THEODORE R. McKELDIN, GOVERNOR                     225.

within the jurisdiction of said Court; to study and recommend to
the Judge and said County Council legislation relating to child)
welfare and the prevention and control of juvenile delinquency;
and to review the annual budget request prepared by the Judge
before its submission to the County Council for Montgomery County,

70J. (Employees of Court.) The Judge shall appoint, fix the
compensation of and remove, subject to budget limitations and
regulations of the County Personnel Board, a supervisor of social
work and such clerks, probation officers, stenographers, and other
personnel as may be necessary for the work of his office. The super-
visor of social work, under the supervision of the Judge, shall be
in charge of all the social work of the Court, shall, in association
with other social agencies of Montgomery County and the Mont-
gomery County Juvenile Court Committee, study the sources and
causes of delinquency and assist in developing and correlating com-
munity-wide plans for the prevention and treatment of delinquency,
shall direct and develop the investigation work of the Court, shall
be responsible for the direct supervision and administration of the
professional and clerical staffs of the Court, and shall make such
reports to the Judge as he may direct. The probation officers shall
be vested with the privileges and authority of constables and shall
perform such duties and be governed by such regulations as may
be prescribed by the Judge, including the duty of investigating com-
plaints made to the Court, and shall perform the general duties of
probation officers in relation to children under the supervision of;
the Court.

70K. (Custody of children pending action of Court.) (a) When-
ever any officer takes a child into custody, he shall unless it is im-
practicable or has been otherwise ordered by the Court, accept the
written promise of the parent, guardian, or custodian to bring the
child to the Court at the time fixed. Thereupon such child may be
released in the custody of such parent, guardian, or custodian. If
not so released, such child shall be placed in the custody of a proba-
tion officer or other person designated by the Court or taken immedi-
ately to the Court or to a place of detention designated by the Court,
and the officer taking him shall immediately notify the Court and
shall file a petition in such form as may be directed by the Court.

(b)  Any child whose custody has been assumed by the Court may
be released, pending the final disposition of the case, in the custody
of a parent, guardian, or custodian, or of a probation officer or other
person appointed by the Court, to be brought before the Court at the
time designated. If not so released, such child, pending the hearing
of the case, shall be detained in a place of detention designated by
the Court and subject to its further order, but no child shall be con-
fined in any police station, prison jail or lock-up unless in a room
or ward entirely separate from adults, or be transported or detained}
in association with criminals, vicious or dissolute persons.

(c)  Nothing in this section shall be construed as forbidding any
peace officer, police officer, or probation officer from immediately
taking into custody any child who is found violating any law or ordi-
nance, or who is reasonably believed to be a fugitive from his parents