Detention home for delinquents.
Memphis Charter, art. 36, § 305
in effectSec. 305. - Detention home for delinquents.
The municipal authorities shall have the right to prepare and maintain at the expense of such municipality a proper place or places for the detention of juvenile delinquents, dependents or offenders pending trial, or afterward, provided, however, that the County authorities and municipal authorities may cooperate and contract to share the expenses incident to providing and maintaining such place or places of detention, to which County delinquents, dependents or offenders may be committed, together with offenders, delinquents or dependents tried or triable in such municipal juvenile court.
(Priv. Acts 1935, ch. 387, § 8)
Source: City of Memphis, Code of Ordinances and Charter and Related Laws (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/tn/memphis/codes/charter?nodeId=PTICHRELA_ART36MUJUCO_S305DEHODEFetched: 10/28/2026
