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MS Code § 43-1-63 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 1 - Department of Human Services and County Departments of Public Welfare|Division of Family and Children's Services|§ 43-1-63. Interdepartmental sharing of resources and services for preventing and detecting child abuse and neglect

 The Department of Human Services shall have the authority to use the services and resources of the State Department of Education and the State Department of Health and of all other appropriate state departments, agencies, institutions or political subdivisions as will aid in carrying out the purposes of this chapter. It shall be the duty of all such state departments, agencies and institutions to make available such services and resources to the department, including, but not necessarily limited to, such services and resources as may be required to perform appropriate criminal history record checks on prospective foster and relative child placements for the purpose of preventing and detecting abuse and neglect.
MS Code § 43-1-65 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 1 - Department of Human Services and County Departments of Public Welfare|Division of Family and Children's Services|§ 43-1-65. Mississippi Child Care Quality Step System established by requiring Department of Human Services Office for Children and Youth to develop and implement pilot voluntary quality rating system (QRS)

 The Department of Human Services shall establish the Mississippi Child Care Quality Step System by requiring the Office for Children and Youth of the Department of Human Services, the lead agency for the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF), to develop and implement a pilot voluntary Quality Rating System (QRS). The purpose of the pilot system will be to improve the quality of all licensed early care and education and after-school programs. The system is to be phased in over the next five (5) years beginning July 1, 2006, subject to appropriation. The QRS criteria will be the basis, at minimum, for the QRS, and shall address the following components: administrative policy, professional development, learning environment, and parental involvement and evaluation.   In addition, the Office for Children and Youth shall develop and administer funds, based on appropriation, to create a Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR& R) statewide system in collaboration with community and junior colleges, universities, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, state agencies and/or nonprofit community entities. The CCR& R agencies shall provide training specific to the QRS criteria to enable early care and education program quality to improve as measured by the QRS system; and offer parent education information and training on what a quality early care and education program comprises and how to identify one. This program shall begin July 1, 2006, subject to appropriation.
MS Code § 43-1-67 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 1 - Department of Human Services and County Departments of Public Welfare|Division of Family and Children's Services|§ 43-1-67. Office of Children and Youth to conduct needs assessment to determine need for program to provide incentives to certain teachers/directors who make educational advancements listed in QRS criteria

 The Office for Children and Youth of the Department of Human Services shall conduct a needs assessment to determine the need for an incentive program, which would allow participating early care and education programs in the Quality Rating System (QRS) access to funds to provide incentives to teachers/directors that make educational advancements that are listed in the QRS criteria. If determined to be feasible and depending on the availability of funds, guidelines for such an incentive program shall be developed by the Office for Children and Youth.
MS Code § 43-3-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 3 - Blind Persons|Adjustment Center for the Blind|§ 43-3-1. Short title

 Sections 43-3-1 through 43-3-15 shall be cited as "The Adjustment Center for the Blind Law of 1968."
MS Code § 43-3-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 3 - Blind Persons|Adjustment Center for the Blind|§ 43-3-3. Declaration of public policy

 It is declared that the state public welfare demands and the state public policy requires that a state facility be built and a state program be established that can teach and assist individuals who are blind to adjust to and become a useful part of society; that in addition to existing facilities and vocational and rehabilitation programs for individuals who are blind in Mississippi, an Adjustment Center for Individuals who are Blind is needed to assist those persons in adopting attitudes, behavior patterns, and otherwise becoming acclimated for a full, more useful and productive life.
MS Code § 43-3-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 3 - Blind Persons|Adjustment Center for the Blind|§ 43-3-5. Establishment, maintenance, and control of facility

 The directors of the University of Mississippi Medical School and Teaching Hospital, with the direction of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation for the Blind of the State Department of Rehabilitation Services, may establish, maintain and supervise an Adjustment Center for Individuals who are Blind at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi, and shall jointly govern the facility.   The governing authorities shall appoint a director and shall employ such other technical, professional and clerical assistance as may be required from time to time and fix their duties and compensation. All employees and other personnel must be qualified by education and experience.
MS Code § 43-3-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 3 - Blind Persons|Adjustment Center for the Blind|§ 43-3-7. Rules and regulations

