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2010 Arizona Revised Statutes
Title 46 - Welfare
| Chapter 1 | ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCIES AND OFFICERS |
| Article 1 | Definitions |
| 46-101 | Definitions |
| Article 2 | State Board of Public Welfare |
| Article 3 | State Department of Public Welfare |
| 46-132 | Special services unit |
| 46-132.01 | Depositions; attendance of witnesses; production of papers |
| 46-133 | Duties of attorney general |
| 46-134 | Powers and duties; expenditure; limitation |
| 46-135 | Power to promulgate rules concerning confidential nature of records |
| 46-136 | Powers of state department regarding work projects for unemployed persons |
| 46-137 | Administrative expenses |
| 46-138 | Expenditures for public welfare |
| 46-138.01 | Public assistance and administration revolving fund |
| 46-138.02 | Duplicate checks; notice; form and effect |
| 46-139 | Housing assistance |
| 46-140 | Duty of employees to report violations; penalties for failure to do so |
| 46-140.01 | Verifying applicants for public benefits; violation; classification; citizen suits |
| 46-141 | Criminal record information checks; fingerprinting employees and applicants |
| Article 4 | Out-of-Wedlock Pregnancy Prevention |
| 46-151 | Department of health services; out-of-wedlock pregnancies; goals |
| Article 5 | County Welfare Advisory Council |
| Article 6 | Lifespan Respite Care Program |
| 46-171 | S |
| 46-172 | Lifespan respite care program; program termination |
| 46-173 | Lifespan respite care advisory committee |
| Article 7 | Section on Aging |
| 46-181 | Section on aging |
| 46-182 | Section powers and duties; costs |
| 46-183 | Advisory council on aging; members; appointment; terms; compensation; officers; subcommittee |
| 46-184 | Advisory council duties |
| Article 8 | Arizona Older Americans Act-Nonmedical Home and Community Based Care Services |
| 46-191 | Definitions |
| 46-192 | Identification of services |
| 46-193 | Respite care for care givers of the elderly program; definition |
| Chapter 2 | ASSISTANCE |
| Article 1 | Procedure to Claim Assistance |
| 46-201 | Application for assistance; notice of penalties |
| 46-202 | Rules |
| 46-203 | Investigation of application; witnesses; financial institutions |
| 46-204 | Granting of assistance; notice to applicant; award; certification to department of administration; reimbursement |
| 46-205 | Appeal to state department from denial of application or failure of the local office to act; consideration by state department on own motion |
| 46-206 | Payment of assistance; authority of department of administration; limitation upon payment from state funds; methods of payment |
| 46-207 | Grant plus income; uniform assistance plan; amount of assistance |
| 46-207.01 | Temporary assistance for needy families; amount of cash assistance |
| 46-208 | Nontransferability and nonassignability of assistance; exemption from process |
| 46-209 | Residence in state after assistance granted; basis for discontinuance of payments to recipients of assistance |
| 46-210 | Effect on domicile of absence while in military service |
| 46-211 | Periodic reconsideration and change in amount of assistance |
| 46-212 | Assistance subject to amendment of law |
| 46-213 | Duty of recipient to notify department of change in status; recovery of excess assistance paid; violation; classification |
| 46-214 | Fee for representing applicant or recipient in civil proceeding under article prohibited |
| 46-215 | Welfare fraud; program disqualification; classification |
| 46-216 | Violation; classification |
| 46-217 | Finger imaging program; temporary assistance to needy families |
| 46-218 | Finger imaging program; food stamps |
| Article 2.1 | Short-Term Crisis Services |
| 46-241 | Definitions |
| 46-241.01 | Short-term crisis services |
| 46-241.02 | Eligibility for short-term crisis services |
| 46-241.03 | Appeals; hearings |
| 46-241.04 | Ineligibility for short-term crisis services |
| 46-241.05 | Method of payment |
| Article 2.2 | Domestic Violence Victims |
| 46-244 | Victims of domestic violence; identification; referrals; waiver |
| Article 3 | Supplemental Payment Programs |
| 46-251 | Mandatory state supplemental payments program |
| 46-253 | Ineligibility |
| Article 5 | Temporary Assistance for Needy Families |
| 46-291 | Administration and notice; expenditure limitation; locating deserting parents and assets; violation; classification |
| 46-292 | Eligibility for assistance |
| 46-293 | Ineligibility for other public assistance |
