§ 2.36.080. Medicine for indigent persons.

A.

The board of health is authorized and directed to establish a program for providing medicine to medically indigent persons residing within the boundaries of the metropolitan government, such program to be operated within the annual budget appropriation designated for this purpose, and to this end the board of health shall establish rules and regulations for the administration of this program, including rules governing the formulary of drugs to be provided and the method of establishing those entitled to the benefits of this program.

B.

The director of finance is authorized to pay bills submitted to him for medicine furnished the medically indigent. Such bills shall be paid by the director of finance from the annual budget appropriation established for the medically indigent program, but no such bill shall be paid by the director of finance unless it is approved by the board of health or by an official designated by the board and authorized to review and approve such bills.

(Prior code § 20-1-7)