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Law No. 281 Of 6 July 2006 On Modification And Completion Of The Law Nr. 17/2000 Relating To The Social Welfare Of Older Persons

Original Language Title:  LEGE nr. 281 din 6 iulie 2006 pentru modificarea şi completarea Legii nr. 17/2000 privind asistenţa socială a persoanelor vârstnice

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LEGE no. 281 281 of 6 July 2006 to amend and supplement Law no. 17/2000 on the social assistance of older people
ISSUER PARLIAMENT
Published in OFFICIAL MONITOR no. 600 600 of 11 July 2006



The Romanian Parliament adopts this law + Article I Law no. 17/2000 on the social assistance of elderly persons, published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 104 of 9 March 2000, shall be amended and supplemented as follows: 1. Article 24 shall read as follows: "" Art. 24. -(1) Elderly persons who have their own income and are cared for in hostels organized according to this law, as well as their legal supporters have the obligation to pay monthly a maintenance contribution, established on the basis of the average monthly maintenance cost. (2) Elderly persons who have no income nor legal supporters do not owe the maintenance contribution, which is ensured from the local or county budgets, as the case may be, within the limit decided by them. (3) Local or county councils shall decide on the amount of the monthly maintenance contribution due by elderly persons cared for in hostels and/or legal supporters and in the event that the incomes of such persons are insufficient to cover the average monthly maintenance cost. " 2. Article 25 shall read as follows: "" Art. 25. -(1) The average monthly maintenance cost shall be determined annually by the local and/or county councils, as the case may be, before the adoption of their budgets. (2) The average monthly maintenance cost is determined according to the degree of dependency of the elderly person cared for and envisages maintenance expenses, for food and household, inventory items, equipment and barracks, materials sanitary and the like, in accordance with the budget classification specific to the budgets of local public administration authorities. ((3) The expenses related to the payment of salaries for staff employed in hostels, payment of medicinal products and capital expenditures shall not be taken into account when establishing the average monthly maintenance cost. (4) The average monthly maintenance cost shall ensure that the quality standards are met for the services offered, adopted and approved under the law. ((. The coverage of the full amount of the monthly contribution shall be as follows: a) older people who have income and are cared for in the home owe the monthly maintenance contribution in the amount of up to 60% of the monthly personal income value, without exceeding the average monthly maintenance cost approved for each home; b) the difference up to the competition of the full amount of the monthly maintenance contribution will be paid by legal supporters of elderly people cared for in hostels, if they realize income per family member higher than the gross minimum wage per country in force; c) legal supporters may cover the full monthly contribution from their own income through a payment commitment. (6) If by applying the quota provided in par. ((5) lit. a) cover the total amount of the monthly contribution, legal supporters are no longer held by the obligation to support the payment of the contribution difference. (7) The obligation to pay the monthly maintenance contribution for the elderly person and/or legal supporters shall be determined by a payment commitment, signed by the elderly person, by his legal representative, as the case may be, and/or the legal supporter. The payment commitment is enforceable. (8) The obligation to pay the monthly contribution to legal supporters may also be determined by judicial decision. " + Article II Law no. 17/2000 on the social assistance of elderly persons, with the amendments and completions brought by this law, will be republished in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, giving the texts a new numbering. This law was adopted by the Romanian Parliament, in compliance with the provisions of art. 75 75 and art. 76 76 para. (1) of the Romanian Constitution, republished. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES PRESIDENT BOGDAN OLTEANU SENATE PRESIDENT NICOLAE VACAROIU Bucharest, July 6, 2006. No. 281. -----------------