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PUBLIC LAW 87-807~OCT. 15, 1962

[76 STAT.

PROPERTY

Notice.

49 Stat. 620.

SEC. 18. (a) At the death of any person who has received public assistance in the form of old-age assistance, or aid to the disabled pursuant to the provisions of this Act, or of any Act repealed by this Act, the District shall haye a preferred claim for the amount of any such public assistance against the estate of the deceased recipient. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, no statute of limitations shall be deemed applicable as a defense to any claim of the District made pursuant to this section. The Commissioners are authorized to waive any such claim when in their judgment they deem it appropriate to do so. (b) In addition to the remedy provided by subsection (a) of this section, or by any other provision of law, the Commissioners may file a notice in the office of the Recorder of Deeds in any case where public assistance in the form of old-age assistance or aid to the disabled is granted to any person under this Act, and such notice shall constitute and have the effect of a lien in favor of the District against the real and personal property of such person for the amount of such public assistance which theretofore has been granted or which may thereafter be granted to, or on behalf of, such persons. Any such lien may be enforced by a proceeding filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The Commissioners shall file in the office of the Recorder of Deeds a release of any such real and personal property from the effect of such lien whenever there has been repaid to the District the amount of the public assistance theretofore granted to, or on behalf of, such person. The Commissioners are also authorized to release any such lien when in their judgment they deem it appropriate to do so. Such notices and releases may be filed without payment of fees. (c) If the District collects from any recipient of public assistance in the form of old-age assistance or aid to the disabled or from his estate, or otherwise, any amount with respect to public assistance furnished him under this Act, or under any Act repealed by this Act, the pro rata share to which the United States is equitably entitled shall be paid to the United States in accordance with the provisions of the Social Security Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 303, 603, 1203, 1353). The pro r^ta share due the District shall be deposited as miscellaneous receipts to the credit of the District. RESPONSIBLE RELATIVES

SEC. 19. (a) The husband, wife, father, mother, or adult child of a recipient of public assistance, or of a person in need thereof, shall, according to his ability to pay, be responsible for the support of such person. Any such recipient of public assistance or person in need thereof or the Commissioners may bring an action to require such husband, wife, father, mother, or adult child to provide such support and the couit shall have the power to make orders requiring such husband, wife, father, mother, or adult child to pay to such recipient of public assistance or to such person in need thereof such sum or sums of money in such installments as the court in its discretion may direct and such orders may be enforced in the same manner as orders for alimony. (b) The Commissioners shall be empowered on behalf of the District to sue such husband, wife, father, mother, or adult child for the amount of public assistance granted under this Act or under any Act repealed by this Act to such recipient or for so much thereof as such husband, wife, father, mother, or adult child is reasonably able to pay.

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