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 Preface
This bulletin is one of a series intended to present in
abstract form the public welfare provisions of the laws of each of
the States.
The purpose of these bulletins is to give a brief review
of the provisions for public assistance under the laws of the several
jurisdictions, and of the administrative agencies set up by law with
reference thereto. A chart showing the organizational relationships
of the administrative agencies is included.
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 DIGEST OF PUBLIC WELFARE PROVISIONS
Public Welfare Provisions Page
Poor Relief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2401
Emergency Relief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2403
Aid to Dependent Children in Their Own homes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2404
Care of Dependent and Neglected Children (Institutions and Agencies) . . . 2407
Old Age Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2409
Veteran Relief. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2412
Administrative Provisions
StateReliefCOmmiSSion 0.00.0.0...000.100.00.0002415
State Board of Charities and Reform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2419
State Old Age Pension Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2422
Secretary of State Bureau of Child and Animal Protection . . . . . . . . . 2424
State Orthopedic Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2428
. State Board of Commissioners for Insane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2430
Superintendent of State Insane Asylum and Hospital for Inebriates . . 2430
State Board of Prison Commissioners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2434 ‘
WardenofStatePrison coon-ocean...-accuse-.92454
Veterans State Welfare Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2438
Board of Managers of the State Soldiers' Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2440
Executive Board of the State Tuberculosis Sanatorium . . . . . . . . . . . 2443
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Executive Board of the State Orphans' Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2450
Executive Board of the State Industrial School . . . . . . . . . . . 2455
Executive Board of the State Vocational School for Girls . . . . . . 2459
Executive Board of the State School for the Deaf and Blind and
State Training School for Feeble-minded Persons . . . . . . . . 2463
State Board of Pardons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2469
District Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2471
County Juvenile Improvement Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2478
Board of County Commissioners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2479
County Old Age Pension Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2483
County Relief Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2418
Chart Showing Public Welfare Agencies

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Montana 2401
. DIGEST or PUBLIC WELFARE PROVISIONS
POOR RELIEF
(a) Description of class

Every person without means, who is unable to earn a liveli-
hood in consequence of bodily infirmity, idiocy, lunacy, or other cause 1/;
provided such person has no father, grandfather, mother, grandmother,
children, grandchildren, brothers, or sisters able to support him. 2/

(b) Procedure for determining eligibility

Any person seeking relief must make application to the Board
of County Commissioners, which may grant an order for temporary relief,
but before granting any permanent order for relief the Board must obtain,
by investigation, satisfactory evidence that applicant meets the neces-
sary requirements to be entitled to relief. 5/

I (c) Measure of responsibility

Care in poorfarm or workhouse (where established). 1/ Care
by contract. 5/ Medical aid. 6/ Burial 2/, temporary care for non-resi-
dents §/, hospitalization and nursing (by contract). §/

. (d) Qualifications imposed
Applicant must have been a resident of the county for one
- year immediately preceding date of application. 5/

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1. Rev. Codes Ann. (1955), Sec. 4522.
2. Ibid, Sec. 4524.
5. Ibid, Sec. 4551.
4. Ibid, Sec. 4554.
5. Ibid, Sec. 4525.

The Board of County Commissioners may annually award to the lowest
responsible bidder a contract for the care, support and maintenance of
the county poor and indigent sick for the ensuing year. Ibid, Sec.4526.
6. Rev. Codes Ann. (1955), See. 4527.

7. Ibid, Sec. 4550.
8. Ibid, Sec. 4555.

Persons who have not been residents of a county one year, may be
furnished relief by the Board of County Commissioners in cases of ex-
treme necessity and destitution. Ibid.

If on examination it appears that the applicant is a resident of
some other county of the State, the Board of County Commissioners must,
at the expense of the county,cause him to be removed to the county of

. which he is a resident. Ibid, Sec. 4552.

 2402 Montana — Digest of Public Welfare Provisions
POOR RELIEF (Cont'd) .
(d) Tualifications imposed (Cont'd)

When pauper is an able—bodied male, the Board of County
Commissioners may require such pauper to work out relief given, at the .
prevailing rate of wages for the particular class of labor performed
on all unbudgeted governmental work. 2/

(9) Incidence of financial responsibility

County. 2/ (Obligation mandatory.)

(f) Taxes
Per capita tax not exceeding $2; property tax not exceed-
ing three-fifths of one percent of assessed valuation. 10/
(8) Administrative agencies
Board of County Commissioners. 11/
(h) Supervisory controls

The State Board of Charities and Reform must personally
visit and investigate poorhouses in the State, and must collect statis- .
tics regarding the number of poor supported by towns or otherwise at
public expense, outside poorhouses. 12/

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9. Rev. Codes Ann. (1955), Sec. 4524.

