New Jersey Revised Statutes Title 30 - Institutions And Agencies

• Section 30:1-1 - Definitions.
  30:1-1. As used in this Title: "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Human Services. "Department" means the Department of Human Services. amended 1971, c.384, s.1;...
• Section 30:1-1.1 - Comprehensive Social Services Information Toll-free Hotline Service Established.
  1. a. The Commissioner of Human Services, in consultation with the Commissioners of Community Affairs, Health and Senior Services, Children and Families and Labor...
• Section 30:1-1.2 - Establishment Of Contracts, Licensing For Social Services Providers.
• Section 30:1-1.3 - Dhs To Receive Death Record Notification, Incarceration Information Electronically.
  6.The Department of Human Services shall arrange for the electronic receipt of death record notifications from the New Jersey Electronic Death Registration System, pursuant...
• Section 30:1-2 - Department Of Human Services.
  30:1-2. The Department of Human Services created as the Department of Institutions and Agencies by an act entitled "An act concerning the charitable, hospital,...
• Section 30:1-2.1 - Reference To State Board Of Control As Reference To Commissioner Of Institutions And Agencies
  Whenever in any law, rule, regulation, contract, document, judicial or administrative proceeding or otherwise, reference is made to the State Board of Control, the...
• Section 30:1-2.3a - State Board Of Human Services; Abolished, Functions, Powers, Duties; Transferred.
  57. a. The State Board of Human Services in the Department of Human Services, established as the State Board of Control of Institutions and...
• Section 30:1-2.4 - Designation Of Hospital To Admit Persons Involuntarily Committed.
  2. a. In order to ensure the safety of patients, employees and the general public as well as appropriate treatment, a criminal defendant, sentenced...
• Section 30:1-2.5 - Notification Of Availability Of Earned Income Tax Credit, Recipients Of Certain Public Assistance.
  2.The Commissioner of Human Services shall notify in writing any person over 18 years of age of the availability of the earned income tax...
• Section 30:1-7 - Institutions, Facilities Covered By Title 30.
  30:1-7. The long-term care facilities, institutions, and psychiatric facilities of this State, within the meaning of this Title, shall include the following, and, as...
• Section 30:1-7.1 - References To Neuropsychiatric Institute, Training School And Certain State Schools To Mean And Refer To Certain Developmental Centers
  Whenever reference is made in any law, rule or regulation to the New Jersey Neuropsychiatric Institute, North Jersey Training School at Totowa, New Lisbon...
• Section 30:1-7.2 - References To Senator Garrett W. Hagedorn Gero-psychiatric Hospital
  3. Whenever reference is made in any law, contract or document to the Senator Garrett W. Hagedorn Center for Geriatrics, the same shall mean...
• Section 30:1-7.3 - Definitions
  1. As used in sections 1 and 2 of P.L.1996, c.150 (C.30:1-7.3 and 30:1-7.4): "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Human Services. "Facility" means a...
• Section 30:1-7.4 - Conditions Of Closing Facilities, Privatizing Services
  2. a. Except in the case of an emergency condition, the commissioner shall not implement a decision to close an existing facility or to...
• Section 30:1-7.5 - Ann Klein Forensic Center Designated.
  3.Whenever any reference is made in any law, contract or document to The Forensic Psychiatric Hospital, the same shall mean and refer to the...
• Section 30:1-8 - Commissioner; Appointment; Salary, Tenure
  The commissioner shall be appointed by the Governor, after consultation with the State board, with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall...
• Section 30:1-8.1 - Deputy Commissioners; Appointment, Powers And Duties; Compensation, Acting Commissioner.
  1.The commissioner shall be assisted in the performance of his duties by three deputy commissioners. Each deputy commissioner shall be appointed by and shall...
• Section 30:1-9 - Divisions; Directors, Assistant Commissioners, Powers And Duties.
  30:1-9. The commissioner may create within the department such divisions as he may deem necessary. Each division shall be under the supervision of a...
• Section 30:1-10 - Secretary And Assistants
  A secretary and the necessary clerks, stenographers and assistants shall be appointed, and their compensation shall be fixed by the commissioner subject to the...
• Section 30:1-10.1 - Schools Under Control Of Department; Teacher's Certificate
  Whenever in the judgment of both the Commissioner of Education and the Commissioner of Institutions and Agencies the work of a school under the...
• Section 30:1-10.2 - Teacher's Certificate; Issuance By State Board Of Examiners
  The State Board of Examiners shall, upon the application of a teacher employed in such a school, issue a teacher's certificate under the same...
• Section 30:1-11 - Powers Of Commissioner; "Appointing Authority"
  The commissioner shall be the official agent of the department for all purposes. Except as otherwise provided by law the commissioner shall be considered...
• Section 30:1-12 - Findings; General Policy; Commissioner's Power.
  30:1-12. a. The Legislature finds that the Commissioner of Human Services is obligated by State and federal law to assure that programs that serve...
• Section 30:1-12a - Definitions Relative To Psychiatric Facilities
  1. As used in this act: "Clinical treatment staff" means a physician, psychiatrist, psychologist, physical therapist or social worker licensed pursuant to Title 45...
• Section 30:1-12b - Unannounced Site Visits To State Psychiatric Facilities
  2. a. The Commissioner of Human Services shall designate staff who are not employed at a State psychiatric facility listed in R.S.30:1-7 to conduct...
• Section 30:1-12.1 - Investigations By Commissioner; Witnesses; Subpena
  The commissioner may make, or cause to be made, such investigations as he deems necessary in the administration of the Department of Institutions and...
• Section 30:1-12.2 - Commissioner's Authority To Assure Compliance
  15. If the commissioner determines that any county agency administering public assistance or municipal welfare agency has failed to administer their respective programs in...
• Section 30:1-12.3 - Report Of Violation; License Suspension.
  4. a. Upon notification of a violation or license suspension pursuant to paragraph (3) of subsection b. of section 12 of P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-12)...
• Section 30:1-12.4 - No Placement Of Individuals In Facilities Which Were Suspended Or In Violation Of License.
  5.Upon notification of a violation or license suspension of a residential health care facility pursuant to paragraph (3) of subsection b. of section 12...
• Section 30:1-13 - Personal Attention By Board And Commissioner; Inspections
  The commissioner and the State board shall arrange for personal contact with each of the institutions and the work of the noninstitutional agencies, by...
• Section 30:1-14 - Local And Private Institutions And Organizations; Supervision; Inspections; Reports
  In addition to the jurisdiction and power conferred upon the commissioner over the institutions and noninstitutional agencies named in section 30:1-7 of this Title,...
• Section 30:1-15 - Inspection Of Local And Private Institutions; Reports.
  30:1-15. The commissioner and the State board shall have the power of visitation and inspection of all county and city jails or places of...
• Section 30:1-15.1 - Residential Facilities For Persons With Mental Illness, Developmental Disabilities; Duty To Inspect; Report.
  3.Inspection and approval of all residential facilities within the State providing diagnosis, care or treatment of persons with mental illness or developmental disabilities shall...
• Section 30:1-15.2 - Inspection Of Premises, Books, Records, Accounts.
  4.The premises, books, records and accounts of any facility or organization to which payments are made from the treasury of the State, directly or...
• Section 30:1-15.3 - Rules, Regulations Prescribed By The Commissioner Of Human Services Concerning Out-of-state Placements For Children.
  3. a. The Commissioner of Human Services, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) and within 180 days after the...
• Section 30:1-16 - Order Of Court To Remedy Improper Conditions
  If it shall appear after any such investigation of any of the institutions or noninstitutional agencies enumerated in sections 30:1-14 and 30:1-15 of this...
• Section 30:1-17 - Action Against Officials In Charge Of Institutions; Notice; County Prosecutor's Duties
  30:1-17. The rights and powers conferred upon the State board and the commissioner by sections 30:1-14, 30:1-15 and 30:1-16 of this Title, so far...
• Section 30:1-18 - Jurisdiction Of Superior Court Over Persons Who Are Mentally Ill Or Incapacitated Not Affected.
  30:1-18. No provision of this Title shall restrain or abridge the power and authority of the Superior Court over the persons and property of...
• Section 30:1-19 - Federal Aid For Hospitals; State Agency Designated To Receive Moneys
  The State Department of Institutions and Agencies is hereby authorized to receive from the Federal Government any moneys which the Federal Government shall offer...
• Section 30:1-20 - Governor To Designate State Administrative Agency
  In the event that under or pursuant to any such Federal law it is required that a State agency in this State be designated...
• Section 30:1-21 - Applications For Federal Funds Authorized
  The State agency so designated, acting as such agency, is hereby authorized to submit to the surgeon-general of the United States Public Health Service...
• Section 30:1-22 - Deposit And Disposition Of Federal Moneys Received
  The Department of Institutions and Agencies shall accept and receive as custodian any and all grants and money awarded for assistance in this State...
• Section 30:1-23 - Surplus Or Unsuitable Lands; Sale To Municipality; Conveyance Of Title By Department
  When any lands of the Department of Institutions and Agencies have been declared by the Commissioner of the Department of Institutions and Agencies to...
• Section 30:1-24 - Deposit Of Proceeds Of Sale
  The proceeds from the sale of said lands shall be paid into the treasury of the State of New Jersey. L.1956, c. 223, p....
• Section 30:1-25 - Transfer Of Functions, Powers And Duties Of Department Of Education And State Board Of Education Pursuant To Child Care Centers And Child Development Centers To Department Of Institutions And Agencies
  The functions, powers and duties of the Department of Education and the State Board of Education in connection with Child Care Centers pursuant to...
• Section 30:1-26 - Method Of Transfer
  The transfer directed by this act shall be made in accordance with the "State Agency Transfer Act," P.L.1971, c. 375 (C. 52:14D-1 et seq.)....
• Section 30:1a-1 - Change Of Name Of Department Of Institutions And Agencies; Reference To Department Or Commissioner Of Institutions And Agencies To Mean Department Or Commissioner Of Human Services
  All the functions, powers and duties of the existing Department of Institutions and Agencies and the commissioner thereof not herein transferred to the Department...
• Section 30:1a-1.1 - References To "Division Of Mental Health And Hospitals"
  11. Whenever the term "Division of Mental Health and Hospitals" occurs or any reference is made thereto in any law, contract or document, the...
• Section 30:1a-3 - Suspicion Of Abuse Or Exploitation Of Resident Of Residential Health Care Facility; Report; Immunity From Liability For Report Or Testimony; Notice To Ombudsman; Evaluation; Findings; Recommended Action; Registry
  a. As used in this section "abuse" means the willful infliction of physical pain, injury or mental anguish; unreasonable confinement; or, the willful deprivation...
• Section 30:1a-4 - New Jersey Boarding Home Advisory Council.
  1. a. There is established in, but not of, the Department of Human Services the New Jersey Boarding Home Advisory Council. The council shall...
• Section 30:1a-5 - Organization Of Council
  a. The council shall organize as soon as may be practicable after the appointment of its members and shall select a chairman from among...
• Section 30:1a-6 - Duties Of Council
  It shall be the duty of the council: a. To make policy recommendations to the interdepartmental policy coordinating committee established pursuant to section 17...
• Section 30:1a-7 - Short Title.
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New Jersey Hunger Prevention and Nutrition Assistance Program Act." L.2001,c.62,s.1.
• Section 30:1a-8 - New Jersey Hunger Prevention And Nutrition Assistance Program.
  2.There is established in the Department of Human Services, the New Jersey Hunger Prevention and Nutrition Assistance Program. The purpose of the program is...
• Section 30:1a-9 - Grants To Emergency Food Programs.
  3. a. Within the limits of funds appropriated for the program and such other funds as are made available to the program, the program...
• Section 30:1a-10 - Hunger Prevention Advisory Committee.
  4.There is established a 13-member Hunger Prevention Advisory Committee in the Department of Human Services. The advisory committee shall assist the Commissioner of Human...
• Section 30:1a-11 - Statewide Needs Assessment.
  5.The Commissioner of Human Services shall contract with Rutgers, the State University to conduct a Statewide needs assessment to: a.identify and quantify, at all...
• Section 30:1a-12 - Annual Report To Governor, Legislature.
  6.The Commissioner of Human Services shall report annually to the Governor and the Legislature on the activities of the program. The report shall include...
• Section 30:1a-13 - List Of State-owned Properties Available For Use As Residential Treatment Facility For Certain Individuals.
  2.The Commissioner of Human Services, in conjunction with the State Treasurer, shall prepare and maintain a list of all available State-owned properties that would...
• Section 30:1a-14 - Division Of Aging Services Established.
  398. a. There is established the Division of Aging Services in the Department of Human Services. b.The functions, powers, and duties of the Department...
• Section 30:1aa-1 - State Council On Developmental Disabilities, Additional Powers, Duties.
  1. a. The State Council on Developmental Disabilities, established pursuant to Executive Order Number 20 of 1971, as amended by Executive Order Number 49...
• Section 30:1aa-1.1 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Individuals With Developmental Disabilities.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.Disability is a natural part of the human experience that does not diminish the right of individuals with...
• Section 30:1aa-1.2 - Provisions Relative To Programs, Projects, Activities Declared As Public Policy.
  2.It is the public policy of the State that all programs, projects and activities conducted by the State Council on Developmental Disabilities shall be...
• Section 30:1aa-2 - Definition Of Developmental Disability.
  2.For the purposes of this act, a "developmental disability" means: a.A severe, chronic disability of a person which (1)Is attributable to a mental or...
• Section 30:1aa-3 - Membership Of Council; Vacancies; Compensation; Terms.
  3.The council shall consist of a minimum of 25 members, but shall not exceed 30 members, of whom: a.seven shall be representatives of State...
• Section 30:1aa-4 - Qualifications Of Members.
  4.The public members shall be representative of the diverse social, economic and geographical interests in the State, and shall include at least 15 persons...
• Section 30:1aa-5 - Chairperson, Vice-chairperson, Secretary And Other Officers
  The Governor shall appoint a chairperson from among the public members to serve in such capacity at the pleasure of the Governor. The members...
• Section 30:1aa-6 - Executive Director; Appointment, Duties.
  6.The council shall employ, subject to the provisions of Title 11A, Civil Service, of the New Jersey Statutes and other applicable statutes, an executive...
• Section 30:1aa-7 - Rules.
  7.The council shall promulgate, in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), such rules as it deems necessary for the...
• Section 30:1aa-8 - Duties Of Council, Staff.
  8.It shall be the duty of the council and its staff to: a.(Deleted by amendment, P.L.2003, c.54). b.(Deleted by amendment, P.L.2003, c.54). c.(Deleted by...
• Section 30:1aa-9 - Annual Report
  The council shall report annually, not later than July 1, to the Governor and the Legislature as to its activities and including any recommendations...
• Section 30:1aa-10 - Findings, Declarations.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that: approximately 2% of the residents of this State have developmental disabilities and more than 50,000 of these persons...
• Section 30:1aa-11 - Office For Prevention Of Developmental Disabilities.
  2.There is established in the Department of Human Services the Office for Prevention of Developmental Disabilities, hereinafter referred to as the "office." L.1987, c.5,...
• Section 30:1aa-12 - Director, Appointment, Powers.
  3.The administrator and chief executive officer of the office shall be the director, who shall be a person qualified by training and experience to...
• Section 30:1aa-13 - Powers, Duties Of Director
  The director shall: a. Administer and organize the work of the office and establish therein any administrative subdivisions he deems necessary. The director may...
• Section 30:1aa-14 - Office, Responsibilities.
  5.The responsibilities of the office shall include, but are not limited to: a.Developing a long-range comprehensive plan for the prevention of developmental disabilities in...
• Section 30:1aa-15 - Governor's Council, Executive Committee.
  6. a. The Governor's Council on the Prevention of Developmental Disabilities, originally created by Executive Order No. 72 (signed May 24, 1984), shall serve...
• Section 30:1aa-16 - Annual Report To Governor, Legislature.
  7.The Commissioner of Human Services and the executive committee of the Governor's Council on the Prevention of Developmental Disabilities established pursuant to section 6...
• Section 30:1aa-17 - Coordination Of Services
  All departments and agencies of the State which provide relevant prevention services, maintain relevant data sets, or perform functions pertinent to relevant prevention programs...
• Section 30:1aa-18 - Coordination Of Funding
  9.The Commissioner of Human Services shall execute written agreements with the Departments of Health and Senior Services, Education, Community Affairs and Environmental Protection which...
• Section 30:1aa-19 - Rules, Regulations
  Pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L. 1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.), the Commissioner of Human Services shall adopt rules and regulations...
• Section 30:1b-1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Department of Corrections Act of 1976." L.1976, c. 98, s. 1, eff. Nov....
• Section 30:1b-2 - Department Of Corrections; Establishment; Department Defined
  There is hereby established in the Executive Branch of the State Government a principal department which shall be known as the Department of Corrections....
• Section 30:1b-3 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Purpose Of Department
  3. The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the purpose of the department shall be to protect the public and to provide for the...
• Section 30:1b-4 - Commissioner Of Corrections; Appointment; Term; Compensation
  The head and chief executive officer of the department shall be a commissioner, who shall be known as the Commissioner of Corrections. The commissioner...
• Section 30:1b-5 - Deputy And Assistants; Administrative Divisions, Personnel.
  5. a. The commissioner may appoint one deputy and such assistant commissioners as he shall deem necessary to serve at the pleasure of the...
• Section 30:1b-6 - Powers, Duties Of Commissioner.
  6.The commissioner, as administrator and chief executive officer of the department, shall: a.Administer the work of the department; b.Appoint and remove officers and other...
• Section 30:1b-6.1 - Short Title.
  1.Sections 1 and 2 of this act may be known and shall be cited as the "Fair Release and Reentry Act of 2009." L.2009,...
• Section 30:1b-6.2 - Information Provided To Inmate Prior To Release; Rules, Regulations.
  2.The Commissioner of Corrections shall provide to each inmate at least ten days prior to release from a State correctional facility: a.A copy of...
• Section 30:1b-6.3 - Coordinator For Reentry And Rehabilitation Services.
  4. a. The Commissioner of Corrections shall designate a staff member as Coordinator for Reentry and Rehabilitative Services. The coordinator shall be qualified by...
• Section 30:1b-6.4 - Notification To Inmate Of Outstanding Fines, Assessments, Warrants, Detainers.
  5.At the time of release from a State correctional facility, every inmate shall be notified in writing of all outstanding fines, assessments, and restitution...
• Section 30:1b-7 - Personal Contact With Institutions And Noninstitutional Agencies
  The commissioner shall arrange for personal contact with each of the institutions and the work of the noninstitutional agencies by visitations and by such...
• Section 30:1b-8 - Transfer To Department Of Corrections
  8. The following correctional institutions of this State are hereby transferred from the Department of Institutions and Agencies to the Department of Corrections established...
• Section 30:1b-8.1 - Name Changes
  Whenever in any law, rule, regulation, contract, document, judicial or administrative proceeding or otherwise, reference is made to Trenton State Prison, the same shall...
• Section 30:1b-8.2 - Prohibits Use Of Local Governmental Unit Name
  Any State correctional institution or satellite facility hereafter constructed or established shall not include as part of its name or title the name of...
• Section 30:1b-8.3 - Definitions
  3. As used in sections 3 and 4 of P.L.1996, c.150 (C.30:1B-8.3 and 30:1B-8.4): "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Corrections. "Facility" means a State...
• Section 30:1b-8.4 - Conditions Of Closing Facilities, Privatizing Services
  4. a. Except in the case of an emergency condition, the commissioner shall not implement a decision to close an existing facility or to...
• Section 30:1b-9 - Transfer Of Functions, Powers And Duties Of Division Of Correction And Parole, And Department And Commissioner Of Institutions And Agencies With Respect To Matters On Correctional Institutions
  All functions, powers and duties of the existing Division of Correction and Parole, the Department of Institutions and Agencies, and the Commissioner of Institutions...
• Section 30:1b-10 - Transfer Of Functions And Powers To Department Of Corrections, Rules, Regulations
  10. All functions, powers and duties of the Commissioner of Institutions and Agencies and the Department of Institutions and Agencies with respect to all...
• Section 30:1b-10.1 - Provision Of Mental Health Services To Certain Incarcerated Persons
  2.The Commissioner of Corrections shall provide or arrange for appropriate mental health services to State-sentenced incarcerated persons who suffer from mental illness, as defined...
• Section 30:1b-11 - Transfer Of Functions, Powers And Duties Of Department Of Institutions And Agencies With Respect To County Work And Vocational Training Release Programs
  All functions, powers and duties of the Department of Institutions and Agencies with respect to county work release and vocational training release programs are...
• Section 30:1b-12 - Transfer Of Appropriations And Available Moneys
  All appropriations and other moneys available and to become available to any department, division, bureau, board or other agency, the functions, powers and duties...
• Section 30:1b-13 - Transfer Of Employees
  Such employees of any department, division, bureau, board or other agency, the functions, powers and duties of which have been herein assigned or transferred...
• Section 30:1b-14 - Preservation Of Rights Of Employees
  Nothing in this act shall be construed to deprive any person of any tenure rights or of any right or protection provided him by...
• Section 30:1b-15 - Special Reemployment And Layoff Rights
  Any employee not appointed or transferred pursuant to this act may exercise any special reemployment rights and may also exercise within all departments of...
• Section 30:1b-16 - Transfer Of Files, Books, Papers, Records, Equipment And Property
  All files, books, papers, records, equipment and other property of any department, division, bureau, board or other agency, the functions, powers and duties of...
• Section 30:1b-17 - Orders, Rules And Regulations; Continuance After Transfer
  This act shall not affect the orders, rules and regulations heretofore made or promulgated by any department, division, bureau, board or other agency, the...
• Section 30:1b-18 - Inapplicability Of Act To Actions Or Proceedings, Civil Or Criminal, Of Agency Involved In Transfer Or Assignment
  This act shall not affect actions or proceedings, civil or criminal, brought by or against any department, division, bureau, board or other agency, the...
• Section 30:1b-19 - Reports, Certifications, Applications Or Requests Made To Agency Involved In Transfer; Filing
  Unless specifically otherwise provided in this act or by any operative law, whenever, pursuant to existing law, reports, certifications, applications or requests are required...
• Section 30:1b-20 - References To Division Of Correction And Parole Or Commissioner Or Department Of Institutions And Agencies To Mean Department Or Commissioner Of Corrections
  With respect to the functions, powers and duties hereby transferred to the Department of Corrections, whenever in any law, rule, regulation, judicial or administrative...
• Section 30:1b-22 - Transfer Of State Parole Board
  The State Parole Board in the Department of Institutions and Agencies, together with all of its functions, powers and duties, is continued but such...
• Section 30:1b-24 - Rules And Regulations
  The commissioner may, in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act, P.L.1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.), promulgate such rules and regulations as are...
• Section 30:1b-25 - Salary Of Commissioner
  The salary of the commissioner which by the provisions of this act is to be fixed by law, shall be at the annual rate...
• Section 30:2-1 - Appropriations
  All appropriations of money from the State treasury for the uses and purposes of the several institutions and noninstitutional agencies included within the provisions...
• Section 30:2-2 - Appropriation Must Not Be Exceeded
  All expenditures for or on account of the department or any of its institutions or noninstitutional agencies shall be paid out of the funds...
• Section 30:3-4 - State Institutional Construction Fund; Bond Issue
  L.1930, c. 227, p. 1015, entitled "An act authorizing the creation of a debt of the state of New Jersey by the issuance of...
• Section 30:3-5 - Order Of Precedence In Expenditures
  L.1930, c. 202, s.s. 2, 6, 7, pp. 959, 961, 962, entitled "An act to provide for the taxation of real and personal property...
• Section 30:3-6 - Expenditures; Further Appropriation
  L.1933, c. 377, p. 1061, entitled "An act making appropriations for construction purposes," approved September fifth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three, saved from...
• Section 30:3-7 - Powers Of State Board As To Building Operations; Architectural Treatment; Plans And Specifications
  The state board, except as hereinafter provided, shall exercise all the powers and perform all of the duties heretofore vested in or imposed upon...
• Section 30:3-8 - Drawings, Specifications And Building Contracts; Technical Disputes; Technical Advisers, Architects, Engineers, Etc.
  Subject to the supervision and ultimate authority of the state board, the commissioner shall cause to be prepared all drawings, specifications and building contracts,...
• Section 30:3-9 - Architects Selected By Competition; Jury On Designs
  The commissioner may with the approval of the state board, at a time to be fixed by it, select by competition from among the...
• Section 30:3-10 - Award Of Contracts; Proposals; Advertising
  After plans and specifications have been approved, as provided in section 30:3-7 of this title, all advertising incidental to awarding building or construction contracts...
• Section 30:3-11 - Preparation Of Plans And Award Of Contracts Before Appropriations Available; Expense; Construction Expenses
  Whenever and after any appropriation is made for constructing, reconstructing, developing, extending or equipping any state institution or its appurtenances within the jurisdiction of...
• Section 30:4-1 - Boards Of Trustees; Appointment; Terms; Vacancies; Removal; Compensation; Organization.
  30:4-1. The State board, with the approval of the Governor, shall appoint a board of trustees for each State institution or agency or for...
• Section 30:4-1.1 - Boards Of Trustees; Powers And Duties
  It shall be the duty of the local boards of trustees to advance long-range planning for the medical care, correctional and training programs at...
• Section 30:4-2 - Principal Office Of Each Board
  The principal office of each board of managers shall be at an institution under its special charge, and the board shall meet there at...
• Section 30:4-3 - Institutional Officers And Employees
  Unless and until otherwise provided by the commissioner by rule, regulation or order formally adopted, each board of trustees may determine the number, qualifications,...
• Section 30:4-3.1 - Residency Requirement
  Notwithstanding any provision of law relating to required residence for State employees in Title 11 of the Revised Statutes, the appointing authority of any...
• Section 30:4-3.2 - Working Test Period And Job Training Program
  The appointing authority shall establish a working test period and job training program for all persons to be appointed under the provisions of this...
• Section 30:4-3.3 - Qualified Residents; Insufficient Number
  If the appointing authority of such a State correctional institution determines, after ample advertising, that an insufficient number of qualified residents exists for available...
• Section 30:4-3.4 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Employee" means any individual 18 years of age or older who is employed at a facility and works...
• Section 30:4-3.5 - Criminal History Record Checks.
  2. a. A facility shall not employ any individual unless the Commissioner of Human Services has first determined, consistent with the requirements and standards...
• Section 30:4-3.6 - Fingerprinting
  An applicant for employment or a current employee shall submit to the Commissioner of Human Services his name, address and fingerprints taken on standard...
• Section 30:4-3.7 - Written Notice; Hearing
  4. a. Upon receipt of an applicant or employee's criminal history record information from the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the Division of State...
• Section 30:4-3.8 - Report
  The Commissioner of Human Services shall report to the Governor and the Legislature no later than three years from the effective date of this...
• Section 30:4-3.9 - Rules, Regulations
  In accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L. 1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.), the Commissioner of Human Services shall adopt rules and...
• Section 30:4-3.10 - Cost-bearing By Department Of Human Services
  The Department of Human Services shall assume the cost of all criminal history record background checks conducted on current and prospective employees. P.L. 1988,...
• Section 30:4-3.11 - Requirements For Corrections Officer
  No person shall be appointed as a corrections officer of any correctional institution assigned, maintained or operated by the Department of Corrections unless that...
• Section 30:4-3.11a - Applicability Of "45-day" Rule For Violation Of Internal Rules To State Corrections Officers.
  5.A person shall not be removed from employment or a position as a State corrections officer, or suspended, fined or reduced in rank for...
• Section 30:4-3.12 - Definitions Relative To Employees Of State Psychiatric Hospitals
  1. For the purposes of this act: "Clinical treatment staff" means a physician, psychiatrist, psychologist, physical therapist or social worker licensed pursuant to Title...
• Section 30:4-3.13 - Staff Member Not To Supervise Immediate Family Member
  2. A clinical treatment staff or nursing direct care staff member of a State psychiatric hospital listed in R.S.30:1-7 shall not have direct supervisory...
• Section 30:4-3.14 - Notification Of Outside Employment Of Staff Member
  3. A clinical treatment staff or nursing direct care staff member of a State psychiatric hospital listed in R.S.30:1-7 shall promptly notify the chief...
• Section 30:4-3.15 - Definitions Relative To Reporting Patient Abuse, Professional Misconduct
  1. For the purposes of this act: "Clinical treatment staff" means a physician, psychiatrist, psychologist, physical therapist or social worker licensed pursuant to Title...
• Section 30:4-3.16 - Report Of Abuse Of Patient
  2. a. Any employee of a State psychiatric hospital, who, as a result of information obtained in the course of his employment, has reasonable...
• Section 30:4-3.17 - Report Of Professional Misconduct
  3. Any employee of a State psychiatric hospital who, as a result of information obtained in the course of his employment, has reasonable cause...
• Section 30:4-3.18 - Patient Abuse, Professional Misconduct Reporting Program
  4. The Commissioner of Human Services shall establish a patient abuse and professional misconduct reporting program for the State psychiatric hospitals. a. The program...
• Section 30:4-3.19 - Disclosure Of Name Of Person Reporting Patient Abuse, Professional Misconduct; Prohibited; Immunity
  5. a. The name of any person who reports suspected patient abuse or professional misconduct pursuant to this act shall not be disclosed, unless...
• Section 30:4-3.20 - Failure To Report, Penalty
  6. Any person required to report suspected patient abuse or professional misconduct pursuant to this act who fails to make the report shall be...
• Section 30:4-3.21 - Regulations
  7. The Commissioner of Human Services shall adopt regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), to carry out the...
• Section 30:4-3.22 - State Psychiatric Hospital To Conduct Public Meetings.
  3.Each State psychiatric hospital shall, at least annually, conduct a public meeting to discuss issues relating to the operation of the hospital and concerns...
