Title 31 — COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW

31-3212. Exceptions to fee schedule — Habeas corpus — State or any county of Idaho a party — Cost of transcripts. (1) No filing or recording fee of any kind shall be charged or received by any county officer mentioned in this chapter for duties performed or services rendered in p…

31-3213. Pensioners exempt from paying fee — Penalty for charging. No judge or clerk of court, county clerk, county auditor or any other county officer shall be allowed to charge any honorably discharged male or female veteran who had active service in any war or conflict officia…

31-3214. Table of fees — Officers to publish — Penalty for neglect. Every officer whose fees are herein ascertained must publish and set up in his office fair tables of his fees, according to this title, within one (1) month after he enters upon the duties of his office, in some …

31-3215. Execution for fees. If any clerk, sheriff, justice of the peace, or constable, shall not have received any fees which may be due him for services rendered in any suit or proceeding, he may have execution therefor, in his own name, against the party from whom they are due…

31-3217. Limitation on mileage of officer. When any sheriff, constable or coroner serves more than one (1) process in the same case, not requiring more than one (1) journey from his office, he shall receive mileage only for the most distant service.

31-3218. Receipt for fees. Every officer upon receiving any fees for official duty or services, may be required by the person making the same to make out in writing and deliver to such person a particular account of such fees, specifying for what they respectively accrued, and sh…

31-3219. Photographic copies of records — Fees. The county recorder, and the clerk of the district court, is allowed, and may receive for his services, the following fees, to be paid him by the party procuring his services: For photographic copies of any record the sum of $1.00 p…

31-3220. Inability to pay fees — Definitions — Affidavit. (1) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Action" means any civil suit, action, proceeding or appeal of any such action, including a habeas corpus action, but excluding proceedings broug…

31-3220A. Prisoner payment of fees at time of filing of action — partial payment of fees — Dismissal of action. (1) For the purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Action" means a civil suit, action, proceeding, or appeal of any such action, includin…

31-3221. Payments to court by credit card or debit card. (1) The clerk of the district court may accept payment of a debt owed to the court by a credit card or debit card. Any person making payment on a debt owed to the court by a credit card or debit card shall be assessed an el…

31-3301. Accounts must be presented to commissioners. Accounts for county charges of every description must be presented to the board of county commissioners to be audited as provided by law.

31-3302. County charges enumerated. (1) For purposes of this section, "reimbursement rate" means ninety-five percent (95%) of the unadjusted medicaid rate of reimbursement for medical charges allowed pursuant to title XIX of the social security act, as amended, that is in effect …

31-3401. Powers and duties of the board of county commissioners. The boards of county commissioners in their respective counties shall, under such limitations and restrictions as are prescribed by law, evaluate the need and provide to indigent persons nonmedical assistance in a t…

31-3402. Contract for maintenance of indigent. The boards of county commissioners in their respective counties, may contract for the care, protection and maintenance of the nonmedically indigent of the county. They shall require the contractor to enter into a bond to the county w…

31-3403. Definitions. As used in this chapter: (1) "Adult household member" means any individual eighteen (18) years of age and over who resides in the household. (2) "Anticipated future income" means a reasonable expectation of income to the household based on an analysis of pas…

31-3404. Application for nonmedical indigent assistance. (1) Any person or their authorized representative desiring nonmedical assistance from any county in this state shall, before such aid can be given, make a written application to the clerk of the board of county commissioner…

31-3405. Eligibility classifications — Duration of assistance for purposes of eligibility. The county is not obligated to provide nonmedical assistance for more than one (1) month in the aggregate in any twelve (12) month period to persons who are eligible for assistance. Assista…

31-3406. Investigation of application. It is the duty of the clerk of the board of county commissioners or his designee, to whom such application is made, to investigate, or cause to be investigated, the grounds of such application, and require the person and other such persons a…

31-3407. Obligated county. The county obligated for payment of nonmedical assistance for eligible applicants shall be the county in which said applicant currently maintains a residence at the time of application.

31-3408. Eligibility. Pursuant to this chapter, eligibility for nonmedical assistance shall be based on the documentation of county residence, completion of an application and interview, except as provided in section 31-3410, Idaho Code. Failure to comply shall result in a denial…

31-3409. Application of state and federal program — Interim relief subrogation of county to receipt of federal payments. (1) An eligible applicant may be provided nonmedical interim assistance that is consistent with the resolution adopted by the board and to the extent such reli…

31-3410. Decision of county. The board shall give written notice of its decision within fifteen (15) working days following completion of the interview. In an emergency circumstance, the clerk or his designee shall make an immediate decision regarding nonmedical assistance. The d…

31-3411. Notice of appeal. The applicant has the right to appeal the decision of the board. Such appeal shall be filed with the clerk of the board, in writing, within thirty (30) days of the date of the board’s denial. If the appeal is denied by the board, the applicant shall be …

31-3412. Indigent burial or cremation. It shall be the duty of the board to provide for burial or cremation of any deceased indigent person. The amount paid by the obligated county shall not in any case exceed the established or negotiated rate set by each board. If the coroner, …

31-3413. Approved claims. The board shall not allow any claim or demand against the county for services to any indigent person until eligibility has been established. The board shall, by resolution, authorize the expenditures of funds not exceeding an aggregate amount to provide …

31-3414. Repayment by recipient. By acceptance of county assistance an applicant agrees to repay the county for all or any portion of expenses paid, when the board finds the applicant is able to repay all or any portion of the charges over a reasonable period of time and/or has a…

31-3415. Divestiture. Applicants who have divested their assets or resources within three (3) months prior to applying for county assistance in order to become eligible shall be denied assistance.

