Section 15-125 - Program for crippled children. - Maryland Statutes

§ 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. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 43, §§ 40, 41; 1982, ch. 21, § 2.]