| 46-294 | Duration of assistance |
| 46-295 | Recovery of public assistance from legally responsible persons; fund; definition |
| 46-296 | Eligibility for assistance; unwed minor parents |
| 46-298 | Diversion from long-term assistance; report; definition |
| 46-299 | Jobs program; definition |
| 46-300 | Sanctions |
| 46-300.01 | JOBS program; privatization; definitions |
| 46-300.02 | Orders to seek employment; persons owing child support |
| 46-300.03 | Individual development accounts; definition |
| 46-300.04 | Perinatal substance abuse treatment and services |
| 46-300.05 | Substance abuse treatment |
| 46-300.06 | Food bank assistance for welfare to work and low income families program |
| Article 5.1 | Choice of Practitioner in Eye Care Services |
| 46-301 | Definitions |
| 46-302 | Selection of practitioner |
| 46-303 | Violation; injunction |
| Article 6 | Conformity |
| 46-311 | Conformity with federal legislation |
| Article 7 | Child Care Food Program |
| 46-321 | Fingerprinting; affidavit |
| Article 8 | Arizona Special Supplemental Food Program Fund for Women, Infants and Children |
| 46-331 | Arizona special supplemental food program fund for women, infants and children; purpose; reimbursement |
| Chapter 3 | CHILD SUPPORT OBLIGATIONS |
| Article 1 | Reimbursement of Public Assistance |
| 46-401 | Purpose |
| 46-402 | Definitions |
| 46-403 | Authorization of department to act |
| 46-404 | Notice; service; order |
| 46-406 | Funding for administration of public assistance services of child support enforcement program; expenditure limitation |
| 46-407 | Assignment of rights to support; definition |
| 46-408 | Assignment of support rights; priority; definitions |
| Article 2 | Support Payment Clearinghouse and Child Support Case Registry |
| 46-441 | Support payment clearinghouse; records transfer; payment; definition |
| 46-442 | Child support case registry; data sharing; unauthorized disclosure; civil penalty |
| 46-443 | Child support case registry; location information; presumptions concerning notice |
| 46-444 | Transfer of support rights; disbursement of support payments |
| 46-445 | Electronic transfer of support payments; warrants; definition |
| Chapter 4 | ADULT PROTECTIVE SERVICES |
| Article 1 | General Provisions |
| 46-451 | Definitions; program goals |
| 46-452 | Protective services worker; powers and duties |
| 46-452.01 | Office of state long-term care ombudsman |
| 46-452.02 | Long-term care ombudsman; duties; immunity from liability |
| 46-453 | Immunity of participants; nonprivileged communication |
| 46-454 | Duty to report abuse, neglect and exploitation of vulnerable adults; duty to make medical records available; violation; classification |
| 46-455 | Permitting life or health of a vulnerable adult to be endangered by neglect; violation; classification; civil remedy; definition |
| 46-456 | Duty to a vulnerable adult; financial exploitation; civil penalties; exceptions; definitions |
| 46-457 | Elder abuse central registry; mandatory reporting; release of information |
| 46-458 | Hearing process; definitions |
| 46-459 | Adult protective services registry |
| Chapter 5 | IDENTIFICATION CARDS |
| Article 1 | General Provisions |
| 46-601 | Identification card; contents; definition |
| 46-601.01 | Presentment of identification card |
| 46-602 | Department may contract for services |
| 46-603 | Fraudulent use of identification card; violation; classification |
| Chapter 6 | UTILITY ASSISTANCE |
| Article 1 | Telecommunications Service Assistance, General Provisions |
| 46-701 | Telecommunications service assistance program; administration; rules |
| 46-702 | Assistance eligibility; list |
| 46-703 | Assistance rate credit; form; applicable services; amount; application |
| 46-704 | Budget request |
| Article 3 | Utility Repair and Deposit Assistance |
| 46-731 | Utility assistance; qualified fuel fund entity; report; definitions |
| Article 4 | Neighbors Helping Neighbors Fund |
| 46-741 | Neighbors helping neighbors fund; definition |
| Chapter 7 | CHILD CARE SERVICES |
| Article 1 | General Provisions |
| 46-801 | Definitions |
| 46-802 | Child care services |
| 46-803 | Eligibility for child care assistance |
| 46-804 | Appeals |
| 46-805 | Child care assistance; rates |
| 46-806 | Choice of child care providers |
| 46-807 | Certification of family child care home and in-home providers; hearing |
| 46-808 | Confidentiality |
| 46-809 | Rules |
| 46-810 | Department of economic security; child care; report |
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