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control and general management of the State Department of Juvenile
Services. Subject to the provisions of Section 5(c) of this Article,
the Department by rules and regulations shall establish standards of
care, policies of admission, transfer, discharge, and after-care super-
vision and from time to time it shall order such changes in the
policies, conduct, or management of the institutions and agencies as
seems desirable in order to provide adequate care for the children
and adequate services to the courts. The Department shall develop
special programs within each training school which are geared to
the particular needs of its population.

(b) The Thomas J. S. Waxter Children's Center, and the Maryland
Children's Center, subject to the rules and regulations adopted and
promulgated by the State Department of Juvenile Services, shall
accept from police and court officers the temporary custody of chil-
dren then being held on a charge which is or could be adjudged as
delinquency. For the period during which children are in the custody
of the Thomas J. S. Waxter Children's Center and the Maryland
Children's Center, they , IT shall provide for them a residential pro-
gram of care and study. Unless a formal petition covering the charge
against the child has been filed in the proper circuit court or juvenile
court and detention ordered thereunder, the Thomas J. S. Waxter

Children's Center and the Maryland Children's Center may not in

any event, on any one charge or set of charges, detain or hold a
child in custody for longer than 24 hours (excluding Saturdays,
Sundays and holidays from the computation for this restriction).
Once such a petition is filed, the Thomas J. S. Waxter Children's
Center, and the Maryland Children's Center, if ordered and author-
ized by the court, shall continue to detain and hold the child in
custody for a continued residential program of care and study; but
the Thomas J. S. Waxter Children's Center and the Maryland Chil-
dren's Center may not in any event, on any one charge or set of
charges, detain or hold a child in custody for a period of time greater
than thirty days (excluding from the computation for this restric-
tion the twenty-four hour period prior to the filing of a petition in
court and the order of the court for continued detention and
custody).

13.

The Director with the consent of the Advisory Board, may estab-
lish advisory boards to the several institutions and agencies or
groups of institutions and agencies at their discretion to be com-
posed of such individuals as may be helpful in matters pertaining to
the effective operation and improvement of the institutions.

Employees
14.

Employees of the Department who perform probation or other
court services are under the immediate direction, supervision, and
control of the judges of the respective juvenile courts. The judges
shall select their personnel for juvenile investigation, probation and
after-care service and ancillary clerical staff from lists of qualified
candidates supplied to the judges by the Department acting in coop-
eration and conjunction with the Commissioner of Personnel and the
Standard Salary Board. Notwithstanding the provisions of this sec-