People ex rel. Rodello v. District Court

This original proceeding concerns the Colorado Children’s Code enacted into law by the General Assembly *532in 1967, the effective date thereof being July 1, 1967. See 1967 Session Laws of Colorado, Chapter 443, at 993. In a sense, then, this is a companion case to People ex rel. Terrell v. District Court, et al., 164 Colo. 437, 435 P.2d 763.

The instant proceeding, however, concerns two children who are each over sixteen years of age, but under eighteen years of age, namely seventeen, whereas People ex rel. Terrell concerned a child under sixteen years of age.

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