Section 2. Minors may be committed to care of society, after conviction of crime
It shall be lawful for any justice of the peace, magistrate or judge of any court, to commit minors to any society, duly incorporated, having for one of its objects the protection of children from cruelty, or the placing of children not otherwise provided for in families, upon complaint and due proof made of facts such as are set forth in the first section of this act, after the said minors have been duly convicted of any criminal offense. 1893, June 8, P.L. 399, Sec. 2.
Compiler's Note: Section 28 of Act 207 of 2004 provided that any and all references in any other law to a "district justice" or "justice of the peace" shall be deemed to be references to a magisterial district judge.