49-10-902 - Schools for deaf children West Tennessee and Davidson County.
49-10-902. Schools for deaf children West Tennessee and Davidson County.
(a) (1) The state, acting through the state board of education and the commissioner of education, shall establish, maintain and operate a school in Madison County for the hearing impaired children of west Tennessee.
(2) The West Tennessee School for the Deaf shall be located at either Arlington in Shelby County on a portion of that property now owned by the state and used by the school for the mentally retarded or at such other site in Shelby County made available to the state board of education by the Shelby County legislative body and that is mutually agreeable.
(b) There shall also be a branch school for the deaf located in Davidson County in connection with the Tennessee School for the Blind.
[Acts 1972, ch. 716, §§ 1, 2; T.C.A., § 49-3102.]