31-3416. Violations and penalty. Any person who withholds information, or gives false or incomplete information on an application for the purposes of obtaining county aid to which they are not otherwise entitled, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

31-3417. Separability. If the provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions of applications of the chapter, which can be given effect without the invalid provisions or applicat…

31-3418. Confidentiality — Proceedings and records of indigents. All proceedings and records related to indigency, pursuant to chapter 34, title 31, Idaho Code, shall be exempt from disclosure pursuant to chapter 1, title 74, Idaho Code.

31-3501. Powers and duties of county commissioners. The county commissioners in their respective counties shall, under such limitations and restrictions as are prescribed by law, have the jurisdiction and power to provide county hospitals and public general hospitals for the coun…

31-3502. eligibility for financial assistance. (1) Notwithstanding any provision of law or rule to the contrary, no person eligible for medicaid pursuant to section 56-254 or 56-267, Idaho Code, shall be eligible for financial assistance pursuant to this chapter as it existed on …

31-3503. Reimbursement. (1) An approved application for financial assistance for services received through March 31, 2022, shall obligate an applicant to reimburse the obligated county and the state for such reasonable portion of the financial assistance paid on behalf of the app…

31-3504. Joint county hospitals. Recognizing the need of hospitals for the public welfare and the burden for one (1) county to finance the cost of such construction, operation and maintenance thereof within its own boundaries under certain circumstances, the county commissioners …

31-3505. Election for issuance of bonds. The county commissioners may, when they deem the welfare of their counties require it, or when petitioned thereto by a number of resident taxpayers of their respective counties equal to five percent (5%) of the number of persons voting for…

31-3506. Internal management — Accounts and reports. Such facilities as referred to in section 31-3503, Idaho Code, may suitably provide for and accept other patients and must charge and accept payments from such other patients as are able to make payments for services rendered a…

31-3507. Lease or sale. Such counties acting through their county commissioners shall have the right to lease such hospitals upon such terms and for such a length of time as they may decide, or to sell the same; provided, however, that no such lease or sale, except those leases e…

31-3508. Conveyance, lease of county hospital to nonprofit corporation. (1) As an alternative to the procedure set forth in section 31-3507, Idaho Code, counties acting through their respective county commissioners may convey or lease county hospitals, and the equipment therein, …

31-3509. Separability. If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this chapter, which can be given effect without the invalid provisions or applica…

31-3601. Resolution of county commissioners — Hearing and notice. Any county which now has or may plan to build, purchase or by any other means acquire a county hospital shall create a county hospital board in the following manner: The board of county commissioners shall, by appr…

31-3602. Creation of board. The board shall meet at the place and time fixed, at which time and place any elector or taxpayer residing within the county may appear and be heard upon the question of whether such hospital board shall be created, and after such hearing, if the board…

31-3603. Members of board. (1) The board of county commissioners shall, within thirty (30) days after the adoption of the order creating such board, appoint an odd number, not less than five (5) nor more than fifteen (15) persons, as members of such hospital board and shall make …

31-3604. Term of office of members. The term of office of the members of the county hospital board shall be three (3) years and until a successor is appointed and qualified: Provided, that of the first board appointed one-third (1/3) of the membership, or as nearly one-third (1/3…

31-3605. Organization of board — Term of existence. The county hospital board may be created under the provisions of this chapter at any time, and when created the members of the county hospital board who have been appointed and qualified shall, within ten (10) days after the app…

31-3606. Meetings and quorum. The county hospital board shall hold its meetings and shall conduct all of its business at a place to be designated by the board of county commissioners or as may be subsequently designated by resolution of the county hospital board, and shall meet a…

31-3607. Duties of board. (a) Fiscal Affairs. — The county hospital board shall be charged with the care, custody, upkeep, management and operation of all property belonging to the county and devoted to the purposes provided in section 31-3501, Idaho Code, and shall be responsibl…

31-3608. Officers of board. The county hospital board shall elect a chairman, vice-chairman, a secretary and a treasurer. The chairman and vice-chairman shall be members of the board. The secretary may be a member of the board or otherwise, as the board may determine. The treasur…

31-3609. Chief executive officer and employees. The county hospital board shall select and employ a competent chief executive officer whom they shall vest with general managerial powers over the operation of the hospital property, subject to the provisions of this act and subject…

31-3610. Rules and regulations for operation of hospital property — Hospital staff. The county hospital board shall have power to formulate and adopt such rules and regulations for the conduct and operation of the hospital property as it may deem necessary or convenient for the e…

31-3611. Rules and regulations open to inspection — Certified copies — Persons chargeable with knowledge. All rules and regulations for the operation of the hospital property which are in effect shall be kept on file in the office of the secretary of the county hospital board, an…