(1) Within the limits of funds available therefor, the Department of Human Services may enter into agreements with licensed child-caring agencies and other appropriate facilities, including youth care centers, for the purchase of care for children who require and are eligible for such care, regardless of whether the children are wards of the state or whether the department is their guardian or has their custody or whether the children are surrendered to a child-caring agency or committed thereto by order of a court under ORS chapter 419B or 419C. The agreement shall prescribe the procedures for payment, the rate of payment and may contain such other conditions as the department and the agency or facility may agree.
(2) The department shall by rule adopt payment standards for foster care. In establishing standards, the department may take into account the income, resources and maintenance available to and the necessary expenditures of a foster parent who is a relative, as defined by rule, of the child placed in care. [1971 c.457 §4; 1993 c.33 §329; 2007 c.801 §1]
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