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2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 32 - FEES › Section 31-3204 - VICTIM NOTIFICATION — FEE.

31-3204. VICTIM NOTIFICATION — FEE. The court shall charge a fee of fifteen dollars ($15.00) for victim notification purposes to be paid by each person found guilty of each felony, misdemeanor or infraction under section 18-8001 or 49-301, Idaho Code, or first-time infraction under section 23-604 or 23-949, Idaho Code, except when the court orders such fee waived because the person is indigent and unable to pay such fee. Such fee shall be in addition to all other fines and fees levied. Such fee shall be paid to the county treasurer who shall, within fifteen (15) days after the end of the month, pay such fees to the state treasurer for deposit in the state victim notification fund established in section 67-2912, Idaho Code.
History:
[31-3204, added 2012, ch. 114, sec. 1, p. 316; am. 2014, ch. 335, sec. 1, p. 828; am. 2016, ch. 344, sec. 9, p. 996; am. 2018, ch. 298, sec. 8, p. 713; am. 2023, ch. 78, sec. 7, p. 267.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 32 - FEES › Section 31-3206 - RECORDER — EXCEPTIONS TO FEE SCHEDULE.

31-3206. RECORDER — EXCEPTIONS TO FEE SCHEDULE. Each county recorder shall record, free of charge, all clear lists of lands granted to the state by the United States.
History:
[(31-3206) 1911, ch. 63, part of sec. 1, p. 184; compiled and reen. C.L., sec. 2124a; C.S., sec. 3707; am. 1921, ch. 13, sec. 1, p. 12; I.C.A., sec. 30-2706.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 32 - FEES › Section 31-3207 - AUDITOR’S FEES.

31-3207. AUDITOR’S FEES. For services as county auditor, not enumerated in this chapter, the fee fixed by the statute requiring the service shall be charged and collected, or the same fee as allowed the county recorder as provided by section 31-3205, Idaho Code, shall be charged and collected.
History:
[(31-3207) 1890-1891, p. 174, sec. 4; reen. 1899, p. 116, sec. 4; modified by 1899, p. 405; compiled R.C., sec. 2124; reen. 1911, ch. 173, sec. 1, p. 567; compiled and reen. C.L., sec. 2124b; C.S., sec. 3708; I.C.A., sec. 30-2707; am. 1989, ch. 72, sec. 1, p. 116.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 32 - FEES › Section 31-3211 - FEES TO BE PREPAID — EXCEPTION — PENALTY FOR OFFICIAL DERELICTION.

31-3211. FEES TO BE PREPAID — EXCEPTION — PENALTY FOR OFFICIAL DERELICTION. The officers mentioned in this title are not in any case, except for the state or county, to perform any official services unless upon prepayment of the fees prescribed for such services by law, except as in the succeeding sections provided: provided further, that the attorney-general or any prosecuting attorney may cause subpoenas to be issued on behalf of the state, without paying or tendering fees in advance to any officers, and on such payment the officer must perform the services required.
For every failure or refusal to perform official duty when the fees are tendered, the officer is liable on his official bond.
History:
[(31-3211) R.S., sec. 2137; modified by R.S., sec. 2146; am. and reen. R.C. & C.L., sec. 2128; C.S., sec. 3712; I.C.A., sec. 30-2711.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 32 - FEES › Section 31-3212 - EXCEPTIONS TO FEE SCHEDULE — HABEAS CORPUS — STATE OR ANY COUNTY OF IDAHO A PARTY — COST OF TRANSCRIPTS.

31-3212. EXCEPTIONS TO FEE SCHEDULE — HABEAS CORPUS — STATE OR ANY COUNTY OF IDAHO A PARTY — COST OF TRANSCRIPTS. (1) No filing or recording fee of any kind shall be charged or received by any county officer mentioned in this chapter for duties performed or services rendered in proceedings in habeas corpus, unless the habeas corpus petitioner is a prisoner as defined in section 31-3220A, Idaho Code.
(2) County officers shall not charge any fee against, or receive any compensation whatever from, the state or any county of Idaho for any services rendered in any action or proceeding in which the state of Idaho, or any state board, or state officer in his official capacity, or any county of Idaho, or county officer in his official capacity, is a party.
(3) If the habeas corpus petitioner or appellant is a prisoner, and is not an indigent prisoner as defined in section 31-3220A, Idaho Code, the prisoner may be required to pay all or part of the filing fees on appeal as set forth in sections 31-3201 and 31-3201A, Idaho Code. If the appellant is an indigent prisoner, as found by the court under section 31-3220A, Idaho Code, the transcript on appeal will be paid for as provided in section 1-1105(2), Idaho Code.
(4) In habeas corpus cases on appeal to the supreme court of the state of Idaho, in which the appellant is not a prisoner but is otherwise restrained of his liberty by any public officer, the transcript for use on the appeal will be paid for by the appellant. If the appellant under this paragraph is indigent, the transcript and/or record for use on the appeal will be paid for in the manner as provided in section 1-1105(2), Idaho Code.
(5) In habeas corpus cases on appeal to the supreme court of the state of Idaho, in which the custody of children is in controversy, the appellant, unless he be indigent, shall pay for the record on appeal. If the appellant under this paragraph is indigent, the record and/or transcript will be paid for as provided in section 1-1105(2), Idaho Code.
History:
[(31-3212) R.S., sec. 2138; am. 1901, p. 162, sec. 1; reen. R.C. & C.L., sec. 2129; C.S., sec. 3713; I.C.A., sec. 30-2712; am. 1967, ch. 52, sec. 1, p. 98; am. 1982, ch. 281, sec. 1, p. 715; am. 1996, ch. 420, sec. 5, p. 1401.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 32 - FEES › Section 31-3213 - PENSIONERS EXEMPT FROM PAYING FEE — PENALTY FOR CHARGING.