• Section 30:4-3.23 - Definitions Relative To State Psychiatric Hospitals.
  1.As used in this act: "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Human Services. "Department" means the Department of Human Services. "Major injury" means an injury...
• Section 30:4-3.24 - Reporting System For Physical Assaults, Unexpected Deaths At State Psychiatric Hospitals.
  2. a. The department shall establish a reporting system for compiling information about physical assaults and unexpected deaths that occur at State psychiatric hospitals,...
• Section 30:4-3.25 - Notification Relative To Certain Deaths.
  3.The department shall notify the Division of Mental Health Advocacy in the Office of the Public Defender within 24 hours after an unexpected death...
• Section 30:4-3.26 - Rules, Regulations.
  4.Pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), the commissioner shall adopt rules and regulations necessary to effectuate the purposes of...
• Section 30:4-3.27 - Drug Testing Required For Certain State Employees At Psychiatric Hospitals, Developmental Centers.
  1. a. As a condition of employment as a direct care staff member at a State psychiatric hospital or developmental center listed in R.S.30:1-7,...
• Section 30:4-4 - Management And Authority Vested In Chief Executive Officers
  Subject to the supervision of the commissioner, the management of the several institutions and noninstitutional agencies shall be vested in the chief executive officer...
• Section 30:4-4a - Reference To Board Of Managers As Reference To Chief Executive Officer
  Whenever in any law, rule, regulation, contract, document, judicial or administrative proceeding or otherwise, reference is made to the board of managers of any...
• Section 30:4-4.1 - Requirements For Internship In Public Hospital
  No hospital licensed by this State or operated by the State, a county or a municipality and which receives funds pursuant to the "New...
• Section 30:4-5 - Responsibility Of Executive Officer
  The chief executive officer of each institution or agency shall be its executive and administrative officer and subject to the rules and regulations adopted...
• Section 30:4-6 - Duties Of Chief Executive Officer.
  30:4-6. The principal keeper of the State prison and the chief executive officer of each of the other correctional institutions shall receive from the...
• Section 30:4-6.1 - Prosecutor Notified By Institution Or Parole Board Of Inmate Release; Process.
  3. a. The chief executive officer of the institution in which an inmate is confined shall notify the prosecutor of the release of an...
• Section 30:4-6.2 - "Prisoner Reentry Commission."
  10. a. To assist and advise in issues pertaining to prisoner reentry, there is established in the Department of Corrections an advisory commission to...
• Section 30:4-7 - Hospitalization Of Inmates
  30:4-7. Hospitalization of inmates. The Commissioner of the Department of Corrections shall have power to place any inmate in any hospital in the State...
• Section 30:4-7.1 - Provision For Health, Safety, And Welfare Of Patients Who Are Incapacitated, Residents.
  1.It is hereby declared to be the public policy of this State to make maximum provision for the health, safety, and welfare of patients...
• Section 30:4-7.2 - Consent For Treatment For Certain Patients, Inmates, Residents Or Juveniles.
  2.The chief executive officer of a State or county psychiatric hospital or developmental center, a State or county penal or correctional institution, or a...
• Section 30:4-7.3 - Authority To Consent To Emergency Treatment.
  3. In a case certified by a licensed physician, surgeon, psychiatrist or dentist to be one of grave emergency and to require immediate surgical...
• Section 30:4-7.4 - Notice Of Required Treatment To Parent, Guardian.
  4. Notice of required treatment shall be given to a parent or guardian of such patient, inmate, juvenile or resident by certified mail to...
• Section 30:4-7.5 - Exemption From Personal Liability For Chief Executive Officer, Regional Administrator.
  5. Under all of the foregoing circumstances, the chief executive officer or regional administrator, granting such consent in the exercise of his discretion, upon...
• Section 30:4-7.6 - Construction Of Act Relative To Healing By Prayer.
  6. Nothing herein shall be so construed as to give authority to the chief executive officer of any institution or the regional administrator of...
• Section 30:4-7.7 - Definitions Relative To Testing Of Blood Of Patients At State Psychiatric Facilities.
  1.As used in this act: a."AIDS" means acquired immune deficiency syndrome as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United...
• Section 30:4-7.8 - Blood Testing Required Upon Admission; Information; Guidelines For Treatment.
  2. a. An adult patient who is admitted for treatment at a State psychiatric hospital shall be required, upon admission, to submit to blood...
• Section 30:4-7.9 - Rules, Regulations.
  3.Subject to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), the Commissioner of Human Services shall adopt all rules and regulations necessary to...
• Section 30:4-7.10 - Actions To Ensure Compliance.
  13.The Commissioner of Human Services may take such actions to ensure compliance with the provisions of sections 1 through 11 of P.L.2011, c.145 (C.26:2H-129...
• Section 30:4-8 - Isolation Or Quarantine Of Inmates Having Communicable Disease
  Each board of managers shall have power, in case of the existence of any contagious or infectious disease, to establish such quarantine regulations as...
• Section 30:4-8.1 - Attendance Of Prisoners At Bedside Or Funeral Of Dying Or Deceased Relative
  The principal keeper of the State Prison and the chief executive officer of any penal or correctional institution under the jurisdiction of the State...
• Section 30:4-8.2 - Rules And Regulations Concerning Attendance At Bedside Or Funeral
  The State Board of Control of Institutions and Agencies is empowered to promulgate rules and regulations concerning the attendance of any such prisoner or...
• Section 30:4-8.3 - Correspondence Of Inmates Of State And County Penal And Correctional Institutions; Language
  Subject to rules and regulations to be issued by the Division of Correction and Parole every State and county penal and correctional institution shall...
• Section 30:4-8.4 - Rules And Regulations For Each Penal And Correctional Institution; Promulgation And Publication
  Subject to guidelines set down by the Director of the Division of Correction and Parole, every State penal and correctional institution shall formally promulgate...
• Section 30:4-8.5 - Furnishing To New Arrivals; Explanation To Non-english Speaking Prisoners
  Upon the arrival of a prisoner in any correctional institution in the State, he shall be furnished with a copy of the institution's rules...
• Section 30:4-8.6 - Assignment Of Inmates In Proximity To Family.
  5.During initial classification, the commissioner shall make every effort to assign an inmate to a State correctional facility in close proximity to the residence...
• Section 30:4-8.7 - Incarceration Of Female Inmates.
  6.The commissioner shall not confine a female inmate in the same correctional facility as a male inmate if that confinement subjects the female inmate...
• Section 30:4-8.8 - Submission Of Complaints Concerning Female Inmates.
  7.The commissioner shall semiannually submit all inmate complaints submitted to the department concerning female inmates to the Director of the Division on Women in...
• Section 30:4-8.9 - Defendant Advised Of Child Support Orders, Judgments.
  8.The Department of Corrections, through the Office of Transitional Services, shall, in addition to any other information provided during the intake process to a...
• Section 30:4-8.10 - Posting Of Change In Visitation Privileges On Website.
  9. a. Whenever there is a change in the status of an inmate incarcerated in a State correctional facility which affects the visitation privileges...
• Section 30:4-9 - Residence At Institution; Maintenance
  The board of managers may require officers and employees whose continuous presence is deemed necessary, to reside at or contiguous to the institution and...
• Section 30:4-10 - Maintenance Of Personnel
  An officer or employee required by law to reside at an institution of this state shall, in addition to his salary, be entitled to...
• Section 30:4-11 - Offices May Be Changed Or Abolished
  Each board of managers shall have power, subject to the approval of the state board, to abolish any office or employment which they may...
• Section 30:4-12 - Bond May Be Required
  Each board of managers may in its discretion require any official or employee to give bond for the faithful performance of his duties and...
• Section 30:4-13 - Discharge Of Unclassified Employees
  Any officer or employee connected with any of the institutions or noninstitutional agencies whose office or employment is not within the classified service list...
• Section 30:4-14 - Police Officers For Department Of Human Services; Powers; Appointment
  30:4-14. a. The Commissioner of Human Services may, in writing, appoint persons to the position of police officer to serve as law enforcement officers...
• Section 30:4-14.1 - Authorization Required To Carry Firearm
  3. No Human Services police officer shall carry a firearm unless specifically authorized by the Commissioner of Human Services and provided that the officer...
• Section 30:4-14.2 - Training Requirements For Human Services Police Officers
  4. Human Services police officers appointed pursuant to R.S.30:4-14 shall satisfy the training requirements established by the Police Training Commission, at schools approved by...
• Section 30:4-15 - Commissaries For Sale Of Commodities To Inmates, Visitors And Personnel
  The board of managers of any institution or noninstitutional agency set forth in section 30:1-7 of the Revised Statutes may maintain a commissary or...
• Section 30:4-15.1 - Collection Of "Vccb Surcharge" By Commissary In Correctional Facility.
  1.Every commissary in a county or State correctional facility operated for the sale of commodities shall collect a surcharge of 10% of the sales...
• Section 30:4-16 - Liability In Law Action
  No action at law shall lie against any officer or employee or member of the state board or members of the several boards of...
• Section 30:4-16.1 - Acceptance And Use Of Gifts, Legacies And Bequests Authorized; Refunding Bond By Chief Executive Officer
  The several institutions and agencies of the state of New Jersey coming within the jurisdiction of the New Jersey state board of control of...
• Section 30:4-16.2 - Frivolous Lawsuits Filed By Inmates; Determination, Recovery Of Costs, Fees; Forfeiture Of Time Credits
  1. a. In any civil action filed by an inmate in which the defendant is represented by the Attorney General or county counsel and...
• Section 30:4-16.3 - Waiver Of Filing Fee; Part Payment
  2. a. If an inmate files an action or proceeding in any court of this State and requests a waiver of filing fees on...
• Section 30:4-16.4 - Disposition Of Monies Derived From Judgment
  3. If an inmate is awarded a money judgment as the result of a civil action, the monies derived from that judgment shall be...
• Section 30:4-16.5 - Definitions Relative To Civil Actions By Inmates
  4. As used in this act: "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Corrections. "Inmate" means a person sentenced to imprisonment, or ordered to pretrial or...
• Section 30:4-17 - Acquisition Of Lands For State Institutions
  The state treasurer and state comptroller may acquire by gift, grant, purchase, condemnation, municipal action or other lawful manner, in the name of the...
• Section 30:4-19 - Acquisition Of Additional Real Estate For Certain Juvenile Institutions Not Owned By State
  The board of trustees of an institution within the state, not owned by the state, for the reformation of juvenile delinquents may purchase and...
• Section 30:4-20 - Sale Of Surplus State Hospital Lands
  Whenever the board of managers of the Trenton state hospital with the approval of the state board and the state house commission shall determine...
• Section 30:4-21 - Sale Of Old Deaf School
  L.1927, c. 149, p. 286, entitled "An act authorizing the sale of the land owned by the state of New Jersey and now or...
• Section 30:4-22 - Sale Of Kearny Home For Disabled Soldiers
  L.1929, c. 54, pp. 92, 93, entitled "An act authorizing the sale of the New Jersey home for disabled soldiers located in the town...
• Section 30:4-24 - General Principles, Applicability.
  30:4-24. The provisions of Title 30 of the Revised Statutes shall govern the admission and commitment of persons with mental illness, tuberculosis, and developmental...
• Section 30:4-24.1 - Civil Rights And Medical Care For Mentally Ill
  Every individual who is mentally ill shall be entitled to fundamental civil rights and to medical care and other professional services in accordance with...
• Section 30:4-24.2 - Rights Of Patients.
  10. a. Subject to any other provisions of law and the Constitutions of New Jersey and the United States, no patient shall be deprived...
• Section 30:4-24.3 - Confidentiality; Exceptions.
  11.All certificates, applications, records, and reports made pursuant to the provisions of Title 30 of the Revised Statutes and directly or indirectly identifying any...
• Section 30:4-24.3a - Submission Of Certain Mental Health Records Required.
  1.In compliance with the federal NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007, Pub.L. 110-180 and the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1993, Pub. L....
• Section 30:4-24.4 - Written Reports Accounting For Expenditures.
  1.The Commissioner of Human Services shall require employees in the Division of Developmental Disabilities to make written reports accounting for all expenditures which they...
• Section 30:4-24.5 - Study Of Management And Handling Of Moneys; Regulations
  The commissioner shall, in consultation with the State Auditor, conduct a detailed study of the management and handling of the moneys described in section...
• Section 30:4-25.1 - Definitions; Classes For Application For Admission To Functional Services.
  13. a. For the purpose of Title 30 of the Revised Statutes: "Eligible person with a developmental disability" means a person who has been...
• Section 30:4-25.2 - Application For Determination Of Eligibility.
  14.Application for determination of eligibility for functional services for a person under the age of 21 years who is believed to have a developmental...
• Section 30:4-25.3 - Determination Of Eligibility.
  15.Promptly on receipt of the application for determination of eligibility for admission to functional services of the Division of Developmental Disabilities, the commissioner shall...
• Section 30:4-25.4 - Issuance Of Statement Of Eligibility.
  16.The commissioner or his designated agent shall, immediately upon determination of the person's developmental disability, as provided herein, report his findings to the applicant,...
• Section 30:4-25.5 - Court Order For Care And Custody Of Eligible Minors.
  17.Whenever an eligible minor with a developmental disability is found to be neglected or delinquent under any of the statutes of this State pertaining...
• Section 30:4-25.6 - Admission To Functional Services; Alternative Services.
  18.The commissioner shall, upon proper application for admission, forthwith admit the eligible person with a developmental disability, and provide him with appropriate functional service...
• Section 30:4-25.7 - Provision For Health, Safety, Welfare, Etc., Of Persons Admitted.
  19.The commissioner shall make all reasonable and necessary provisions to ensure the health, safety, welfare and earliest appropriate release of persons admitted to residential...
• Section 30:4-25.8 - Maintenance Of Contact And Consultation With Parents Or Guardians Of Persons Admitted.
  20.The commissioner or his designated agent shall make diligent efforts to maintain contact with the parent or guardian of each person with a developmental...
• Section 30:4-25.9 - Conditions Of Eligibility For Functional Services Participation.
  5. a. An applicant for functional services from the Division of Developmental Disabilities, any person acting on the applicant's behalf pursuant to section 14...
• Section 30:4-25.9a - Required Notifications.
  2. a. The Division of Developmental Disabilities, in accordance with the provisions of this section, shall notify: (1)a person with a developmental disability or...
• Section 30:4-25.10 - Short Title.
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Developmentally Disabled Uniform Application Act." L.2000,c.112,s.1.
• Section 30:4-25.11 - Application For Determination Of Eligibility For Services To Developmentally Disabled.
  2. a. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, an individual who may be eligible for early intervention services pursuant to P.L.1993, c.309 (C.26:1A-36.6 et...
• Section 30:4-25.12 - Entry Into Cooperative Agreements By Departments.
  3.The Departments of Health and Senior Services, Human Services and Education, respectively, shall enter into cooperative agreements with each other to develop the initial,...
• Section 30:4-25.13 - Definitions Relative To Certain Division Of Developmental Disabilities Facilities.
  1.As used in this act: "Division" means the Division of Developmental Disabilities in the Department of Human Services. "Moderate Security Unit," hereafter referred to...
• Section 30:4-25.14 - Admission To Msu By Court Orders.
  2.An individual shall not be admitted to the MSU unless the admission is ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction pursuant to this act;...
• Section 30:4-25.15 - Procedures Prior To Admission To Msu.
  3.The procedures provided in this section shall be implemented prior to admission of an individual to the MSU. a.If the division is advised by...
• Section 30:4-25.16 - Actions Of The Court Relative To Admission To Msu.
  4. a. After the Director of the MSU advises the court that the individual may be admitted to the facility, in accordance with the...
• Section 30:4-25.17 - Court Review Of Order Every Six Months, Possible Actions.
  5. a. The court shall review its order to admit an individual to the MSU at least every six months. The court shall notify...
• Section 30:4-25.18 - Release From Msu.
  6. a. An individual shall be released from the MSU when his probation period or his commitment to the custody of the Commissioner of...
• Section 30:4-25.19 - Construction Of Act Relative To Commitment To Functional Services.
  7.Nothing in this act shall be construed to limit the authority of the court to commit a person to the custody of the Commissioner...
• Section 30:4-25.20 - Single Process For Determining Eligibility For Services For Individuals With Developmental Disabilities.
  1. a. The Division of Developmental Disabilities in the Department of Human Services, in collaboration with the Division of Children's System of Care in...
• Section 30:4-25.21 - Cooperative Agreements.
  2.The Department of Human Services and the Department of Children and Families shall enter into cooperative agreements with each other as necessary to effectuate...
• Section 30:4-25.22 - Construction Of Act Relative To P. L.2012, C.16.
  3.Nothing in this act shall be construed to preempt any provision of P.L.2012, c.16. L.2014, c.78, s.3.
• Section 30:4-25.23 - Construction Of Act.
  4.Nothing in this act shall be construed to eliminate or otherwise affect the need of the Division of Developmental Disabilities to require the completion...
• Section 30:4-27.1 - Findings, Declarations.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.The State is responsible for providing care, treatment and rehabilitation services to mentally ill persons who are disabled...
• Section 30:4-27.2 - Definitions.
  2.As used in P.L.1987, c.116 (C.30:4-27.1 et seq.) and P.L.2009, c.112: a."Chief executive officer" means the person who is the chief administrative officer of...
• Section 30:4-27.3 - Involuntary Commitment To Treatment.
  3.The standards and procedures in this act apply to all adults involuntarily committed to treatment, including those assigned to an outpatient treatment provider or...
• Section 30:4-27.4 - Screening Service.
  4.The commissioner, in consultation with the appropriate county mental health board and consistent with the approved county mental health plan, shall designate one or...
• Section 30:4-27.5 - Screening Service Procedures.
  5.The commissioner shall adopt rules and regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) regarding a screening service and its...
• Section 30:4-27.6 - Custody.
  6.A State or local law enforcement officer shall take custody of a person and take the person immediately and directly to a screening service...
• Section 30:4-27.7 - Immunity From Liability.
  7. a. A law enforcement officer, screening service, outpatient treatment provider or short-term care facility designated staff person or their respective employers, acting in...
• Section 30:4-27.8 - Short-term Care Facilities Designated.
  8. a. The commissioner, in consultation with the Commissioner of Health and Senior Services, shall designate one or more mental health agencies or facilities...
• Section 30:4-27.8a - Plan Of Outpatient Treatment Developed By Provider.
  9. a. An outpatient treatment provider shall develop a plan of outpatient treatment, in cooperation with screening service or short term care facility staff...
• Section 30:4-27.9 - Purposes, Procedures.
  9.Outpatient treatment providers, short-term care facilities, psychiatric facilities and special psychiatric hospitals shall effectuate the following purposes and procedures: a.An outpatient treatment provider to...
• Section 30:4-27.10 - Court Proceedings.
  10. a. (1) A short-term care or psychiatric facility or a special psychiatric hospital shall initiate court proceedings for involuntary commitment to inpatient or...
• Section 30:4-27.11 - Patient Rights.
  11.A patient admitted to a short-term care or psychiatric facility or special psychiatric hospital either on a voluntary or involuntary basis, or assigned to...
• Section 30:4-27.11a - Findings, Declarations.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.It is of paramount public interest to ensure the rights of all patients in inpatient psychiatric facilities, including...
• Section 30:4-27.11b - Definitions
  2. As used in this act: "Patient" means a person 18 years of age and older who is being involuntarily assessed or treated in...
• Section 30:4-27.11c - Patient Not Deprived Of Rights Through Receiving Assessment, Treatment.
  3. a. Subject to any other provisions of law and the Constitutions of New Jersey and the United States, a patient shall not be...
• Section 30:4-27.11d - Rights Of Patient In Short-term Care Facility.
  4. a. A patient in a short-term care facility shall have the following rights, which shall not be denied under any circumstances. A list...
• Section 30:4-27.11e - Rights Of Patient In Screening Service.
  5. a. A patient in a screening service shall have the following rights, which shall apply during the first 24 hours of involuntary assessment...
• Section 30:4-27.12 - Court Hearing.
  12. a. A patient who is involuntarily committed to treatment and assigned to an outpatient treatment provider or involuntarily committed to treatment and admitted...
• Section 30:4-27.13 - Notice Of Hearing.
  13. a. At least 10 days prior to a court hearing, the county adjuster of the admitting county or the Attorney General or county...
• Section 30:4-27.14 - Patient Rights At Hearing.
  14.A person subject to involuntary commitment to treatment has the following rights at a court hearing and any subsequent review court hearing: a.The right...
• Section 30:4-27.15 - Court Findings Relative To Involuntary Commitment To Treatment.
  15. a. If the court finds by clear and convincing evidence that the patient needs continued involuntary commitment to treatment, it shall issue an...
• Section 30:4-27.15a - Court Determination Of Assignment Of Patient To Involuntary Commitment To Treatment.
  17. a. The court shall determine whether a patient who has been found to need continued involuntary commitment to treatment pursuant to section 15...
• Section 30:4-27.16 - Court Review Hearings.
  16. a. A patient committed pursuant to a court order who is not administratively discharged pursuant to section 17 of P.L.1987, c.116 (C.30:4-27.17) shall...
• Section 30:4-27.17 - Discharge Determination.
  17. a. The treatment team at an outpatient treatment provider, short-term care or psychiatric facility or special psychiatric hospital shall, subject to the limitations...
• Section 30:4-27.18 - Discharge Plan.
  18.A person discharged either by the court or administratively from an outpatient treatment provider, short-term care or psychiatric facility or special psychiatric hospital shall...
• Section 30:4-27.18a - Reference To Mean "In Need Of Involuntary Commitment To Treatment."
  22.Whenever, in any rule, regulation, order, contract, document, judicial or administrative proceeding or otherwise, reference is made to "in need of involuntary commitment" that...
• Section 30:4-27.19 - Interim Financial Assistance
  The chief executive officer of a State or county psychiatric facility, or his designee, may authorize the payment of interim financial assistance to discharged...
• Section 30:4-27.20 - Discharge Of Voluntary Patients
  A voluntary patient at a short-term care or psychiatric facility or special psychiatric hospital shall be discharged by the treatment team at the patient's...
• Section 30:4-27.21 - Transfer Of Patients
  21. a. A person involuntarily committed to a State psychiatric facility listed in R.S.30:1-7 may be transferred to another State psychiatric facility in accordance...
• Section 30:4-27.22 - Uniform Detainer Form
  a. If a person in custody awaiting trial on a criminal or disorderly persons charge is admitted or committed pursuant to this act, the...
• Section 30:4-27.23 - Allowable Costs
  Any costs incurred to comply with the provisions of this act will be considered allowable in establishment of rates, which are to be set...
• Section 30:4-27.24 - Short Title
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New Jersey Sexually Violent Predator Act." L.1998, c.71, s.1.
• Section 30:4-27.25 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Sexually Violent Predators
  2.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.Certain individuals who commit sex offenses suffer from mental abnormalities or personality disorders which make them likely to...
• Section 30:4-27.26 - Definitions Relative To Sexually Violent Predators
  3.As used in this act: "Agency with jurisdiction" means the agency which releases upon lawful order or authority a person who is serving a...
• Section 30:4-27.27 - Written Notice To Attorney General Of Anticipated Release, Discharge
  4. a. When it appears that a person may meet the criteria of a sexually violent predator as defined in this act, the agency...
• Section 30:4-27.28 - Initiation Of Court Proceeding For Involuntary Commitment
  5. a. The Attorney General may initiate a court proceeding for involuntary commitment under this act of a person who is currently a patient...
• Section 30:4-27.29 - Court Hearing
  6. a. A person who is involuntarily committed pursuant to section 5 of this act shall receive a court hearing with respect to the...
• Section 30:4-27.30 - Notice Of Court Hearing
  7. a. At least 10 days prior to a court hearing, the Attorney General shall cause notice of the court hearing to be served...
• Section 30:4-27.31 - Rights At Court Hearing
  8.A person subject to involuntary commitment as a sexually violent predator has the following rights at a court hearing pursuant to section 7 and...
• Section 30:4-27.32 - Order Authorizing Continued Involuntary Commitment
  9. a. If the court finds by clear and convincing evidence that the person needs continued involuntary commitment as a sexually violent predator, it...
• Section 30:4-27.33 - Involuntary Commitment Of Person Lacking Mental Competence To Stand Trial
  10. If a person who has been civilly committed based upon a determination that the person lacked mental competence to stand trial pursuant to...
• Section 30:4-27.34 - Operation Of Facility For Sexually Violent Predators; Regulations
  11. a. The Department of Corrections shall be responsible for the operation of any facility designated for the custody, care and treatment of sexually...
• Section 30:4-27.35 - Annual Court Review Hearing
  12. A person committed under this act shall be afforded an annual court review hearing of the need for involuntary commitment as a sexually...
• Section 30:4-27.36 - Recommendation For Discharge
  13. a. At any time during the involuntary commitment of a person under this act, if the person's treatment team determines that the person's...
• Section 30:4-27.37 - Discharge Plan
  14. A person discharged by the court shall have a discharge plan prepared by the treatment team at the facility designated for the custody,...
• Section 30:4-27.38 - Written Notice Of Release
  15. In addition to any other information required to be released under this act, prior to the release of a person committed under this...
• Section 30:4-31 - Commitment Of Nonresidents
  A nonresident of this State may be committed to a mental hospital in this State in the same manner as residents may be admitted...
• Section 30:4-34 - County Adjuster For Commitment Of Persons With Mental Illness.
  30:4-34. In each county where county counsel, county solicitor, county clerk, county physician or county probation officer, or any of their assistants is in...
• Section 30:4-34.1 - Tenure After 5 Years Of Service
  A person who holds the position of county adjuster by virtue of holding one of the offices under R.S. 30:4-34 and who has held...
• Section 30:4-35 - County Adjuster To File Certificate Of Appointment With Commissioner
  Every county adjuster shall forthwith or within ten days after his appointment file with the commissioner a certificate showing date of his appointment and...
• Section 30:4-49 - Legal Settlement In County; Aliens
  30:4-49. Except as hereinafter provided, legal settlement in a county within the meaning of this article shall be continuous residence in such county for...
• Section 30:4-49.1 - Settlement Of Married Woman
  The settlement of a married woman shall be that of her husband except as otherwise herein provided: (a) If her husband at the time...
• Section 30:4-49.2 - Settlement Of Minor Born In Wedlock
  The settlement of a minor born in wedlock shall be that of his parents or surviving parent or in case of divorce or separation,...
• Section 30:4-49.3 - Settlement Of Minor Born Out Of Wedlock
  The settlement of a minor born out of wedlock shall be that of his mother; but such minor may acquire a separate settlement in...
• Section 30:4-49.4 - Minors; Capability Of Separate Settlement
  A minor shall be deemed capable under the provisions of this act of acquiring a separate settlement, in the same manner as persons of...
• Section 30:4-49.5 - Settlement Of Child Of Widow, Divorced Woman Or Unmarried Mother Who Gains New Settlement By Marriage
  When a widow, divorced woman or unmarried mother gains a new settlement by marriage, if, at the time of such marriage her child is...
• Section 30:4-49.6 - Loss Of Settlement
  Every person who has or shall have a separate legal settlement, not derived from that of another person, pursuant to the provisions of this...
• Section 30:4-50 - Continuance Of Settlement; Abandonment
  A patient who shall have acquired a legal settlement in any county shall retain his settlement until he shall have acquired a legal settlement...
• Section 30:4-51 - Legal Settlement In State
  30:4-51. Legal settlement in this State, as distinguished from legal settlement in any political subdivision thereof, shall be continuous residence in the State for...
• Section 30:4-52 - State To Bear Costs Of Nonresident
  30:4-52. Any patient not having lived in the State for at least one year prior to the application for admission or commitment to any...
• Section 30:4-53 - Returning Patient To Proper Residence
  Nothing in this title shall impair the right of the state, or any political subdivision to return a patient to a foreign country or...
• Section 30:4-54 - Legal Settlement Of Inmates Of Foreign Institutions
  No person confined in any public institution outside of this state shall acquire a legal settlement in this state or in any county in...
• Section 30:4-55 - Bringing Inmates Of Foreign Institutions Into State; Misdemeanor
  It shall be unlawful for any person, public official, corporation, association or institution to bring or send or cause to be brought or sent...
• Section 30:4-56 - Judgment Of Commitment; Expense; Filing Fee.
  30:4-56. The final judgment of commitment shall contain a determination of the legal settlement of the person with mental illness and shall provide for...
• Section 30:4-57 - If No Settlement In Any County
  If the patient shall be found to be mentally ill and to have no legal settlement in any county in this State, the court...
• Section 30:4-60 - Payments, Determination Of Amount, Liability Therefor.
  30:4-60. a. If the court shall determine that the person has a mental illness and is in need of treatment at a psychiatric facility,...
• Section 30:4-60a - Regulations Concerning Sliding Scale Fee And Patient Liability.
  10. The Department of Human Services shall adopt regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) concerning the establishment of...
• Section 30:4-60.1 - Transcript Of Evidence Of Indigency Furnished Institution
  30:4-60.1. Upon the making of any order committing a person to a mental hospital supported in whole or in part from county, municipal or...
• Section 30:4-60.2 - "Estate," "Patient" Defined
  15. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, whenever the term "estate" appears in any provision of Chapter 4 of Title 30...
• Section 30:4-63 - Commitment Of Person With Mental Illness, Payment.
  30:4-63. a. The court may, after final hearing, commit any person with mental illness to any State or county psychiatric institution irrespective of the...
• Section 30:4-65 - Guardian Of Estate, Bond, Discharge
  30:4-65. Where, on final hearing, it appears that the patient is possessed of real or personal property and no arrangements have been made for...
• Section 30:4-66 - Liability For Support.
  30:4-66. Every person supported in a State or county charitable institution or other residential functional service pursuant to section 13 of P.L.1965, c.59 (C.30:4-25.1)...
