The overseers of the indigent shall examine any application made to them by or on behalf of any indigent person for relief, and if such applicant has a residence in the county, they shall determine whether such relief is temporary and such as may be supplied by said overseers, or the applicant, if desired, shall be removed to the county indigent care facility. If, in such case, the relief sought is temporary, or the person seeking relief cannot be removed, the relief shall be furnished by said overseers; if otherwise, and such indigent person can be removed, he or she shall be placed in the county indigent care facility.
Okla. Stat. tit. 56, § 36