Whenever, under the provisions of this title, an indigent care facility for the indigent has been established by the overseers of the indigent of any county in this state, the overseers shall employ a resident of the county wherein the indigent care facility is erected to take charge of the same upon such terms and under such restrictions as such overseers shall consider most advantageous for the interests of the county and the welfare of the indigent persons residing in said facility. The party so employed shall be called administrator of the county indigent care facility, and shall protect the property of the county in his or her charge and under his or her control, and shall faithfully discharge his or her duties as guardian of the indigent. He or she shall be appointed by the Director of Human Services/Social Services and shall serve at his or her discretion. At the end of each fiscal year, he or she shall make and transmit to the Director who shall file with the county clerk, to be considered by the board of county commissioners, a complete report of all business transacted by him or her as such administrator, and shall attach to such report an invoice of all the personal property in his or her possession as such administrator. The administrator shall have authority to solicit as volunteers the indigent persons residing in such indigent care facility, who are able to do so, to labor in and about such facility, under his or her direction. Said administrator shall have such salary as the said overseers shall fix, and in accordance with such laws regulating the salaries of county employees.

R.L. 1910, § 4536. Amended by Laws 1994, c. 87, § 11, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.