Section 15-125 - Program for crippled children.
§ 15-125. Program for crippled children.
(a) State agency.- The Department is the agency of this State:
(1) To administer a program of services for children who are crippled or who have conditions that lead to crippling; and
(2) To supervise the administration of the program services that the Department does not provide directly.
(b) Statement of purposes.- The purposes of this program are:
(1) To develop, extend, and improve services for finding these children;
(2) To provide medical, surgical, corrective, and other services and care; and
(3) To provide facilities for diagnosis, hospitalization, and aftercare.
(c) Powers.- The Department may:
(1) Prepare and administer detailed plans for these purposes;
(2) Adopt rules and regulations for administering these plans;
(3) Receive and, in accordance with these plans, spend all funds made available to the Department for these purposes; and
(4) Cooperate with the federal government in extending and improving these services and in administering these plans.
[An. Code 1957, art. 43, §§ 40, 41; 1982, ch. 21, § 2.]