Suspected fraud is to be referred by the local department to the State's Attorney for a decision with regard to any necessary legal action, if the facts indicate that an individual has knowingly obtained, attempted to obtain, or aided in the obtainment of, services to which he is not entitled or which are greater than those to which he is justly entitled, by means of a willfully false statement or misrepresentation, by the willful failure to disclose to the local department a change in household or financial condition, or by impersonation or other fraudulent device.

Authority: Family Law Article, §§14-101—14-404, Annotated Code of Maryland

Effective date: August 8, 1980 (7:16 Md. R. 1593)

Regulations .10E and .11 amended effective October 6, 1986 (13:20 Md. R. 2209)

Chapter revised effective October 31, 1988 (15:22 Md. R. 2555)

Regulation .10B amended effective August 19, 1991 (18:16 Md. R. 1811)

Regulation .15A amended effective February 18, 1991 (18:3 Md. R. 302)

Recodified from COMAR 07.02.16 to 07.06.14, December, 1992

Regulation .11 amended as an emergency provision effective October 1, 1997 (24:19 Md. R. 1334); amended permanently effective December 1, 1997 (24:24 Md. R. 1669)

Regulation .12B amended effective January 17, 1994 (21:1 Md. R. 29)

Chapter revised effective December 10, 2001 (28:24 Md. R. 2127)

Regulation .01 amended effective July 28, 2008 (35:15 Md. R. 1347)

Regulation .02B amended effective July 28, 2008 (35:15 Md. R. 1347)

Regulation .05 amended effective July 28, 2008 (35:15 Md. R. 1347)

Regulation .07A amended effective July 28, 2008 (35:15 Md. R. 1347)

Regulation .09B amended effective July 28, 2008 (35:15 Md. R. 1347)

Regulation .11 amended effective July 28, 2008 (35:15 Md. R. 1347)

Regulation .12A, E amended effective July 28, 2008 (35:15 Md. R. 1347)

Regulation .13D, E amended effective July 28, 2008 (35:15 Md. R. 1347)

Regulation .15A amended effective July 28, 2008 (35:15 Md. R. 1347)

Regulation .16B amended effective July 28, 2008 (35:15 Md. R. 1347)

Chapter recodified from COMAR 07.06.14 to COMAR 07.02.16, effective June, 2009