• Section 30:4-67 - Rate For Maintenance Of Patient
  The rate of payment for the maintenance of a patient shall be fixed by the State Board of Control or the board of chosen...
• Section 30:4-67.1 - Deposit And Maintenance Of Funds Of Inmates; Use Of Funds And Interest
  The chief executive officer of any institution coming within the jurisdiction of the Department of Institutions and Agencies is hereby empowered to deposit and...
• Section 30:4-68 - Patients Unable To Pay Cost Of Hospitalization Supported By County Of Legal Settlement
  In all cases where a patient is found to have a legal settlement in any county in this State, and he and his legally...
• Section 30:4-68.1 - Medicaid And Medicare Eligible Patients
  In the case of Medicaid and Medicare eligible patients residing in the State psychiatric facilities, the maintenance costs to be paid by the counties...
• Section 30:4-68.2 - Monthly Personal Needs Allowance, $35.
  1. A patient admitted to a residential functional service by the Division of Developmental Disabilities or committed to a State or county psychiatric hospital...
• Section 30:4-69 - Patients Unable To Pay Cost Of Hospitalization Supported By State
  The cost of care and maintenance of a patient, unable to pay the cost of his hospitalization, and found to have no legal settlement...
• Section 30:4-70 - Collection Of Arrearages; Modification Of Order Of Commitment
  When any patient shall be committed to any State or county institution with the cost of his maintenance chargeable to either the State or...
• Section 30:4-71 - Change Of Status From Contributing Patient; Change Of Rate Of Payment
  When any patient shall be committed to any State or county institution as a contributing patient and an order has been made directing the...
• Section 30:4-72 - Notice Of Change Of Status
  No order changing the status of a patient from full payment of the cost of maintenance to county or State charge shall be made...
• Section 30:4-73 - Primary Liability Of County From Which Patient Is Committed; Findings As To Legal Settlement, Etc.
  The county from which any patient is committed shall be chargeable with the cost of the care and maintenance of any such patient committed...
• Section 30:4-74 - Continuing Liability Of Patient's Estate Or Persons Chargeable
  30:4-74. A patient's estate or the person chargeable for his support or the State or county as provided by law, shall be liable for...
• Section 30:4-75 - Amount Of Recovery
  In any suit for the recovery of the cost of maintenance of a patient able to pay the full cost of hospitalization in any...
• Section 30:4-75.1 - Authority To Collect Moneys Due The State
  1. The Department of Human Services shall have the authority to collect all moneys due to the State for services, assistance, relief or care...
• Section 30:4-75.2 - Rules And Regulations
  The Attorney General and the Commissioner of Institutions and Agencies shall adopt such rules and regulations as shall be necessary to effectuate the provisions...
• Section 30:4-75.3 - Repeal Of Inconsistent Laws
  All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are to the extent of such inconsistency repealed. L.1962, c. 207,...
• Section 30:4-76 - Statement Of Settlement And Financial Ability Furnished
  The person charged with the care and relief of the poor in each municipality shall, upon request, furnish to the county adjuster a statement...
• Section 30:4-77 - Settlement Of Claims; Funds For Rehabilitation
  The commissioner, with regard to State institutions, or the board of chosen freeholders, or a proper committee thereof, with regard to county institutions, may...
• Section 30:4-78 - Rates For Maintenance Of State Patients And Convict And Criminal Mentally Ill And Payment Thereof
  30:4-78. The State House Commission shall fix the rate or rates of per capita payment for the reasonable cost of maintenance and clothing of...
• Section 30:4-78.1 - County To Submit Financial And Management Plan For Psychiatric Facility
  The governing body of each county that operates a county psychiatric facility shall submit to the Commissioner of Human Services no later than December...
• Section 30:4-78.2 - State Assumption Of Management And Operation Of Psychiatric Facility.
  6.If the commissioner determines that the plan submitted pursuant to section 5 of P.L.1990, c.73 (C.30:4-78.1) is appropriate, the commissioner shall enter into negotiations...
• Section 30:4-78.3 - Determination Of Eligibility For State Reimbursement For Costs
  Any costs or obligations incurred by a county psychiatric facility in the 13 months prior to the effective date of this act that are...
• Section 30:4-78.4 - State Authority Over County Psychiatric Facility To Replace Certain Administrators
  In the event a county continues to operate and maintain a county psychiatric facility, the Commissioner of Human Services shall have the power to...
• Section 30:4-78.5 - Deduction Of State Services From County Appropriation
  For each local fiscal year, or portion thereof, in which a service or function associated with the provisions of this act is assumed by...
• Section 30:4-79 - Payments By County Treasurer; Statement Furnished
  The county treasurer of each county shall pay in quarterly payments to the treasurer, auditor or board of managers of each State institution, to...
• Section 30:4-80 - Tax Levy; Repayment By Those Legally Liable
  The board of chosen freeholders of each county shall annually levy and raise the amount required to meet the expense of maintaining and clothing...
• Section 30:4-80.1 - Lien Against Property Of Persons Confined, Receiving Services.
  1.Every institution or other residential service maintained in whole or in part by State or county funds, which provides inpatient care, supervision and treatment...
• Section 30:4-80.2 - Form And Execution Of Lien; Maintenance Not Covered By Lien
  The lien shall be in form to be prescribed by the State Department of Institutions and Agencies and shall contain the name of the...
• Section 30:4-80.3 - Filing Of Lien; Effect
  3. The lien shall be filed with the clerk of the county or register of deeds and mortgages, as the case may be, and...
• Section 30:4-80.4 - Lien Against Goods, Rights, Credits, Etc., Held By Another For Use Of Patient Or Persons Chargeable
  If it is found that any patient or other persons chargeable under said lien are possessed of any goods, rights, credits, chattels, moneys or...
• Section 30:4-80.5 - Books For Entry And Indexing Of Liens; No Fees Required
  The clerk of the county or register of deeds and mortgages, or clerk of the Superior Court, as the case may be, shall provide...
• Section 30:4-80.6 - Discharge Of Liens, Certain.
  6. a. Upon the request of a person treated at a psychiatric facility as defined in section 2 of P.L.1987, c.116 (C.30:4-27.2), or that...
• Section 30:4-80.6a - Liens, Certain; Extinguished.
  8.All liens filed against a person treated at a psychiatric facility as defined in section 2 of P.L.1987, c.116 (C.30:4-27.2), prior to the effective...
• Section 30:4-80.6b - Public Access To Certain Liens Limited.
  1. a. Except as provided in subsection f. of this section and notwithstanding the provisions of P.L.1963, c.73 (C. 47:1A-1 et seq.) and P.L.2001,...
• Section 30:4-80.7 - Review Of Validity Of Lien; Discharge
  2. Any person affected in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, by any lien filed hereunder, and desiring to examine into the validity thereof...
• Section 30:4-80.8 - Application For Relief.
  1.Any person who has been, or shall be, committed to any institution or facility providing mental health services, or has been determined to be...
• Section 30:4-80.9 - Hearing; Order.
  2.Upon reading and filing such petition, the court shall by order fix a time, not less than 10 nor more than 30 days thereafter,...
• Section 30:4-80.10 - Inapplicability Of Act, Exception.
  3.This act shall not apply to any case in which the defendant was found not guilty of a crime because of insanity or from...
• Section 30:4-80.11 - Effect Of Order Of Expungement
  If an order expunging such commitment is granted, the commitment shall be deemed not to have occurred and the petitioner may answer accordingly any...
• Section 30:4-82.1 - Findings, Declarations
  1. It is found and declared: a. That a significant number of inmates in State-owned or operated correctional facilities suffer from mental illness requiring...
• Section 30:4-82.2 - Provision Of Mental Health, Substance Abuse Disorder Services To Inmates.
  2. a. The Commissioner of Human Services and the Commissioner of Corrections shall formulate a plan to provide adequate and appropriate mental health and...
• Section 30:4-82.3 - Deadline; Regulations
  The plan required under section 2 of this act shall be formulated no later than the 181st day after the effective date of this...
• Section 30:4-82.4 - Procedures For Inmates "In Need Of Involuntary Commitment"
  4. a. In order to ensure that adult and juvenile inmates who are dangerous to themselves or others because of mental illness and who...
• Section 30:4-83.1 - Notice Of Transfer.
  69.Whenever a person with mental illness or a developmental disability is transferred from one residential service to another by order of the commissioner, notice...
• Section 30:4-84.3 - Temporary Or Indefinite Transfers
  The transfers as heretofore provided may be temporary or indefinite; if temporary, the status of the individual shall be governed by the statutory provisions...
• Section 30:4-85 - Transfers Between Correctional Institutions; Transfer To State Prison; Authority Of Commissioner; Contracts With County Institutions
  Any inmate of any correctional institution as classified in section 30:1-7 of this Title may be transferred to any other such correctional institution by...
• Section 30:4-85.1 - Transfer Of Inmates
  Any inmate of any county jail, workhouse or penitentiary may be transferred to any appropriate existing correctional institution maintained by the State or which...
• Section 30:4-86 - Custody Of Transferred Persons; Retransfer
  Any person transferred as provided in this article shall be held in the custody of the institution to which transfer is made, subject to...
• Section 30:4-87 - Settlement Of Persons Transferred; Copies Of Records, Etc., Transferred; Notice Of Transfers To Freeholders
  Determination by the original order for commitment as to settlement and indigency shall apply to and govern upon the transfer of a patient or...
• Section 30:4-88 - Prisoners Conveyed By Sheriffs; Bills Of Costs
  The sheriffs of the several counties shall convey to the several correctional institutions all prisoners sentenced or committed thereto within the time and in...
• Section 30:4-89 - Expenses For Transfer
  The expenses of transfer shall be paid from the maintenance account of the institution making the transfer.
• Section 30:4-90 - Age And Sex
  No transfers shall be made which will conflict with established age or sex limitations.
• Section 30:4-91 - Transfer Of Indigent Nonresident Patients
  Whenever it shall be made to appear to the board of managers of any of the state hospitals that any patient who shall have...
• Section 30:4-91.1 - Transfer To More Appropriate Institution Or Facility; Authority Of Commissioner
  When a person has been convicted of an offense against the State of New Jersey and has been committed for a term of imprisonment...
• Section 30:4-91.2 - Designation By Commissioner Or Agent; Facility Defined
  The commissioner or his duly authorized agent, may designate as a place of confinement any available, suitable, and appropriate institution or facility whether owned...
• Section 30:4-91.3 - Extension Of Limits Of Place Of Confinement
  The commissioner or his duly authorized agent or agents may extend the limits of the place of confinement of a prisoner as to whom...
• Section 30:4-91.3a - State Or County Prisoners; Release On Interim Basis; Notice To Local Police Department
  Any superintendent, or his designee, of a State correctional institution or warden or keeper, or his designee, of a county penal institution, from which...
• Section 30:4-91.3b - Furlough Prohibited, Prisoners, Certain
  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3 of P.L.1969, c.22 (C.30:4-91.3), the Commissioner of Corrections shall not authorize the participation of a prisoner in...
• Section 30:4-91.3c - Definitions Relative To Wanted Person Checks.
  1.For the purposes of this act: "County correctional facility" means a county jail, penitentiary, prison or workhouse. "Municipal jail" means a municipal jail, lockup,...
• Section 30:4-91.3d - Conducting Wanted Person Check On Inmates Or Suspects.
  2. a. A wanted person check shall be conducted on every person serving a sentence or detained as a suspect in a State correctional...
• Section 30:4-91.3e - Definitions Relative To Correctional Facility Security; Regulations.
  1. a. As used in this act, "body imaging scanning equipment" means equipment that utilizes a low dose conventional x-ray transmission to produce an...
• Section 30:4-91.4 - Withdrawals From Inmate's Account.
  4.The commissioner, as a part of any work release program for an inmate, shall require that any wages, salary, earnings and other income of...
• Section 30:4-91.5 - Escape From Confinement
  The willful failure of a prisoner to remain within the extended limits of his confinement, or to return within the time prescribed to an...
• Section 30:4-91.6 - Rules And Regulations
  The commissioner, with the approval of the State Board of Control of Institutions and Agencies, shall promulgate such rules and regulations as shall be...
• Section 30:4-91.7 - Authority Of State Parole Board
  Nothing herein contained shall be deemed in any manner to diminish or affect the authority of the State Parole Board to release prisoners on...
• Section 30:4-91.8 - Notice Of Review For Community Release Of Certain Inmates.
  1. a. Whenever an inmate who has been convicted of murder; manslaughter; vehicular homicide; aggravated sexual assault; sexual assault; aggravated assault; aggravated criminal sexual...
• Section 30:4-91.9 - Definitions Relative To Certain Private Corrections Facilities.
  1.As used in this act: "Eligible inmate" means an inmate who (1) was not convicted of a sexual offense as defined in this section...
• Section 30:4-91.10 - Confinement Of Eligible Inmates In Private Facilities.
  2.On and after the effective date of P.L.1999, c.243 (C.30:4-91.9 et seq.), the Commissioner of Corrections may authorize the confinement of eligible inmates in...
• Section 30:4-91.11 - Preparation, Transmittal Of Information Regarding Background Of Inmate.
  3.Whenever an eligible inmate is authorized for confinement in a private facility, the Commissioner of Corrections or a designee shall prepare a summary of...
• Section 30:4-91.12 - Establishment Of Community Relations Advisory Board.
  4. a. Every contract between the Department of Corrections and the operator of a private facility shall provide for the establishment of a community...
• Section 30:4-91.13 - Escape Of Inmate From Private Facility, Notices Required.
  5.The operator of a private facility shall, upon discovering that an inmate has escaped, notify: a.the chief law enforcement officer of the municipality in...
• Section 30:4-91.14 - Rules, Regulations.
  6.The Commissioner of Corrections, in accordance with the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall promulgate rules and regulations...
• Section 30:4-91.15 - Program To Record And Analyze Recidivism.
  3. a. The Commissioner of Corrections, in conjunction with the Juvenile Justice Commission and the State Parole Board, shall establish a program to record...
• Section 30:4-91.16 - Transfer Of Account Balance To Inmate Upon Release.
  7. a. The commissioner shall, at least 30 days prior to an inmate's release from confinement, assist the inmate in establishing a consumer checking...
• Section 30:4-91.17 - Reinstatement Of Inmate Into Medicaid Program Upon Release.
  9.The Commissioner of Corrections shall ensure that at least 30 days prior to the scheduled date of release of an inmate from a correctional...
• Section 30:4-91.18 - Establishment Of Mentoring Program.
  5.The Department of Corrections shall establish a program within each prison facility to provide for the mentoring of inmates who have been in the...
• Section 30:4-91.19 - Report On Status Of Residential Community Release Program Beds.
  9.The Commissioner of Corrections shall certify on a monthly basis to the Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting that all available Residential...
• Section 30:4-91.20 - Inventory, Review Of Vocational Training Programs.
  10. The Commissioner of Corrections, in collaboration with the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development, biennially shall inventory and review the various vocational training...
• Section 30:4-91.21 - Actions Relative To Revising, Terminating Inmate Vocational Training Program.
  11. If the Commissioner of Corrections and Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development determine that an inmate vocational training program is not attuned to...
• Section 30:4-91.22 - Attorneys, Representatives Permitted To Visit Halfway Houses.
  1. a. Attorneys who are licensed in any jurisdiction shall be permitted to have contact visits with clients who are incarcerated in a residential...
• Section 30:4-91.23 - Rules, Regulations.
  2.The Commissioner of Corrections, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall adopt rules and regulations necessary to effectuate the...
• Section 30:4-92 - Compensation For Inmates.
  30:4-92. The inmates of all correctional and charitable, hospital, relief, and training institutions within the jurisdiction of the Commissioner of Corrections shall be employed...
• Section 30:4-92a - Special Credits.
  3.In addition to credits received pursuant to R.S.30:4-92 and R.S.30:4-140, the commissioner also may award inmates special credits to provide further remission from time...
• Section 30:4-92.1 - Mandatory Workforce Skills Training Program.
  1.The Commissioner of Corrections, in consultation with the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development, shall establish a mandatory workforce skills training program in each...
• Section 30:4-92.2 - Program Of Mandatory Education.
  2. a. The Commissioner of Corrections, in consultation with the Commissioner of Education, shall establish a program of mandatory education in each State correctional...
• Section 30:4-92.3 - Vocational Training Pilot Program.
  1. a. There shall be established in the Department of Corrections a Vocational Training Pilot Program which shall be developed and implemented by the...
• Section 30:4-93 - Contracts For Labor And Products.
  No contract shall be made by which the labor or time of any inmate of any of the institutions within the jurisdiction of the...
• Section 30:4-93.1 - Interstate Sale Of Articles, Goods Manufactured By Inmates
  1. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, the Department of Corrections may enter into contracts with any other state,...
• Section 30:4-94 - Catalogue Of Articles And Prices
  The state board shall cause to be prepared a catalogue containing a description and a price list of all the articles manufactured or produced...
• Section 30:4-95 - Purchases Of Articles Manufactured By Institutional Labor
  The several state and county institutions and noninstitutional agencies, the several counties and all departments and agencies of the state shall purchase from the...
• Section 30:4-96 - Estimates For Ensuing Year; No Technical Evasion
  At least thirty days before the commencement of each state fiscal year, the proper officials of each institution, noninstitutional agency, department or agency of...
• Section 30:4-97 - Sale Of Surplus; Goods Stamped
  Any surplus product may be sold in the open market under such terms and conditions that it shall not compete unfairly with the product...
• Section 30:4-98 - Powers Of State Board
  The State Board shall have power to: a. Assign to each institution the industries, occupations, vocations and labor to be operated or performed by...
• Section 30:4-99 - Limitations On Employment; Marching Prisoners In Irons; Armed Guards; Free Labor
  The employment of the inmates of any institution within the jurisdiction of the state board shall be subject to the following specific limitations: a....
• Section 30:4-100 - Cash Operating Fund; Settlements; Monthly Statement; Delivery; Disposition Of Receipts; Examination Of Accounts; Transfer Of Moneys; Annual Statement
  The Legislature shall annually appropriate to the department a sum for a cash operating fund, which may be allotted by the State Board to...
• Section 30:4-101 - Couples Not To Be Maintained In Separate Quarters, Exceptions.
  30:4-101. Married, domestic partnership, or civil union couples who are residents of a public institution maintained in whole or in part by the State,...
• Section 30:4-102 - Female Patients To Be Accompanied
  No female patient shall be taken to a charitable, hospital, relief or training institution unless accompanied by her husband, father, brother, son, family physician...
• Section 30:4-103 - County Physician To Certify Cause Of Death In Institution
  The body of a person dying in an institution maintained in whole or in part by state funds shall before removal therefrom be examined...
• Section 30:4-104 - Post-mortem Examinations
  The medical director of an institution may with the approval of the board of managers subject the body of an indigent patient to physical...
• Section 30:4-105 - Certificate Of Death Or Discharge; Record
  Upon the death or discharge of any person committed to any institution in this state under article 3 of this chapter (s. 30:4-23 et...
• Section 30:4-107.1 - Release Of Person; Provision Of Functional Services.
  75.Whenever a minor with a developmental disability or adult with a mental deficiency is receiving functional services without court order, and is resident at...
• Section 30:4-107.2 - Continuation Of Functional Services After Attainment By Minor Of Majority
  An individual admitted as a minor under Class F, Class G or Class H may continue to receive uninterrupted functional services on and after...
• Section 30:4-107.3 - Discharge Of Persons Receiving Functional Services Without Court Order.
  77.Discharge of individuals admitted to and continuing to receive functional services without an order of the court shall be effected under the following circumstances:...
• Section 30:4-107.4 - Discharge Of Persons Admitted To And Receiving Functional Services As Result Of Court Order
  Discharge of individuals admitted to and continuing to receive functional services as a result of an order of court for commitment to custody shall...
• Section 30:4-107.5 - Discharge Of Persons Admitted Under Class I
  Discharge of individuals admitted under Class I shall be accomplished in accordance with the provisions of sections 2A:163-2 and 2A:163-3 of New Jersey Statutes,...
• Section 30:4-114 - Payment On Parole Or Discharge; Return Of Personal Property
  The State Board, subject to appropriations made for such purpose, shall have power to prescribe with reference to each institution within its jurisdiction the...
• Section 30:4-116 - Retaking Persons Leaving Without Discharge
  The chief executive officer of any state institution, or any subordinate officer or employee of the institution appointed by him in writing as a...
• Section 30:4-116.1 - Notification Of Escape
  Any superintendent, or his designee, of any facility under the control of the Department of Corrections or warden or keeper, or his designee, of...
• Section 30:4-117 - Retaking Of Patients Of County Mental Hospital
  The medical superintendent or chief executive officer of a county mental hospital may, without warrant arrest and return to the institution an inmate duly...
• Section 30:4-118 - Warrant For Arrest
  A warrant for the arrest of any institutional inmate who shall have left the institution without parole or discharge or whose parole has been...
• Section 30:4-119 - Assist Return To Institution
  Every police officer and constable shall assist in the location and return to institutional custody of any institutional inmate who has left the institution...
• Section 30:4-121 - Expenses Of Parole
  The expenses incident to the operation of the parole system in each institution shall be paid from its maintenance account.
• Section 30:4-122 - Money Advanced For The Return Of Inmates
  The state treasurer, upon the warrant of the comptroller, may advance to the chief executive officer of any institution subject to the jurisdiction of...
• Section 30:4-123 - Use Of Fund For Traveling Expenses Of Paroled Inmates And Parole Officers
  Any board or institution may use its petty cash fund for the payment of the traveling expenses of a paroled inmate to the place...
• Section 30:4-123.45 - Short Title, Definitions Relative To Parole.
  1. a. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Parole Act of 1979." b.In this act, unless a different meaning...
• Section 30:4-123.46 - Application Of Act
  a. Except as otherwise provided by this act, this act shall apply to all persons now serving or hereafter sentenced or committed to State...
• Section 30:4-123.47 - State Parole Board
  3. a. There is hereby created and established within the Department of Corrections a State Parole Board which shall consist of a chairman, 14...
• Section 30:4-123.47a - Parole Advisory Board Established.
  1.There is hereby established a Parole Advisory Board in, but not of, the State Parole Board. Notwithstanding the allocation of the board within the...
• Section 30:4-123.47b - Duties Of Advisory Board.
  2.It shall be the duty of the advisory board to review and comment on supervision issues, the development and implementation of drug and alcohol...
• Section 30:4-123.47c - Division Of Parole In State Parole Board, Constituted.
  1. a. The Bureau of Parole in the Department of Corrections is hereby constituted as the Division of Parole in the State Parole Board,...
• Section 30:4-123.48 - Policies, Determinations Of Parole Board.
  4. a. All policies and determinations of the Parole Board shall be made by the majority vote of the members. b.Except where otherwise noted,...
• Section 30:4-123.49 - Assignment Of Cases; Member As Hearing Officer; Limitation To Either Adult Or Juvenile Cases; Representatives Of Board.
  5. a. The chairman of the board, after consulting with the board, shall assign any case not otherwise assigned, such as county jail, workhouse,...
• Section 30:4-123.50 - Office Facilities And Clerical Assistance; Cooperation In Furnishing Information And Data To Board; Power Of Subpena; Failure To Respond; Penalty
  a. The Department of Corrections shall provide such office facilities and clerical assistance as may be necessary to enable the board to perform properly...
• Section 30:4-123.51 - Eligibility For Parole.
  7. a. Each adult inmate sentenced to a term of incarceration in a county penal institution, or to a specific term of years at...
• Section 30:4-123.51a - Inmate Of County Penal Institution; Revocation Of Parole; Denial Of Credits And Ineligibility For Parole
  Pursuant to section 16 of P.L.1979, c. 441 (C. 30:4-123.60), any inmate sentenced to a term of incarceration in a county penal institution who...
• Section 30:4-123.51b - Released Status Under Term Of Parole Supervision; Rules, Regulations; Conditions Applicable To Parole Supervision For Life.
  3. a. A person who has been sentenced to a term of parole supervision and is on release status in the community pursuant to...
• Section 30:4-123.51c - "Terminal Condition, Disease Or Syndrome," Defined; Medical Parole Conditions.
  1. a. (1) For the purpose of this section, "terminal condition, disease or syndrome" means a prognosis by the licensed physicians designated by the...
• Section 30:4-123.52 - Increase Or Decrease Of Parole Eligibility Date, Written Statement To Inmate, Psychological Evaluation.
  8. a. If the appropriate board panel determines that an adult inmate has seriously or persistently violated specifically defined institutional rules or has engaged...
• Section 30:4-123.53 - Release Of Inmate.
  9. a. An adult inmate shall be released on parole at the time of parole eligibility, unless information supplied in the report filed pursuant...
• Section 30:4-123.53a - Definitions; Notice Of Release Of Certain Offenders; Procedures.
  1. a. As used in this act: "Prosecutor" means the county prosecutor of the county in which the defendant was convicted unless the matter...
• Section 30:4-123.53b - Immunity
  2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any person who provides or fails to provide information relevant to the procedures set...
• Section 30:4-123.54 - Report Prior To Parole Eligibility Date
  10. a. At least 120 days but not more than 180 days prior to the parole eligibility date of each adult inmate, a report...
• Section 30:4-123.54a - Inmate Liable For Cost Of Psychological Evaluation; Rules, Regulations.
  3. a. An inmate who is required to submit to a psychological evaluation pursuant to the provisions of section 10 of P.L.1979, c.441 (C.30:4-123.54)...
• Section 30:4-123.55 - Review Of Reports, Risk Assessment, Inmate's Statement; Certification, Denial Of Parole; Hearing
  11. a. Prior to the parole eligibility date of each adult inmate, a designated hearing officer shall review the reports required by section 10...
• Section 30:4-123.55a - State Parole Board Notification To Prosecutor
  4. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the State Parole Board shall provide in writing to the prosecutor of: (1) Notice...
• Section 30:4-123.56 - Schedule Of Future Parole Eligibility Date; Statement Of Denial.
  12. a. The board shall develop a schedule of future parole eligibility dates for adult inmates denied release at their eligibility date. In developing...
• Section 30:4-123.57 - Review Of Case Of Juvenile Inmate
  13. a. An assigned member of the board panel on juvenile commitments or a designated hearing officer shall periodically, but not less than quarterly,...
• Section 30:4-123.58 - Appeal Of Denial; Review Of Decision Of Hearing Officer On Initiative And For Good Cause By Board; Suspension Of Parole Release Date; Rescission Hearing
  a. Any denial of parole by a board panel shall, in accordance with criteria established by the board, be appealable to the full board...
• Section 30:4-123.59 - Legal Custody And Supervision; Conditions.
  15. a. Each adult parolee shall at all times remain in the legal custody of the Commissioner of Corrections and under the supervision of...
• Section 30:4-123.60 - Violation Of Parole Conditions
  16. a. Any parolee who violates a condition of parole may be subject to an order pursuant to section 17 of P.L.1979, c.441 (C.30:4-123.61)...
• Section 30:4-123.61 - Violation Of Conditions Of Parole; Review; Appeal
  17. a. If the parole officer assigned to supervise a parolee has probable cause to believe that the parolee has violated a condition of...
• Section 30:4-123.62 - Parole Violation; Apprehension; Hearing.
  18. a. (1) If a parole officer assigned to supervise a parolee has probable cause to believe that the parolee has violated a condition...
• Section 30:4-123.63 - Revocation Of Parole; Hearing
  19. a. If the hearing officer finds probable cause pursuant to subsection c. (1) of section 18 of P.L.1979, c.441 (C.30:4-123.62) and finds that...
• Section 30:4-123.64 - Schedule Of Future Parole Eligibility Dates After Revocation Of Parole
  a. The board shall develop a schedule of future parole eligibility dates for parole violators whose parole has been revoked pursuant to section 19...
• Section 30:4-123.65 - Term Limited By Sentence
  21. The duration of time served prior to parole, plus the duration of any time served on parole, less any time after warrant for...
• Section 30:4-123.66 - Discharge From Parole Prior To Maximum Term.
  22.Except as otherwise provided in subsection c. of section 2 of P.L.1994, c.130 (C.2C:43-6.4), the appropriate board panel may give any parolee a complete...
• Section 30:4-123.67 - Parole Contract Agreements Resulting In Reduction Of Term Of Parole.
  23. a. The appropriate board panel and the Department of Corrections or the Juvenile Justice Commission established pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1995, c.284...
• Section 30:4-123.68 - Transfer Of Records, Files And Documents Of Former State Parole Board; Continuance Of Rules, Regulations And Functions
  All records, files and documents of the State Parole Board created pursuant to P.L.1948, c. 84 (C. 30:4-123.1 et seq.) shall be transferred to...
• Section 30:4-123.69 - Supersedure Of Inconsistent Acts; Inapplicability To Code Of Criminal Justice
  All acts and parts of acts which are inconsistent with the provisions of this act are, to the extent of such inconsistency, superseded, provided...
• Section 30:4-123.76 - Violation Of Conditions Of Parole
  7. Notwithstanding the provisions of N.J.S.2C:43-9 to the contrary, any inmate released under the provisions of this act who violates the conditions of parole...
• Section 30:4-123.88 - Polygraph Exams Of Offenders, Conditions, Use, Cost.
  10. The State Parole Board, on at least an annual basis, may administer to all offenders serving a special sentence of community or parole...
• Section 30:4-123.89 - Short Title.
  1.This act may be known and shall be cited as the "Sex Offender Monitoring Act." L.2007,c.128,s.1.
• Section 30:4-123.90 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Monitoring Of Sex Offenders.
  2.The Legislature finds and declares: a.Offenders who commit serious and violent sex crimes have demonstrated high recidivism rates and, according to some studies, are...
• Section 30:4-123.91 - Definitions Relative To Monitoring Of Sex Offenders.
