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§ 28-13-1.1 "Indigent or poor person" defined--Eligibility standards.

SD Codified L § 28-13-1.1 (2019) (N/A)
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28-13-1.1. "Indigent or poor person" defined--Eligibility standards. For the purposes of this chapter, an indigent or poor person is any person who does not have sufficient money, credit, or property to be self-supporting; who has no one to look to who is legally required to provide support; or who is unable to be self-supporting through work because of illness or injury. In applying this definition, each county shall establish reasonable eligibility standards for county poor relief.

Source: SL 1984, ch 203, § 1; SL 1997, ch 170, § 1.

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