 The governing authorities shall promulgate such reasonable rules and regulations as are necessary to carry out the intent of Sections 43-3-1 through 43-3-15. Any such rules and regulations shall be published and kept on file in the office of the director and shall be available to the general public on demand.
MS Code § 43-3-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 3 - Blind Persons|Adjustment Center for the Blind|§ 43-3-9. Medical school and hospital personnel to cooperate in carrying out intent of law

 The directors, professors, physicians, and all other personnel employed at the University of Mississippi Medical School and Teaching Hospital shall offer full cooperation to the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation for the Blind of the State Department of Rehabilitation Services in carrying out the intent of Sections 43-3-1 through 43-3-15.
MS Code § 43-3-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 3 - Blind Persons|Adjustment Center for the Blind|§ 43-3-11. Acquisition of public funds for constructing and equipping center; acceptance of gifts and grants

 The agencies named or referred to are authorized separately or collectively to cooperate with any agency or instrumentality of the state or of the United States government in acquiring public funds for use in the constructing and equipping of the Adjustment Center for Individuals who are Blind and for use in the subsequent administration and operation incidental to carrying out the provisions of Sections 43-3-1 through 43-3-15. Grants or donations to the center may be accepted from individuals, firms, corporations, foundations and other interested organizations and societies.
MS Code § 43-3-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 3 - Blind Persons|Adjustment Center for the Blind|§ 43-3-13. Department of Finance and Administration authorized to build facility; funds appropriated or granted to be deposited in State Treasury

 The Department of Finance and Administration is authorized to build a suitable facility, and payment for construction of that building shall be made from any money made available for this purpose.   Any funds appropriated or granted from any source for purposes of Sections 43-3-1 through 43-3-15 shall be deposited into a fund in the State Treasury to be designated The Adjustment Center for Individuals who are Blind Fund.
MS Code § 43-3-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 3 - Blind Persons|Adjustment Center for the Blind|§ 43-3-15. Construction of law

 This law shall be construed to be supplemental and in addition to any present laws governing the agencies specified in Sections 43-3-1 through 43-3-15. Whenever a conflict exists between such sections and any of said present laws, the provisions of Sections 43-3-1 through 43-3-15 will control.
MS Code § 43-3-51 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 3 - Blind Persons|Assistance to the Blind|§ 43-3-51. Statewide system of aid

 For the purpose of providing for blind persons in need, a statewide system of aid to the needy blind is hereby established and shall be in effect in all political subdivisions of this state to operate with due regard to the varying conditions and costs of living, to be financed by state appropriations therefor, and to be administered by the State Department of Public Welfare.
MS Code § 43-3-53 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 3 - Blind Persons|Assistance to the Blind|§ 43-3-53. Definitions

 When used herein, the term "State Department" means the State Department of Public Welfare.   "County department" means the county board of public welfare and the county welfare agent of each of the several counties in this state.   "Applicant" means a person who has applied for assistance under Sections 43-3-51 through 43-3-91.   "Recipient" means a person who has received assistance under the terms of Sections 43-3-51 through 43-3-91.   "Ophthalmologist" means a physician licensed to practice medicine in this state and who is actively engaged in the treatment of diseases of the human eye.   "Assistance" means money payments, including vendor payments, made to or in behalf of needy blind persons hereunder.
MS Code § 43-3-55 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 3 - Blind Persons|Assistance to the Blind|§ 43-3-55. Eligibility for assistance to the needy blind

 Assistance shall be granted under Sections 43-3-51 through 43-3-91 to any person who:   Has no vision or whose vision, with correcting glasses is so defective as to prevent the performance of ordinary activities for which eyesight is essential;   Has not sufficient income or other resources to provide a reasonable subsistence compatible with decency and health;   Is not an inmate of any public institution at the time of receiving assistance except as a patient in a public medical institution, or is not a patient in any institution for tuberculosis or mental diseases, or is not a patient in any medical institution as a result of having been diagnosed as having tuberculosis or psychosis. In the event the federal Social Security Act, or other appropriate federal statutes are so amended as to permit funds appropriated by Congress to be used for assistance to blind persons who are inmates of public institutions, then being an inmate of any such institution shall not disqualify any such person for assistance. An inmate of such an institution may, however, make application for such assistance but the assistance, if granted, shall not begin until after he ceases to be an inmate;   Is not receiving old age assistance;   Has not made an assignment or transfer of property for the purpose of rendering himself eligible for assistance under Sections 43-3-51 through 43-3-91 at any time within two (2) years immediately prior to the filing of application for assistance pursuant to the provisions of said sections.
MS Code § 43-3-57 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 3 - Blind Persons|Assistance to the Blind|§ 43-3-57. Amount of assistance