  3. a. As used in this act: "Chairman" means the Chairman of the State Parole Board. "Monitored subject" means: (1)a person whose risk of...
• Section 30:4-123.92 - Program For Continuous, Satellite-based Monitoring Of Sex Offenders.
  4. a. The chairman, in consultation with the Attorney General, shall establish a program for the continuous, satellite-based monitoring of sex offenders in this...
• Section 30:4-123.93 - Sharing Of Criminal Incident Information.
  5.Notwithstanding any provision of law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the chairman, Attorney General, Superintendent of State Police, and federal, State, county and...
• Section 30:4-123.94 - Noncompliance, Third Degree Crime.
  6.A person who is monitored under the program established pursuant to this act and who fails to comply with its requirements is guilty of...
• Section 30:4-123.95 - Interference With Monitoring Device, Third Degree Crime.
  7.Any person who tampers with, removes or vandalizes a device worn or utilized by a monitored subject pursuant to this act is guilty of...
• Section 30:4-123.97 - Additional Penalty For Certain Sex Offenders.
  7. a. In addition to any fine, fee, assessment or penalty authorized under the provisions of Title 2C of the New Jersey Statutes, a...
• Section 30:4-123.98 - "Sex Offender Supervision Fund."
  8.There is hereby established the "Sex Offender Supervision Fund" as a nonlapsing, revolving fund. This fund shall be administered by the Chairman of the...
• Section 30:4-123.99 - Development Of Program, Training For Certain Parole Officers.
  9. a. The Chairman of the State Parole Board shall develop a program for parole officers who supervise sex offenders to utilize computer and...
• Section 30:4-124 - Records; Recommendations To Courts
  The state board shall establish a uniform system of records, reports, statistics, memoranda and data relating to inmates, patients and prisoners and shall from...
• Section 30:4-125 - Case Records Of Patients
  The chief executive officer of each state charitable, hospital, relief or training institution shall, within three days after the reception of a patient, cause...
• Section 30:4-126 - Reports; By Boards Of Managers To Commissioner; By State Board To Governor; Requisitions For Appropriations
  Each board of managers and each division chief shall, at such time as shall be fixed by the state board, file with the commissioner...
• Section 30:4-127 - Visitation Of Certain Institutions; Application To Superior Court Judge.
  30:4-127. a. An assignment judge of the Superior Court may grant, on a written application to him of a majority of the board of...
• Section 30:4-128 - Keepers To Permit Investigation
  All persons in charge of an institution named in an order issued under section 30:4-127 of this Title shall admit the persons named in...
• Section 30:4-129 - Power To Summon Witnesses; Resolution Designating Division Chief
  The state board, the commissioner and one of the chiefs of the various divisions enumerated in section 30:1-9 of this title shall have power...
• Section 30:4-130 - Witnesses' Fees And Mileage
  All persons summoned pursuant to section 30:4-129 of this title shall receive the like fees and mileage as are allowed to witnesses summoned to...
• Section 30:4-131 - Contempt
  30:4-131. A person refusing or failing to obey a summons issued pursuant to section 30:4-129 of this Title may, if application be made to...
• Section 30:4-132 - Sale Of Unclaimed Property; Proceeds; Disposition
  Unclaimed personal property of deceased patients, and of other former patients of an institution supported in whole or in part by state funds, shall...
• Section 30:4-133 - Unclaimed Wages; Disposition
  30:4-133. All unclaimed wages, salary or compensation, for services, due any person at an institution supported in whole or in part by State funds...
• Section 30:4-134 - Institutions Supported By County Funds; Proceeds Of Unclaimed Property
  Unclaimed personal property of deceased patients and of other former patients of any charitable hospital which is supported in whole or in part by...
• Section 30:4-135 - Institutions Supported By Municipal Funds; Proceeds Of Unclaimed Property
  Unclaimed personal property of deceased patients and of other former patients of any charitable hospital which is supported in whole or in part by...
• Section 30:4-136 - State Prison Defined
  The State Prison shall include the existing prison in Trenton or wherever it may hereafter be located, and all institutions, farms, camps, quarries or...
• Section 30:4-139 - United States Prisoners
  The keeper of the state prison shall receive and safely keep in the prison at the expense of the United States all persons committed...
• Section 30:4-140 - Reduction Schedule For Minimum-maximum Sentences
  For every year or fractional part of a year of sentence imposed upon any person committed to any State correctional institution for a minimum-maximum...
• Section 30:4-140.1 - Attempt By Inmate To Obtain Certain Information; Forfeiture Of Good Time.
  2.Notwithstanding the provisions of section 7 of P.L.1979, c.441 (C.30:4-123.51), R.S.30:4-140, R.S.30:4-92 or any other law to the contrary, accumulated time credits or remissions,...
• Section 30:4-141 - Record Of Prisoners
  The board of managers shall adopt a system of identification and record and exchange of indentifications, which the principal keeper shall cause to be...
• Section 30:4-144 - Eight Hours A Day's Service
  Eight hours' service shall constitute a full day's labor for deputy keepers and guards employed in or about the state prison, the state reformatory,...
• Section 30:4-145 - Advances For Transporting Guards And Prisoners; Accounting
  The state treasurer upon warrant of the comptroller may advance to the keeper of the state prison out of the annual appropriation for the...
• Section 30:4-146 - Youth Correctional Institution Complex Defined
  The Youth Correctional Institution Complex shall include the existing Youth Reception and Correctional Center, Yardville, and the Youth Correctional Institutions at Bordentown and Annandale...
• Section 30:4-146.1 - Board Of Managers
  The members of the board of managers of the Youth Correctional Institution Complex shall be appointed by the State board with the approval of...
• Section 30:4-147 - Commitment Of Males To Youth Correctional Institution Complex
  30:4-147. Any male person who is 14 years of age or older and less than 31 years old, who has been convicted of a...
• Section 30:4-148 - Sentences To Correctional Institutions Of Person Under 26
  The courts in sentencing pursuant to N.J.S. 2C:43-5 shall not fix or limit the duration of sentence, but the time which any person shall...
• Section 30:4-153 - Correctional Institution For Women Defined
  The Correctional Institution for Women shall include the existing institution at Clinton, and all places where those sentenced to the Correctional Institution for Women...
• Section 30:4-154 - Commitment Of Females To Correctional Institution For Women
  30:4-154. Any female above the age of 14 years, convicted of a crime and sentenced to a term of imprisonment, shall be committed to...
• Section 30:4-157.2 - Warrant Of Commitment, Records
  30:4-157.2. The warrant of commitment to the custody of the Juvenile Justice Commission established pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1995, c.284 (C.52:17B-170) shall set...
• Section 30:4-157.4 - Expenses For Commitment Proceedings, Board Of Juvenile
  30:4-157.4. Whenever a juvenile shall be committed to the custody of the Juvenile Justice Commission established pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1995, c.284 (C.52:17B-170),...
• Section 30:4-157.5 - Fees Allowable
  30:4-157.5. For making copies of a complaint and commitment in delinquency proceedings, the court or the clerk thereof shall be entitled to the same...
• Section 30:4-157.7 - Juvenile Not Indentured, Bound Out To Service
  30:4-157.7. No juvenile in custody of the Juvenile Justice Commission established pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1995, c.284 (C.52:17B-170) shall be indentured or bound...
• Section 30:4-157.8 - Placement Of Paroled Juvenile
  30:4-157.8. As a part of the parole system for juveniles, the board may place any juvenile for whose welfare and improvement such course is...
• Section 30:4-160 - State Hospitals.
  30:4-160. The New Jersey State Hospitals, designated in R.S.30:1-7 as psychiatric hospitals, shall include the existing buildings and lands of Ancora Psychiatric Hospital, Greystone...
• Section 30:4-162 - Geographic Districts; Designation Of Hospitals To Receive Persons From The Districts
  The State board shall establish geographic districts within the State, each consisting of one or more of the several counties, and shall designate the...
• Section 30:4-165.1 - Provision Of Comprehensive Evaluation, Functional And Guardianship Services.
  84.The department shall provide comprehensive evaluation, functional and guardianship services, as hereafter designated, in order that eligible persons with developmental disabilities may be provided...
• Section 30:4-165.2 - Residential And Nonresidential Functional Services.
  85.Functional services for persons with developmental disabilities shall include both residential and nonresidential services as follows: (1)Nonresidential functional services shall include but need not...
• Section 30:4-165.3 - Investigation Of Residency, Ability To Pay; Records Maintained By County
  86. Whenever any developmentally disabled person is admitted to residential functional services the commissioner or his designated agent shall investigate and take statements concerning...
• Section 30:4-165.4 - "Guardianship Services" Defined.
  87."Guardianship services" shall mean those services and programs provided by the Division of Developmental Disabilities for the purpose of implementing its responsibility toward the...
• Section 30:4-165.5 - Application For Appointment Of Guardian.
  88.Whenever a minor has been admitted to functional or other services provided by the Division of Developmental Disabilities on application as provided herein and...
• Section 30:4-165.6 - Person With Developmental Disability To Continue Receipt Of Residential Functional Services; Exceptions.
  89.Any person with a developmental disability under the age of 18 years who, on the effective date of this act, is receiving residential functional...
• Section 30:4-165.7 - Filing Of Complaint For Guardianship.
  1.The commissioner or any parent, spouse, relative, or interested party, on behalf of an alleged incapacitated person who is receiving functional or other services...
• Section 30:4-165.8 - Necessary Affidavits, Documents Relative To Appointment Of Certain Guardians; Definitions.
  2. a. The moving papers shall include: (1) a verified complaint; (2) an affidavit from a practicing physician or a psychologist licensed pursuant to...
• Section 30:4-165.11 - "Incapacitated Person" Defined.
  5.As used in P.L.1970, c.289 (C.30:4-165.7 et seq.) the term incapacitated person has the same meaning as defined in N.J.S.3B:1-2. L.1970,c.289,s.5; amended 1976, c.76,...
• Section 30:4-165.12 - Appointment Of Guardian
  Upon the receipt of a complaint for the appointment of a guardian, the court shall determine the necessity of the appointment. Disposition of the...
• Section 30:4-165.13 - Review Of Prior Guardianships.
  8.The commissioner shall review the case of every person who received guardianship services without prior judicial review before the effective date of P.L.1985, c.133...
• Section 30:4-165.13a - Annual Report To The Legislature
  6. The Commissioner of Human Services, in consultation with the Public Defender, shall report to the Governor and the Legislature annually on: the number...
• Section 30:4-165.14 - Public Defender As Counsel
  9. The court shall appoint the Public Defender to serve as counsel for persons who do not have an attorney and over whom guardianship...
• Section 30:4-165.15 - Modification, Termination, Review.
  10. a. Whenever the commissioner believes that guardianship is no longer required or that another person should be appointed to serve as guardian, the...
• Section 30:4-165.16 - Rules
  The commissioner shall adopt pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L. 1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.) such rules as are necessary to...
• Section 30:4-177.12 - Establishment Of Institution
  There is hereby created and established within the Department of Human Services an institution or facility to be known as the North Princeton Developmental...
• Section 30:4-177.13 - Declaration Of Public Policy
  It is declared to be the public policy of this State to provide the means and facilities for the study of the causes and...
• Section 30:4-177.14 - Persons Admitted And Treated
  The institute shall admit, retain and provide care and treatment for individuals suffering from diseases and disfunctions of the brain and nervous system, including...
• Section 30:4-177.15 - Manner Of Admission
  Patients may be admitted to the institute in the following manner: a. By transfer from other institutions under the jurisdiction of the Department of...
• Section 30:4-177.16 - Application For Admission Other Than By Transfer Or Voluntary Request
  Application for the admission of any individual to the institute, other than by transfer or voluntary request, shall be upon forms prescribed by the...
• Section 30:4-177.17 - Application For Voluntary Admission
  Application for voluntary admission shall be made upon forms prescribed by the Commissioner of Institutions and Agencies, with the approval of the superintendent and...
• Section 30:4-177.18 - Management, Operation And Administration
  Except as otherwise provided for herein, the management, operation and administration of the institute and the disposition and release of all persons admitted thereto,...
• Section 30:4-177.19 - Equipment; Staff
  The institute shall be fully provided with all modern scientific equipment and a staff of competent specialists in the field of medicine, psychiatry, neuropsychiatry...
• Section 30:4-177.19a - Neuro-psychiatric Institute; Construction; Transfer Of Funds
  There is hereby transferred from the Department of Institutions and Agencies to Rutgers, The State University, for the construction of a new Neuro-Psychiatric Institute...
• Section 30:4-177.19b - Contract With Rutgers For Administration, Management And Supervision Of Operation
  The Department of Institutions and Agencies is authorized to contract with Rutgers for the administration, management and supervision by Rutgers of the operation of...
• Section 30:4-177.19c - Powers And Duties
  All powers and duties conferred upon the department pursuant to this act shall be exercised and performed by resolution of the Board of Control...
• Section 30:4-177.19d - Agreements Authorized By Resolution Of Board Of Control
  All agreements made and entered into pursuant to this act, when authorized pursuant to resolution of the Board of Control, shall be made, executed...
• Section 30:4-177.19e - Agreements Subject To Approval Of State House Commission
  Any agreement entered into between the department and Rutgers shall be subject to the approval of the State House Commission. L.1967, c. 32, s....
• Section 30:4-177.31 - Public Policy
  It is hereby declared to be the public policy of this State to adopt and use every practical program, technique and procedure in order...
• Section 30:4-177.32 - Establishment, Equipment And Maintenance
  2. The Department of Human Services therefore is authorized to establish, equip and maintain facilities in various parts of the State for receiving and...
• Section 30:4-177.33 - Establishment; Areas; Programs And Procedures
  The department shall establish such facilities in such areas of the State as are best calculated to carry out the purposes of this act...
• Section 30:4-177.34 - Management, Operation And Administration In Conformity With This Title; Rules And Regulations
  Except as otherwise provided for herein, the management, operation and administration of such facilities shall be in conformity with the provisions of Title 30,...
• Section 30:4-177.35 - Management, Direction And Control
  The management, direction and control of such facilities shall be vested in the Commissioner of the Department of Institutions and Agencies. No board of...
• Section 30:4-177.36 - Appropriation
  There is hereby appropriated from the general funds of the State in the State Treasury, the sum of $150,000.00 to the Department of Institutions...
• Section 30:4-177.37 - Establishment
  The Department of Institutions and Agencies shall establish three correctional centers for juvenile offenders and provide for the operation of said centers in three...
• Section 30:4-177.38 - Programs
  The community correctional centers for juvenile offenders shall include but not be limited to providing educational and counseling programs for juvenile offenders assigned to...
• Section 30:4-177.39 - Findings, Declarations
  1. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. There exists a population of two groups of clients of the Division of Mental Health Services...
• Section 30:4-177.40 - Development Center At Ancora
  2. The Developmental Center at Ancora is established within the Division of Developmental Disabilities in the Department of Human Services and shall include the...
• Section 30:4-177.41 - Community Placement
  Since community placement is the ultimate objective for the persons placed at the center, the Division of Developmental Disabilities shall establish a funding priority...
• Section 30:4-177.42 - Report, Evaluation.
  4.Two years from the date of enactment of this amendatory and supplementary act, the Division of Developmental Disabilities shall prepare and submit to the...
• Section 30:4-177.43 - Short Title
  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Family Support for Persons with a Serious Mental Illness Act." L.1995,c.314,s.1.
• Section 30:4-177.44 - Findings, Declarations
  2. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. It is in the best interest of the State to preserve, strengthen and maintain families who...
• Section 30:4-177.45 - Definitions Relative To Family Support Services For Persons With A Serious Mental Illness.
  3.For the purposes of this act: "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Human Services. "Department" means the Department of Human Services. "Division" means the Division...
• Section 30:4-177.46 - Program Of Family Support Services Established
  4. There is established in the Division of Mental Health Services of the Department of Human Services a program of family support services designed...
• Section 30:4-177.47 - Monitoring, Administering The Program; State Family Support Services Plan
  5. a. The division shall monitor the program and shall designate a Statewide family advocacy organization to administer the program through a coordinator who...
• Section 30:4-177.48 - Family Working Groups Established
  6. a. There are established three regional family working groups which shall consist of representatives from each county within a region. The division shall...
• Section 30:4-177.49 - Duties Of Coordinator
  7. The coordinator, in conjunction with the Statewide family advocacy organization and local family advocacy groups, shall work to expand and establish family support...
• Section 30:4-177.50 - Allocation Of Monies
  8. a. No more than 10% of the monies appropriated pursuant to this act shall be allocated for administrative purposes. b. The division and...
• Section 30:4-177.51 - Family Support Services Considered State Benefit
  9. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary, the family support services provided pursuant to this act shall be considered a State...
• Section 30:4-177.52 - Rules, Regulations
  10. The commissioner shall, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), adopt rules and regulations necessary to effectuate the purposes...
• Section 30:4-177.53 - Short Title
  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Community Mental Health and Developmental Disability Services Investment Act." L.1997,c.258,s.1.
• Section 30:4-177.54 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Funding For Community Mental Health, Developmental Disability Services
  2. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. It is desirable for persons with serious mental illness, including children and adolescents with serious emotional...
• Section 30:4-177.55 - Definitions Relative To Funding For Community Mental Health, Developmental Disability Services
  3. As used in this act: "Children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbances" means individuals under 18 years of age who meet criteria established...
• Section 30:4-177.56 - Powers Of Commissioner
  4. a. The commissioner shall take such actions as are necessary to ensure that as a mental health facility closes that all funds be...
• Section 30:4-177.57 - Use Of Certain Monies Received By State
  5. All monies received by the State from the sale of facility property shall be earmarked exclusively for capital and equipment costs associated with...
• Section 30:4-177.58 - Rules, Regulations
  6. The commissioner, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall adopt rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of...
• Section 30:4-177.59 - Rules, Regulations Relative To Psychiatric Facilities Operated By Dhs.
  17. In accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), the Commissioner of Human Services, in consultation with the Commissioner of...
• Section 30:4-177.60 - Dhs To Develop Procedures For Transfer Of Certain Patients To Appropriate Treatment Setting.
  1. a. The Department of Human Services shall develop the following procedures to enable emergency departments in general hospitals to obtain emergency relief from...
• Section 30:4-177.61 - Standardized Admission Protocols, Medical Clearance Criteria For Transfer Of Patients To Psychiatric Facilities.
  1. a. The Commissioner of Human Services, in consultation with the Commissioner of Health and Senior Services, the State Board of Medical Examiners, the...
• Section 30:4-177.62 - Dhs Rules, Regulations.
  3.The Commissioner of Human Services shall, in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), adopt such rules and regulations as...
• Section 30:4-177.63 - Duties Of Commissioners Relative To Identification Of Available Mental Health Services, Needs Assessment.
  1.The Commissioners of Human Services and Children and Families shall: a.establish a mechanism through which an inventory of all county-based public and private inpatient,...
• Section 30:4-177.64 - Follow-up Studies.
  1. a. The Commissioner of Human Services shall conduct, or contract with another entity to conduct, a series of follow-up studies to assess the...
• Section 30:4-177.65 - Compilation Of Results Of Follow-up Studies; Reports.
  2. a. The Commissioner of Human Services shall compile the results of the follow-up studies conducted pursuant to section 1 of this act and...
• Section 30:4-178 - Expenses And Compensation Of Persons Designated To Attend Conventions
  Persons designated by the governor of this state to represent the state of New Jersey in the American Prison Association conventions shall be paid...
• Section 30:4-179 - Annual Compensation Fixed
  From and after the first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven, all persons employed by the state of New Jersey as...
• Section 30:4-180 - Minimum Compensation; Yearly Increase; Maximum Compensation
  The annual minimum compensation of such officers shall be the sum of eighteen hundred dollars and the annual minimum compensation of such farmer guards...
• Section 30:4-181 - Limitation On Annual Increase
  No such officer or farmer guard shall receive an increase in his annual compensation of more than one hundred dollars in any one year,...
• Section 30:4-182 - Compensation Not Reduced; Payment
  Nothing in this article contained shall be construed to reduce the annual compensation of any prison officer or reformatory officer or farmer guard receiving...
• Section 30:4a-1 - Establishment Of Diagnostic Center
  The State Board of Control of Institutions and Agencies is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to make suitable arrangements, by the acquisition, purchase or...
• Section 30:4a-2 - Equipment, Staff And Administration
  The diagnostic center shall be fully equipped with all modern scientific equipment and shall be provided with a staff of competent specialists in the...
• Section 30:4a-3 - Superintendent; Specialists
  The diagnostic center shall be under the direct supervision of the superintendent, who shall be appointed and whose salary shall be fixed by the...
• Section 30:4a-4 - Use Of Center By Other Agencies, Persons Admitted
  4. Any court or any agency of the State, or of any county or municipal government, desiring to utilize the services of the diagnostic...
• Section 30:4a-5 - Commitment Of Defendant For Examination
  Every judge, before imposing sentence upon a defendant, may order an examination of the mental and physical condition of such defendant and may order...
• Section 30:4a-6 - Admission Of Confined Person; Period Of Stay; Retransfer
  If the person, for whom the diagnosis is sought, is confined by virtue of any type of criminal or other process, then admission to...
• Section 30:4a-7 - Admission Of Unconfined Persons, Procedure.
  7.If the person for whom the diagnosis is sought by any court or agency of the State, county, or municipal government, desiring to utilize...
• Section 30:4a-8 - Minors
  8. If the person for whom the diagnosis is sought is a minor under the age of eighteen years and is within the jurisdiction...
• Section 30:4a-9 - Voluntary Admissions
  Any agency of the State, county or municipal government, desiring to utilize the services of the diagnostic center, upon good cause shown, may arrange...
• Section 30:4a-10 - Diagnosis And Recommendation In Writing
  When a person is properly admitted to the diagnostic center, accompanied by the order of the court, or on voluntary admission as provided for...
• Section 30:4a-11 - Determination Of Rate Per Day To Be Paid For Maintenance, Treatment And Diagnosis; Payment; Financial Statements
  The State House Commission in November of each year shall compute and determine the rate per day to be paid for maintaining, treating and...
• Section 30:4a-12 - Prayer-healing Believers Not Required To Submit To Medical Treatment; But Only To Quarantine And Other Regulations
  Any person who indicates that he subscribes to the art of healing by prayer as practiced by any well recognized religious denomination, the principles...
• Section 30:4a-13 - Active Treatments Within Discretion Of Superintendent
  In addition to the diagnostic services to be rendered, the superintendent shall in his discretion arrange for active treatment of any person requiring same...
• Section 30:4a-14 - Segregation Of Minors And Adults, Criminals And Non-criminals
  There shall be full and complete segregation of all persons admitted to the center according to their age, sex and nature of their physical...
• Section 30:4a-15 - Management
  Except as otherwise provided for herein, the management, operation and administration of the diagnostic center and the disposition and release of all persons admitted...
• Section 30:4a-16 - Commitments
  When the Department of Institutions and Agencies shall certify that the diagnostic center, provided for herein, has commenced to function in accordance with this...
• Section 30:4a-17 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect on July first, one thousand nine hundred and forty-six. L.1946, c. 118, p. 555, s. 17.
• Section 30:4b-1 - Division Of Economic Assistance
  The Commissioner of Human Services may, in accordance with R.S.30:1-9, establish a Division of Economic Assistance. The division shall consist of personnel, bureaus, agencies...
• Section 30:4b-2 - Functions, Powers, Duties
  All functions, powers and duties relating to public assistance and welfare services, assigned to it by the Commissioner of the Department of Human Services,...
• Section 30:4b-4 - Appointment Of Chief Executive Officers
  The Commissioner of Human Services shall, after consultation with the Board of Economic Assistance and the director of the division, appoint the chief executive...
• Section 30:4b-5 - Functions, Powers, Duties Transferred
  All of the functions, powers and duties of, and records and property maintained by, the Department of Conservation and Economic Development and the Commissioner...
• Section 30:4b-6 - Use Of Terms
  Whenever the term "commissioner" occurs or any reference is made thereto in the "General Public Assistance Law," P.L.1947, c.156 (C.44:8-107 et seq.), the same...
• Section 30:4b-7 - Appropriation, Transfer Of Employees
  For the purpose of defraying the costs of administering, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1951, the functions herein transferred to the State...
• Section 30:4b-8 - Repeal
  Provisions of any acts or parts thereof inconsistent with any of the provisions of this act are, to the extent of such inconsistency, hereby...
• Section 30:4b-9 - Short Title
  This act shall be known as, and may be cited as, the "Department of Human Services, Division of Economic Assistance Act." L.1950,c.166,s.9; amended 1989,c.88,s.8.
• Section 30:4b-10 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect July first, one thousand nine hundred and fifty. L.1950, c. 166, p. 358, s. 10.
• Section 30:4c-1 - Administration Of Act In Accordance With Public Policy.
  1.This act is to be administered strictly in accordance with the general principles laid down in this section, which are declared to be the...
• Section 30:4c-1.1 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Child Protective Services.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.New Jersey must improve the ability of its child welfare system to protect children from abuse and neglect,...
• Section 30:4c-2 - Definitions.
  2.For the purposes of P.L.1951, c.138 (C.30:4C-1 et seq.) the following words and terms shall, unless otherwise indicated, be deemed and taken to have...
• Section 30:4c-2.1 - Division Of Child Protection And Permanency As Continuation Of Former Agencies.
  39.Except as otherwise provided by P.L.1962, c.197, the Division of Child Protection and Permanency shall in all respects and for all purposes be deemed...
• Section 30:4c-2.3 - Provision Of Services To Certain Individuals Aged 18 To 21.
  3.Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the Department of Children and Families shall provide services to individuals who are between 18 and...
• Section 30:4c-2.4 - New Jersey Child Welfare Training Academy.
  4. a. There is established the New Jersey Child Welfare Training Academy in the Department of Children and Families for the purpose of providing...
• Section 30:4c-2.5 - Rules, Regulations.
  126. The Commissioner of Children and Families, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall adopt rules and regulations necessary...
• Section 30:4c-3 - Duties Of Division Of Child Protection And Permanency.
  3.The Division of Child Protection and Permanency, in administering the provisions of P.L.1951, c.138 (C.30:4C-1 et seq.), whereby the safety of children shall be...
• Section 30:4c-3.7 - Photographing, Fingerprinting Of Child Under Custody Of The Division Of Child Protection And Permanency.
  1. a. The Division of Child Protection and Permanency in the Department of Children and Families shall provide for the photographing of each child...
• Section 30:4c-3.8 - Rules, Regulations.
  2.The Commissioner of Children and Families, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall adopt rules and regulations to effectuate...
• Section 30:4c-4 - Powers Of Department Of Children And Families.
  4.The Department of Children and Families shall have the requisite powers to: (a)Exercise general supervision over children for whom care, custody or guardianship is...
• Section 30:4c-4.1 - Consent And Approval Of Actions Or Proceedings.
  1.Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, no action or proceeding, including an application for a writ of habeas corpus, in any court which...
• Section 30:4c-4.2 - Consent, Approval Of Commissioner.
  2.In no case shall the Division of Child Protection and Permanency, defend against any action or proceeding or make or oppose any application for...
• Section 30:4c-4.3 - Copies Of Rules And Regulations; Certification Of Consent And Approval
  The Commissioner of the Department of Institutions and Agencies shall cause a copy of every rule or regulation and a certification of every consent...
• Section 30:4c-4.4 - Services Provided To Certain Persons With Developmental Disabilities; Rules, Procedures; Interagency Agreement.
  158. a. Notwithstanding any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, commencing on or after the effective date of P.L.2012, c.16 (C.52:27D-43.9a et al.)...
• Section 30:4c-4.5 - Provision Of Services For Alcoholism, Substance Abuse For Certain Persons; Interagency Agreement; Rules, Regulations.
  159. a. Notwithstanding any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, commencing on or after the effective date of P.L.2012, c.16 (C.52:27D-43.9a et al.)...
• Section 30:4c-6 - Recipients Of Payments Not Deemed Paupers; Certain Treatments Permitted.
  6.No person to whom or for whom payments for maintenance are made under P.L.1951, c.138 (C.30:4C-1 et seq.) shall be deemed to be or...
• Section 30:4c-7 - Issuance Of Certain Certificates Free Of Charge.
  7.All birth, death, and marriage certificates which may be required under the provisions of P.L.1951, c.138 (C.30:4C-1 et seq.), or under any rule or...
• Section 30:4c-8 - Payments For Maintenance Exempt From Tax
  All amounts paid for maintenance under the provisions of this act, except such amounts as are paid for medical, dental and hospital care, shall...
• Section 30:4c-9 - Orders Of Commitment Or Grants Of Assistance Previously Made And Other Previous Actions Not Affected
  The provisions of this act shall not be construed to terminate, alter or affect any order of commitment or grant of assistance heretofore made...
• Section 30:4c-10 - Liberal Construction; Consistent Laws Not Repealed
  This act shall be liberally construed. Any particular grant of power contained in this act shall be held to be in specification but not...
• Section 30:4c-11 - Application For Care And Custody; Verification, Investigation.
  11.Whenever it shall appear that any child within this State is of such circumstances that the child's safety or welfare will be endangered unless...
• Section 30:4c-11.1 - Health, Safety Of Paramount Concern In Placement Of Child.
  23. a. In accordance with the provisions of subsections b., c., and d. of this section, when determining the reasonable efforts to be made...
• Section 30:4c-11.2 - Exceptions To Requirement To Make Reasonable Efforts To Prevent Placement Of Child.
  24.In any case in which the Division of Child Protection and Permanency accepts a child in care or custody, including placement, the division shall...
• Section 30:4c-11.3 - Exceptions To Requirement To Provide Reasonable Efforts To Reunify Child With Parent.
  25.In any case in which the Division of Child Protection and Permanency accepts a child in care or custody, including placement, the division shall...
• Section 30:4c-11.4 - Permanency Hearing.
