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2020 California Code
Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC
DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES
PART 5 - COUNTY AID AND RELIEF TO INDIGENTS
CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions
Section 17000.
Universal Citation: CA Welf & Inst Code § 17000 (2020)
17000.
Every county and every city and county shall relieve and support all incompetent, poor, indigent persons, and those incapacitated by age, disease, or accident, lawfully resident therein, when such persons are not supported and relieved by their relatives or friends, by their own means, or by state hospitals or other state or private institutions.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1784.)
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