Section 1443 Of Article 1. Administration From California Health And Safety Code >> Division 2. >> Chapter 2.5. >> Article 1.
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. The board may provide for transporting the needy sick to and
from hospitals to which they may be sent by authority of the board,
and may provide for transporting indigents to other counties or
states when such indigents will thereby cease to become public
charges, or when friends or relatives of such indigents agree to
assume the cost and expense of the care and maintenance of such
indigents, or when such indigents are legally public charges in the
places to which they are so transported.