  26.Any hearing held before the Family Part of the Chancery Division of the Superior Court may serve as a permanency hearing to provide judicial...
• Section 30:4c-11.5 - Commissioner's Report To Legislature, Governor.
  52.The Commissioner Human Services shall report to the Legislature and the Governor within 18 months of the date of enactment of this act on...
• Section 30:4c-11.6 - Rules, Regulations
  53.The Commissioner of Human Services, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall adopt rules and regulations to implement the...
• Section 30:4c-12 - Filing Complaint; Investigation; Application For Court Order; Hearing.
  12.Whenever it shall appear that the parent or parents, guardian, or person having custody and control of any child within this State is unfit...
• Section 30:4c-12.1 - Search For Relatives; Assessment Of Abilities.
  6. a. In any case in which the Department of Children and Families accepts a child in its care or custody, including placement, the...
• Section 30:4c-12.2 - Resource Family Parent, Relative, Notice; Right To Be Heard.
  28.In any case in which the Division of Child Protection and Permanency accepts a child in its care or custody, the child's resource family...
• Section 30:4c-13 - Referral To Legally Responsible Person Or Agency.
  13.If in the course of verifying and investigating any applications or complaints, as provided for in sections 11 and 12 of P.L.1951, c.138 (C.30:4C-11...
• Section 30:4c-14 - Notice Of Action Taken On Application.
  14.The Division of Child Protection and Permanency shall give due notice in writing to the applicant or complainant of the action taken on any...
• Section 30:4c-15 - Petition To Terminate Parental Rights, Conditions.
  15. Whenever (a)it appears that a court wherein a complaint has been proffered as provided in chapter 6 of Title 9 of the Revised...
• Section 30:4c-15.1 - Termination Of Parental Rights, Standards.
  7. a. The division shall initiate a petition to terminate parental rights on the grounds of the "best interests of the child" pursuant to...
• Section 30:4c-15.2 - Final Guardianship Hearing
  8. A final hearing for guardianship shall be held within three months from the date the petition is filed with the Family Part of...
• Section 30:4c-15.3 - Exceptions From Requirement To File Petition Seeking Termination Of Parental Rights.
  31.The Division of Child Protection and Permanency shall not be required to file a petition seeking the termination of parental rights if: a.The child...
• Section 30:4c-15.4 - Notice To Parent Of Right To Counsel; Public Defender Appointments; Law Guardian, Selection
  54. a. In any action concerning the termination of parental rights filed pursuant to section 15 of P.L.1951, c.138 (C.30:4C-15), the court shall provide...
• Section 30:4c-15.5 - Short Title
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act." L.2000, c.58, s.1.
• Section 30:4c-15.6 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Abandoned Children
  2.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.New Jersey and the nation have experienced sorrow in the knowledge that newborn infants are sometimes abandoned in...
• Section 30:4c-15.7 - Designated Sites For Voluntary Relinquishment Of Child; Assumption Of Care, Custody, Control By Division Of Child Protection And Permanency.
  4. a. If a person voluntarily delivers a child who is or appears to be no more than 30 days old to, and leaves...
• Section 30:4c-15.8 - Responsibilities Of Division, Placement Of Child
  5.The division, after assuming the care, custody and control of a child from a licensed general hospital pursuant to section 4 of P.L.2000, c.58...
• Section 30:4c-15.9 - Educational Public Information Program, Toll Free Hotline.
  6. a. The Commissioner of Children and Families, in consultation with the Commissioner of Health, shall establish an educational and public information program to...
• Section 30:4c-15.10 - Rules, Regulations.
  9.The Commissioner of Children and Families, in consultation with the Commissioner of Health and Senior Services and pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968,...
• Section 30:4c-15.11 - Distribution Of Information About "New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act" To Certain Public School Students.
  1. a. The Commissioner of Children and Families, in consultation with the Commissioner of Education, shall develop a plan to distribute to all public...
• Section 30:4c-16 - Association Or Agency To File Summary Of Records With Petition
  Where the petitioner under section fifteen hereof is an association or agency, such petitioner shall file with the petition a summary of its records...
• Section 30:4c-17 - Petition, Notice Of Hearing; Interlocutory, Order.
  17. a. When a petition is filed under section 15 of P.L.1951, c.138 (C.30:4C-15), by a person, association, or agency other than the Division...
• Section 30:4c-18 - Verification Of Petition; Investigation; Report Of Findings.
  18.Immediately upon receipt of the copy of a petition served on or mailed to the Division of Child Protection and Permanency as provided by...
• Section 30:4c-19 - Adjournments
  19. Adjournment of any hearing on a petition filed under section 15 of P.L.1951, c.138 (C.30:4C-15) shall not exceed a total period of 45...
• Section 30:4c-20 - Order Terminating Parental Rights; Committing Child To Guardianship.
  20.If upon the completion of the hearing the court is satisfied that the best interests of the child require that the child be placed...
• Section 30:4c-21 - Guardianship Order Not To Be Restrictive.
  21.The order of the court committing a child to the guardianship of the Division of Child Protection and Permanency, shall in no wise be...
• Section 30:4c-22 - Full Guardianship.
  22. The care, custody or guardianship of the division shall be full and complete for all purposes and shall vest in the division the...
• Section 30:4c-23 - Voluntary Surrenders, Releases Of Custody, Consents To Adoption.
  23.In addition to the methods otherwise provided in this article for establishing guardianship by the Division of Child Protection and Permanency, and when necessary...
• Section 30:4c-24 - Application For Care Or Custody; Complaint; Petition.
  24.Whenever the director of welfare of any county or municipality in this State shall be called upon to serve any child whose needs cannot...
• Section 30:4c-25 - Agents Of Division Of Child Protection And Permanency To Visit Children.
  25.The Division of Child Protection and Permanency, by its agent or agents, shall regularly visit all children under its care, custody, or guardianship under...
• Section 30:4c-26 - Placing Child In Resource Family Home Or Institution.
  26. a. Whenever the circumstances of a child are such that his needs cannot be adequately met in his own home, the division may...
• Section 30:4c-26a - Rules And Regulations
  Subject to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.), the Commissioner of Institutions and Agencies is authorized to formulate and...
• Section 30:4c-26b - Child In Resource Family Home, Determination Of School Placement.
  3. a. Whenever the Division of Child Protection and Permanency in the Department of Children and Families places any child in a resource family...
• Section 30:4c-26c - Caregiver Liability Relative To Certain Activities; Terms Defined.
  1. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, a department that is responsible for the care of...
• Section 30:4c-26.1 - "Resource Family Home" Defined.
  1.As used in P.L.1962, c.137 (C.30:4C-26.1 et seq.) "resource family home" means and includes private residences wherein any child in the care, custody, or...
• Section 30:4c-26.2 - Child Care Shelters; Establishment, Maintenance.
  2.The Division of Child Protection and Permanency, shall establish and maintain, within the limits of available appropriations, child care shelters in numbers and at...
• Section 30:4c-26.3 - Shelters For Care, Supervision Of Children.
  3.The shelters shall be equipped and used for the temporary care and supervision of children who are placed in the care, custody, or guardianship...
• Section 30:4c-26.4 - "Resource Family Parent" Defined.
  1.As used in P.L.1962, c.136 (C.30:4C-26.4 et seq.) "resource family parent" shall mean any person with whom a child in the care, custody, or...
• Section 30:4c-26.5 - Adoption Of Child By Resource Family Parent.
  2.Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law or any rule or regulation of the Division of Child Protection and Permanency, no agreement entered into...
• Section 30:4c-26.6 - "Resource Family Parent" Defined.
  1.As used in P.L.1962, c.139 (C.30:4C-26.6 et seq.) "resource family parent" shall mean any person with whom a child in the care, custody, or...
• Section 30:4c-26.7 - Application For Adoption Of Child By Resource Family Parent.
  2.Any person, who, as a resource family parent, has cared for a child continuously for a period of 15 months or more, may apply...
• Section 30:4c-26.8 - Adoptive, Resource Family Parent, Investigation.
  1. a. A person, in addition to meeting other requirements as may be established by the Department of Children and Families, shall become a...
• Section 30:4c-26.9 - Provisional Approval For Resource Family Parent; Definition.
  1.The Department of Children and Families may grant approval to a prospective resource family parent for a period not to exceed six months, upon...
• Section 30:4c-26.20 - Minor And Child To Remain Together As Family Unit.
  1. a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, if a minor is placed in a resource family home, group home, or...
• Section 30:4c-26.21 - Rules, Regulations.
  2.The Commissioner of Children and Families shall adopt rules and regulations, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), to effectuate...
• Section 30:4c-27 - Expenses Of Maintenance Chargeable Against State Funds.
  27. Pursuant to the providing of care, custody or guardianship for any child, in accordance with the provisions of this act, the division may...
• Section 30:4c-27.1 - "Resource Family Parent" Defined.
  1.As used in P.L.1962, c.135 (C.30:4C-27.1 et seq.) "resource family parent" shall mean any person with whom a child in the care, custody, or...
• Section 30:4c-27.2 - Discontinuance Of Clothing Distribution Centers; Clothing Allowance.
  2.Notwithstanding the provision of any other law, the maintenance of a clothing warehouse and distribution center for the distribution of clothing to children in...
• Section 30:4c-27.3 - Short Title.
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Resource Family Parent Licensing Act." L.2001,c.419,s.1; amended 2004, c.130, s.70.
• Section 30:4c-27.4 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Resource Family Care.
  2.The Legislature finds and declares that: each child requiring resource family care should reside in a safe home with a nurturing substitute family who...
• Section 30:4c-27.5 - Definitions Relative To Resource Family Care.
  3.As used in P.L.2001, c.419 (C.30:4C-27.3 et seq.): "Child" means a person who: is either under the age of 18 or meets the criteria...
• Section 30:4c-27.6 - Licensure Required For Resource Family Parents.
  4. a. A person shall not provide resource family care to a child unless the person is licensed by the department pursuant to this...
• Section 30:4c-27.7 - Child Abuse Record Information Check.
  5. a. The division shall, upon receipt of written consent from the resource family parent applicant and any other adult member of the resource...
• Section 30:4c-27.8 - Criminal History Record Background Check Required For Licensure.
  6. a. The department shall ensure that a State and federal criminal history record background check is conducted on a resource family parent applicant...
• Section 30:4c-27.9 - Denial, Suspension, Revocation Of License.
  7.The department may deny, suspend or revoke a license for good cause, including, but not limited to: a.Failure of a resource family parent applicant...
• Section 30:4c-27.10 - Notice Before Denial, Suspension, Revocation Of License, Hearing.
  8.Before denying, suspending or revoking a license, the department shall give notice to a resource family parent applicant or resource family parent personally or...
• Section 30:4c-27.11 - Judicial Review.
  9.A person aggrieved by a final decision of the department is entitled to seek judicial review in the Appellate Division of the Superior Court....
• Section 30:4c-27.12 - Fraud, Misrepresentation, Fourth Degree Crime.
  10. A person who uses fraud or misrepresentation in obtaining a license, or offers, advertises or provides any service not authorized by a valid...
• Section 30:4c-27.14 - Report To Governor, Legislature.
  12. The commissioner shall report to the Governor and the Legislature no later than six months after the effective date of this act in...
• Section 30:4c-27.15 - Rules, Regulations.
  13. a. The commissioner shall adopt rules and regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) to carry out the...
• Section 30:4c-27.16 - Definitions Relative To Background Checks For Residential Child Care Staff.
  1.As used in sections 1 through 6 and 8 through 11 of P.L.2003, c.186 (C.30:4C-27.16 et al.): "Department" means the Department of Children and...
• Section 30:4c-27.17 - Background Checks Required For Securing, Maintaining Certificate Of Approval.
  2. a. As a condition of securing or maintaining a certificate of approval from the department, the administrator of a facility shall ensure that...
• Section 30:4c-27.18 - Facilities Established After Effective Date; Procedures.
  3. a. In the case of a facility established after the effective date of this act, the administrator of the facility, prior to the...
• Section 30:4c-27.19 - Criteria For Permanent Disqualification.
  4.Except as provided in subsection d. of this section, a current staff member or an applicant for employment shall be permanently disqualified from employment...
• Section 30:4c-27.20 - Eligibility For Employment For Certain Rehabilitated Offenders; Determination.
  5. a. For crimes and offenses other than those cited in subsection a. of section 4 of this act, an applicant or staff member...
• Section 30:4c-27.21 - Immunity From Liability On Use Of Background Information.
  6. a. A facility that has received an employment application from an individual or currently employs a staff member shall be immune from liability...
• Section 30:4c-27.22 - Child Abuse Record Information Check Required For Securing, Maintaining Certificate Of Approval.
  8. a. As a condition of securing or maintaining a certificate of approval from the department, the administrator of a facility shall ensure that...
• Section 30:4c-27.23 - Facility Established After Effective Date, Request For Staff Background Checks.
  9. a. In the case of a facility established after the effective date of this act, the administrator of the facility, prior to the...
• Section 30:4c-27.24 - Regulations Relative To Out-of-state Facility Serving State Residents.
  10. In the case of a facility located outside the State serving children who are residents of the State, the administrator of the facility...
• Section 30:4c-27.25 - Responsibility For Costs, Funding Of Background Checks.
  11. The department shall be responsible for the cost of processing and funding all criminal history record background and child abuse record information checks...
• Section 30:4c-28 - Discharge For Care, Custody, Or Guardianship.
  28.The Division of Child Protection and Permanency may at any time discharge from its care, custody, or guardianship any child, if in the opinion...
• Section 30:4c-29 - Payments For Maintenance.
  29.Subject to the provisions of section 30 of P.L.1951, c.138 (C.30:4C-30), payments for maintenance shall be made by the Division of Child Protection and...
• Section 30:4c-29.1 - Liability For Maintenance Costs.
  1. a. In any case in which the Department of Children and Families, through the Division of Child Protection and Permanency, is providing care...
• Section 30:4c-29.2 - Lien On Real Property
  At any time during the period during which said child is within the care and custody of the division and within two years after...
• Section 30:4c-29.3 - Books For Recording Certificates Of Lien; Index
  The clerk or register of deeds and mortgages of the county, or the clerk of the Superior Court, as the case may be, shall...
• Section 30:4c-29.4 - Property Subject To Lien; Notice; Liability For Disposal Of Property After Notice
  The lien shall become binding upon any goods, rights, credits, chattels, moneys or effects which are held, for the present or subsequent use, of...
• Section 30:4c-29.5 - Compromise And Settlement Of Claims
  The bureau is authorized to compromise and make settlement of any claim for which any lien is filed under the provisions of this act...
• Section 30:4c-29.6 - Discharge Of Lien; Certificate
  Any such lien may be discharged by filing in the office in which the certificate of lien is filed, a certificate setting forth that...
• Section 30:4c-30 - Sharing Of Cost Of Maintenance By State And County
  The cost of maintenance provided under this act for or on behalf of any child shall be borne by the State at the rate...
• Section 30:4c-30.1 - Hospital Care; Total Cost To Be Borne By State
  Notwithstanding the provisions of the act of which this act is a supplement, the total cost of hospital care for children as provided for...
• Section 30:4c-31 - Federal Assistance; Compliance With Requirements Of Department Of Health, Education And Welfare
  The State Board of Control or its duly authorized representative is hereby empowered to negotiate with the Federal Government to secure such financial assistance...
• Section 30:4c-32 - Burial Of Child Receiving Care; Expenses.
  32.Whenever a child receiving care, custody, or guardianship as provided by P.L.1951, c.138 (C.30:4C-1 et seq.) has died, and an investigation by the Division...
• Section 30:4c-33 - Compromise And Settlement Of Claims.
  33.The Division of Child Protection and Permanency may compromise and settle any claim due or which may become due the division for reimbursement of...
• Section 30:4c-34 - Recovery, Reimbursement Of Moneys.
  34.Whenever the Division of Child Protection and Permanency shall recover or receive reimbursement of any moneys paid to any individual or organization for the...
• Section 30:4c-35 - Contributions.
  35.The Division of Child Protection and Permanency is authorized to retain any voluntary contributions of money heretofore received by it, and to receive future...
• Section 30:4c-36 - Petty Cash Fund.
  36.On application in writing by the Division of Child Protection and Permanency, the State Treasurer on warrant of the Director of the Division of...
• Section 30:4c-37 - Checks, Drafts, Warrants, Procedure If Uncashed.
  37.Whenever the Division of Child Protection and Permanency shall have issued, or shall hereafter issue, any checks, drafts, or warrants to be paid from...
• Section 30:4c-38 - Repeal
  The following acts and statutes together with all amendments thereof and supplements thereto are repealed: Articles one, two and three of chapter five of...
• Section 30:4c-39 - Continuation Of Consistent Provisions Of Prior Laws; Effect Of Repeal
  To the extent that this act contains provisions not inconsistent with those of prior laws it shall be construed as a continuation of such...
• Section 30:4c-40 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect January first, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-two. L.1951, c. 138, p. 593, s. 40.
• Section 30:4c-41 - "Approved Agency" Defined
  "Approved agency" as used herein means a legally constituted agency having its principal office within this State, which holds a valid certificate of approval...
• Section 30:4c-42 - Adoption Resource Exchange.
  2.The Division of Child Protection and Permanency, is hereby authorized and empowered, subject to the availability of appropriations therefor, to establish an Adoption Resource...
• Section 30:4c-43 - Purpose Of Adoption Resource Exchange.
  3.The Adoption Resource Exchange authorized by P.L.1962, c.206 (C.30:4C-41 et seq.) shall not itself engage in the placement of children for adoption nor shall...
• Section 30:4c-44 - Rules, Regulations, And Procedures.
  4.The Division of Child Protection and Permanency is hereby authorized and empowered to establish rules, regulations, and procedures necessary to accomplish the purposes of...
• Section 30:4c-45 - Legislative Intent.
  1.It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this act to benefit hard-to-place children in resource family care at State expense by providing...
• Section 30:4c-46 - Payments In Subsidization Of Adoption; Qualifications.
  2.The Division of Child Protection and Permanency shall make payments to adoptive parents on behalf of a child placed for adoption by the division...
• Section 30:4c-47 - Costs And Expenses Covered.
  3.Payments in subsidization of adoption shall include but are not limited to the maintenance costs, medical and surgical expenses, and other costs incidental to...
• Section 30:4c-48 - Qualifications; Original And Annual Determination.
  4.Qualification for payments in subsidization of adoption shall be determined and approved by the Division of Child Protection and Permanency prior to the completion...
• Section 30:4c-49 - Rules And Regulations.
  5.The Division of Child Protection and Permanency shall make all necessary rules and regulations for administering the program for payments in subsidization of adoptions....
• Section 30:4c-50 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Child Placement Review Act." L.1977, c. 424, s. 1.
• Section 30:4c-51 - Legislative Declarations.
  2.The Legislature declares that it is in the public interest, whereby the safety of children shall be of paramount concern, to afford every child...
• Section 30:4c-52 - Definitions.
  3.As used in P.L.1977, c.424 (C.30:4C-50 et seq.), unless the context indicates otherwise: a."Child" means any person less than 18 years of age; b."Child...
• Section 30:4c-53 - Filing Notice Of Placement Of Child Outside Home.
  4.Within five calendar days after the placement of a child outside his home pursuant to a voluntary agreement, the division or the designated agency,...
• Section 30:4c-53.1 - Findings, Declarations.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that it is in the public interest, whereby the safety of children shall be of paramount concern, to afford...
• Section 30:4c-53.2 - Definition Of "Repeated Placement In Resource Family Care," "Placed Again Into Resource Family Care."
  2.For purposes of P.L.1991, c.448 (C.30:4C-53.1 et seq.), the terms "repeated placement into resource family care" and "placed again into resource family care" shall...
• Section 30:4c-53.3 - Revised, Repeated Placement Plans, Requisites.
  3. a. The division shall not treat a child's repeated placement into resource family care as an initial placement. The child's revised placement plan,...
• Section 30:4c-53.4 - Petition To Terminate Parental Rights.
  4.If the division is required to provide reasonable efforts toward family reunification, and if the parents or guardian of the child are unwilling or...
• Section 30:4c-53.5 - Rules, Regulations.
  5.Pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), the Commissioner of Children and Families shall adopt all rules and regulations necessary...
• Section 30:4c-54 - Determination By Court As To Placement.
  5.The court shall, within 15 days following receipt of the notice of the initial placement pursuant to a voluntary agreement, determine, based solely upon...
• Section 30:4c-55 - Placement Plans, Requirements.
  6.The division shall prepare and revise, when necessary, in consultation with the child's parents or legal guardian and, when appropriate, the child, a placement...
• Section 30:4c-56 - Administrative Procedures To Provide For Needs Of Children And To Obtain Federal Aid
  The division shall be responsible for establishing such administrative procedures as will enable it to effectively provide for the needs of children placed outside...
• Section 30:4c-57 - Child Placement Review Boards
  a. The assignment judge in each county shall establish as an arm of the family part of the Chancery Division of the Superior Court...
• Section 30:4c-58 - Review Of Placements.
  9.Each board shall act on behalf of the Family Part of the Chancery Division of the Superior Court in reviewing the case of every...
• Section 30:4c-58.1 - Placement For Adoption
  When a child is placed in a home for the purpose of adoption, the division shall notify the family part of the Chancery Division...
• Section 30:4c-59 - Written Notice In Advance Of Review.
  10.Each board shall provide written notice of the date, time and place of each review at least 15 days in advance to the following,...
• Section 30:4c-60 - Submission Of Report.
  11. Within 10 days after the completion of such review, the board shall submit a written report to the Family Part of the Chancery...
• Section 30:4c-61 - Issuance Of Order By Court.
  12. a. Upon review of the board's report, the Family Part of the Chancery Division of the Superior Court shall issue an order concerning...
• Section 30:4c-61.1 - Proposal To Return Child Home.
  8. a. If the division proposes to return a child home, although the return home is either prohibited by the placement plan approved by...
• Section 30:4c-61.2 - Permanency Hearing.
  50. a. A permanency hearing shall be held that provides review and approval by the court of the placement plan: (1)within 30 days after...
• Section 30:4c-62 - Child Placement Advisory Council
  13. There is hereby established a Child Placement Advisory Council to consist of one member from each of the child placement review boards to...
• Section 30:4c-62.1 - Grants Or Contributions; Acceptance
  The Child Placement Advisory Council may accept from any governmental department or agency, public or private body or any other source, grants or contributions...
• Section 30:4c-63 - Rules For Conduct Of Review Boards; Promulgation By Supreme Court
  The Supreme Court, in consultation with the Child Placement Advisory Council, shall: issue such rules governing the duties, responsibilities and practices of the board...
• Section 30:4c-64 - Joint Legislative Committee To Monitor And Evaluate Act; Report
  The Institutions, Health and Welfare committees of the Senate and General Assembly, or their respective successors, are constituted a joint committee for the purposes...
• Section 30:4c-65 - Severability
  If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held to be invalid, the remainder of the...
• Section 30:4c-66 - Short Title
  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Bring Our Children Home Act." L.1992,c.111,s.1.
• Section 30:4c-67 - Findings, Declarations.
  2.The Legislature finds and declares that it is the intent of the Legislature to preserve the sanctity of the family unit, to the extent...
• Section 30:4c-68 - Definitions
  3. As used in this act: "Case Assessment Resource Team" or "CART" means an entity that reviews the needs of every child in the...
• Section 30:4c-69 - Development Of Interdepartmental Plan.
  4.The Commissioner of Children and Families shall develop an interdepartmental plan for the implementation of an individualized, appropriate child and family driven care system...
• Section 30:4c-70 - Establishment Of Cart, Ciacc.
  5.A county may establish a CART and CIACC in accordance with the provisions of this act. In the event that a county does not...
• Section 30:4c-71 - Contents Of Plan.
  6.The plan shall: a.Assess current policies and activities of all divisions in the Department of Children and Families in the implementation of the individualized,...
• Section 30:4c-72 - Principles Of System Of Care
  7. The individualized, appropriate child and family driven system of care may embody the following principles: a. Services are to be child and family...
• Section 30:4c-73 - Use Of Monies Saved.
  8.Any monies saved by the Department of Children and Families in preventing the out-of-home placement of children pursuant to this act shall be used...
• Section 30:4c-74 - Findings, Declarations
  1. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. The obligation of the State to preserve the sanctity of the family and prevent the placement...
• Section 30:4c-75 - "Family Preservation Services Program" Defined
  2. For the purposes of this act, "family preservation services program" means an intensive, in-home family education and crisis intervention program and "family preservation...
• Section 30:4c-76 - Establishment Of Family Preservation Services Program; Objectives.
  3. a. The Department of Children and Families may establish, through purchase of service contracts with community-based organizations, at least one family preservation services...
• Section 30:4c-77 - Referrals To Program, Requirements For Family Preservation Services
  4. a. Subject to the guidelines and policies of the specific contracts entered into by providers of family preservation services, agencies authorized to place...
• Section 30:4c-78 - Required Credentials For Direct Services Worker, Supervisor
  5. A family preservation services direct services worker shall possess a master's degree in the social sciences or shall have graduated from a fully...
• Section 30:4c-79 - Development Of Manual Of Standards.
  6.The Department of Children and Families shall develop a manual of standards on the operation and programmatic aspects of family preservation services. L.1993, c.157,...
• Section 30:4c-80 - Family Preservation Services Coordinating Unit Established.
  7.There is established a Family Preservation Services Coordinating Unit in the Department of Children and Families. The unit shall consist of persons with knowledge...
• Section 30:4c-81 - Annual Report To Governor, Legislature.
  8.The Commissioner of Children and Families shall report to the Governor and, pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1991, c.164 (C.52:14-19.1), to the Legislature by...
• Section 30:4c-82 - Use Of Federal Funding, Maximize.
  9.The Department of Children and Families shall seek to maximize any available federal funding which may be used for the purposes of administering or...
• Section 30:4c-83 - Transfer Of Funds.
  10.The Commissioner of Children and Families, following prior review and approval from the Office of Management and Budget, may transfer funds appropriated for substitute...
• Section 30:4c-84 - Definitions Relative To Kinship Legal Guardianship And State Agency Action.
  7.As used in sections 7 through 10 of P.L.2001, c.250 (C.30:4C-84 et seq.): "Caregiver" means a person over 18 years of age, other than...
• Section 30:4c-85 - Conduct Of Kinship Caregiver Assessment In Certain Cases.
  8. a. In the case of a child who has been removed from his home by the division within the last 12 months, or...
• Section 30:4c-86 - Checks Required Prior To Submission Of Petition.
  9. a. Prior to the submission of a petition for appointment as a kinship legal guardian, the caregiver and any adult residing in the...
• Section 30:4c-87 - Kinship Legal Guardianship As Alternative Disposition.
  10.With respect to a complaint initiated by the division pursuant to P.L.1974, c.119 (C.9:6-8.21 et seq.) and section 15 of P.L.1951, c.138 (C.30:4C-15): a.Only...
• Section 30:4c-88 - Rules, Regulations.
  11.The Commissioner of Children and Families, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall adopt rules and regulations to effectuate...
• Section 30:4c-89 - Short Title.
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Kinship Legal Guardianship Notification Act." L.2005,c.95,s.1.
• Section 30:4c-90 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Kinship Legal Guardianship.
  2.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.An increasing number of relatives in the State, including grandparents, find themselves providing care on a long-term basis...
• Section 30:4c-91 - Dissemination Of Information By Dcf.
  3.The Department of Children and Families shall, in easily understandable language: a.inform individuals, of whom the department is aware, who may be eligible to...
• Section 30:4c-92 - Rules, Regulations.
  4.The Commissioner of Children and Families shall adopt rules and regulations, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), to effectuate...
• Section 30:4c-101 - "Tuition" Defined.
  1.As used in this act: "Tuition" means the charges imposed by a New Jersey public institution of higher education or county vocational school providing...
• Section 30:4c-102 - "Statewide Tuition Waiver Program."
  2.There is created in the Department of Children and Families the "Statewide Tuition Waiver Program." The purpose of the program is to provide State-paid...
• Section 30:4c-103 - Eligibility Requirements For Program.
  3. a. A child shall be eligible to qualify for the program if the child meets the following requirements at the time of the...
• Section 30:4c-104 - Application Procedure, Maximum Benefit.
  4.The applicant shall complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid to determine the level of need and eligibility for State and federal financial...
• Section 30:4c-105 - Rules, Regulations.
  5.Subject to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), the Commissioner of Children and Families, in consultation with the Higher Education Student...
• Section 30:4d-1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New Jersey Medical Assistance and Health Services Act." L.1968, c. 413, s. 1.
• Section 30:4d-2 - Declaration Of Purpose
  It is the intent of the Legislature to make statutory provision which will enable the State of New Jersey to provide medical assistance, insofar...
• Section 30:4d-2.1 - Findings, Declarations
  The Legislature finds and declares that: a. Low-income pregnant women are at higher risk of poor birth outcomes by virtue of their poverty status...
• Section 30:4d-3 - Definitions.
  3.Definitions. As used in P.L.1968, c.413 (C.30:4D-1 et seq.), and unless the context otherwise requires: a."Applicant" means any person who has made application for...
• Section 30:4d-3a - "Invalid Coach Service" Deemed To Mean "Mobility Assistance Vehicle Service"
  4. Whenever the term "invalid coach service" occurs or any reference is made thereto in any law, contract or document which pertains to the...
• Section 30:4d-3b - Establishment Of Enrollment Simplification Practices.
  9.No later than January 1, 2006, the Commissioner of Human Services shall, at a minimum, establish the following enrollment simplification practices for dependent children...
• Section 30:4d-4 - Division Of Medical Assistance And Health Services
  There is hereby created in the Department of Human Services a Division of Medical Assistance and Health Services. The division shall perform those administrative...