31-3213. PENSIONERS EXEMPT FROM PAYING FEE — PENALTY FOR CHARGING. No judge or clerk of court, county clerk, county auditor or any other county officer shall be allowed to charge any honorably discharged male or female veteran who had active service in any war or conflict officially engaged in by the government of the United States or their dependents or legal representative thereof, any fee for administering any oath or giving any official certificate for the procuring of any pension, bounty or back pay, nor for administering any oath or oaths and giving the certificate required upon any voucher for collection of periodical dues from the pension agent, nor any fee for services rendered in perfecting any voucher. Any such officer who may require and accept fees for such services shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than fifty dollars ($50.00).
History:
[(31-3213) 1895, p. 36, secs. 1, 2; reen. 1899, p. 242, secs. 1, 2; reen. R.C. & C.L., sec. 2129a; C.S., sec. 3714; I.C.A., sec. 30-2713; am. 1969, ch. 24, sec. 1, p. 48.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 32 - FEES › Section 31-3214 - TABLE OF FEES — OFFICERS TO PUBLISH — PENALTY FOR NEGLECT.

31-3214. TABLE OF FEES — OFFICERS TO PUBLISH — PENALTY FOR NEGLECT. Every officer whose fees are herein ascertained must publish and set up in his office fair tables of his fees, according to this title, within one (1) month after he enters upon the duties of his office, in some conspicuous place, for inspection of all persons who have business in his office, upon pain of forfeiting for each day a sum not exceeding twenty dollars ($20.00), which may be recovered by any person by action before any justice of the peace of the same county, with costs.
History:
[(31-3214) R.S., sec. 2139; reen. R.C. & C.L., sec. 2130; C.S., sec. 3715; I.C.A., sec. 30-2714.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 32 - FEES › Section 31-3215 - EXECUTION FOR FEES.

31-3215. EXECUTION FOR FEES. If any clerk, sheriff, justice of the peace, or constable, shall not have received any fees which may be due him for services rendered in any suit or proceeding, he may have execution therefor, in his own name, against the party from whom they are due, to be issued from the court in which the action is pending.
History:
[(31-3215) R.S., sec. 2140; reen. R.C. & C.L., sec. 2131; C.S., sec. 3716; I.C.A., sec. 30-2715; am. 1970, ch. 120, sec. 13, p. 284.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 32 - FEES › Section 31-3217 - LIMITATION ON MILEAGE OF OFFICER.

31-3217. LIMITATION ON MILEAGE OF OFFICER. When any sheriff, constable or coroner serves more than one (1) process in the same case, not requiring more than one (1) journey from his office, he shall receive mileage only for the most distant service.
History:
[(31-3217) R.S., sec. 2142; reen. R.C. & C.L., sec. 2133; C.S., sec. 3718; I.C.A., sec. 30-2717.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 32 - FEES › Section 31-3218 - RECEIPT FOR FEES.

31-3218. RECEIPT FOR FEES. Every officer upon receiving any fees for official duty or services, may be required by the person making the same to make out in writing and deliver to such person a particular account of such fees, specifying for what they respectively accrued, and shall receipt for the same; and if he refuses or neglects to do so, when required, or shall receive illegal fees, he shall be liable to the party paying for three (3) times the amount so paid.
History:
[(31-3218) R.S., sec. 2144; reen. R.C. & C.L., sec. 2134; C.S., sec. 3719; I.C.A., sec. 30-2718.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 32 - FEES › Section 31-3219 - PHOTOGRAPHIC COPIES OF RECORDS — FEES.

31-3219. PHOTOGRAPHIC COPIES OF RECORDS — FEES. The county recorder, and the clerk of the district court, is allowed, and may receive for his services, the following fees, to be paid him by the party procuring his services:
For photographic copies of any record the sum of $1.00 per page.
History:
[31-3219, added 1957, ch. 166, sec. 1, p. 300; am. 1959, ch. 66, sec. 1, p. 138.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 33 - OTHER COUNTY CHARGES › Section 31-3301 - ACCOUNTS MUST BE PRESENTED TO COMMISSIONERS.

31-3301. ACCOUNTS MUST BE PRESENTED TO COMMISSIONERS. Accounts for county charges of every description must be presented to the board of county commissioners to be audited as provided by law.
History:
[(31-3301) R.S., sec. 2160; reen. R.C. & C.L., sec. 2135; C.S., sec. 3720; I.C.A., sec. 30-2801.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 33 - OTHER COUNTY CHARGES › Section 31-3302 - COUNTY CHARGES ENUMERATED.

