TITLE 40
Human services
CHAPTER 40-6
Public Assistance Act
SECTION 40-6-22
§ 40-6-22 Disclosure of information
Penalty.
(a) For purposes of this section, a "financial institution" means a bank,
savings bank, national bank, trust company, building and loan association, loan
and investment company, credit union, safe deposit company, any person or
corporation registered to sell securities under the provisions of chapter 11 of
title 7, or federal savings and loan institution authorized to do business
under the laws of this state.
(b) A financial institution, upon written request or upon
request made by computer file on magnetic tape, signed or submitted by an
authorized employee of the department of human services, shall inform the
department of the amount deposited in the financial institution to the credit
of a person named in or otherwise identified in the request as an applicant for
or recipient of public assistance under chapter 6 or 8 of this title. Upon the
request, the financial institution shall provide the requested deposit
information, in writing or by computer file on magnetic tape, to the department
of human services within sixty (60) days from the receipt of the request. The
department shall not submit its information request by computer file on
magnetic tape to a financial institution, which does not maintain deposit
information on computer files, and the financial institution shall not be
required to provide deposit information by computer file on magnetic tape.
(c) A financial institution shall be subject to a penalty of
one hundred dollars ($100) for each willful failure to provide the department
with the requested information. The department may recover the penalty by civil
action in any court of competent jurisdiction.
(d) The department of human services may disclose information
obtained pursuant to this section to an agency or department of another state
administering a public assistance program, provided that the department of
human services has executed a reciprocal agreement with the agency or
department for the reciprocal disclosure of deposit information.
History of Section.
(P.L. 1987, ch. 118, art. 13, § 2.)
