Section 3.705 - Department of social welfare payment of chargeable expenses.
INTERSTATE COMPACT ON JUVENILES (EXCERPT)
Act 203 of 1958
***** 3.705 THIS SECTION IS REPEALED BY 2003 PA 56 EFFECTIVE ON THE DATE THAT THE COMPACT ADMINISTRATOR APPOINTED UNDER 2003 PA 56 CERTIFIES TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE THAT THE THIRTY-FIFTH STATE HAS ENACTED THE COMPACT AS PROVIDED IN ARTICLE X OF 2003 PA 56 *****
3.705 Department of social welfare payment of chargeable expenses.
Sec. 5.
The department, subject to the approval of the controller, may make or arrange for any payments necessary to discharge any financial obligations imposed upon this state by the compact or by any supplementary agreement entered into thereunder. The department may use funds received from the federal government for child welfare services for administering state services under this act to the extent provided by the rules and regulations of the department. No court or administrative service of this state shall make any charge for any filing fee or for any copy or certified copy of any order which may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this act. The costs for the return of juveniles to institutions or facilities operated by the department may be paid from the respective contractual services appropriation of such institution or facilities: Provided, That the court in demanding the return of a child shall determine whether a parent whose rights to the child have not been terminated is able to pay for the return of said child in whole or in part and to order that payment as reimbursement of the county or of the state institution which has paid for the return as provided in section 18 of chapter 12A of Act No. 288 of the Public Acts of 1939, as amended, being section 712A.18 of the Compiled Laws of 1948: And provided further, That the remainder of transportation expenses and other expenses incidental thereto of these children and all of the transportation and incidental expenses of other children, if not being returned to institutions or facilities operated by the department, shall be paid on order of the juvenile court in the same manner and from the same fund as if the child were in detention in the juvenile detention facility used by the court.
History: 1958, Act 203, Eff. Sept. 13, 1958