 The amount of assistance which any needy blind person shall receive shall be determined by the county department with due regard to the resources and necessary expenditures of the individual and the conditions existing in each case and in accordance with the rules and regulations made by the state department, and shall be only sufficient, when added to all other income and support of the recipient, to provide such persons with a reasonable subsistence compatible with decency and health. In making such determination the state department shall disregard the earned income specified by the federal Social Security Act, as amended, and may disregard any other income of the recipient as specified in the federal Social Security Act, as amended.
MS Code § 43-3-59 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 3 - Blind Persons|Assistance to the Blind|§ 43-3-59. Duties of State Department of Public Welfare

 The state department shall:   Supervise the administration of assistance to the needy blind under Sections 43-3-51 through 43-3-91 by the county departments;   Make such rules and regulations and take such action as may be necessary or desirable for carrying out the provisions of Sections 43-3-51 through 43-3-91. All rules and regulations made by the state department shall be binding on the counties and shall be complied with by the respective county departments;   Designate the procedure to be followed in securing a competent medical examination for the purpose of determining blindness in the individual applicant for assistance;   Establish minimum standards for personnel employed by the state and county departments in the administration of Sections 43-3-51 through 43-3-91 and make necessary rules and regulations to maintain such standards;   Prescribe the form of and print and supply to the county departments such forms as it may deem necessary and advisable;   Cooperate with the federal government in matters of mutual concern pertaining to assistance to the needy blind, including the adoption of such methods of administration as are found by the federal government to be necessary for the efficient operation of the plan for such assistance;   Make such reports, in such form and containing such information, as the federal government may from time to time require and comply with such provisions as the federal government may from time to time find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports;   Publish an annual report and such interim reports as may be necessary;   Promulgate rules and regulations stating, in terms of ophthalmic measurements, the amount of visual acuity which an applicant may have and still be eligible for assistance under Sections 43-3-51 through 43-3-91.
MS Code § 43-3-61 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 3 - Blind Persons|Assistance to the Blind|§ 43-3-61. Duties of county departments

 The county departments shall:   Administer the provisions of Sections 43-3-51 through 43-3-91 in the respective counties subject to the rules and regulations prescribed by the state department pursuant to the provisions of said sections;   Report to the state department at such times and in such manner and form as the state department may from time to time direct.
MS Code § 43-3-63 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 3 - Blind Persons|Assistance to the Blind|§ 43-3-63. Application for assistance

 Application for assistance under Sections 43-3-51 through 43-3-91 shall be made to the county department of the county in which the applicant resides. The application shall be in writing or reduced to writing in the manner and upon the form prescribed by the state department. Such application shall contain a statement of the amount of property, both personal and real, in which the applicant has an interest and of all income which he may have at the time of the filing of the application, and such other information as may be required by the state department.
MS Code § 43-3-65 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 3 - Blind Persons|Assistance to the Blind|§ 43-3-65. Investigation of applications

 Whenever a county department receives an application for assistance under Sections 43-3-51 through 43-3-91, an investigation and record shall promptly be made of the circumstances of the applicant in order to ascertain the facts supporting the application and in order to obtain such other information as may be required by the rules of the state department.
MS Code § 43-3-67 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 3 - Blind Persons|Assistance to the Blind|§ 43-3-67. Examination by ophthalmologist or optometrist

 No application shall be approved until the applicant has been examined by an ophthalmologist or by a licensed optometrist designated or approved by the state department to make such examinations, and said applicant shall be permitted to choose whether the examination will be made by an ophthalmologist or by an optometrist. The examining ophthalmologist or optometrist shall certify in writing upon forms provided by the state department the findings of the examination.   This section shall apply to all state, county, or municipal agencies handling or administering public or private funds or private agencies handling public funds in connection with any of their visual care programs for children or adults. Sections 73-51-1 through 73-51-5, Mississippi Code of 1972, shall apply in actions to correct any violation of this section.
MS Code § 43-3-69 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 3 - Blind Persons|Assistance to the Blind|§ 43-3-69. Granting of assistance

