§ 262.008. ABANDONED CHILDREN.
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(a) An authorized representative of the Department of Family and Protective Services may assume the care, control, and custody of a child:
(1) who is abandoned without identification or a means for identifying the child; and
(2) whose identity cannot be ascertained by the exercise of reasonable diligence.
(b) The department shall immediately file a suit to terminate the parent-child relationship of a child under Subsection (a).
(c) Repealed by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1, Sec. 1.203(5), eff. April 2, 2015.
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