2005 Idaho Code - 31-3403 — DEFINITIONS

                                  TITLE  31
                           COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW
                                  CHAPTER 34
                        NONMEDICAL INDIGENT ASSISTANCE
    31-3403.  DEFINITIONS. As used in this chapter:
    (1)  "Adult household member" means any individual eighteen (18) years of
age and over who resides in the household.
    (2)  "Anticipated future income" means a reasonable expectation of income
to the household based on an analysis of past income, future income, current
income, experience, skills, education, inheritance and possible assets from
any source.
    (3)  "Applicant" means the individual and all others in the household who
are requesting nonmedical assistance, and who submits a county application.
    (4)  "Assets" means property rights including, but not limited to,
personal, real, tangible and intangible property.
    (5)  "Authorized representative" means the applicant's guardian or
appointed attorney-in-fact.
    (6)  "Board" means a board of county commissioners.
    (7)  "Clerk" means the clerk of a board of county commissioners or his
designee.
    (8)  "Emergency" means any circumstance demanding immediate action.
    (9)  "Household" means a collective body of persons consisting of spouses
or parents and their children who reside in the same residence; or all other
persons who by choice or necessity are mutually dependent upon each other for
basic necessities and who reside in the same residence.
    (10) "Indigent" means any applicant who does not have resources available
from whatever source which shall be sufficient to enable the applicant to
provide nonmedical assistance or a portion thereof.
    (11) "Information release" means the document authorizing release of
confidential information.
    (12) "Investigation" means a detailed examination of the application and
information required from the applicant and others to verify eligibility.
    (13) "Nonmedical assistance" means reasonable costs for assistance which
includes food and shelter and other such necessary services determined by the
board by resolution.
    (14) "Obligated county for payment" means the county wherein residency has
been established.
    (15) "Recipient" means the individual(s) determined eligible for county
assistance.
    (16) "Repayment" means the authority of the board of county commissioners
to require indigent person(s) to repay the county for assistance when
investigation of their application determines their ability to do so.
    (17) "Resident" means a person with a home, house, place of abode, place
of habitation, dwelling or place where one actually lived for a consecutive
period of thirty (30) days or more prior to the date of application.
    (18) "Resource" means assets, whether tangible or intangible, real or
personal, liquid or nonliquid, including, but not limited to, gifts, bequests,
grants, all forms of public or private assistance, crime victim's
compensation, worker's compensation, veteran's benefits, medicaid, medicare
and any other property from any source for which an applicant and/or an
obligated person may be eligible or in which he or she may have an interest.
For purposes of determining approval for nonmedical indigency only, resources
shall not include the value of the homestead of the applicant or obligated
person's residence, a burial plot, exemptions for personal property allowed in
section 11-605(1) through (3), Idaho Code, and additional exemptions allowed
by county resolution.