Sec. 8. (a) If an applicant or a household is considered by the township trustee, as administrator of township assistance, to be incompetent or irresponsible to select food from a combined grocery and meat market or to make proper use of food stamps, the township trustee, as administrator of township assistance, shall issue the food purchase order in the name of one (1) of the following:
(1) Another adult member of the household.
(2) Another relative living in another household.
(3) Any other individual considered competent by the township trustee, as administrator of township assistance.
(b) For the purpose of selecting the combined grocery and meat market in a township having a population of more than ten thousand (10,000) from which food for the household is to be obtained, the competent individual referred to in subsection (a) shall be considered the individual responsible.
[Pre-1992 Revision Citation: 12-2-1-10(h).]
As added by P.L.2-1992, SEC.14. Amended by P.L.51-1996, SEC.59; P.L.73-2005, SEC.75.
Structure Indiana Code
Article 20. Township Assistance
Chapter 16. Provision of Various Forms of Township Assistance
12-20-16-1. Assistance Only Upon Necessity
12-20-16-2. Medical Assistance; Necessity
12-20-16-3. Utility Services Payment; Necessity; Eligibility
12-20-16-3.5. Prepaid Electric Service
12-20-16-6. Federal Food Stamp Program Eligibility
12-20-16-7. Eligible Markets; Continuing Eligibility; Purchase Order Itemization
12-20-16-8. Incompetent Head of Family; Alternate Food Purchase Order Issuance
12-20-16-9. Limitation on Food Assistance; Food Stamp Application
12-20-16-10. Livestock; Feed Instead of Cost of Food
12-20-16-11. Nonresidents; Transportation Without Ascertaining Legal Residence
12-20-16-12. Funeral and Burial or Cremation Expenses
12-20-16-13. Processing Purchased and Donated Materials for Township Assistance; Gardens