31-3302. COUNTY CHARGES ENUMERATED. (1) For purposes of this section, "reimbursement rate" means ninety-five percent (95%) of the unadjusted medicaid rate of reimbursement for medical charges allowed pursuant to title XIX of the social security act, as amended, that is in effect at the time the service is rendered.
(2) The following are county charges:
(a) Charges incurred against the county by virtue of any provision of this title.
(b) The compensation allowed by law to constables and sheriffs for executing process on persons charged with criminal offenses; for services and expenses in conveying criminals to jail; for the service of subpoenas issued by or at the request of the prosecuting attorneys, and for other services in relation to criminal proceedings.
(c) The expenses necessarily incurred in the support of persons charged with or convicted of crime and committed therefor to the county jail. Provided that any medical expenses shall be paid at the reimbursement rate unless a rate of reimbursement is otherwise established by contract or agreement.
(d) The compensation allowed by law to county officers in criminal proceedings, when not otherwise collectible.
(e) The sum required by law to be paid to grand jurors and indigent witnesses in criminal cases.
(f) The accounts of the coroner of the county, for such services as are not provided to be paid otherwise.
(g) The necessary expenses incurred in the support of county hospitals, and the indigent sick and nonmedical assistance for indigents, whose support is chargeable to the county.
(h) The contingent expenses, necessarily incurred for the use and benefit of the county.
(i) Every other sum directed by law to be raised for any county purpose, under the direction of the board of county commissioners, or declared to be a county charge.
History:
[31-3302, R.S., sec. 2161; am. 1899, p. 116, sec. 7; am. and reen. R.C. & C.L., sec. 2136; C.S., sec. 3721; I.C.A., sec. 30-2802; am. 1936 (3rd E.S.), ch. 2, sec. 1, p. 6; am. 1939, ch. 182, sec. 17, p. 338; am. 1970, ch. 120, sec. 14, p. 284; am. 1992, ch. 83, sec. 1, p. 257; am. 1994, ch. 362, sec. 3, p. 1137; am. 2009, ch. 177, sec. 2, p. 558; am. 2011, ch. 291, sec. 2, p. 795; am. 2023, ch. 32, sec. 2, p. 161.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 34 - NONMEDICAL INDIGENT ASSISTANCE › Section 31-3401 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

31-3401. POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. The boards of county commissioners in their respective counties shall, under such limitations and restrictions as are prescribed by law, evaluate the need and provide to indigent persons nonmedical assistance in a temporary situation only when no alternatives exist. Nothing in this chapter shall imply county assistance is to be provided on a continuing basis. Boards of county commissioners, by resolution, shall promulgate policies and procedures, may negotiate payment to providers, and may contract for nonmedical services, pursuant to this chapter. Boards of county commissioners may fund nonmedical services for indigent persons from the county current expense fund pursuant to section 63-805, Idaho Code.
History:
[31-3401, added 1992, ch. 83, sec. 3, p. 258; am. 2022, ch. 318, sec. 5, p. 1018.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 34 - NONMEDICAL INDIGENT ASSISTANCE › Section 31-3402 - CONTRACT FOR MAINTENANCE OF INDIGENT.

31-3402. CONTRACT FOR MAINTENANCE OF INDIGENT. The boards of county commissioners in their respective counties, may contract for the care, protection and maintenance of the nonmedically indigent of the county. They shall require the contractor to enter into a bond to the county with two (2) or more approved sureties, in such sum as the boards may fix, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties and obligations as such contractor, and require him to report to the board no less than quarterly all persons committed to his charge, showing the expense attendant upon their care and maintenance.
History:
[31-3402, added 1992, ch. 83, sec. 3, p. 258.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 34 - NONMEDICAL INDIGENT ASSISTANCE › Section 31-3404 - APPLICATION FOR NONMEDICAL INDIGENT ASSISTANCE.

31-3404. APPLICATION FOR NONMEDICAL INDIGENT ASSISTANCE. (1) Any person or their authorized representative desiring nonmedical assistance from any county in this state shall, before such aid can be given, make a written application to the clerk of the board of county commissioners or his designee where such applicant resides. An application shall be provided to any individual requesting assistance.
(2) An application for nonmedical assistance shall be on a form provided by the county to which application is being made. This application and information release shall be completed and signed by the applicant, or his authorized representative, setting forth and describing all household resources and sworn to before a county officer authorized by the laws of this state to administer oaths, and filed with the clerk of the board. Failure to comply shall result in denial.
(3) Except as provided in section 31-3410, Idaho Code, within ten (10) working days of the date of application, an interview shall be required with the clerk of the board or his designee. Evidence of need, indigency and residence shall be supplied by the applicant or authorized representative. If the applicant or authorized representative fails to make an appointment, appear at an interview or fails to supply such documentation, the application shall be denied. Any adult household member may be required to appear for an interview, sign a general information release and complete an application. Failure to comply shall result in denial of the requested assistance.
(4) Applicants and all household members who are not fully employed and are capable of employment, shall be required to file an application with the department of employment, use their best efforts to seek employment, and to provide verification of such efforts to the county. The applicant and all other household members may be required to submit a medical statement certifying any inability to work. Individuals voluntarily removing themselves from the work force may be denied assistance.
History:
[31-3404, added 1992, ch. 83, sec. 3, p. 259.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 34 - NONMEDICAL INDIGENT ASSISTANCE › Section 31-3405 - ELIGIBILITY CLASSIFICATIONS — DURATION OF ASSISTANCE FOR PURPOSES OF ELIGIBILITY.

