56-207. OLD-AGE ASSISTANCE. Old-age assistance shall be awarded to needy people who have attained the age of sixty-five (65) years, are residents of the state, and who are not inmates of public institutions at the time of receiving assistance except as patients in public medical institutions and who are not patients in any institution for tuberculosis or for mental diseases or who are not patients in any medical institution as a result of having been diagnosed as having tuberculosis or psychosis.
History:
[56-207, added 1941, ch. 181, sec. 7, p. 379; am. 1951, ch. 246, sec. 1, p. 520; am. 1974, ch. 233, sec. 4, p. 1590.]