Every county and every city and county shall relieve and support all incompetent, poor, indigent persons, and those incapacitated by age, disease, or accident, lawfully resident therein, when such persons are not supported and relieved by their relatives or friends, by their own means, or by state hospitals or other state or private institutions.
Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 17000
General Provisions
Applied in 33 court decisions — leading case 38 Cal. 3d 199 - Robbins v. Superior Court (1985)
Most recently applied in In re Verity Health Sys. of Cal., Inc. (December 2018)
Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1784.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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