31-3405. ELIGIBILITY CLASSIFICATIONS — DURATION OF ASSISTANCE FOR PURPOSES OF ELIGIBILITY. The county is not obligated to provide nonmedical assistance for more than one (1) month in the aggregate in any twelve (12) month period to persons who are eligible for assistance. Assistance provided in any Idaho county shall apply toward the one (1) month benefit period. The board may determine the length of additional eligibility, consistent with the county resolution, for nonmedical services, based upon documentation submitted to them as requested.
History:
[31-3405, added 1992, ch. 83, sec. 3, p. 260; am. 1998, ch. 204, sec. 2, p. 725.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 34 - NONMEDICAL INDIGENT ASSISTANCE › Section 31-3406 - INVESTIGATION OF APPLICATION.

31-3406. INVESTIGATION OF APPLICATION. It is the duty of the clerk of the board of county commissioners or his designee, to whom such application is made, to investigate, or cause to be investigated, the grounds of such application, and require the person and other such persons as may be deemed necessary, to testify under oath, and shall file a statement of findings with the board of the county. At the discretion and by resolution of the board, the clerk or his designee to whom such application is made may authorize the expenditure of sums as may be necessary to provide the immediate necessities of such person, not exceeding an aggregate sum as determined by the board which amount may exceed two hundred dollars ($200) per applicant.
History:
[31-3406, added 1992, ch. 83, sec. 3, p. 260.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 34 - NONMEDICAL INDIGENT ASSISTANCE › Section 31-3407 - OBLIGATED COUNTY.

31-3407. OBLIGATED COUNTY. The county obligated for payment of nonmedical assistance for eligible applicants shall be the county in which said applicant currently maintains a residence at the time of application.
History:
[31-3407, added 1992, ch. 83, sec. 3, p. 260.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 34 - NONMEDICAL INDIGENT ASSISTANCE › Section 31-3408 - ELIGIBILITY.

31-3408. ELIGIBILITY. Pursuant to this chapter, eligibility for nonmedical assistance shall be based on the documentation of county residence, completion of an application and interview, except as provided in section 31-3410, Idaho Code. Failure to comply shall result in a denial of the requested assistance. Notwithstanding any other eligibility factors, no county shall be obligated to provide nonmedical services to persons who have become ineligible for cash assistance by exhaustion of lifetime limits for such benefits or by noncompliance with their personal responsibility contract as defined by rules of the department of health and welfare.
History:
[31-3408, added 1992, ch. 83, sec. 3, p. 260; am. 1996, ch. 234, sec. 1, p. 763.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 34 - NONMEDICAL INDIGENT ASSISTANCE › Section 31-3409 - APPLICATION OF STATE AND FEDERAL PROGRAM — INTERIM RELIEF SUBROGATION OF COUNTY TO RECEIPT OF FEDERAL PAYMENTS.

31-3409. APPLICATION OF STATE AND FEDERAL PROGRAM — INTERIM RELIEF SUBROGATION OF COUNTY TO RECEIPT OF FEDERAL PAYMENTS. (1) An eligible applicant may be provided nonmedical interim assistance that is consistent with the resolution adopted by the board and to the extent such relief is not duplicative of resources or benefits reasonably available to the recipient.
(2) If federal, state or other programs or assistance are available to meet the needs of a household, an eligible applicant must apply for those programs before nonmedical assistance may be provided. If denied such other assistance, the applicant must pursue available administrative appeals for those programs to the final administrative level.
History:
[31-3409, added 1992, ch. 83, sec. 3, p. 260; am. 1998, ch. 204, sec. 3, p. 725.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 34 - NONMEDICAL INDIGENT ASSISTANCE › Section 31-3410 - DECISION OF COUNTY.

31-3410. DECISION OF COUNTY. The board shall give written notice of its decision within fifteen (15) working days following completion of the interview. In an emergency circumstance, the clerk or his designee shall make an immediate decision regarding nonmedical assistance. The decision of the board is final if a timely notice of appeal is not filed.
History:
[31-3410, added 1992, ch. 83, sec. 3, p. 261.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 34 - NONMEDICAL INDIGENT ASSISTANCE › Section 31-3411 - NOTICE OF APPEAL.

31-3411. NOTICE OF APPEAL. The applicant has the right to appeal the decision of the board. Such appeal shall be filed with the clerk of the board, in writing, within thirty (30) days of the date of the board’s denial. If the appeal is denied by the board, the applicant shall be entitled to judicial review of the appeal decision of the board, by filing a complaint with the district court within thirty (30) days of the date of the final written decision of the board. Proceedings under this chapter shall be conducted in substantially the same manner provided in the administrative procedures act, chapter 52, title 67, Idaho Code.
History:
[31-3411, added 1992, ch. 83, sec. 3, p. 261.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 34 - NONMEDICAL INDIGENT ASSISTANCE › Section 31-3412 - INDIGENT BURIAL OR CREMATION.

