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the approval of the county superintendent, at least one attendance officer,
male or female, who shall give his or her entire time to the duties of the
office; and such additional attendance officers may be appointed as the
county board of education may deem necessary.

This section referred to—see notes to secs. 11, 42 and 72. School Commissioners v.
Morris, 123 Md. 401.

An. Code, sec. 157. 1904, sec. 155. 1902, ch. 269, sec. 128. 1912, ch. 173, sec. 128.

1922, ch. 474, sec. 157.

225. It shall be the duty of each attendance officer, and said officer
shall have full power, within the city or county for which he or she may
be appointed, to arrest without warrant any child between seven and
sixteen years of age found away from his home, and who is a truant from
school, or who fails to attend school in accordance with the provisions of
this sub-title. The said officer shall forthwith deliver a child so arrested
either to the custody of a person in parental relation to the child or to the
teacher from whose school such a child is then a truant; but if a child be
a habitual or incorrigible truant he shall bring him before the Magistrate
for juvenile causes, or in a county where such Court does not exist, before
a justice of the peace having jurisdiction, who may commit him to a
parental school, as provided for in the next section or to some other suit-
able institution for children located in the State of Maryland; where no
persons convicted of any crime of any offense other than truancy shall or
may be confined; provided, however, that such justice may in his discre-
tion parole such child instead of committing him as aforesaid. The at-
tendance officer shall promptly report every such arrest to the school com-
missioners of the said city or county, respectively, or to such person or
persons as they may direct.

An. Code, sec. 158. 1904, sec. 156. 1902, ch. 269, sec. 129. 1908, ch. 241.
1912, ch. 173, sec. 129. 1922, ch. 474, sec. 158.

226. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and the several boards
of school commissioners for the counties may establish schools to be
known as parental schools for children between seven and sixteen years
of age, who are habitual. truants from school or from instruction; the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore may in its discretion establish such
school or schools either in Baltimore City or in one or more counties of
the State. Two or more boards of school commissioners of adjoining coun-
ties may in their discretion jointly establish a parental school or schools
for the joint use of the said counties, and said school or schools may be
established in any one of the said counties so jointly acting. The Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore and the several boards of school commis-
sioners for the counties may also provide for the confinement, maintenance
and instruction of such habitually truant children in the schools respec-
tively established by them as aforesaid, for such period and under such
rules and regulations as they may have respectively prescribed. The mag-
istrate for juvenile causes or justice of the peace having jurisdiction may
commit such habitually truant children to any of the parental schools for
the city or county in which such children may reside, but no person con-