Idaho Code
Idaho Code § 31-3402 (2026)
Contract for maintenance of indigent.
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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 with two (2) or more approved sureties, in such sum as the boards may fix, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties and obligations as such contractor, and require him to report to the board no less than quarterly all persons committed to his charge, showing the expense attendant upon their care and maintenance.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 1988–1989 · leading case: Saxton v. Gem Cnty., 750 P.2d 950 (Idaho 1988).
Saxton v. Gem Cnty., 750 P.2d 950 (Idaho 1988). “The main theme of the argument advanced in the amicus brief of catastrophic illness was the rather specious contention that the word "may," as used in Idaho Code § 31-3402 , ought not to be judicially contorted into the word "shall.”
Frazier v. Neilsen & Co., 769 P.2d 1111 (Idaho 1989). “[2] The statute involved was I.C. § 31-3402, the first sentence of which gave two options to the counties in regard to providing medical attention to indigent and sick persons, i.”
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