31-3412. INDIGENT BURIAL OR CREMATION. It shall be the duty of the board to provide for burial or cremation of any deceased indigent person. The amount paid by the obligated county shall not in any case exceed the established or negotiated rate set by each board. If the coroner, mortician, or other responsible parties are unable to establish next of kin or have a signed waiver of intent to abandon, they may make application to the board. If an application has been made pursuant to this section, a coroner may, prior to approval of such application, authorize a cremation ten (10) days following death. The county shall be free from any liability for said burial or cremation.
History:
[31-3412, added 1992, ch. 83, sec. 3, p. 261; am. 2012, ch. 208, sec. 2, p. 563; am. 2022, ch. 62, sec. 4, p. 195.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 34 - NONMEDICAL INDIGENT ASSISTANCE › Section 31-3413 - APPROVED CLAIMS.

31-3413. APPROVED CLAIMS. The board shall not allow any claim or demand against the county for services to any indigent person until eligibility has been established. The board shall, by resolution, authorize the expenditures of funds not exceeding an aggregate amount to provide for the emergency nonmedical assistance of any eligible indigent person. Bills for expenditures, duly verified under oath, shall be presented to the board and the board shall audit and pay such bills out of the proper fund of the county. Payment of approved claims of indigent persons by the county shall be controlled and determined by the provisions of chapter 16, title 31, Idaho Code. The county is not obligated to pay for services received by the applicant prior to the date of application, or to make payment to relatives.
History:
[31-3413, added 1992, ch. 83, sec. 3, p. 261.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 34 - NONMEDICAL INDIGENT ASSISTANCE › Section 31-3414 - REPAYMENT BY RECIPIENT.

31-3414. REPAYMENT BY RECIPIENT. By acceptance of county assistance an applicant agrees to repay the county for all or any portion of expenses paid, when the board finds the applicant is able to repay all or any portion of the charges over a reasonable period of time and/or has assets which can be encumbered for future repayment. Reimbursement for assistance shall be credited to the county indigent fund and need not be budgeted or appropriated in the manner required in chapter 16, title 31, Idaho Code, but shall be available for expenditure at any time for the purposes of the county indigent fund.
The board may provide for work repayment at no less than minimum wage, by such recipients as are employable.
Upon payment of charges for an indigent person, the county making the payment shall become subrogated to all the rights of the provider and to all rights of the indigent person or their legal representatives against any third parties who may be liable for such nonmedical charges. The county’s right of subrogation in no way relieves the applicant or provider of responsibility as delineated in sections 31-3404, 31-3409, 31-3413 and 31-3415, Idaho Code.
History:
[31-3414, added 1992, ch. 83, sec. 3, p. 262.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 34 - NONMEDICAL INDIGENT ASSISTANCE › Section 31-3415 - DIVESTITURE.

31-3415. DIVESTITURE. Applicants who have divested their assets or resources within three (3) months prior to applying for county assistance in order to become eligible shall be denied assistance.
History:
[31-3415, added 1992, ch. 83, sec. 3, p. 262.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 34 - NONMEDICAL INDIGENT ASSISTANCE › Section 31-3416 - VIOLATIONS AND PENALTY.

31-3416. VIOLATIONS AND PENALTY. Any person who withholds information, or gives false or incomplete information on an application for the purposes of obtaining county aid to which they are not otherwise entitled, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
History:
[31-3416, added 1992, ch. 83, sec. 3, p. 262.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 34 - NONMEDICAL INDIGENT ASSISTANCE › Section 31-3417 - SEPARABILITY.

31-3417. SEPARABILITY. If the provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions of applications of the chapter, which can be given effect without the invalid provisions or applications, and to this end the provisions of this chapter are declared to be severable.
History:
[31-3417, added 1992, ch. 83, sec. 3, p. 262.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 34 - NONMEDICAL INDIGENT ASSISTANCE › Section 31-3418 - CONFIDENTIALITY — PROCEEDINGS AND RECORDS OF INDIGENTS.

31-3418. CONFIDENTIALITY — PROCEEDINGS AND RECORDS OF INDIGENTS. All proceedings and records related to indigency, pursuant to chapter 34, title 31, Idaho Code, shall be exempt from disclosure pursuant to chapter 1, title 74, Idaho Code.
History:
[31-3418, added 1992, ch. 83, sec. 3, p. 262; am. 1999, ch. 30, sec. 9, p. 52; am. 2015, ch. 141, sec. 55, p. 420.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 35 - HOSPITALS FOR INDIGENT SICK › Section 31-3501 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

