252.13 - RECOVERY BY COUNTY.
252.13 RECOVERY BY COUNTY.
Any county having expended money for the assistance or support of
a poor person under this chapter, may recover the money from any of
the following: from the poor person if the person becomes able, or
from the person's estate; from relatives by action brought within two
years from the payment of the assistance or support, from the poor
person by action brought within two years after the person becomes
able, and from the person's estate by filing the claim as provided by
law. There shall be allowed against the person's estate a claim of
the sixth class for that portion of the liability to the county which
exceeds the total amount of all claims of the first through the fifth
classes, inclusive, as defined in section 633.425, which are allowed
against that estate. Section History: Early Form
[C51, § 806; R60, § 1374; C73, § 1350; C97, § 2222; C24, 27, 31,
35, § 5309; C39, § 3828.085; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75,
77, 79, 81, § 252.13] Section History: Recent Form
92 Acts, ch 1212, § 11
Referred to in § 252.14
Claims against estate, § 633.410 et seq.