PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 351

(2)     Assigns to the State any right, title, and interest in support from any
other person that the applicant or recipient has in his own behalf or in behalf of any other
family member for whom he is applying for or receiving assistance, including any right
accrued when the assignment is executed;

(3)     Lives in a family home in which there is no reasonable indication of
neglect, as that term is defined in the law applicable to juvenile causes in the county or
Baltimore City where the child resides, which meets the standards of care and health
fixed by the laws of this State and any rules and regulations adopted pursuant to them,
and in which, if possible, the child's particular religious faith is fostered and protected
except that if an otherwise eligible child is living in a home in which there is indicated
neglect or which does not appear to meet the standards of care and health, assistance
shall be given or continued as follows:

(i) During a period of 90 days in which the local unit is investigating
the home, helping the child's parents or custodian to eliminate the indicated neglect or
substandard conditions of care and health, or assisting the parent or custodian to make
plans for the child;

(ii) Pending investigation and determination of neglect by the juvenile
court on petition filed by the local unit or others;

(iii) When, after determining that neglect exists, the court shall permit
the child to remain in the home under supervision of a probation officer or the local unit
pending placement elsewhere or while intensive efforts are being made to ameliorate the
conditions resulting in the child's neglect; and

(iv) During such time as the local unit, after the expiration of the
ninety-day period, shall inadvertently fail to file the petition alleging neglect or the court,
for any reason, shall fail to dispose of the petition; and

(4)     Meets the other requirements determined by the Administration.]
[48A.

If upon investigation it is determined by a local unit that there is reasonable cause
to believe that a child for whom assistance is sought or is being paid is neglected, the local
unit shall:

(1)     Fully inform the person having the child in care as to the nature of the
apparent neglect and the conditions under which assistance may be given or continued;

(2)     Afford the person having the child in care a sufficient period, not
exceeding ninety days, in which to either eliminate indicated neglect or substandard
conditions of health and care, or to make plans for the child; and

(3)     At the expiration of such period, and in any event no later than ninety
days after its commencement, if the child remains in the person's home and the
conditions of apparent neglect have not been corrected, file a petition in the appropriate
juvenile court alleging neglect; and said petition may be filed notwithstanding the
person's withdrawing his application for public assistance.]

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