31-3501. POWERS AND DUTIES OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. The county commissioners in their respective counties shall, under such limitations and restrictions as are prescribed by law, have the jurisdiction and power to provide county hospitals and public general hospitals for the county and others who are sick, injured, maimed, aged and infirm and to erect, enlarge, purchase, lease, or otherwise acquire, and to officer, maintain and improve hospitals, hospital grounds, nurses’ homes, shelter care facilities and residential or assisted living facilities as defined in section 39-3301, Idaho Code, superintendent’s quarters, medical clinics, as that term is defined in section 39-1319, Idaho Code, medical clinic grounds or any other necessary buildings, and to equip the same, and to replace equipment, and for this purpose said commissioners may levy an additional tax of not to exceed six hundredths percent (.06%) of the market value for assessment purposes on all taxable property within the county. The term "public general hospitals" as used in this subsection shall be construed to include nursing homes.
History:
[(31-3501) 31-3503, added 1974, ch. 302, sec. 12, p. 1769; am. 1980, ch. 185, sec. 3, p. 411; am. 1982, ch. 190, sec. 2, p. 512; am. 1983, ch. 215, sec. 2, p. 596; am. 1989, ch. 193, sec. 2, p. 476; am. 1990, ch. 87, sec. 10, p. 181; 1991, 1990 am. to section repealed, ch. 233, sec. 1, p. 553; am. 1991, ch. 233, sec. 8, p. 558; am. 1993, ch. 112, sec. 2, p. 285; am. 1995, ch. 9, sec. 1, p. 14; am. 1995, ch. 82, sec. 5, p. 222; am. 1996, ch. 322, sec. 14, p. 1042; am. 1996, ch. 410, sec. 4, p. 1361; am. 1997, ch. 174, sec. 1, p. 492; am. 2000, ch. 274, sec. 3, p. 804; am. 2009, ch. 177, sec. 5, p. 563; am. 2010, ch. 273, sec. 3, p. 694; am. 2011, ch. 291, sec. 5, p. 799; am. 2012, ch. 61, sec. 1, p. 163; am. and redesig. 2022, ch. 318, sec. 8, p. 1018.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 35 - HOSPITALS FOR INDIGENT SICK › Section 31-3502 - ELIGIBILITY FOR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE.

31-3502. ELIGIBILITY FOR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE. (1) Notwithstanding any provision of law or rule to the contrary, no person eligible for medicaid pursuant to section 56-254 or 56-267, Idaho Code, shall be eligible for financial assistance pursuant to this chapter as it existed on March 1, 2022.
(2) Notwithstanding any provision of law or rule to the contrary, no person eligible for health insurance shall be eligible for financial assistance pursuant to this chapter as it existed on March 1, 2022.
(3) Notwithstanding any provision of law or rule to the contrary, no person in a commitment proceeding pursuant to chapter 3, title 66, Idaho Code, who is eligible for medicaid or eligible for health insurance shall be eligible for financial assistance pursuant to this chapter as it existed on March 1, 2022.
(4) A board of county commissioners, the board of the catastrophic health care cost program, or the department of health and welfare receiving an application for assistance for services received through March 31, 2022, shall process such application pursuant to this chapter as it existed on March 1, 2022.
(5) It is the intent of the legislature that moneys saved by counties pursuant to this section may be used for additional county aid to public health districts as required by section 39-424A, Idaho Code.
History:
[(31-3502) 31-3505H, added 2021, ch. 336, sec. 1, p. 1020; am. and redesig. 2022, ch. 318, sec. 24, p. 1020.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 35 - HOSPITALS FOR INDIGENT SICK › Section 31-3504 - JOINT COUNTY HOSPITALS.

31-3504. JOINT COUNTY HOSPITALS. Recognizing the need of hospitals for the public welfare and the burden for one (1) county to finance the cost of such construction, operation and maintenance thereof within its own boundaries under certain circumstances, the county commissioners in their respective counties shall have the power to jointly and severally enter into contracts or agreements with one (1) or more adjoining counties to construct, operate and maintain joint county hospitals, either within or without the boundaries of such counties, upon a finding of each such county commissioners that there is a public necessity requiring the financing of such hospital facilities jointly with one (1) or more adjoining counties. The county commissioners shall have the same powers to operate, finance and bond for such joint county hospitals as they would have for a county hospital.
History:
[(31-3504) 31-3512, added 1974, ch. 302, sec. 12, p. 1769; am. 2010, ch. 273, sec. 22, p. 705; am. and redesig. 2022, ch. 318, sec. 33, p. 1021.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 35 - HOSPITALS FOR INDIGENT SICK › Section 31-3506 - INTERNAL MANAGEMENT — ACCOUNTS AND REPORTS.

31-3506. INTERNAL MANAGEMENT — ACCOUNTS AND REPORTS. Such facilities as referred to in section 31-3503, Idaho Code, may suitably provide for and accept other patients and must charge and accept payments from such other patients as are able to make payments for services rendered and care given. The county commissioners may make suitable rules and regulations for the management and operation of such property by a suitable board of control, or otherwise, or for carrying out such hospital uses and purposes under a lease of the same.
The boards or officers or lessees of such hospital property shall render accounts and reports to the county commissioners as may be required by the county commissioners; and shall render accounts and deliver over any and all moneys received by them for the county to the county treasurer to be credited to the operation expense of hospitals and indigent sick and otherwise dependent poor of the county in such manner as provided by law for the handling of funds of this kind.
Said board of control may permit persons from out of the county where such hospital is located to be admitted for hospitalization to such hospital. As to such cases special rates for the use and service of such hospital may be provided which rates shall apply equally to all such patients who do not pay taxes within the county where such hospital is located. The purpose of providing such special rates shall be to compel persons living out of the county where such hospital is located, and who receive hospitalization in such hospital, to bear a just burden of the cost of construction and maintenance of such hospital.
History:
[(31-3506) 31-3514, added 1974, ch. 302, sec. 12, p. 1769; am. 1980, ch. 185, sec. 5, p. 412; am. 1982, ch. 340, sec. 10, p. 856; am. 1989, ch. 193, sec. 5, p. 478; am. 1993, ch. 112, sec. 4, p. 286; am. 2010, ch. 273, sec. 24, p. 706; am. and redesig. 2022, ch. 318, sec. 35, p. 1023.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 35 - HOSPITALS FOR INDIGENT SICK › Section 31-3507 - LEASE OR SALE.

