Idaho Code
Idaho Code § 31-3405 (2026)
Eligibility classifications — Duration of assistance for purposes of eligibility.
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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. Assistance provided in any Idaho county shall apply toward the one (1) month benefit period. The board may determine the length of additional eligibility, consistent with the county resolution, for nonmedical services, based upon documentation submitted to them as requested.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 19
cases, 1974–1990 · leading case: Carpenter v. Twin Falls Cnty., 691 P.2d 1190 (Idaho 1984).
Carpenter v. Twin Falls Cnty., 691 P.2d 1190 (Idaho 1984). “§ 31-3508 refers to a bill "submitted for payment pursuant to section 31-3405, Idaho Code," but I.C. § 31-3405 merely provides *1194 that "the bill for such hospitalization or expenditure shall be presented to the board of county commissioners, duly verified under oath," without…”
IHC Hospitals, Inc. v. Bd. of Commissioners, 697 P.2d 1150 (Idaho 1985). “I.C. § 31-3405. The county commissioners "shall," after determining that the applicant is medically indigent, make the necessary provisions for his relief.”
Powers v. Canyon Cnty., 703 P.2d 1342 (Idaho 1985). “I.C. § 31-3405. If the board is not to meet within ten days, the clerk, or in other cases an individual commissioner, may authorize up to $200 for the hospitalization or immediate necessities of the person.”
Idaho Falls Consol. Hospitals, Inc. v. Bingham Cnty. Bd., 642 P.2d 553 (Idaho 1982). “The clerk of the Board of County Commissioners is then immediately to investigate the grounds of the application and he may require that the person submit to physical and mental examinations and also may require that the person testify under oath, I.C. § 31-3405. The county…”
Univ. of Utah Hosp. v. Clerk of Minidoka Cnty., 760 P.2d 1 (Idaho 1988). “Bethke as clerk of the Board was under the provisions of I.C. § 31-3405 required to investigate himself or obtain an investigation of the grounds of the Hospital's claim.”
Braun v. Ada Cnty., 643 P.2d 1071 (Idaho 1982). “The bill submitted for payment pursuant to section 31-3405, Idaho Code, shall show the total hospital charges less any amounts which have been received under any other federal or state law.”
Salinas v. Canyon Cnty., 786 P.2d 611 (Idaho Ct. App. 1990). “I.C. § 31-3405. Once an applicant presents at least a prima facie showing of medical indigency, the burden of proof shifts to the board to rebut the applicant’s claims.”
Intermountain Health Care, Inc. v. Bd. of Cnty. Commissioners, 707 P.2d 410 (Idaho 1985). “The application process for non-emergency medical care is controlled by other portions of the indigency statute, specifically I.C. § 31-3405. 2 . I.C. § 31-3502(1) provides: ‘"Medically indigent’ means any person who is in need of hospitalization and who, if an adult, together…”
St. Benedict's Hosp. v. Cnty. of Twin Falls, 686 P.2d 88 (Idaho Ct. App. 1984). “This intent also is manifested elsewhere in the 1976 legislation, where I.C. § 31-3405 was amended to provide that the clerk “immediately investigate, or cause to be investigated, the grounds of such application, and .”
Intermountain Health Care, Inc. v. Bd. of Cnty. Commissioners of Blaine Cnty., 688 P.2d 260 (Idaho Ct. App. 1984). “In 1978, our Supreme Court reviewed the history of I.C. § 31-3405 and complained of its “inartful draftsmanship.”
Univ. of Utah Hosp. & Med. Ctr. v. Bethke, 611 P.2d 1030 (Idaho 1980). “Under former I.C. § 31-3405, the county clerk could authorize the person to be hospitalized or placed in the county hospital or, if the county was not provided with a hospital, the clerk could “authorize said person to be placed in some other suitable institution .”
Univ. of Utah Hosp. v. Bd. of Cnty. Commissioners, 745 P.2d 1062 (Idaho Ct. App. 1987). “The hospital also contends the application should be deemed approved because the county denied it without conducting an independent investigation as described in I.C. § 31-3405. In our opinion, the hospital’s reliance upon I.”
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