Pennsylvania Statutes Title 62 P.S. Poor Persons and Public Welfare § 749. Bond required; forfeiture and assignment

At its discretion, the department may require of the person bringing or sending a child into this Commonwealth for placement or adoption or of the person who receives such child, an indemnity bond in favor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the penal sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000) conditioned as follows: That the child is not of unsound mind or body and that, if prior to his eighteenth birthday or his adoption, he becomes a public charge or is adjudged a delinquent, he will be removed from the State on demand of the department.

Any person, subject to this act, having had thirty days' notice and demand by the department to remove from the State any child admitted under the provisions of this act shall, upon failure to remove the child, forfeit the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000) as a penalty therefor to be recovered upon such bond by a suit in the name of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This sum, or any part thereof, collected by the Commonwealth may be assigned by the department to a supervised child caring agency designated by the department to replace the child.