31-3507. LEASE OR SALE. Such counties acting through their county commissioners shall have the right to lease such hospitals upon such terms and for such a length of time as they may decide, or to sell the same; provided, however, that no such lease or sale, except those leases entered into between such counties and the Idaho health facilities authority as provided in section 31-836, Idaho Code, shall be final or valid unless and until it has been approved by a majority of the qualified electors of said county voting on such question at an election held subject to the provisions of section 34-106, Idaho Code; except if a hospital district has been created under the provisions of chapter 13, title 39, Idaho Code, county commissioners shall have the right to lease, as provided in section 31-836, Idaho Code, such hospitals within a created hospital district to the hospital district without submitting the question of lease or sale to the qualified electors of the county or the respective hospital district.
History:
[(31-3507) 31-3515, added 1974, ch. 302, sec. 12, p. 1769; am. 1978, ch. 42, sec. 2, p. 76; am. 1980, ch. 57, sec. 1, p. 115; am. 1995, ch. 118, sec. 34, p. 458; am. 2010, ch. 273, sec. 25, p. 707; am. and redesig. 2022, ch. 318, sec. 36, p. 1023.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 35 - HOSPITALS FOR INDIGENT SICK › Section 31-3509 - SEPARABILITY.

31-3509. SEPARABILITY. If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this chapter, which can be given effect without the invalid provisions or applications, and to this end the provisions of this chapter are declared to be severable.
History:
[(31-3509) 31-3516, added 1974, ch. 302, sec. 12, p. 1769; am. 1996, ch. 410, sec. 23, p. 1370; am. and redesig. 2022, ch. 318, sec. 38, p. 1024.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 36 - COUNTY HOSPITAL BOARDS › Section 31-3601 - RESOLUTION OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS — HEARING AND NOTICE.

31-3601. RESOLUTION OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS — HEARING AND NOTICE. Any county which now has or may plan to build, purchase or by any other means acquire a county hospital shall create a county hospital board in the following manner: The board of county commissioners shall, by appropriate motion or resolution adopted and incorporated in its minutes, signify that it is the intention of the board of county commissioners to create a county hospital board for the purpose of conducting, operating and maintaining a county hospital or hospitals in accordance with the provisions of this act, and shall fix a date, not less than three (3) nor more than six (6) weeks from the date of the adoption of such motion or resolution, for a hearing, and shall order the clerk of the board to publish notice of such meeting in one (1) or more newspapers published and having general circulation in the county, which notice shall include the time and place of such hearing, at which the board of county commissioners will hear any person or persons interested upon the matter of whether a hospital board shall be created within such county, which publication shall be made at least two (2) weeks before the date set for such hearing.
History:
[31-3601, added 1946 (1st E.S.), ch. 38, sec. 1, p. 75; am. 1982, ch. 340, sec. 1, p. 851.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 36 - COUNTY HOSPITAL BOARDS › Section 31-3602 - CREATION OF BOARD.

31-3602. CREATION OF BOARD. The board shall meet at the place and time fixed, at which time and place any elector or taxpayer residing within the county may appear and be heard upon the question of whether such hospital board shall be created, and after such hearing, if the board of county commissioners shall then deem it for the best interests of the county that a county hospital board be created, it shall create such board by an order duly adopted and spread upon its minutes.
History:
[31-3602, added 1946 (1st E.S.), ch. 38, sec. 2, p. 75.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 36 - COUNTY HOSPITAL BOARDS › Section 31-3603 - MEMBERS OF BOARD.

31-3603. MEMBERS OF BOARD. (1) The board of county commissioners shall, within thirty (30) days after the adoption of the order creating such board, appoint an odd number, not less than five (5) nor more than fifteen (15) persons, as members of such hospital board and shall make such appointments a matter of record in the minutes of the board. Provided however, if the appointed county commissioner member of the hospital board is appointed with voting privileges as provided in subsection (4) of this section, the board of county commissioners shall appoint another member to ensure that the county hospital board members appointed as provided in this subsection comprise an even number of members of not less than six (6) nor more than fourteen (14) persons.
(2) The county hospital board may, in its discretion, later change the number of members of the board, within the prescribed limits, but no such change in the number of members of the hospital board shall serve to terminate any terms to be served by present members of the hospital board.
(3) Vacancies on the county hospital board shall be filled by the board of county commissioners. In filling vacancies, the board of county commissioners shall review and consider, but shall not be bound by, a list of three (3) nominees for each position to be filled and submitted to them by the county hospital board. The members of the board shall be selected as nearly as practicable from the several localities of the county and shall qualify by taking and subscribing the usual oath of office. The county hospital board shall file with the board of county commissioners a blanket bond covering all of its members in the sum of not less than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) to be approved by the board of county commissioners, which bond shall have the conditions usually included in the bonds of public officers. The members of the county hospital board shall be selected without regard for partisan political affiliations.
(4) One (1) member of the board of county commissioners shall be appointed to the board either as an ex officio member without vote, or as a voting member, as determined by the board of county commissioners at the time of the appointment. If the county commissioner member is appointed as a voting member, the board of county commissioners shall also appoint another member to the hospital board as provided in subsection (1) of this section to ensure the board is comprised of an odd number of voting members.
(5) In addition to the appointed members of the county hospital board, the chief executive officer shall be an ex officio member of the county hospital board, but without vote.
History:
[31-3603, added 1946 (1st E.S.), ch. 38, sec. 3, p. 75; am. 1957, ch. 57, sec. 1, p. 98; am. 1973, ch. 98, sec. 1, p. 166; am. 1975, ch. 58, sec. 1, p. 122; am. 1977, ch. 139, sec. 1, p. 300; am. 1982, ch. 340, sec. 2, p. 852; am. 1997, ch. 147, sec. 1, p. 423.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 36 - COUNTY HOSPITAL BOARDS › Section 31-3604 - TERM OF OFFICE OF MEMBERS.

