Terms Used In Tennessee Code 71-3-603

  • sex: means a person's immutable biological sex as determined by anatomy and genetics existing at the time of birth and evidence of a person's biological sex. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105

All such asylums or houses at the option of its board may receive or take charge of any destitute orphan or indigent child of either sex, or children of indigent parents, under eighteen (18) years of age, from any part of the state.