83-380 Cost of patient care; Director of Administrative Services; notify county clerk of amount due; levy; disbursement; withholding of funds by state.
83-380. Cost of patientcare; Director of Administrative Services; notify county clerk of amount due;levy; disbursement; withholding of funds by state.Withinthirty days after June 30, 1971, and each year thereafter, the department shall certify to the Directorof Administrative Services all amounts not previously certified due to eachstate institution from the several counties having patients chargeable thereto.The Director of Administrative Services shall thereupon notify the countyclerk of each county of the amount each county owes. The county board shalladd to its next levy an amount sufficient to raise the amount certified asdue. The county shall pay the amount certified into the state treasury onor before the next June 1 following such certification.From any county which fails to pay the total amount certifiedas due annually by the next June 1 following certification, there shall bewithheld by the State Treasurer from the next allocation to such county dueunder the provisions of section 77-27,137.03 an amount sufficient to equal the amount unpaid fromsuch county which amount shall be deducted from the county's portion and notthe municipalities' under section 77-27,137.01. The State Treasurer shallcredit the amount withheld the same as if the county had paid it when dueas above provided. SourceLaws 1969, c. 812, § 18, p. 3056; Laws 1971, LB 1012, § 2; Laws 1996, LB 1044, § 950; Laws 2007, LB296, § 797; Laws 2009, LB218, § 10.Operative Date: July 1, 2011