§ 15-1. Assistance to needy persons; qualifications for participants; prescribing regulations and payment.

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(a)

Pursuant to the provisions of section 3, paragraph 12 of the charter of the city, needy persons who are in need of the basic necessities of life due to incapacity or unemployability because of physical or mental illness or handicap or disabling accident, or who are in such need because of the death, desertion, incarceration or enforced absence of the head of a family, and who are in such need because they are not eligible for assistance under the provisions of the state welfare act or under the provisions or any of the laws of the state, shall be eligible for public assistance funds appropriated by the city to provide for them the basic necessities of life.

(b)

The director of welfare shall prescribe specific eligibility requirements and payments, which may be more restrictive than those contained in this section, subject to approval of the city manager

(Code 1959, § 18-4; Ord. No. 23885, 1, 11-1-56; Ord. No. 36767, § 1, 8-22-68)

                    
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