§ 15-125. Program for crippled children

   (a) State agency. -- The Department is the agency of this State:

   (1) To administer a program of services for children who are crippled or who have conditions that lead to crippling; and

   (2) To supervise the administration of the program services that the Department does not provide directly.

(b) Statement of purposes. -- The purposes of this program are:

   (1) To develop, extend, and improve services for finding these children;

   (2) To provide medical, surgical, corrective, and other services and care; and

   (3) To provide facilities for diagnosis, hospitalization, and aftercare.

(c) Powers. -- The Department may:

   (1) Prepare and administer detailed plans for these purposes;

   (2) Adopt rules and regulations for administering these plans;

   (3) Receive and, in accordance with these plans, spend all funds made available to the Department for these purposes; and

   (4) Cooperate with the federal government in extending and improving these services and in administering these plans.

HISTORY: An. Code 1957, art. 43, § 40, 41; 1982, ch. 21, § 2.