31-3604. TERM OF OFFICE OF MEMBERS. The term of office of the members of the county hospital board shall be three (3) years and until a successor is appointed and qualified: Provided, that of the first board appointed one-third (1/3) of the membership, or as nearly one-third (1/3) as the number to be appointed shall permit, shall be appointed for the term of one (1) year; one-third (1/3) of the membership, or as nearly one-third (1/3) as the number to be appointed shall permit, for the term of two (2) years; and one-third (1/3) of the membership, or as nearly one-third (1/3) as the number to be appointed shall permit, for the term of three (3) years. All succeeding appointments shall be for the term of three (3) years, except that any vacancy occurring by reason of death, resignation or other cause shall be for the remainder of the term of the member whose office becomes vacant.
History:
[31-3604, added 1946 (1st E.S.), ch. 38, sec. 4, p. 75.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 36 - COUNTY HOSPITAL BOARDS › Section 31-3605 - ORGANIZATION OF BOARD — TERM OF EXISTENCE.

31-3605. ORGANIZATION OF BOARD — TERM OF EXISTENCE. The county hospital board may be created under the provisions of this chapter at any time, and when created the members of the county hospital board who have been appointed and qualified shall, within ten (10) days after the appointment of the board, meet, organize and enter upon the performance of its duties. A county hospital board once created shall continue until such time as its discontinuance is ordered by a majority vote of the qualified electors of the county voting upon the question of discontinuance of the county hospital board at an election, held subject to the provisions of section 34-106, Idaho Code, at which the question is submitted to the electors for their vote by appropriate action and proceedings of the board of county commissioners.
History:
[31-3605, added 1946 (1st E.S.), ch. 38, sec. 5, p. 75; am. 1995, ch. 118, sec. 35, p. 459.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 36 - COUNTY HOSPITAL BOARDS › Section 31-3606 - MEETINGS AND QUORUM.

31-3606. MEETINGS AND QUORUM. The county hospital board shall hold its meetings and shall conduct all of its business at a place to be designated by the board of county commissioners or as may be subsequently designated by resolution of the county hospital board, and shall meet at its place of business in regular session on the first Monday of each month, or at such other time as may be adopted by resolution of the county hospital board, and at such other times as may be necessary or convenient for the transaction of its business. Any member of the board absent for three (3) successive regular meetings may be deemed to have resigned from the board and the board of county commissioners shall immediately appoint another person in the manner provided in section 31-3603, Idaho Code, to fill the vacancy so occurring. Special meetings shall be called by the chairman of the county hospital board by written notice of at least three (3) days served upon or delivered to each member of the board. The board may recess or continue to a time certain any meeting, regular or special, by motion adopted and included in its minutes.
History:
[31-3606, added 1946 (1st E.S.), ch. 38, sec. 6, p. 75; am. 1970, ch. 129, sec. 1, p. 303; am. 1982, ch. 340, sec. 3, p. 852.]
2023 Idaho Code › Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW › Chapter 36 - COUNTY HOSPITAL BOARDS › Section 31-3608 - OFFICERS OF BOARD.

31-3608. OFFICERS OF BOARD. The county hospital board shall elect a chairman, vice-chairman, a secretary and a treasurer. The chairman and vice-chairman shall be members of the board. The secretary may be a member of the board or otherwise, as the board may determine. The treasurer may be a member of the board or otherwise, as the board may determine. The chairman or vice-chairman shall preside at all meetings, call special meetings and shall sign all minutes of the board when the same have been approved. The chairman or vice-chairman, or such other members of the board as the board may designate, shall be authorized by the board to approve disbursements of funds in the custody of the hospital board.
The secretary shall receive such pay as the board may direct, and shall keep the minutes of all meetings in a book provided for that purpose, and shall sign the same when said minutes have been approved.
The treasurer shall have custody of the moneys for which the hospital board is responsible, and shall disburse the same only upon authorization of the board. It shall be the duty of the treasurer to invest idle moneys. Such investment of idle moneys shall be limited to investments that carry an A rating or better by a commonly known rating service and that are authorized by the legislature for the state treasurer pursuant to sections 67-1210 and 67-1210A, Idaho Code. The treasurer shall receive such pay for services as the board may determine, and shall be required to file bond for the faithful performance of his duties as treasurer in an amount at least equal to the largest amount of money to come into his hands.
History:
[31-3608, added 1946 (1st E.S.), ch. 38, sec. 8, p. 75; am. 1982, ch. 340, sec. 5, p. 854; am. 2015, ch. 206, sec. 2, p. 634.]