§28-3-8. Transfer of certain inmates to other institutions.
The state commissioner of corrections shall have authority to transfer any girl who is an inmate of the industrial home, in accordance with the provisions of chapter twenty-seven of this code, who is mentally ill, mentally retarded or addicted, to any state institution charged with the care and treatment of such persons; to transfer any girl in such home who is blind or deaf, or whose sight or hearing is so impaired as to make a transfer desirable, to the schools for the deaf and blind; to transfer to Welch Emergency Hospital, any girl infected with syphilis or gonorrhea.