Title 49 — Title 49

(a) Each county board of family and children services shall recommend to the commissioner of human services one or more names for appointment to the position of county director. The commissioner is designated as the appointing authority for the department and may accept or reject…

(a) The county director of the department of family and children services of each county shall provide an annual report no later than December 31 of each year, beginning in the year 2000, to the county board, county commission, and the director of the Division of Family and Child…

The county director shall be the executive and administrative officer of the county department, shall be responsible for operations and personnel, and shall serve as the secretary of the county board. He shall prepare and submit to the county board for its approval an annual budg…

(a) The primary purpose of county departments shall be to protect children. To achieve this primary purpose, the county departments shall, in accordance with rules and regulations of the Division of Family and Children Services of the department: (1) Investigate reports of abuse …

The State Personnel Board and the Department of Administrative Services shall remove from office any county director who has falsified any statement relating to his or her education, social welfare service, or other qualification, in any particular, whether material or immaterial. …

Any county department of family and children services, at the discretion of the county director, may destroy public assistance case records which have been inactive for three years or more, as well as related statistical and financial forms and reports. A record must be retained b…