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(b) The Thomas J. S. Waxter Children's Center, subject to the
rules and regulations adopted and promulgated by the State Depart-
ment of Juvenile Services, shall accept from police and [court]
intake officers the temporary custody of children then being held
on a charge which is or could be adjudged as delinquency or need
of supervision. For the period during which children are in the
custody of the Thomas J. S. Waxter Children's Center, it shall pro-
vide for them a residential program 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 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, if ordered and authorized by the court, shall continue to
detain and hold the child in custody for a continued residential pro-
gram of care and study; but the Thomas J. S. Waxter Children'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 restriction 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.)

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 co-
operation and conjunction with the Commissioner of Personnel and
the Standard Salary Board or its successor. Notwithstanding the pro-
visions of this section, if a satisfactory list cannot be furnished to
the judge within a period of sixty (60) days from the date of his
request, he may appoint personnel to perform the duties on a tem-
porary basis; the temporary person shall be in the employ of the
Department of Juvenile Services. The promotion of employees of the
Department who perform probation or other court services, and all
other personnel actions affecting such employees, shall be the sole
responsibility of the Department.

[17A.

In fiscal 1966-67 and thereafter, teachers employed at institu-
tions under the direction of the Department of Juvenile Services by
the hiring agency shall be given a contract which is substantially
the same as the "teacher's contract" or "teacher's contract—pro-
visional" for public school teachers as specified in bylaws 621:2 and
621:3, as adopted by the Maryland State Board of Education. The
Department of Juvenile Services may suspend or dismiss without
appeal any teacher, under said contracts, on the written recommen-
dation of a superintendent of an institution under the direction of
the Department of Juvenile Services, for immorality, misconduct in
office, insubordination, incompetency, or willful neglect of duty, pro-
vided that the charges be stated in writing, and that the teacher be