§88-4  Medical aid, etc., when free.  Every
recipient of any retirement allowance or pension payable by the State or by any
county or by any other governmental body or agency created by or under the laws
of the State who is actually and solely dependent upon the recipient's
retirement allowance or pension for the recipient's maintenance and support or
whose total income in whatever form or from whatever source received, including
but not limited to, the recipient's retirement allowance or pension and any income
of the recipient's spouse or reciprocal beneficiary is less than $2,400 a year
shall, for the recipient and the recipient's spouse or reciprocal beneficiary,
be entitled to free medical treatment from any government physician employed by
the State or any county and to free hospitalization at any state hospital or at
a hospital where county patients are treated at county expense in the county
wherein the recipient resides.



Whenever a retirant or pensioner having a
spouse or reciprocal beneficiary dies, then the spouse or reciprocal
beneficiary, as long as the spouse or reciprocal beneficiary remains unmarried
and does not enter into a reciprocal beneficiary relationship, shall be
eligible for benefits under this section. [L 1937, c 90, §1; RL 1945, §634; RL
1955, §6-4; am L 1964, c 64, §2; am L 1965, c 260, §1; HRS §88-4; am L 1969, c
110, pt of §1; gen ch 1985; am L 1997, c 383, §26]