• Section 30:4d-5 - Medical Assistance Program
  The department, which is hereby designated the single State agency to administer the provisions of this act, through the Division of Medical Assistance and...
• Section 30:4d-6 - Basic Medical Care And Services.
  6. a. Subject to the requirements of Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act, the limitations imposed by this act and by the...
• Section 30:4d-6a - $35 Monthly Personal Needs Allowance
  Any person who is eligible for medical assistance and health services under P.L. 1968, c. 413 (C. 30:4D-1 et seq.) and who receives medical...
• Section 30:4d-6c - Continued Medicaid Eligibility
  2. A dependent child or the parent or caretaker relative of a dependent child who would lose eligibility for the aid to families with...
• Section 30:4d-6d - Third Party, Certain; Primary Payer
  3. If a person who is eligible for continued Medicaid benefits pursuant to section 2 of this act obtains employment which provides health insurance...
• Section 30:4d-6e - Uninsured, Ineligible Persons May Purchase Health Care Coverage
  a. Any person who is not eligible for medical assistance pursuant to P.L.1968, c.413 (C.30:4D-1 et seq.) who is employed full-time or part-time and...
• Section 30:4d-6f - Eligibility Of Aliens For Medical Assistance.
  2.An eligible alien as defined in section 3 of P.L.1968, c.413 (C.30:4D-1 et seq.) who otherwise meets all eligibility criteria therefor is entitled to...
• Section 30:4d-6g - Findings, Declarations Relative To Emergency Care.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.In accordance with the "Health Care Reform Act," P.L.1992, c.160 (C.26:2H-18.51 et al.), it has been and continues...
• Section 30:4d-6h - Definitions Relative To Emergency Care.
  2.As used in this act: "Contractor" means a health maintenance organization authorized to operate in this State which contracts with the Department of Human...
• Section 30:4d-6i - Non-participating Hospital, Payment For Emergency Treatment For Medicaid Recipient.
  3.A non-participating hospital that provides emergency health care services to a Medicaid recipient enrolled in a managed care plan shall accept, as payment in...
• Section 30:4d-6j - Criteria For Medicaid Admission To Certain Long-term Care Facilities For Hiv/aids Patients.
  1. a. Subject to federal financial participation under Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. s.1396 et seq.), the Commissioner of...
• Section 30:4d-6.1 - Abortions; Payment Of Claims
  No payments for medical assistance shall be made under the act hereby supplemented for the termination of a woman's pregnancy for any reason except...
• Section 30:4d-6.2 - Definitions
  1. For the purposes of this act: a. "Certified trained personnel" means that the one or more individuals directly providing mobility assistance vehicle services...
• Section 30:4d-6.3 - Provider Of Mobility Assistance Vehicle Services; Conditions For Approval For Reimbursement
  2.No provider of mobility assistance vehicle services shall be approved for reimbursement by the Division of Medical Assistance and Health Services for services rendered...
• Section 30:4d-6.4 - Minimum Requirements, Liability Insurance, Personnel; Rules, Regulations.
  3.After consulting with the Commissioner of Human Services, the Commissioner of Health is authorized and empowered to issue and enforce, or cause to be...
• Section 30:4d-6.5 - Inapplicability Of Act To Services By Volunteer First Aid, Rescue And Ambulance Squads
  The provisions of this act shall not apply to services provided by volunteer first aid, rescue and ambulance squads as defined in the "New...
• Section 30:4d-6.6 - Rules And Regulations; Application Of Medical Assistance And Health Services Act
  a. After consulting with the Commissioner of Human Services, the Commissioner of Health is authorized and empowered to adopt such rules and regulations as...
• Section 30:4d-6.7 - Resident Of Skilled Or Intermediate Care Nursing Facility Discharged To General Or Psychiatric Hospital; Coverage By Medical Assistance Program
  A resident of a skilled or intermediate care nursing facility who is a recipient of medical assistance payments under P.L.1968, c. 413 (C. 30:4D-1...
• Section 30:4d-6.8 - Period Of Maintenance Of Bed For Eligible Resident; Certification For Payment
  Every skilled or intermediate care nursing facility in this State shall maintain a bed for an eligible resident for a period not to exceed...
• Section 30:4d-6.9 - Inability Of Discharged Resident To Return Within Period; Priority For Next Available Bed
  If the discharged resident is unable to return to the nursing facility before the end of the 10 day period, the discharged resident shall...
• Section 30:4d-7 - Duties Of Commissioner.
  7.Duties of commissioner. The commissioner is authorized and empowered to issue, or to cause to be issued through the Division of Medical Assistance and...
• Section 30:4d-7a - County Welfare Agency To Provide Adequate Employees To Determine Medicaid Eligibility
  The Commissioner of Human Services shall require that a county welfare agency provide adequate employees to determine Medicaid eligibility to any hospital in the...
• Section 30:4d-7b - Preparation Of Five-year Plan For Developing Statewide Network Of Managed Care Providers
  The Commissioner of Human Services shall prepare a five-year plan to develop a Statewide network of managed care providers for Medicaid recipients pursuant to...
• Section 30:4d-7c - Submission Of Plan To Enroll Medicaid Recipients By Health Maintenance Organizations
  Within one year of the effective date of P.L.1991, c.187 (C.26:2H-18.24 et al.), every State approved or federally qualified health maintenance organization in the...
• Section 30:4d-7d - Report By Commissioner
  Within six months of the effective date of P.L.1991, c.187 (C.26:2H-18.24 et al.), the Commissioner of Human Services shall report to the Governor and...
• Section 30:4d-7e - Rules, Regulations
  38. The Commissioner of Human Services shall, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) adopt rules and regulations necessary to...
• Section 30:4d-7f - Access Fees Charged By Fiscal Agent; Establishment; Use
  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of the "New Jersey Medical Assistance and Health Services Act," P.L.1968, c.413 (C.30:4D-1 et seq.) or any other law to...
• Section 30:4d-7g - Findings, Declarations Relative To Pediatric Rehabilitation Hospitals.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.Currently, there are two pediatric rehabilitation hospitals in the State that provide pediatric inpatient and ambulatory rehabilitation and...
• Section 30:4d-7h - Reimbursement By State Medicaid Program, Rates; Other Costs.
  2. a. A pediatric rehabilitation hospital licensed pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et seq.) with 30 or fewer beds shall be reimbursed 100% of...
• Section 30:4d-7i - Exemption From Close Proximity Requirements, Notification As To Off-site Location.
  3.A pediatric rehabilitation hospital licensed pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et seq.) shall not be subject to the close proximity requirements established pursuant to...
• Section 30:4d-7j - Annual Cost Report To Receive Reimbursement From Medicaid For Personal Care Assistant Services.
  1.As a condition of receiving reimbursement from the State Medicaid program, pursuant to P.L.1968, c.413 (C.30:4D-1 et seq.), for personal care assistant services, as...
• Section 30:4d-7k - Definitions Relative To Reimbursement For Family Planning Services.
  1. a. The reimbursement rate for an office visit for family planning services billed by a health care facility, which is licensed pursuant to...
• Section 30:4d-7l - Department To Facilitate Implementation Of C.30:4d-7k.
  2.The Department of Health shall adjust the Family Planning Services Grant-in-Aid appropriation and transfer the appropriate amount of State funds to the Division of...
• Section 30:4d-7m - Certain Hmos, Changes In Certain Reimbursement Rates; Procedure.
  1.Notwithstanding any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, a health maintenance organization that contracts with the Division of Medical Assistance and Health Services...
• Section 30:4d-7.1 - Attorney General To Enforce Rights Against Third Party For Recovery Of Medical Assistance Payments
  a. The commissioner may request the Attorney General to enforce any rights against any third party, institute legal proceedings against any third party, or...
• Section 30:4d-7.2 - Lien Against Recovery Sought From Estate Of Recipient, "Estate" Defined.
  7. a. (1) A lien may be filed against and recovery sought from the estate of a deceased recipient for assistance correctly paid or...
• Section 30:4d-7.2a - Encumbrances, Recovery Limited Against Certain Estates.
  1.No encumbrance or recovery shall be imposed against or sought from the estate of a deceased recipient for assistance correctly paid under: a.The "New...
• Section 30:4d-7.3 - Form; Liens And Certificates Of Debt
  All liens and certificates of debt under section 7 of this amendatory and supplementary act shall be in a form to be prescribed by...
• Section 30:4d-7.4 - Filing Liens; Attachment To Property
  All liens or certificates of debt under section 7 of this amendatory and supplementary act shall be filed with the clerk or register of...
• Section 30:4d-7.5 - Property Held In Trust; Attachment Of Lien
  If it is found that any party chargeable under any lien or certificate of debt filed pursuant to this act is possessed of any...
• Section 30:4d-7.6 - County Clerk; Register Of Deeds; Recording Liens And Certificates Of Debt
  The clerk of the county or register of deeds and mortgages, or clerk of the superior court, as the case may be, shall provide...
• Section 30:4d-7.7 - Compromise, Settlement Or Waiver Of Lien; Discharge Of Lien
  The commissioner or director or such person designated by the commissioner or director is hereby authorized to compromise, settle or waive in whole or...
• Section 30:4d-7.8 - Action To Determine Validity Of Lien; Deposit And Bond; Discharge Prior To Adjudication
  Any person affected in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, by any lien filed under this act, or any certificate of debt filed prior...
• Section 30:4d-7.9 - Payment To Pharmacy For Certain Forged, Fraudulent Prescriptions Under State Medicaid Program.
  1. a. A pharmacy shall receive full payment and shall not be penalized for dispensing a forged or fraudulent prescription that has been approved...
• Section 30:4d-8 - Claim Payment Method.
  8.The determination of the method of providing payment of claims under this act shall be made by the State Medicaid Commission on recommendation of...
• Section 30:4d-8.1 - Findings, Declarations Relative To A Medicaid Accountable Care Organization Demonstration Project.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.The current health care delivery and payment system often fails to provide high quality, cost-effective health care to...
• Section 30:4d-8.2 - Definitions Relative To A Medicaid Aco.
  2.As used in this act: "ACO" means an accountable care organization. "Behavioral health care provider" means a provider licensed or approved by the Department...
• Section 30:4d-8.3 - Establishment Of Three-year Medicaid Aco Demonstration Project.
  3. a. The Department of Human Services shall establish a three-year Medicaid ACO Demonstration Project in which nonprofit corporations organized with the voluntary support...
• Section 30:4d-8.4 - Applications For Certification As A Medicaid Aco.
  4. a. The department shall accept applications for certification from demonstration project applicants beginning 60 days following the effective date of this act, and...
• Section 30:4d-8.5 - Eligibility To Receive, Distribute Gainsharing Payments.
  5. a. A certified Medicaid ACO shall be eligible to receive and distribute gainsharing payments only after having received approval from the department of...
• Section 30:4d-8.6 - Remission Of Payment To Aco.
  6.The department shall remit payment of cost savings to a participating Medicaid ACO following approval by the department, in consultation with the Department of...
• Section 30:4d-8.7 - Voluntary Participation In Demonstration Project.
  7. a. A managed care organization that has contracted with the department may voluntarily seek participation in the demonstration project by notifying the Medicaid...
• Section 30:4d-8.8 - Duties Of The Department; Authorization To Seek Grants.
  8. a. The department, in consultation with the Department of Health, shall: (1)design and implement the application process for approval of participating ACOs in...
• Section 30:4d-8.9 - Annual Evaluation.
  9.The department, in consultation with the Department of Health, shall evaluate the demonstration project annually to assess whether: cost savings, including, but not limited...
• Section 30:4d-8.10 - Application For State Plan Amendments, Waivers.
  10. a. The Commissioner of Human Services shall apply for such State plan amendments or waivers as may be necessary to implement the provisions...
• Section 30:4d-8.11 - Construction Of Act.
  11.Nothing in this act shall be construed to limit the choice of a Medicaid recipient to access care for family planning services or any...
• Section 30:4d-8.12 - Continuation Of Payments For Certain Services.
  12. a. Under the demonstration project, payment shall continue to be made to providers of services and suppliers participating in the Medicaid ACO for...
• Section 30:4d-8.13 - Certain Licensure Requirements Waived.
  13.Notwithstanding the requirements of P.L.1999, c.409 (C.17:48H-1 et seq.), a Medicaid ACO certified pursuant to this act shall not be required to obtain licensure...
• Section 30:4d-8.14 - Report To Governor, Legislature.
  14.Upon completion of the demonstration project, the Commissioners of Human Services and Health shall report to the Governor, and to the Legislature pursuant to...
• Section 30:4d-8.15 - Rules, Regulations.
  15.The Commissioner of Human Services, in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) and with input from the Commissioner of...
• Section 30:4d-9 - Required Contents Of Solicited Bids And Contracts
  Any bid solicited and any contract awarded by the commissioner in accordance with 8a, above shall contain: (1) The method of payment subject to...
• Section 30:4d-10 - Review Of Sealed Bids; Report And Recommendation; Considerations
  Upon the opening of sealed bids submitted in accordance with sections 8. a. and 9, the commissioner shall review the same and make a...
• Section 30:4d-11 - Approval Or Disapproval Of Lowest Responsible Bid; Direction Of Payment
  The State Medicaid Commission by majority vote of all its members shall (a) approve or disapprove the lowest responsible bid submitted under 8. a....
• Section 30:4d-12 - Unnecessary Use Of Care And Services; Methods And Procedures; Maintenance Of Records Required For Reimbursement
  Subject to the limitations provided in sections 7, 8 and 9 of this act, the department shall (a) develop and employ such methods and...
• Section 30:4d-13 - Enrollment Fees Or Premium Charges
  Subject to the limitations set forth in sections 7, 8 and 9 of this act, the department shall assure that no enrollment fee, premium...
• Section 30:4d-14 - Preparation Of Comprehensive Medical Plan
  Subject to the limitations provided in this act and the Federal Social Security Act, the department shall prepare a comprehensive medical plan whereby the...
• Section 30:4d-15 - Eligibility Determination
  The department shall assure: (a) That all individuals wishing to make application for medical assistance shall have the opportunity to do so; (b) That...
• Section 30:4d-16 - Provision Of Funds By State
  The State shall provide such funds as may be necessary to meet its share of the costs incurred under this act. L.1968, c. 413,...
• Section 30:4d-17 - Penalty.
  17. (a) Any person who willfully obtains benefits under P.L.1968, c.413 (C.30:4D-1 et seq.) to which a person is not entitled or in a...
• Section 30:4d-17a - Additional Action By Attorney General.
  3.In addition to any other action authorized or required by law, the Attorney General shall refer any matter regarding a person who is licensed...
• Section 30:4d-17b - Construction Of Act.
  4.Nothing in section 17 of P.L.1968, c.413 (C.30:4D-17) or in section 3 of P.L.2010, c.30 (C.30:4D-17a) shall be construed to preclude the indictment or...
• Section 30:4d-17.1 - Suspension Or Disqualification Of Providers, Termination Of Benefits To Recipients; Rules And Regulations
  a. The director may suspend, debar or disqualify for good cause any provider presently participating or who has applied for participation in the program,...
• Section 30:4d-17.2 - Enforcement Of Commissioner's Decisions; Orders By Civil Action
  Any decision, order, final judgment, or final determination of the commissioner or director issued pursuant to the provisions of this act not involving the...
• Section 30:4d-17.3 - Criminal, Civil Violations
  a. No person shall at any time knowingly charge, solicit, accept or receive, in addition to any amount otherwise required to be paid under...
• Section 30:4d-17.4 - Reimbursement For Retroactive Eligibility
  If an applicant is determined to be eligible under P.L. 1968, c. 413 (C. 30:4D-1 et seq.) retroactively and the provider bills the applicant...
• Section 30:4d-17.5 - Adjusted Reimbursement Rates
  The commissioner may establish adjusted reimbursement rates for skilled nursing and intermediate care facilities which experience financial hardship due to an average monthly Medicaid...
• Section 30:4d-17.6 - Withdrawal As Medicaid Provider
  a. If a skilled nursing or intermediate care facility notifies the commissioner within 180 days following the date of enactment of this amendatory and...
• Section 30:4d-17.7 - $13 Million Contingency Account
  There is appropriated $13,000,000.00 from the General Fund to the Department of Human Services. These funds are to be deposited in a newly established...
• Section 30:4d-17.8 - Posting, Distribution Of Law
  Each skilled nursing facility and intermediate care facility shall post a statement of the provisions of this amendatory and supplementary act that apply to...
• Section 30:4d-17.9 - Annual Report
  The Commissioner of Human Services shall report annually to the Governor and the Legislature on the effect of the provisions of this amendatory and...
• Section 30:4d-17.10 - Findings, Declarations
  The Legislature finds and declares that: a. A substantial proportion of nursing home residents do not need the level of medical care provided in...
• Section 30:4d-17.11 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Department of Human Services. b. "Division" means the Division of Medical Assistance...
• Section 30:4d-17.12 - Nursing Home Preadmission Screening Program
  The commissioner shall establish a Nursing Home Preadmission Screening Program in the division, which shall be operational to serve each county in the State...
• Section 30:4d-17.13 - Responsibility For Preadmission Screening
  A skilled nursing or intermediate care facility is responsible for ensuring that preadmission screening has been performed with respect to every individual who, at...
• Section 30:4d-17.14 - Procedures For Preadmission Screening
  a. The commissioner shall contract with appropriate agencies for the performance of preadmission screening or perform the screening directly through the division. Preadmission screening...
• Section 30:4d-17.15 - Rules, Regulations
  The commissioner, in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L. 1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.), shall adopt such rules and regulations as...
• Section 30:4d-17.16 - Definitions.
  1.As used in this act: "Beneficiary" means a person participating in a State pharmaceutical benefits program. "Board" means the Drug Utilization Review Board established...
• Section 30:4d-17.17a - Drug Utilization Review Board.
  2. a. There is established the Drug Utilization Review Board in the department to advise the department on the implementation of a drug utilization...
• Section 30:4d-17.18 - Responsibilities Of Department.
  3.The department shall be responsible for: a.(Deleted by amendment, P.L.1998, c.41). b.The implementation of a drug utilization review program, subject to the approval of...
• Section 30:4d-17.18a - Rules, Regulations.
  4.The Commissioner of Human Services, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), and subject to the approval of the Commissioner...
• Section 30:4d-17.19 - Hmos, Certain, To Contract For Services Provided At Certain Newark Schools
  1.Every health maintenance organization under contract with the Division of Medical Assistance and Health Services in the Department of Human Services that provides health...
• Section 30:4d-17.20 - Written Informed Parental Consent
  2.The Children's Hospital of New Jersey shall obtain written informed consent of a parent or guardian for the provision of primary health care and...
• Section 30:4d-17.21 - Approval As Provider Of Psychological Services
  3.The Division of Medical Assistance and Health Services in the Department of Human Services shall approve the Children's Hospital of New Jersey as a...
• Section 30:4d-17.22 - Compliance With Licensure, Medicaid Requirements; Authorization
  4. a. The Children's Hospital of New Jersey shall comply with all State licensure and Medicaid requirements before any health care services may be...
• Section 30:4d-17.23 - Short Title.
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Independence, Dignity and Choice in Long-Term Care Act." L.2006, c.23,s.1.
• Section 30:4d-17.24 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Long-term Care For Medicaid Recipients.
  2.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.The current population of adults 60 years of age and older in New Jersey is about 1.4 million,...
• Section 30:4d-17.25 - Definitions Relative To Long-term Care For Medicaid Recipients.
  3.As used in this act: "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Human Services. "Funding parity between nursing home care and home and community-based care" means...
• Section 30:4d-17.26 - Process To Rebalance Allocation Of Funding For Expansion Of Long-term Care Services; Pilot Program, Use Statewide.
  4. a. (1) Beginning in fiscal year 2008, and in each succeeding fiscal year through fiscal year 2013, the commissioner, in consultation with the...
• Section 30:4d-17.27 - Duties Of Commissioner Relative To Report On Budget, Management Plan.
  5.The commissioner, in consultation with the Medicaid Long-Term Care Funding Advisory Council established pursuant to this act, shall: a.no later than October 1, 2007,...
• Section 30:4d-17.28 - Duties Of Commissioner Relative To Funding Parity, Coordination, Assessment Instrument.
  6.The commissioner, in consultation with the Medicaid Long-Term Care Funding Advisory Council established pursuant to this act, shall: a.Implement, by such time as the...
• Section 30:4d-17.29 - Medicaid Long-term Care Funding Advisory Council.
  7. a. There is established the Medicaid Long-Term Care Funding Advisory Council within the Department of Human Services. The advisory council shall meet at...
• Section 30:4d-17.30 - Waiver Of Federal Requirements.
  8.The Commissioner of Human Service shall apply to the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for any waiver of federal requirements, or for...
• Section 30:4d-17.31 - Tracking Of Expenditures.
  9.The commissioner shall track Medicaid long-term care expenditures necessary to carry out the provisions of this act. L.2006, c.23, s.9; amended 2012, c.17, s.379.
• Section 30:4d-17.32 - Inclusion Of Budget Line For Medicaid Long-term Care Expenditures.
  10. There shall be included a unique global budget appropriation line item for Medicaid long-term care expenditures in the annual appropriations act for fiscal...
• Section 30:4d-17.33 - Medicaid Medical Home Demonstration Project; Terms Defined.
  1. a. The Division of Medical Assistance and Health Services in the Department of Human Services, subject to federal approval and the availability of...
• Section 30:4d-17.34 - Annual Evaluation.
  2.The Director of the Division of Medical Assistance and Health Services shall evaluate the demonstration project annually to assess: whether cost savings are achieved...
• Section 30:4d-17.35 - Application For Plan Amendments, Waivers.
  3.The Commissioner of Human Services shall apply for such State plan amendments or waivers as may be necessary to implement the provisions of this...
• Section 30:4d-17.36 - Annual Report.
  4.The Commissioner of Human Services shall report annually to the Governor, and to the Legislature pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1991, c.164 (C.52:14-19.1), on...
• Section 30:4d-17.37 - Rules, Regulations.
  5.The Commissioner of Human Services shall, in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), adopt such rules and regulations as...
• Section 30:4d-17.38 - Monitoring Of Long-term Care Services.
  1. a. The Department of Human Services shall monitor the services provided to an individual receiving services under the Medicaid Managed Long Term Services...
• Section 30:4d-18 - Reporting And Oversight
  The commissioner shall report to the Governor and the Legislature, at least once each year, which report shall include a summary of its activities...
• Section 30:4d-19 - Severability Clause
  If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other...
• Section 30:4d-19.1 - "New Jersey Medical Assistance And Health Services Program" Administrators, Duties
  28. The director or other chief administrative officer of each agency or office providing or administering assistance under the "New Jersey Medical Assistance and...
• Section 30:4d-19.2 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Intergovernmental Transfer Program Under Medicaid
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.Federal law permits states to enhance existing federal financial participation under the Medicaid program through the use of...
• Section 30:4d-19.3 - Definitions Relative To Intergovernmental Transfer Program Under Medicaid.
  2.As used in this act: "Bank" means a State or federally chartered bank, savings bank, or savings and loan association located in this State...
• Section 30:4d-19.4 - Intergovernmental Transfer Program Established.
  3.There is established an intergovernmental transfer program subject to the provisions of this act. a.Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary,...
• Section 30:4d-19.5 - Appropriations For Supplemental Payments Under Intergovernmental Transfer Program; Costs.
  4. a. There are appropriated to the Department of Human Services such sums as are determined necessary by the Director of the Division of...
• Section 30:4d-20 - Program; Establishment
  The commissioner shall establish a program which shall be known as "Pharmaceutical Assistance to the Aged." L.1975, c. 194, s. 1, eff. Aug. 21,
• Section 30:4d-21 - Pharmaceutical Assistance Eligibility
  2. a. Any resident of this State who is either a recipient of disability insurance benefits under Title II of the federal Social Security...
• Section 30:4d-21.2 - Reparations To Japanese Americans Not Counted As Income For Paad Eligibility
  1. Funds received from the federal government pursuant to sections 105 and 106 of the "Civil Liberties Act of 1988," Pub.L.100-383 (50 U.S.C. App....
• Section 30:4d-21.3 - Holocaust Reparations, Restitution Not Considered Income For Determination Of Paad Eligibility
  2.Amounts received as reparations or restitution for the loss of liberty or damage to health by the victims of National Socialist (Nazi) persecution; returns...
• Section 30:4d-21.4 - Paad Recipients, Notification As To Error In Estimated Annual Income.
  1. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, a recipient of benefits under the "Pharmaceutical Assistance to the Aged and...
• Section 30:4d-21.5 - Automatic Enrollment In Certain Pharmaceutical Assistance Programs.
  1. a. If a person who is a recipient of benefits under the "Pharmaceutical Assistance to the Aged and Disabled," or PAAD, program becomes...
• Section 30:4d-22 - Copayment; Restrictions; Definitions
  The program of "Pharmaceutical Assistance to the Aged and Disabled" shall consist of payments to pharmacies for the reasonable cost of prescription drugs of...
• Section 30:4d-22.1 - Pharmacy Payment Condition
  2. Payments to pharmacies made by the "Pharmaceutical Assistance to the Aged and Disabled" program in accordance with section 3 of P.L.1975, c.194 (C.30:4D-22)...
• Section 30:4d-22.2 - "Prescription Drugs," Syringes, Needles Included; Certain
  1. In addition to the "prescription drugs" defined pursuant to section 3 of P.L.1975, c.194 (C.30:4D-22), "prescription drugs" also means syringes and needles for...
• Section 30:4d-22.3 - Payment To Pharmacy For Certain Forged, Fraudulent Prescriptions, Program's Responsibilities.
  2. a. A pharmacy shall receive full payment and shall not be penalized for dispensing a forged or fraudulent prescription that has been approved...
• Section 30:4d-23 - Prescription Drug Costs; Payment Under Other Plan Or Insurance; Effect On Eligibility
  Any otherwise eligible person whose prescription drug costs are wholly covered by any other plan of assistance or insurance shall be ineligible for assistance...
• Section 30:4d-24 - Regulations
  The commissioner shall by regulation establish a system of payments or reimbursements and a system for determining eligibility, including provisions for submission of proof...
• Section 30:4d-25 - Legislative Findings And Declarations
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares: That the "Pharmaceutical Assistance to the Aged" program originally provided for the reimbursement of 80% of the prescription...
• Section 30:4d-26 - Prescription; Inclusion Of Name And Address Or Identification Number
  A prescription may not be included under the program unless it contains the name and address or identification number of the eligible person. L.1978,...
• Section 30:4d-27 - Notice Of Penalties On Identification Cards
  The commissioner shall include on the identification cards used in the program a conspicuous notice of the penalties for violating the provisions of this...
• Section 30:4d-28 - Report To Governor And Legislature
  Within 6 months of the effective date of this act, the commissioner shall submit a report to the Governor and the Legislature including but...
• Section 30:4d-29 - List Of Maximum Quantity Of Drug To Be Dispensed Per Prescription
  Within 6 months after the effective date of this act, the commissioner shall, after consultation with the Drug Utilization Review Council and other authorities,...
• Section 30:4d-30 - Maximum Allowable Cost Per Prescription Drug; Procedure To Set And Review On Continuing Basis
  Within 6 months from the effective date of this act, the commissioner shall establish a procedure for setting and reviewing on a continuing basis...
• Section 30:4d-31 - List Of Maximum Quantities And Procedures For Setting Maximum Allowable Cost; Effective Date
  The list of maximum quantities per prescription prepared under section 6 of this act and the procedures for setting the maximum allowable cost under...
• Section 30:4d-32 - Annual Report
  The commissioner shall issue an annual report to the Governor and the Legislature by October 1 of each year. Such report shall include a...
• Section 30:4d-33 - Violations; Penalties
  Any person violating any provision of this act shall be subject to the applicable civil and criminal penalties contained in the "New Jersey Medical...
• Section 30:4d-34 - Reimbursement For Costs Of Prescription Drugs; Application And Proof Of Expenditure
  Any eligible person under the program of Pharmaceutical Assistance to the Aged shall, upon the submission of such application and proof of expenditure as...
• Section 30:4d-35 - Notice Of Availability And Application Forms; Supplying To Eligible Persons
  The department shall provide a notice of the availability of such reimbursement and an application form therefor to every eligible person. L.1979, c. 27,...
• Section 30:4d-35.1 - Short Title
  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Pharmaceutical Rebate Act." L.1992,c.83,s.1; per s.6 as amended by 1993, c.97, s.2,...
• Section 30:4d-35.2 - Coverage Limited To Manufacturers Providing Rebates
  2. a. The "Pharmaceutical Assistance to the Aged and Disabled" program established pursuant to P.L.1975, c.194 (C.30:4D-20 et seq.) shall limit the coverage of...
• Section 30:4d-35.3 - "Pharmaceutical Assistance To The Aged And Disabled Rebate Fund" Established
  3. There is established in the Department of Human Services a nonlapsing revolving fund to be known as the "Pharmaceutical Assistance to the Aged...
• Section 30:4d-35.4 - Rules, Regulations
  4. Pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), the Commissioner of Human Services shall adopt rules and regulations necessary to...
• Section 30:4d-36 - Hearing Aid Assistance
  There is established in the Department of Human Services a program which shall be known as "Hearing Aid Assistance for the Aged and Disabled."...
• Section 30:4d-37 - $100 Maximum
  A person eligible for the Hearing Aid Assistance for the Aged and Disabled Program is entitled to receive a payment of up to $100.00...
• Section 30:4d-38 - Pharmaceutical Assistance Recipients Eligible
  A person who meets the age or disability, income and residency requirements of the "Pharmaceutical Assistance to the Aged and Disabled" program, P.L.1975, c....
• Section 30:4d-38.1 - "Hearing Aid Assistance To The Aged And Disabled," Notification As To Error In Estimated Annual Income.
  2. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, a recipient of benefits under the "Hearing Aid Assistance for the Aged...