10. Ibid, Sec. 4465 (4).

11. Ibid, Sec. 2295 (28).

12. Ibid, Sec. 350.

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Montana - Digest of Public Welfare Provisions 2405
‘I’ EMERGENCY RELIEF
(a) Description of class
People of the State whom economical conditions, industrial
inactivity, old age, unemploynent or other causes over which they have
no control, have deprived of support. 1/
(b) Procedure for determinipg eligibility
The State Relief Commission must make all necessary rules
and regulations in connection with the making of applications for re-
lief and the investigation and granting of the same, and must require
adequate standards of relief and the making of such reports as it deems
necessary. 2/
(0) Measure of responsibility
Means for the sustenance of life, shelter and the relief
of distress; employment to prevent persons from becoming objects of
relief. 1/
(d) Qualifications imposed
No provision.
. (e) Incidence of financial responsibility
0n the State. g/ (Obligation mandatory.)
(f) Texas
No specific provision. (State Relief Fund.) 3/
(g) Administrative ggencies
' State Relief Commission 3/, assisted by County Relief
Committee, where established. p/
(h) Supgrvisory controls
No provision.
1. Rev. Codes Ann. (1935), Sec. 335.1.
2. Ibid, Sec. 335.13.
3. Ibid, Sec. 335.4.
4. Ibid, Sec. 335.1, 335.4.
5. Ibid, Sec. 335.12.

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AID TO DEPENDENT CHILDREN IN THEIR OWN HOMES .
(a) Description of class

Each child under the age of 16 years, whose father is dead
or an inmate of some State institution, except the State Prison, or who
is physically or mentally incapacitated, which act of disability may
have occurred while he was a resident of the State, and who has for a
period of one year or more, failed to provide for the child, or whose
father is an inmate of the State Prison and has, for a period of 90 days
or more, failed to provide for such child, is entitled to such assis—
tance as may help to make it possible for the child to be cared for in
his or her own home without being sent to some public institution. This
financial aid must be given to the mother of such child or children. 1/

The word ”mother" includes mother by birth or legal adoption
or person in loco parentis who has been sole support of child for one
year immediately preceding application. 2/

(b) Procedure for determining eligibility

Application may be made by the mother to the Board of County
Commissioners by a petition setting forth the facts required to receive
aid, and in addition thereto, the age and residence of such child or chil-
dren, the residence of the mother, and the financial condition of such
mother and child or children, which petition must bear the signatures of
at least 10 taxpayers, residents in the community where applicant has .
last made her home. Upon the filing of such petition the Board of County
Commissioners must make personal investigation, or may designate the Bureau
of Child and Animal Protection of the State, the County Probation Officers,
or some other responsible resident of the county wherein the mother re-
sides to make a thorough investigation of all the facts of the case, and
the Board of County Commissioners must make an order setting the petition
for hearing at the next regular meeting of the Board. 5/

Whenever the Board of County Commissioners determines that
the allowance may be made, it must make an order in writing, which order
among other things must set out the full name of the mother, her place
of residence by street and number where possible, the names and ages of
the children, and the amount allowed to each child. 5/

(c) W

Cash allowance of $20 per month for one child under 16. If
there be more than one child, $15 per month for the first child, $10 per
month for the second child, and $5 per month for each additional child;
provided the total amount paid to any one mother may not exceed $50. 5/

1. Rev. Codes Ann. (1955), Sec. 10480.

2. Ibid, Sec. 10482 (1).

5. Ibid, Sec. 10482 (7).

4. Ibid, Sec. 10485. .
5. Ibid, Sec. 10481.

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. ADD TO DEPENDENT CHILDREN IN THEIR OWN HOMES (Cont'd)
(d) Qualifications imposed

Child or children for whose benefit allowance is made must
be living with their mother. 6/

The allowance may be made only when in the absence of such
allowance, the mother would be unable properly to pr0vide and care for
the child or children without being required to work regularly away from
her own home and children. 1/

The mother must, in the judgment of the Board of County
Commissioners, be a proper person physically, mentally, and morally
for the bringing up of her children. 8/

The allowance must in the judgment of the Board of County
Commissioners be actually necessary for the support and maintenance of
the child or children in the home. 3/

No person may receive the benefit of this act who is not
a citizen of the United States, or who has not declared her intention
to become a citizen, and who has not been a resident of the county in
which the application is made for at least one year prior to the making
of such application for such allowance. lQ/

. The provisions of this act must not apply in the case of any
child who has property of its own sufficient for its support. 11/

No allowance shall continue after a child has reached 16
years of age; and when the mother of a child marries, the allowance
shall cease. 23/

(e) Incidence of financial responsibility

County. (Obligation mandatory.) lg/

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6. Rev. Codes Ann. (1935), Sac. 10482 (1).
7. Ibid, Sec. 10482 (2).

The mother may be at times absent for work with the approval of
the Board of County Commissioners, if they deem it for the best in-
terests