 Upon the completion of such investigation the county department shall decide whether the applicant is eligible for assistance under the provisions of Sections 43-3-51 through 43-3-91, and determine in accordance with the rules and regulations of the state department the amount of such assistance and the date on which such assistance shall begin. The county department shall notify the applicant of its decision. Such assistance shall be paid monthly to the applicant upon the order of the county department from funds allocated to the county department for this purpose.
MS Code § 43-3-71 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 3 - Blind Persons|Assistance to the Blind|§ 43-3-71. Assistance not assignable

 Assistance granted under Sections 43-3-51 through 43-3-91 shall not be transferable or assignable, at law or in equity, and none of the money paid or payable under said sections shall be subject to execution, levy, attachment, garnishment or other legal process, or to the operation of any bankruptcy or insolvency law.
MS Code § 43-3-73 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 3 - Blind Persons|Assistance to the Blind|§ 43-3-73. Appeal to the State Department of Public Welfare

 If an application is not acted upon by the county department within a reasonable time after the filing of the application, or is denied in whole or in part, or if any award of assistance is modified or canceled under any provision of Sections 43-3-51 through 43-3-91, the applicant or recipient may appeal to the state department in the manner and form prescribed by the state department. The state department shall, upon receipt of such appeal, give the applicant or recipient reasonable notice and opportunity for a fair hearing.   The state department may also, upon its own motion, review any decision of a county department, and may consider any application upon which a decision has not been made by the county department within a reasonable time. The state department may make such additional investigation as it may deem necessary, and shall make such decision as to the granting of assistance and the amount of assistance to be granted the applicant as in its opinion is justified and in conformity with the provisions of Sections 43-3-51 through 43-3-91. Applicants or recipients affected by such decisions of the state department shall, upon request, be given reasonable notice and opportunity for a fair hearing by the state department.   All decisions of the state department shall be final and shall be binding upon the county involved and shall be complied with by the county department.
MS Code § 43-3-75 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 3 - Blind Persons|Assistance to the Blind|§ 43-3-75. Periodic reconsideration and changes in amount of assistance

 All assistance grants made under Sections 43-3-51 through 43-3-91 shall be reconsidered by the county department as frequently as may be required by the rules of the state department. After such further investigation as the county department may deem necessary or the state department may require, the amount of assistance may be changed or assistance may be entirely withdrawn if the state or county departments find that the recipient's circumstances have altered sufficiently to warrant such action.
MS Code § 43-3-77 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 3 - Blind Persons|Assistance to the Blind|§ 43-3-77. Reexamination as to eyesight

 A recipient shall submit to a reexamination as to his eyesight when required to do so by the county or the state department. He shall also furnish any information required by the county department or by the state department.
MS Code § 43-3-79 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 3 - Blind Persons|Assistance to the Blind|§ 43-3-79. Recovery from a recipient

 If at any time during the continuance of assistance the recipient thereof becomes possessed of any property or income in excess of the amount stated in the application provided for in Section 43-3-63, it shall be the duty of the recipient immediately to notify the county department of the receipt or possession of such property or income and the county department may, after investigation, either cancel the assistance or alter the amount thereof in accordance with the circumstances. Any assistance paid after the recipient has come into possession of such property or income and in excess of his need shall be recoverable by the county as a debt due to the state and the federal government in proportion to the amount of the assistance paid by each respectively.
MS Code § 43-3-81 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 3 - Blind Persons|Assistance to the Blind|§ 43-3-81. Fraudulent acts

 Whoever knowingly obtains, or attempts to obtain, or aids, or abets any person to obtain by means of a wilfully false statement or representation or by impersonation, or other fraudulent device, assistance to which he is not entitled, or assistance greater than that to which he is justly entitled, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or be imprisoned for not more than four (4) months, or be both so fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the court. In assessing the penalty, the court shall take into consideration, among other factors, the amount of money fraudulently received.
MS Code § 43-3-83 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 3 - Blind Persons|Assistance to the Blind|§ 43-3-83. Receipt and disposition of federal and other funds and manner of disbursing same

 Federal and other funds shall be received, disposed of, and disbursed in the same manner as is provided for the handling of funds for the needy aged in Sections 43-9-33 through 43-9-37. Any funds paid to any applicant under the provisions of Sections 43-3-51 through 43-3-91 shall be paid from the funds appropriated to the state department of public welfare, and the amount paid to each applicant coming under the provisions of Sections 43-3-51 through 43-3-91 shall be on the same basis as the amount paid to other applicants similarly situated.