2013 Indiana Code
TITLE 12. HUMAN SERVICES
ARTICLE 20. TOWNSHIP ASSISTANCE
CHAPTER 8. LEGAL RESIDENCE AS CONDITION FOR RECEIPT OF TOWNSHIP ASSISTANCE
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IC 12-20-8
Chapter 8. Legal Residence as Condition for Receipt of
Township Assistance
IC 12-20-8-1
"Resident" defined
Sec. 1. For purposes of this chapter, an individual is a "resident"
of a township or county if the individual:
(1) has located in the township or county; and
(2) intends to make the township or county the individual's sole
place of residence.
As added by P.L.2-1992, SEC.14.
IC 12-20-8-2
Relief for residents
Sec. 2. If an individual is a resident of a township or county, the
township or county shall relieve and support the individual if the
individual is poor and in need of relief.
As added by P.L.2-1992, SEC.14.
IC 12-20-8-3
Intent to become resident; determination
Sec. 3. (a) The township trustee may deny township assistance to
an individual if the township trustee determines that the individual
does not intend to make the township or county the individual's sole
place of residence.
(b) The township trustee may consider all relevant information
that supports or refutes the individual's intent to make the township
or county the individual's sole place of residence, except the length
of time the individual has been located in the township or county.
As added by P.L.2-1992, SEC.14. Amended by P.L.73-2005, SEC.43.
IC 12-20-8-4
Continuance of legal residence
Sec. 4. A residence legally acquired continues until the legal
residence is lost or defeated by acquiring a new legal residence or by
willful and uninterrupted absence from the township in which legal
residence has been gained.
As added by P.L.2-1992, SEC.14.
IC 12-20-8-5
Determination of legal residence; factors discounted
Sec. 5. Time spent in a penal institution, public or private
charitable or benevolent institution, hospital, fraternal home, or in
any place while serving in the armed forces of the United States may
not be counted in determining legal residence in Indiana.
As added by P.L.2-1992, SEC.14.
IC 12-20-8-6
Loss of legal residence due to state or federal service
Sec. 6. An individual may not be considered to have lost a legal
residence in Indiana because of an absence that is due to business of
the state or of the United States.
As added by P.L.2-1992, SEC.14.
IC 12-20-8-7
Assistance notwithstanding inability to establish place of legal
settlement
Sec. 7. If the township trustee, as administrator of township
assistance, is unable to ascertain and establish the place of legal
residence of a poor individual within the township, the township
trustee shall proceed to provide assistance to the individual in the
same manner as other poor individuals are provided assistance.
As added by P.L.2-1992, SEC.14. Amended by P.L.73-2005, SEC.44.
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