This article shall be known and may be cited as the "Children and Youth Act."
(Ga. L. 1963, p. 81, § 1; Ga. L. 2013, p. 141, § 49/HB 79.)
The 2013 amendment, effective April 24, 2013, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted "This article shall be known and may be cited as" for "The short title of this article shall be" at the beginning of this Code section.
Cross references.- Probation officers, Uniform Rules for the Juvenile Courts of Georgia, Rule 2.4.
Administrative Rules and Regulations.- Recovery and administration of child support, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Department of Human Resources, Office of Child Support Recovery, Chapter 290-7-1.
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Custody and control exclusively in department.
- Ga. L. 1963, p. 81 et seq. and Ga. L. 1971, p. 709 et seq. (see O.C.G.A. Ch. 11, T. 15 and Ch. 5, T. 49) when construed in pari materia, evidence a legislative intent that, once the juvenile court judge in the exercise of judicial discretion commits a juvenile to the Division for Children and Youth (now Department of Children and Youth Services) custody and control of the juvenile is thereby and thereafter exclusively in the division (now department). In re R.D., 141 Ga. App. 843, 234 S.E.2d 680 (1977); In re R.L.M., 171 Ga. App. 940, 321 S.E.2d 435 (1984).
Cited in Brown v. Holloway, 112 Ga. App. 539, 145 S.E.2d 600 (1965); Carrindine v. Ricketts, 236 Ga. 283, 223 S.E.2d 627 (1976); In re A.S., 140 Ga. App. 865, 232 S.E.2d 145 (1977); Ellis v. State, 289 Ga. App. 452, 657 S.E.2d 562 (2008).