• Section 30:4d-39 - Other Programs
  a. If an otherwise eligible person's hearing aid costs are covered in whole by any other State or federal government program or insurance contract,...
• Section 30:4d-40 - Payment System; Eligibility Determination
  The Commissioner of Human Services shall by regulation establish a system for issuing payments to eligible persons and a system for determining eligibility which...
• Section 30:4d-41 - Rules, Regulations
  The Commissioner of Human Services shall, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.) adopt rules and regulations necessary...
• Section 30:4d-42 - Casino Revenue Funding
  The Hearing Aid Assistance for the Aged and Disabled Program shall be funded by the Casino Revenue Fund created pursuant to section 145 of...
• Section 30:4d-43 - Short Title
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Senior Gold Prescription Discount Act." L.2001,c.96,s.1.
• Section 30:4d-44 - Definitions Regarding The "Senior Gold Prescription Discount Act."
  2.As used in this act: "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Human Services. "Department" means the Department of Human Services. "PAAD" means the program of...
• Section 30:4d-45 - "Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program."
  3. a. There is established the "Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program" in the Department of Human Services. b.A resident of this State shall be...
• Section 30:4d-45.1 - "Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program," Notification As To Error In Estimated Annual Income.
  3. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, a recipient of benefits under the "Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program," established...
• Section 30:4d-45.2 - Payment To Pharmacy For Certain Forged, Fraudulent Prescriptions Under State Medicaid Program.
  3. a. A pharmacy shall receive full payment and shall not be penalized for dispensing a forged or fraudulent prescription that has been approved...
• Section 30:4d-46 - Report To Governor, Legislature
  4.The commissioner shall annually report to the Governor and the Legislature on the operations of the program and shall include with that report any...
• Section 30:4d-47 - Violations Of Act; Program Identification Cards
  5. a. A person violating any provision of this act shall be subject to the applicable civil and criminal penalties provided in P.L.1968, c.413...
• Section 30:4d-48 - New Jersey Ease Program, Provide Information On Prescription Program
  6.The New Jersey EASE program established by the department shall provide information and assistance to members of the public and potential or actual applicants...
• Section 30:4d-48.1 - Senior Gold Prescription Program Information Displayed On Tax Return Instructions.
  1.The Director of the Division of Taxation in the Department of the Treasury shall prominently display the eligibility qualifications for and benefits available under...
• Section 30:4d-49 - Funding Of Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program
  7.The program shall be funded from the monies made available to the State from tobacco companies under the nationwide settlement of the respective actions...
• Section 30:4d-50 - Rules, Regulations.
  8.The Commissioner of Human Services, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall adopt rules and regulations to effectuate the...
• Section 30:4d-51 - Conditions On Expending Funds.
  9.Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary, no funds appropriated for the Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program established pursuant to this act...
• Section 30:4d-52 - Rebates To Dhs For Program.
  10.Amounts received as rebates under rebate payment contracts executed pursuant to section 9 of this act are appropriated to the Department of Human Services...
• Section 30:4d-53 - Short Title.
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Medicaid Program Integrity and Protection Act." L.2007,c.58,s.1.
• Section 30:4d-54 - Findings, Declarations Relative To The Office Of Medicaid Inspector General.
  2.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.The State of New Jersey expends more than $9 billion in taxpayer funds to fund the Medicaid program...
• Section 30:4d-55 - Definitions Relative To The Office Of The Medicaid Inspector General.
  3.As used in this act: "Abuse" means provider practices that are inconsistent with sound fiscal, business, or medical practices and result in unnecessary costs...
• Section 30:4d-57 - Functions, Duties, Powers, Responsibilities Of Medicaid Inspector General.
  5. a. The Medicaid Inspector General shall have the following general functions, duties, powers, and responsibilities: (1)To appoint such deputies, directors, assistants, and other...
• Section 30:4d-58 - Additional Authority Of The Medicaid Inspector General.
  6. a. In addition to the authority otherwise provided by this act, the Medicaid Inspector General is authorized to request, and shall be entitled...
• Section 30:4d-59 - Transfer Of Certain Functions, Powers, Employees.
  7. a. The Medicaid audit, program integrity, fraud, and abuse prevention and recovery functions, all officers and employees that the Medicaid Inspector General deems...
• Section 30:4d-60 - Reports, Recommendations.
  8. a. The Medicaid Inspector General shall report the findings of audits, investigations, and reviews performed by the office, and issue recommendations for corrective...
• Section 30:4d-61 - Confidentiality Of Information.
  9. a. The Medicaid Inspector General shall not publicly disclose information that is specifically prohibited from disclosure by any provision of federal or State...
• Section 30:4d-62 - "Medicaid Fraud Control Fund"; Use.
  10. a. There is established the "Medicaid Fraud Control Fund" as a nonlapsing, revolving fund in the Department of the Treasury. The fund shall...
• Section 30:4d-63 - Rules, Regulations.
  11. The Medicaid Inspector General may adopt rules and regulations, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), necessary to accomplish...
• Section 30:4d-64 - Annual Appropriation, Minimum Required.
  13. For each fiscal year beginning after the fiscal year in which this act takes effect, the Governor shall recommend and the Legislature shall...
• Section 30:4d-65 - Findings, Declarations Relative To The "Iphd Project."
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.Many New Jersey administrative departments and agencies, including, but not limited to, the Departments of Health, Human Services,...
• Section 30:4d-66 - Definitions Relative To The "Iphd Project."
  2.As used in this act: "Aggregated data" means information that has been combined into groups showing averages or other summary statistics, and that is...
• Section 30:4d-67 - Iphd Project Governing Board.
  3. a. The iPHD Project Governing Board is hereby established in, but not of, the Department of Health. The Governing Board shall consist of...
• Section 30:4d-68 - Establishment Of Operational Iphd Project.
  4. a. No later than 12 months after the effective date of this act, the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy shall establish an...
• Section 30:4d-69 - Oversight Of The Iphd Project.
  5.Oversight of the operations of the iPHD Project, established pursuant to section 4 of this act, shall be vested in the Governing Board. The...
• Section 30:4d-70 - Annual Report.
  6.No later than 12 months following the receipt of data by the iPHD Project pursuant to this act, and on an annual basis thereafter,...
• Section 30:4d-71 - Application For, Receipt Of Funding.
  7.The iPHD Project Governing Board and the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy may apply for and receive funding in relation to the iPHD...
• Section 30:4d-72 - Access To Data, Agreement.
  8.Any department or agency that creates, receives, or maintains publicly supported programs data or health data shall, only after execution of an enforceable data...
• Section 30:4e-1 - Legislative Findings And Declaration
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the effective and appropriate provision of home health care and homemaker services to persons in their homes...
• Section 30:4e-2 - Interagency Task Force On Home Care Services.
  2. a. The Commissioner of Human Services shall organize an Interagency Task Force on Home Care Services, hereinafter known as the "task force," which...
• Section 30:4e-3 - Program For Use Of Home Health Care And Homemaker Services
  The Department of Human Services, in consultation with the task force, shall establish a pilot program which provides for the use of home health...
• Section 30:4e-4 - Report; Recommendations
  Six months after the effective date of this act, the Department of Human Services shall report to the chairman of the Senate and Assembly...
• Section 30:4e-5 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Home Care Expansion Act." L. 1988, c. 92, s. 1.
• Section 30:4e-6 - Findings, Declarations
  The Legislature finds and declares that: a. The need to offer care services to the growing number of frail elderly and disabled persons in...
• Section 30:4e-7 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Department of Human Services. b. "Program" means the Home Care Expansion Program....
• Section 30:4e-8 - Home Care Expansion Program
  a. The commissioner shall establish and administer through the Division of Medical Assistance and Health Services in the Department of Human Services a program...
• Section 30:4e-9 - Services
  a. Individuals served by the Home Care Expansion Program shall receive a comprehensive assessment of the need for long-term home care services. A case...
• Section 30:4e-10 - Income Eligibility
  Any person who is a resident of this State, with resources within limits set by the commissioner, and is 65 years of age or...
• Section 30:4e-11 - Criteria For Determining Eligibility
  a. The commissioner shall establish criteria for determining medical and financial eligibility, including provisions for submission of proof of income, resources and health insurance,...
• Section 30:4e-12 - Medicaid Recipients
  Notwithstanding any provisions of this act to the contrary, a person eligible for comparable home care services assistance available under Title XIX (Medicaid) of...
• Section 30:4e-13 - Assistance Of Other Agencies
  The commissioner is entitled to call upon the assistance, or contract for the services of any State, federal, or local agency as may be...
• Section 30:4e-14 - Rules, Regulations
  The commissioner shall adopt rules and regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L. 1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.) necessary to carry...
• Section 30:4f-1 - Legislative Findings And Declarations
  The Legislature finds and declares that there is a need to assist families in their care of frail or severely disabled persons and without...
• Section 30:4f-2 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Care-giver" means the family member or other person who ordinarily provides the daily care for or supervision of...
• Section 30:4f-3 - Respite Care Demonstration Projects; Program
  The commissioner shall establish a program of respite care demonstration projects to: encourage the initiation and expansion of respite care throughout the State; evaluate...
• Section 30:4f-4 - Guidelines
  a. The commissioner shall prepare guidelines for respite care demonstration projects which shall include: (1) Standards for eligibility for respite care services; (2) Target...
• Section 30:4f-5 - Report
  The commissioner shall report to the Governor and Legislature no later than six months before the expiration date of this act concerning: a. The...
• Section 30:4f-6 - Rules And Regulations
  The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this act. L.1983, c. 284, s. 6; per s.7, expired June...
• Section 30:4f-7 - Findings; Declarations
  The Legislature finds that there is a clear need to establish a program of respite care to assist families in the care of their...
• Section 30:4f-8 - Definitions.
  2.As used in this act: a."Caregiver" means a spouse, parent, child, relative or other person who is 18 years of age or older and...
• Section 30:4f-9 - Statewide Respite Care Program
  The commissioner shall establish a Statewide Respite Care Program within the Department of Human Services to be administered by sponsors designated by the commissioner....
• Section 30:4f-10 - Eligibility.
  4.A sponsor shall annually determine the maximum number of eligible persons to be served in each county or region, based upon the service and...
• Section 30:4f-11 - Sources Of Payment
  If an eligible person's respite services are covered in whole or in part by another State or federal government program or insurance contract, the...
• Section 30:4f-12 - Rules, Regulations
  The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.) necessary to effectuate...
• Section 30:4f-13 - Federal Financial Participation
  The commissioner shall take any actions which may be appropriate to maximize federal financial participation in the implementation or the expansion of respite care...
• Section 30:4f-14 - Annual Report
  The commissioner shall report to the Legislature and the Governor within two years of the effective date of this act and annually thereafter on...
• Section 30:4f-15 - Allocation Of Funds
  Not more than 10% of the amounts available for the Statewide Respite Care Program shall be used for administrative and staff costs. The cost...
• Section 30:4g-1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Personal Attendant Act." L. 1985, c. 307, s. 1; per s.14 as amended...
• Section 30:4g-2 - Definitions
  For the purposes of this act: a. "Chronic physical disability" means a severe impairment of a permanent nature which so restricts a person's ability...
• Section 30:4g-3 - Personal Attendant Demonstration Program
  The Commissioner of Human Services shall establish a personal attendant demonstration program in the Department of Human Services to be administered by agencies designated...
• Section 30:4g-4 - Eligibility
  A person with a chronic physical disability who is between 18 and 65 years of age and is a resident of this State is...
• Section 30:4g-5 - Implementation By Counties
  a. The personal attendant demonstration program shall be implemented in those counties which have established county offices for the handicapped as of January 1,...
• Section 30:4g-6 - Evaluation, Services Plan
  a. Within 30 days after a person has applied for services under the personal attendant program, a member of the staff of the county...
• Section 30:4g-7 - Contracts; Fee Schedules
  a. A county office for the handicapped or other agency designated by the commissioner may contract with other services providers, including private individuals, for...
• Section 30:4g-8 - Sliding Fee Scale
  a. The commissioner shall establish a sliding fee scale based on the eligible person's or the eligible person's spouse's ability to pay for personal...
• Section 30:4g-9 - Administrative Expense Limit
  The department shall not use more than 15% of the amounts appropriated for the personal attendant program for administrative and staff costs. L. 1985,...
• Section 30:4g-10 - Advisory Council On Personal Attendant Services.
  10. a. There is established in the department an Advisory Council on Personal Attendant Services which consists of 19 members as follows: the Director...
• Section 30:4g-11 - Report
  The commissioner shall report to the Governor and the Legislature one year from the date of enactment of this act concerning: a. The effects...
• Section 30:4g-12 - Rules, Regulations
  The commissioner shall adopt rules and regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this act pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L. 1968,...
• Section 30:4g-13 - Short Title
  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Personal Assistance Services Act." L.1987,c.350,s.1; amended 1993,c.215,s.1.
• Section 30:4g-14 - Definitions.
  2.As used in this act: "Advisory Council" means the Statewide Consumer Advisory Council on Personal Assistance Services" established pursuant to section 8 of P.L.1987,...
• Section 30:4g-15 - Personal Assistance Services Program.
  3.There is established a personal assistance services program in the Division of Disability Services in the Department of Human Services, to be administered by...
• Section 30:4g-16 - Eligibility.
  4.A person is eligible for the personal assistance services program if: a.The person has a permanent physical disability; b.The person is 18 through 70...
• Section 30:4g-16.1 - Personal Assistance Consumer Bill Of Rights.
  10. There is established a personal assistance consumer bill of rights. Each consumer, and, as appropriate, each applicant: a.Shall be treated with courtesy, respect,...
• Section 30:4g-17 - Application Process.
  5. a. An individual requesting personal assistance services shall make an inquiry to the county designated agency in the county where the individual resides,...
• Section 30:4g-18 - Fee Schedule.
  6. a. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.2009, c.160) b.The commissioner shall establish a fee schedule for payments or reimbursements to providers of personal assistance services....
• Section 30:4g-19 - Sliding Fee Scale.
  7. a. The commissioner shall establish a sliding fee scale for personal assistance services based upon the ability of an eligible person to pay...
• Section 30:4g-20 - Statewide Consumer Advisory Council On Personal Assistance Services.
  8. a. There is established the Statewide Consumer Advisory Council on Personal Assistance Services in the Division of Disability Services in the department, which...
• Section 30:4g-21 - Rules, Regulations
  The commissioner, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.), shall adopt rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes...
• Section 30:4g-22 - Direct Contract With Provider.
  9.A consumer shall be free to contract directly with a provider of the consumer's choice, including a vendor providing services on the effective date...
• Section 30:4j-4.1 - Non-participating Hospital, Payment For Emergency Treatment For Nj Familycare Enrollee.
  4. a. A non-participating hospital that provides emergency health care services to an enrollee in NJ FamilyCare who is enrolled in a managed care...
• Section 30:4j-7 - Eligibility For Family Care Health Coverage Program, Women, Certain.
  30. Within the limits of funds appropriated pursuant to section 27 of P.L.2004, c.17 (C.17:30D-29) and such other funds as may be available for...
• Section 30:4j-8 - Short Title.
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Family Health Care Coverage Act." L.2005,c.156,s.1.
• Section 30:4j-9 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Family Health Care Coverage.
  2.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.The most serious health problem facing approximately 1.2 million New Jersey residents, including approximately 264,000 children, is lack...
• Section 30:4j-10 - Nj Family Care Program.
  3.The NJ FamilyCare Program is established in the Department of Human Services. L.2005,c.156,s.3.
• Section 30:4j-11 - Definitions Relative To Family Health Care Coverage.
  4.As used in this act: "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Human Services. "Department" means the Department of Human Services. "Medicaid" means the New Jersey...
• Section 30:4j-11.1 - Application For Waiver.
  5.The Commissioner of Human Services shall apply for such waivers as may be necessary to implement the provisions of section 4 of P.L.2005, c.156...
• Section 30:4j-12 - Purpose Of Program.
  5. a. The purpose of the program shall be to provide subsidized health insurance coverage, and other health care benefits as determined by the...
• Section 30:4j-12.1 - Nj Familycare Program, High Deductible Contract Prohibited.
  21. The Commissioner of Human Services shall not utilize or establish any contract that provides for a deductible which qualifies the contract as a...
• Section 30:4j-12.2 - Nj Familycare Program To Provide Coverage For Hearing Aids For Certain Persons Aged 15 Or Younger.
  11.The Commissioner of Human Services shall ensure that every contract for health care services under the NJ FamilyCare Program established pursuant to sections 3...
• Section 30:4j-13 - Terms Deemed To Mean, Refer To Nj Family Care Program.
  6.Whenever the terms "Children's Health Care Coverage Program," "NJ KidCare," "FamilyCare Health Coverage Program" or "NJ FamilyCare" occur or any reference is made thereto...
• Section 30:4j-14 - Reports By Commissioner Of Human Services; Requirements.
  11. The Commissioner of Human Services shall report to the Chairman of the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee and the Chairmen...
• Section 30:4j-15 - Funding For Increased Medicaid Eligibility.
  15. a. Funding to carry out the expansion of eligibility in the Medicaid program as provided in this act shall include monies made available...
• Section 30:4j-16 - Rules, Regulations.
  16. The commissioner, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall adopt rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of...
• Section 30:4j-17 - Annual Report On Access To Employer-based Health Insurance; Contents.
  1.The Commissioner of Human Services, in consultation with the Commissioners of Health, Labor and Workforce Development, and Banking and Insurance, as appropriate, shall prepare,...
• Section 30:4j-18 - Enhanced Outreach, Enrollment Initiative For Certain Programs.
  26.The Commissioner of Human Services shall establish an enhanced NJ FamilyCare outreach and enrollment initiative to increase public awareness about the availability of, and...
• Section 30:4j-19 - Outreach, Enrollment, And Retention Working Group.
  27.The Commissioner of Human Services shall establish an Outreach, Enrollment, and Retention Working Group to develop a plan to carry out ongoing and sustainable...
• Section 30:4j-20 - Payment To Pharmacy For Certain Forged, Fraudulent Prescriptions Under Nj Familycare Program.
  4. a. A pharmacy shall receive full payment and shall not be penalized for dispensing a forged or fraudulent prescription that has been approved...
• Section 30:5b-1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Child Care Center Licensing Act." L.1983, c. 492, s. 1.
• Section 30:5b-2 - Findings
  2. The Legislature finds that it is in the public interest to license and regulate child care programs and facilities in order to insure...
• Section 30:5b-3 - Definitions.
  3.As used in this act: a."Child" means any person under the age of 13. b."Child care center" or "center" means any facility which is...
• Section 30:5b-4 - Licensing Of Child Care Centers.
  4. No person shall conduct, maintain or operate a child care center unless a license has been obtained from the department pursuant to the...
• Section 30:5b-5 - Rules, Regulations
  5. a. The department shall have responsibility and authority to license and inspect child care centers. The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations for...
• Section 30:5b-5.1 - Issuance Of Certificate Of Approval
  6. a. The department shall issue a certificate of approval to those centers meeting the requirements set forth in this section. b. A center...
• Section 30:5b-5.2 - Radon Testing In Child Care Centers, Requirements, Exceptions
  1. a. Except as provided in subsection c. of this section, within six months of the effective date of this act, the owner of...
• Section 30:5b-5.4 - Regulations Adopted By Commissioner Of Children And Families Relative To Children's Health Care Coverage.
  5.The Commissioner of Children and Families, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall adopt regulations to provide for the...
• Section 30:5b-5.5 - Posting Of Drinking Water Test Reports By Child Care Centers.
  5. a. The sponsor of a child care center who is required to prepare a Consumer Confidence Report pursuant to the "Safe Drinking Water...
• Section 30:5b-6 - License Application; Contents; Issuance; Expiration; Renewal
  a. Any person operating a child care center on the effective date of this act or desiring to operate a child care center shall...
• Section 30:5b-6.1 - Definitions Relative To Child Abuse Record Information Checks.
  1.As used in P.L.1997, c.254 (C.30:5B-6.1 et seq.): "Department" means the Department of Children and Families. "Division" means the Division of Child Protection and...
• Section 30:5b-6.2 - License Conditional Upon Check Of Child Abuse Records.
  2. a. As a condition of securing a new or renewal license or approval, the division shall conduct a check of the division's child...
• Section 30:5b-6.3 - Written Consent For Check Of Records.
  3. a. The staff member shall provide prior written consent for the division to conduct a check of its child abuse records. b.If the...
• Section 30:5b-6.4 - Notification To Division To Conduct Check Of Records; Results
  4. a. Within two weeks after a new staff member's employment, the owner or sponsor of a center shall notify the division to conduct...
• Section 30:5b-6.5 - Completion Of Check
  5. The division shall complete the child abuse record information check within 45 days after receiving the request for the check. L.1997,c.254,s.5.
• Section 30:5b-6.6 - Incidents Considered.
  6.The department shall consider, for the purposes of this act, any incidents of child abuse or neglect that were substantiated on or after June...
• Section 30:5b-6.7 - Rules, Regulations Pertaining To Child Abuse Record Information Checks
  7. In accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), the department shall adopt rules and regulations necessary to implement the...
• Section 30:5b-6.8 - Report To Governor, Legislature
  8. The Commissioner of Human Services shall report to the Governor and the Legislature no later than three years from the effective date of...
• Section 30:5b-6.9 - Fee Charged To Staff Member; Disposition
  9. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 2 of P.L.1985, c.69 (C.53:1-20.6), a staff member subject to this act shall be charged a fee...
• Section 30:5b-6.10 - Definitions Relative To Criminal History Record Background Checks For Child Care Center Staff.
  1.As used in sections 1 through 7 and 9 through 12 of P.L.2000, c.77 (C.30:5B-6.10 et seq.): "Child care center" or "center" means any...
• Section 30:5b-6.11 - Criminal History Record Background Check Required For Licensure.
  2.As a condition of securing or maintaining a license or life-safety approval, a child care center owner or sponsor shall ensure that a criminal...
• Section 30:5b-6.12 - Noncompliance; Penalties.
  3. a. If the owner or sponsor of the child care center refuses to consent to, or cooperate in, the securing of a criminal...
• Section 30:5b-6.13 - Request For Criminal History Record Background Check, Time Limits, Restrictions Upon Employees.
  4. a. In the case of a child care center established after the effective date of P.L.2000, c.77 (C.30:5B-6.10 et al.), the owner or...
• Section 30:5b-6.14 - Record Of Conviction For Certain Offenses, Disqualification From Employment; Challenge.
  5.A current staff member and an individual seeking employment shall be permanently disqualified from employment at, or ownership or sponsorship of, a child care...
• Section 30:5b-6.15 - Termination Of Current Staff Member; Exceptions.
  6. a. If a staff member of a child care center is convicted of a crime specified in section 5 of P.L.2000, c.77 (C.30:5B-6.14)...
• Section 30:5b-6.16 - Pending Criminal Charges Notification.
  7.If a child care center owner or sponsor has knowledge that a staff member has criminal charges pending against the staff member, the owner...
• Section 30:5b-6.17 - Immunity From Liability For Child Care Center.
  9. a. A child care center that has received an employment application from an individual or currently employs a staff member shall be immune...
• Section 30:5b-6.18 - Inapplicability Of C.18a:6-7.1 et Seq.
  10.Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, the provisions of P.L.1986, c.116 (C.18A:6-7.1 et seq.) shall not apply to employees of...
• Section 30:5b-6.19 - Report To Governor, Legislature.
  11.The commissioner shall report to the Governor and Legislature no later than three years after the effective date of P.L.2000, c.77 (C.30:5B-6.10 et al.)...
• Section 30:5b-6.20 - Responsibilities Of Department.
  12.The department shall be responsible for the cost of processing and funding all criminal history record background checks required pursuant to P.L.2000, c.77 (C.30:5B-6.10...
• Section 30:5b-6.21 - Rules, Regulations.
  13.The commissioner shall adopt rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this act in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410...
• Section 30:5b-7 - Temporary License; Renewal; Expiration
  If the department determines that, although in substantial compliance, a child care center does not meet all the applicable provisions of this act and...
• Section 30:5b-8 - Fees
  The commissioner shall establish a minimum fee to be paid by each child care center at the time of application for a license and...
• Section 30:5b-9 - Denial, Suspension, Revocation Or Refusal To Renew Licenses
  The department may deny, suspend, revoke or refuse to renew a license for good cause, including, but not limited to: a. Failure of a...
• Section 30:5b-10 - Notice; Hearing
  a. The department, before denying, suspending, revoking or refusing to renew a license, shall give notice to the sponsor personally, or by certified or...
• Section 30:5b-11 - Injunctions
  The commissioner is authorized to institute a civil action in a court of competent jurisdiction for injunctive relief to enjoin the operation of a...
• Section 30:5b-12 - Review
  Any person aggrieved by a final decision of the commissioner is entitled to seek judicial review in the Appellate Division of the Superior Court....
• Section 30:5b-13 - Violations; Crimes Of Fourth Degree
  Any person who operates or assists in the operation of a child care center which does not have a license or temporary license, or...
• Section 30:5b-14 - Child Care Advisory Council.
  14. a. The Director of the Division of Family Development in the Department of Human Services, a designee of the Commissioner of Children and...
• Section 30:5b-15 - Annual Report
  15. The Child Care Advisory Council shall prepare and submit to the Senate and General Assembly an annual report of its findings and recommendations....
• Section 30:5b-15.1 - Children's Products Deemed Unsafe Prohibited In Certain Child Care Centers; Duties Of Department Of Children And Families.
  5. a. A child care center licensed pursuant to P.L.1983, c.492 (C.30:5B-1 et seq.) may not use or have on its premises a children's...
• Section 30:5b-16 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Family Day Care Provider Registration Act." L. 1987, c. 27, s. 1.
• Section 30:5b-17 - Findings
  The Legislature finds that it is in the public interest to fund and develop a system for the voluntary registration of family day care...
• Section 30:5b-18 - Definitions.
  3.As used in this act: a."Certificate of registration" means a certificate issued by the department to a family day care provider, acknowledging that the...
• Section 30:5b-19 - Responsibility; Authority; Contractual Terms.
  4. a. The department has the responsibility and authority to contract with family day care sponsoring organizations for the voluntary registration of family day...
• Section 30:5b-20 - Contracting Organizations; Responsibilities, Duties.
  5. a. A family day care sponsoring organization with which the department contracts is authorized to register family day care providers within its designated...
• Section 30:5b-21 - Evaluation; Registration; Monitoring
  6. a. The family day care sponsoring organization shall evaluate a family day care provider prior to the issuance of a certificate of registration....
• Section 30:5b-22 - Providers; Standards
  a. Each family day care provider registered by a family day care sponsoring organization shall be of good character with sufficient intelligence, stability, energy...
• Section 30:5b-22.1 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Family Child Care Providers.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.Family child care providers in the State of New Jersey provide an invaluable and essential service to working...
• Section 30:5b-22.2 - Meeting Of Departments, Representative; Agreement.
  2. a. The Commissioner of the Department of Human Services or, if applicable, the Commissioner of the Department of Children and Families, on behalf...
• Section 30:5b-22.3 - Construction Of Act.
  3.No provision of this act or provision of any agreement entered into, renewed or extended pursuant to this act, shall be construed as: a.Interfering...
• Section 30:5b-22.4 - Limitations Of Act.
  4.No action may be taken under this act that would derogate from the status, functions or authority of the Department of Human Services in...
• Section 30:5b-23 - Certificate Of Registration, Standards, Violations.
  8. a. The department shall also establish standards for the issuance, renewal, denial, suspension and revocation of a certificate of registration which the family...
• Section 30:5b-24 - Report
  The division shall prepare and submit to the Governor and the Legislature a report of its findings and recommendations no later than two years...
• Section 30:5b-25 - Regulations.
  10.The Commissioner of Children and Families shall, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L. 1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.), adopt regulations necessary...
• Section 30:5b-25.1 - Findings, Declarations
  1. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. The need for a variety of child care options for families with children between birth and...
• Section 30:5b-25.2 - Definitions.
  2.As used in sections 1 through 4 of P.L.1993, c.350 (C.30:5B-25.1 through C.30:5B-25.4): "Child abuse registry" means the child abuse registry of the Division...
• Section 30:5b-25.3 - Child Abuse Registry Search.
  3. a. The Division of Child Protection and Permanency in the Department of Children and Families shall conduct a search of its child abuse...
• Section 30:5b-25.4 - Rules, Regulations.
  4.In accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), the Department of Children and Families shall adopt rules and regulations necessary...
• Section 30:5b-26 - Findings, Declarations
  The Legislature finds and declares: a. That the increase in single-parent households and two-career families has resulted in a growing number of young children...
• Section 30:5b-27 - Child Care Grant Program
  The Commissioner of Human Services shall establish a grant program to encourage and support the provision of nonsectarian child care in public and nonpublic...
• Section 30:5b-28 - Applicant Requirements.
  3.The Commissioner of Human Services, in consultation with the Commissioner of Education and the Advisory Council on Child Care established pursuant to section 14...
• Section 30:5b-29 - Rules, Regulations
  The Commissioner of Human Services shall adopt pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L. 1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.) rules and regulations...
• Section 30:5b-30 - Findings, Declarations On Child Care Services
  1. The Legislature finds and declares that it is in the public interest to develop comprehensive child care policies in order to establish a...
• Section 30:5b-31 - Authority Of Commissioner; Rules, Regulations
  2. a. The Commissioner of Human Services is authorized to establish criteria for determining financial and programmatic eligibility for child care services subsidized through...
• Section 30:5b-32 - Child Abuse Record Information Check For Prospective Approved Home Providers.
  2. a. A unified child care agency contracted with the Department of Human Services pursuant to N.J.A.C.10:15-2.1, shall request that the Division of Child...
• Section 30:5b-33 - Rules, Regulations; Procedures.
