R527-36-1. Authority and Purpose

(1)(a) Section 26B-1-202 authorizes the Department of Health and Human Services to adopt rules considered necessary for providing health and social services. (b) Section 26B-9-108 authorizes the Office of Recovery Services (ORS) to adopt, amend, and enforce rules to carry out the provisions of Title 26B, Chapter 9, Recovery Services and Administration of Child Support. (2) The purpose of this rule is to specify when ORS will continue to collect child support arrears when there is a termination of parental rights for a child or an adoption of a child.