8200. (Amended by Stats. 1978, Ch. 429.)

If provision is made by law of the United States for the administration by public agencies of this state of federal appropriations for the welfare of the Indians in this state, such state agencies may administer the expenditure of such federal appropriations within the scope of their legal powers. The State Department of Health Services shall administer the expenditure of all such federal appropriations for the care and hospitalization of, and for medical attention to, sick or injured Indians and for the control and prevention of communicable and infectious diseases and general sanitation among the Indians in this state. The State Department of Education shall administer the expenditure of such federal appropriations for the construction and maintenance of schools and the education of the Indians in this state. The State Department of Social Services shall administer the expenditure of such federal appropriations for the relief of aged, infirm, and indigent Indians in this state. Subject to such limitations as the law of the United States or the Secretary of the Interior lawfully imposes upon the administration of such funds, the state departments above mentioned may expend the same for the purposes within their respective jurisdictions which the respective heads of the departments deem best to conserve the interests and welfare of all the Indians residing within the state.