  3.Pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), the Commissioner of Human Services shall adopt rules and regulations necessary to effectuate...
• Section 30:6-1 - Commission For The Blind And Visually Impaired
  The commission for the amelioration of the condition of the blind and the visually impaired, hereinafter in this article referred to as the "commission,"...
• Section 30:6-1.1 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Blind" means having a condition which qualifies an individual as a blind person as defined in section 2...
• Section 30:6-1.2 - Confidential Report
  a. The Commissioner of the Department of Human Services shall require the confidential reporting to the commission by every ophthalmologist, optometrist, other eye or...
• Section 30:6-1.3 - Use Of Report
  The confidential reports made pursuant to this act shall not be included under materials available to public inspection pursuant to P.L. 1963, c. 73...
• Section 30:6-1.4 - No Liability
  An individual or organization providing information to the commission in accordance with this amendatory and supplementary act shall not be deemed to be or...
• Section 30:6-1.5 - Voluntary Use Of Services
  Nothing in this act shall be construed to compel any individual to receive services from the commission. L. 1986, c. 147, s. 7, eff....
• Section 30:6-1.6 - Commission For The Blind And Visually Impaired Administrators, Duties
  33. The director or other chief administrative officer of any public office of the Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired shall: a. cause...
• Section 30:6-2 - Aiding The Blind; Loans, Stock, Tools Furnished; Repayment
  The commission during each fiscal year may expend such sum as shall be appropriated, for the practical encouragement, by loans of capital, of stock...
• Section 30:6-11 - Funds For Training Of Blind; Contributions From Federal Government
  When, upon investigation, the commission finds that any blind person who is a resident of this State may be enabled to earn his living...
• Section 30:6-13 - Surgical Or Medical Treatment
  If the commission, upon examination, finds that a blind individual may have any disability benefited or removed by proper surgical operation, or medical treatment,...
• Section 30:6-15 - Inquiries; Annual Report
  The commission is empowered to make inquiries concerning the causes of blindness and the proportion of cases within the State which is preventable and...
• Section 30:6-15.1 - Permit For Operation Of Stand In Public Building, Grounds And Premises By Blind Person
  It shall be lawful for the head of any department, board, agency, or governing body in charge of any State, county or municipal building,...
• Section 30:6-15.2 - Exemption From License Fee, Rental Or Other Charge
  No license fee, rental, or other charge shall be demanded, exacted, required or received for the granting of such permit or for the operation...
• Section 30:6-15.3 - Administration Of State's Vending Machine Program; Use Of Revenues
  1.The State's vending machine program for State properties shall be administered by the New Jersey Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired in the...
• Section 30:6-15.4 - Appropriation Of Excess Revenues
  2.At the discretion of the Commissioner of Human Services, revenues in excess of the amounts budgeted to expand vision screening services and other prevention...
• Section 30:6-15.5 - Appropriation Of Unexpended Balance
  3.The unexpended balance of vending machine program receipts at the end of the State fiscal year on June 30, 1999 and any subsequent fiscal...
• Section 30:6-16 - Instruction Of Certain Persons; Children; Rates.
  30:6-16. An annual sum, the per capita amount of which for each pupil shall be fixed by the State House Commission, when appropriated by...
• Section 30:6-17 - Policy Of State
  It is the policy of the State to assist blind persons, and organizations established to aid blind persons, in the sale of goods or...
• Section 30:6-18 - Definitions
  As used in this act: (a) "Blind person" means a person whose vision in his better eye with proper correction does not exceed 20/200...
• Section 30:6-19 - Identification Of Goods; Registration; Fees
  To facilitate ready and authoritative identification of goods or articles made by blind persons, any blind person and any public or private institution or...
• Section 30:6-20 - Necessity For Identification; Prerequisites
  No goods or articles made in this or any other State may be displayed, advertised, offered for sale or sold in this State upon...
• Section 30:6-21 - Labeling
  Any blind workman, or any public or private institution or agency, corporation, firm or association, registered with the commission pursuant to this act, engaged...
• Section 30:6-22 - Violations; Penalties
  Any person, firm, corporation, institution or association, who (a) shall use or employ an imprint, stamp, symbol or label issued or approved by the...
• Section 30:6-23 - Purpose
  The purpose of this act is to further the policy of the State to encourage and assist blind and other severely handicapped persons to...
• Section 30:6-24 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Blind person" means a person whose vision in the better eye with proper correction does not exceed 20/200...
• Section 30:6-25 - Commodities And Services Council Established
  There is established in the Department of Human Services, the Commodities and Services Council for blind and other severely handicapped persons. The council shall...
• Section 30:6-26 - Annual Organization; Chairman; Expenses
  The members of the council shall organize annually by the selection of one of their members to serve as chairman. Members shall serve without...
• Section 30:6-27 - Duties Of The Council
  The duties of the council shall include: a. Developing through the Central Nonprofit Agency a list of commodities and services which shall be set...
• Section 30:6-28 - Designation Of Central Nonprofit Agency
  The commissioner shall designate a nonprofit agency to facilitate the distribution of orders received from various State agencies for commodities and services on the...
• Section 30:6-29 - Functions, Operations Of Central Nonprofit Agency
  The functions and operations of the Central Nonprofit Agency shall include but not be limited to the following: a. Receiving and processing all applications...
• Section 30:6-30 - Procurement Of Commodities, Services Through Central Nonprofit Agency
  State agencies shall procure through the Central Nonprofit Agency those commodities and services which have been set aside for purchase from approved rehabilitation facilities....
• Section 30:6-31 - Inapplicability Of Act If Commodities Manufactured By Institutional Labor Available
  This act does not apply in any case where commodities are available for procurement by any State agency from any other State agency or...
• Section 30:6-32 - Rules And Regulations
  The commissioner shall promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act. L.1981, c. 488, s....
• Section 30:6-33 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Rehabilitation Facilities Set-Aside Act." L.1991,c.147,s.8.
• Section 30:6b-1 - Commitment To Veterans Affairs Or Other Agency Of The United States.
  1.If it is determined in a proceeding in a court of competent jurisdiction for the commitment of a person alleged to be mentally incapacitated...
• Section 30:6b-2 - Jurisdiction Notwithstanding Commitment; Modification
  The court or judicial officer of this State making any such commitment shall have jurisdiction of such person notwithstanding such commitment and may thereafter,...
• Section 30:6b-3 - Persons Committed From Other States Or District Of Columbia; Jurisdiction
  Any judgment or order of commitment by a court of competent jurisdiction of another State or of the District of Columbia, committing a person...
• Section 30:6b-4 - Transfer Of Eligible Persons.
  4.Upon receipt of a certificate of the Department of Veterans Affairs or other agency of the United States that facilities are available for the...
• Section 30:6b-5 - Criminal Offenses, Persons Charged With Or Convicted Of
  The provisions of this act shall have no application to the commitment of any person charged with or convicted of a criminal offense. L.1952,...
• Section 30:6c-1 - Declaration Of Policy
  It is declared to be the public policy of this State that the human suffering and social and economic loss caused by drug addiction...
• Section 30:6c-5 - Admission For Treatment; Application; Discharge
  A person over the age of 21 years believing himself to be addicted to the use of narcotics or drugs may be admitted to...
• Section 30:6c-6 - Conviction Of Certain Offenses; Probation On Voluntary Admission To Hospital Or Other Facility For Care And Treatment
  Any individual adjudged a disorderly person under the provisions of N.J.S. 2A:170-8, or under the provisions of chapter 113, P.L.1962, shall be placed upon...
• Section 30:6c-7 - Aftercare Treatment; Refusal To Continue As Violation Of Probation
  Any individual released or discharged from a State or county mental hospital or similar facility after having been voluntarily admitted or committed thereto as...
• Section 30:6c-8 - Establishment Of Aftercare Clinics; Incorporation In Statewide Drug Abuse Treatment And Counseling Clinics
  Each of the several counties, or several counties on a joint cooperative basis, may establish a regional medically oriented clinic to provide aftercare treatment...
• Section 30:6c-9 - Habeas Corpus; Effect Of Act On Use Of Writ
  Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to restrict the use of the writ of habeas corpus. If a writ of habeas corpus be obtained...
• Section 30:6c-10 - Repeals
  "An act creating a permanent commission on narcotic control," approved January 11, 1954 (P.L.1953, c. 449) is repealed. L.1964, c. 226, s. 10.
• Section 30:6d-1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Developmentally Disabled Rights Act." L.1977, c. 82, s. 1, eff. May 5, 1977.
• Section 30:6d-2 - Legislative Findings And Declarations
  The Legislature finds and declares that the developmentally disabled are entitled to certain fundamental rights as citizens and that these rights shall not be...
• Section 30:6d-3 - Additional Definitions.
  3.As used in this act, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: a."Developmental disability" means a severe, chronic disability of a person...
• Section 30:6d-4 - Rights Unaffected By Admission, Residence, Receipt Of Services.
  4.No person with a developmental disability shall be presumed to be incapacitated or shall be discriminated against or shall be deprived of any constitutional,...
• Section 30:6d-5 - Rights Of Persons Receiving Services For Persons With Developmental Disability At Facility.
  5. a. No person receiving services for persons with developmental disabilities at any facility shall: (1)be subjected to any corporal punishment; (2)be administered any...
• Section 30:6d-5a - Use Of Audio Recording Device By Certain Persons With Developmental Disabilities.
  1.A person with a developmental disability who resides in a facility, as that term is defined in section 3 of P.L.1977, c.82 (C.30:6D-3), or...
• Section 30:6d-5b - Use Of Medical Marijuana For Certain Patients With Developmental Disabilities.
  2. a. The chief administrator of a facility that offers services for persons with developmental disabilities shall develop a policy authorizing a parent, guardian,...
• Section 30:6d-5.1 - Short Title.
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as "Danielle's Law." L.2003,c.191,s.1.
• Section 30:6d-5.2 - Definitions Relative To Staff Working With Persons With Developmental Disabilities, Traumatic Brain Injury.
  2.As used in this act: "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Human Services. "Department" means the Department of Human Services. "Facility for persons with developmental...
• Section 30:6d-5.3 - Responsibilities Of Staff At Facility For Persons With Developmental Disabilities, Traumatic Brain Injury.
  3. a. A member of the staff at a facility for persons with developmental disabilities or a facility for persons with traumatic brain injury...
• Section 30:6d-5.4 - Violations, Penalties.
  4.A member of the staff at a facility for persons with developmental disabilities or a facility for persons with traumatic brain injury or a...
• Section 30:6d-5.5 - Record Of Violations.
  5.The department shall maintain a record of violations of the provisions of section 3 of this act, which shall be included in the criteria...
• Section 30:6d-5.6 - Rules, Regulations.
  7.The Commissioner of Human Services, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall adopt rules and regulations necessary to effectuate...
• Section 30:6d-5.7 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Individuals With Developmental Disabilities.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.There are hundreds of community care residences in the State in which an adult or family secures a...
• Section 30:6d-5.8 - Definitions Relative To Individuals With Developmental Disabilities.
  2.As used in this act: "Alternate" means a person 18 years of age or older who assumes the responsibility of a licensee when the...
• Section 30:6d-5.9 - Rules Concerning Licensed Community Care Residence.
  3.A community care residence licensed by the Department of Human Services pursuant to N.J.A.C. 10:44B-1.1 et seq. shall be subject to the following provisions:...
• Section 30:6d-5.10 - Compliance By Licensee Required.
  4. a. The Department of Human Services shall require a licensee, as a condition of maintaining a license to operate a community care residence,...
• Section 30:6d-5.11 - Provisional License.
  5. a. The department may issue a provisional license to operate a community care residence, not to exceed a three-month period, during which time...
• Section 30:6d-5.12 - Provision Of Written Report By Case Manager.
  6. a. A case manager conducting a visit to an individual with a developmental disability residing in a community care residence, in accordance with...
• Section 30:6d-5.13 - Visit By Supervisor Of Case Manager.
  7.The supervisor of a case manager shall, over a three-year period, visit 100 percent of the individuals with developmental disabilities who are assigned to...
• Section 30:6d-5.14 - Notice To Licensee.
  8.Before taking negative licensing action pursuant to this act, the department shall give notice to a licensee personally or by mail to the last...
• Section 30:6d-5.15 - Compilation Of Data By Special Response Unit.
  11.The Special Response Unit shall compile data about any investigation conducted as a result of a report made pursuant to section 3 of P.L.2010,...
• Section 30:6d-5.16 - Submission Of Report By Provider Of Day Program.
  12. a. A provider of a day program for individuals with developmental disabilities shall submit to the division a copy of its monthly report...
• Section 30:6d-5.17 - Power To Take Individual Into Protective Custody.
  13. a. A physician examining or treating an individual with a developmental disability residing in a community care residence or the chief executive officer,...
• Section 30:6d-5.18 - Certain Information Omitted From Habilitation Plan.
  14. a. An agency or organization that causes a written, individualized habilitation plan to be developed pursuant to section 10 of P.L.1977, c.82 (C.30:6D-10),...
• Section 30:6d-5.19 - Rules, Regulations.
  15.The Commissioner of Human Services shall adopt rules and regulations, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), to carry out...
• Section 30:6d-6 - Employment And Promotion Of Developmentally Disabled By Agency Or Institution Providing Services
  Every public or private agency, organization or institution providing services for persons with developmental disabilities shall take affirmative action to employ and advance in...
• Section 30:6d-7 - Habeas Corpus; Enforcement Of Rights
  Every developmentally disabled person in residence or attendance at any facility shall be entitled to a writ of habeas corpus upon proper petition by...
• Section 30:6d-8 - Rights, Obligations And Prohibitions; Notice; Oral Explanation; Posting
  The chief administrator of any facility for persons with developmental disabilities shall cause a written notice of the rights, obligations and prohibitions set forth...
• Section 30:6d-9 - Services By Facilities; Maximization Of Developmental Potential
  Every service for persons with developmental disabilities offered by any facility shall be designed to maximize the developmental potential of such persons and shall...
• Section 30:6d-10 - Individualized Habilitation Plan; Development; Revision
  Every agency, organization or institution providing services for persons with developmental disabilities shall cause a written, individualized habilitation plan to be developed and placed...
• Section 30:6d-11 - Individualized Habilitation Plan; Contents
  Such plan shall: a. Include a statement of the long-term habilitation goals for such person and the intermediate objectives relating to the attainments of...
• Section 30:6d-12 - Annual Review
  The plan coordinator shall review such plan at least every 12 months and shall provide an opportunity at least annually for the person for...
• Section 30:6d-12.1 - Short Title.
  1.Sections 1 through 6 of this act shall be known as the "Self-Directed Support Services for Persons with Developmental Disabilities Rights Act." L.2008, c.128,
• Section 30:6d-12.2 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Self-directed Support Services For Persons With Developmental Disabilities.
  2.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.There is a need for innovative approaches to meet the needs of persons with developmental disabilities; b.While there...
• Section 30:6d-12.3 - Definitions Relative To Self-directed Support Services For Persons With Developmental Disabilities.
  3.As used in this act: "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Human Services. "Department" means the Department of Human Services. "Developmental disability" means developmental disability...
• Section 30:6d-12.4 - Responsibilities Of The Commissioner.
  4.The commissioner shall ensure that: a.the provisions of section 9 of P.L.1977, c.82 (C.30:6D-9), concerning the design of services to maximize the developmental potential...
• Section 30:6d-12.5 - Rights Applicable To Persons Receiving Self-directed Support Services.
  5. a. A right recognized in section 4 of P.L.1977, c.82 (C.30:6D-4), shall apply to persons receiving self-directed support services pursuant to P.L.2008, c.128...
• Section 30:6d-12.6 - Development, Expansion Of Self-directed Support Services.
  6. a. Except in the case of a short-term pilot program, the commissioner shall, to the extent feasible, develop and expand the use of...
• Section 30:6d-13 - Legislative Findings
  The Legislature finds that in keeping with current State and national goals, increasing numbers of developmentally disabled persons are being placed into community residences...
• Section 30:6d-14 - Definitions.
  As used in this act: a."Department" means the Department of Human Services. b."Community residential facility" means any residential arrangement, public or private, other than...
• Section 30:6d-15 - Persons To Whom Act Applicable
  This act shall apply to every developmentally disabled person who is receiving services from the department, is not related by reason of blood, marriage...
• Section 30:6d-16 - Individual Habilitation Plans; Preparation; Conditions Of Transfer; Review Of Plan
  a. Except in emergency situations, the department shall ensure that an individual habilitation plan is prepared for each developmentally disabled person subject to transfer...
• Section 30:6d-17 - Residents Of Community Residential Facility; Rights; Enforcement
  The department shall ensure that every developmentally disabled person in a community residential facility receives adequate medical and dental care, a nutritionally adequate diet,...
• Section 30:6d-18 - Requirements For Geographic Location Of Site Of Transfer
  To the maximum extent possible, the department shall not transfer any developmentally disabled person to a geographic location that cannot be readily visited by...
• Section 30:6d-19 - Requirements For Staff Of Community Residential Facility
  The department shall not allow a developmentally disabled person to be transferred or to reside in a community residential facility unless the staff of...
• Section 30:6d-20 - Monthly Visit By Case Manager
  The department shall ensure that every developmentally disabled person covered by this act is visited at least monthly by a case manager employed by...
• Section 30:6d-21 - Transfer Only If Consistent With Best Interests Of Developmentally Disabled Person; Failure To Adjust; Transfer
  A transfer shall be made only when consistent with the best interests of the developmentally disabled person. The department shall ensure that a developmentally...
• Section 30:6d-21.1 - Transfers Not Mandatory.
  1.The Division of Developmental Disabilities, except as provided in section 2 of this act, shall not transfer, or otherwise compel the transfer of, an...
• Section 30:6d-21.2 - Inapplicability Of C.30:6d-21.1.
  2.The provisions of section 1 of this act shall not apply if: a.The United States Department of Justice, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
• Section 30:6d-21.3 - Certain Obligations Unaffected.
  3.Nothing in this act shall alleviate the obligations of the department under section 9 of P.L.1977, c.82 (C.30:6D-9) or section 9 of P.L.1983, c.524...
• Section 30:6d-22 - Rules And Regulations
  The Commissioner of the Department of Human Services shall promulgate those rules and regulations as are necessary to effectuate this act. L.1983, c. 524,...
• Section 30:6d-23 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Division of Developmental Disabilities Act." L. 1985, c. 145, s. 1.
• Section 30:6d-24 - Division Of Developmental Disabilities Established
  There is established in the State Department of Human Services a Division of Developmental Disabilities. L. 1985, c. 145, s. 2.
• Section 30:6d-25 - "Developmental Disabilities Act" Definitions.
  3.For the purposes of this act: a."Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Human Services. b."Developmental disability" means a severe, chronic disability of a person which:...
• Section 30:6d-26 - Director; Employees
  The administrator and head of the division shall be a director who shall be known as the Director of the Division of Developmental Disabilities....
• Section 30:6d-27 - Duties Of Director.
  5.In addition to other functions, powers and duties vested in him by this act or any other law, the director shall: a.Provide services for...
• Section 30:6d-27.1 - Division Of Development Disabilities Administrators, Duties
  31. The director or other chief administrative officer of any public office of the Division of Developmental Disabilities shall: a. cause copies of the...
• Section 30:6d-28 - Transfers
  a. All of the functions, powers and duties of the Division of Mental Retardation in the Department of Human Services and of the director...
• Section 30:6d-29 - References To Division Of Mental Retardation
  With respect to the functions, powers and duties hereby transferred to the Division of Developmental Disabilities, whenever reference is made in any law, contract...
• Section 30:6d-30 - Eligibility Continued.
  8.Notwithstanding any provisions of this act to the contrary, the eligibility of persons with intellectual disabilities for services of the division shall continue as...
• Section 30:6d-31 - Disability After Age 22
  Within the limits of available funding and services, the director may declare as eligible for services under this act individuals who meet the criteria...
• Section 30:6d-32 - Rules, Regulations
  The commissioner shall, pursuant to the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L. 1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.), adopt rules and regulations...
• Section 30:6d-32.1 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Community Care Residential Providers.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.Community care residential providers for adults with developmental disabilities in the State of New Jersey, as defined by...
• Section 30:6d-32.2 - Agreement Between Community Care Residential Providers And State.
  2. a. The Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Human Services, on behalf of the State of New Jersey, shall meet in good...
• Section 30:6d-32.3 - Construction Of Act.
  3.No provision of this act or provision of any agreement entered into, renewed or extended pursuant to this act shall be construed as: a.Interfering...
• Section 30:6d-32.4 - Authority Of Dhs Intact.
  4.No action may be taken under this act that would derogate from the status, functions or authority of the Department of Human Services in...
• Section 30:6d-32.5 - Construction Of Act.
  83. a. Nothing in this act shall be construed as intended to result in a reduction of federal funds that may be available to...
• Section 30:6d-32.6 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Services For Persons With Developmental Disabilities.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.Reliable and current data about the service needs of persons with developmental disabilities who are eligible for services...
• Section 30:6d-32.7 - Definitions Relative To Services For Persons With Developmental Disabilities.
  2.As used in this act: "Department" means the Department of Human Services. "Division" means the Division of Developmental Disabilities in the Department of Human...
• Section 30:6d-32.8 - Collection Of Information, Maintenance Of Database.
  3. a. The Division of Developmental Disabilities shall collect, and when practical maintain a database of, information about eligible persons with developmental disabilities pursuant...
• Section 30:6d-32.9 - Annual Notification To Persons Receiving Services.
  4.The division shall annually notify, in writing, persons receiving services of the following: a.the services the person is currently receiving from the division and,...
• Section 30:6d-32.10 - Annual Publication Of Report; Contents.
  5.The division shall annually publish a report, to be made available on the department's website, containing non-identifying aggregate data about eligible persons. The report...
• Section 30:6d-32.11 - Report To Governor, Legislature.
  6.The department shall report to the Governor, and to the Legislature pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1991, c.164 (C.52:14-19.1), two years after the effective...
• Section 30:6d-32.12 - Rules, Regulations.
  7.The Commissioner of Human Services, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall adopt rules and regulations to effectuate the...
• Section 30:6d-33 - Short Title
  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Family Support Act." L.1993,c.98,s.1.
• Section 30:6d-34 - Findings, Declarations
  2. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. It is in the best interest of the State of New Jersey to preserve, strengthen and...
• Section 30:6d-35 - Definitions.
  3.For the purposes of this act: "Department" means the Department of Human Services. "Family member with a developmental disability" means a person who has...
• Section 30:6d-36 - Family Support System
  4. a. There is established in the Division of Developmental Disabilities in the Department of Human Services a Family Support System to create flexible...
• Section 30:6d-37 - Administration Of System
  5. a. The system shall be administered by the Division of Developmental Disabilities in the department, in conjunction with a coordinator working under the...
• Section 30:6d-38 - Family Support Planning Councils
  6. Family support planning councils shall be established on a regional basis and shall work to expand and establish family support services in their...
• Section 30:6d-39 - Allocation Of Monies, Existing Rights, Entitlements, Services Not Supplanted
  7. a. No more than 10% of the monies available for the purposes of this act shall be allocated for administration of the system....
• Section 30:6d-40 - Services Considered State Benefit
  8. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary, the family support services provided pursuant to this act shall be considered a State...
• Section 30:6d-41 - Rules, Regulations
  9. The Commissioner of Human Services shall, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), adopt rules and regulations necessary to...
• Section 30:6d-42 - Preparation, Submission Of Plan To Eliminate Waiting List
  2. a. The Commissioner of Human Services shall prepare and submit a plan to the Governor and the Legislature within 180 days after the...
• Section 30:6d-42.1 - Federal Medicaid Waivers For Persons With Developmental Disabilities; Application, Determination.
  1. a. The Commissioner of Human Services, in conjunction with the Director of the Division of Developmental Disabilities, shall apply for such Home and...
• Section 30:6d-42.2 - Report Issued Upon Approval Of Waiver; Contents, Public Hearing.
  2. a. Upon approval of the waiver by the federal government, the Commissioner of Human Services, in conjunction with the Director of the Division...
• Section 30:6d-43 - Short Title.
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Division of Developmental Disabilities Community Placement and Services Assessment Act." L.1998,c.40,s.1.
• Section 30:6d-44 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Assessment On Intermediate Care Facilities.
  2.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.It is in the public interest to generate revenue to be used by the Division of Developmental Disabilities...
• Section 30:6d-45 - Definitions Relative To Assessment On Immediate Care Facilities.
  3.As used in this act: "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Human Services. "Gross revenue" means all revenue received by an ICF-DD from patients or...
• Section 30:6d-46 - Payment Of Annual Assessment.
  4. a. Beginning July 1, 1998, except as provided in subsection b. of this section, all ICF-MRs in the State shall annually pay an...
• Section 30:6d-47 - Submission Of Gross Revenue Reports.
  5.An ICF-MR shall submit appropriate gross revenue reports to the Director of the Division of Revenue on a quarterly basis. The Director of the...
• Section 30:6d-48 - Failure To Pay Assessment; Penalty.
  6.An ICF-MR that fails to pay the assessment imposed under this act when due, shall be liable to a penalty of 10% on the...
• Section 30:6d-49 - Set-off Of Reimbursement Payment.
  7.If an ICF-MR fails to pay an assessment for two or more quarters, the Director of the Division of Revenue shall seek to set...
• Section 30:6d-50 - Assessment Considered Allowable Cost For Medicaid Reimbursement.
  8.Excluding any interest and penalty, the assessment imposed by this act shall be considered an allowable cost for Medicaid reimbursement purposes. L.1998,c.40,s.8.
• Section 30:6d-51 - Division Of Development Disabilities Community Placement And Services Fund.
  9. a. The State Treasurer shall establish the Division of Developmental Disabilities Community Placement and Services Fund in the Department of the Treasury. All...
• Section 30:6d-52 - Portions Of Act Severable.
  10.If any part of this act is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, unconstitutional, or otherwise in violation of federal...
• Section 30:6d-53 - Nullification.
  11.If the federal government alters the law to prohibit the use of provider assessments to generate a matching amount from Medicaid, this act shall...
• Section 30:6d-54 - Imposition Of Health Care Related Fee, Assessment, Tax Prohibited.
  12.Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, there shall be no health care related fee, assessment or tax as defined in 42 CFR...
• Section 30:6d-55 - Rules, Regulations.
  13.The State Treasurer, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall adopt rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of...
• Section 30:6d-56 - Short Title.
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New Jersey Autism Biomedical Research Act." L.1999, c.105, s.1; amended L.2007, c.168, s.1.
• Section 30:6d-57 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Autism.
  2.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.Autism and autism spectrum disorders are biologically-based developmental disorders which cause severe impairments in language and communication and...
• Section 30:6d-58 - Definitions Relative To Autism.
  3.As used in this act: "Autism" includes autism spectrum disorders to the extent determined by the council to be appropriate. "Center" means the Center...
• Section 30:6d-58.1 - References To Council.
  7.Whenever the term "Governor's Council for Medical Research and Treatment of Infantile Autism" occurs or any reference is made thereto in any law, contract...
• Section 30:6d-59 - "Governor's Council For Medical Research And Treatment Of Autism.
  4. a. There is established in the Department of Health and Senior Services, the "Governor's Council for Medical Research and Treatment of Autism." The...
• Section 30:6d-60 - Center Of Excellence For Autism.
  5. a. The council shall make awards of grants and contracts to public and nonprofit private entities to pay all or part of the...
• Section 30:6d-61 - Duties Of Council, Director.
  6.The council shall provide guidance and direction to the director of the council, who shall be responsible for the following duties: a.Carry out a...
• Section 30:6d-62 - Authorizations For Appropriations For Purposes Of The Act.
  8.Authorizations for appropriations under this act are in addition to any other authorization of appropriations that is available for the purposes of this act,...
• Section 30:6d-62.1 - Annual Appropriation To Governor's Council For Medical Research And Treatment Of Autism.
  1.Beginning in Fiscal Year 2001 and in each fiscal year thereafter, the Governor shall recommend and the Legislature shall appropriate $1,500,000 from the General...
• Section 30:6d-62.2 - "Autism Medical Research And Treatment Fund" Established.
  1. a. There is established in the Department of the Treasury a nonlapsing fund to be known as the "Autism Medical Research and Treatment...
• Section 30:6d-62.3 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Asperger's Syndrome.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.Asperger's Syndrome is a Pervasive Developmental Disorder often characterized by autistic-like behaviors and marked by deficiencies in social...
• Section 30:6d-62.4 - Asperger's Syndrome Pilot Initiative Established In Dhs.
  2.The Commissioner of Human Services shall establish the Asperger's Syndrome Pilot Initiative in the Department of Human Services. a.The purpose of the initiative shall...
• Section 30:6d-63 - Definitions Relative To Criminal History Background Checks For Community Agency Employees
  1.As used in this act: a."Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Human Services. b."Community agency employee" means any individual 18 years of age or older...
• Section 30:6d-64 - Contract With Community Agency.
  2. a. The department shall not contract with any community agency for the provision of services unless it has first been determined, consistent with...
• Section 30:6d-65 - Authorization To Exchange Data
  3.The commissioner is authorized to exchange fingerprint data with and receive criminal history record information from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Division...
• Section 30:6d-66 - Written Notice To Applicant, Employee Of Record Information
  4.Upon receipt of the criminal history record information from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Division of State Police, written notice shall be...
• Section 30:6d-67 - Petition For Hearing
  5.The applicant or employee shall have 30 days from the date of receipt of the written notice of disqualification to petition for a hearing...
• Section 30:6d-68 - Maintenance Of Information
  6.The community agency board shall maintain all criminal history record information submitted under this act in accordance with rules and regulations which the commissioner...
• Section 30:6d-69 - Initiation Of Background Check
  In accordance with this act, the community agency boards and community agency heads shall initiate a criminal history record background check on all applicants...
• Section 30:6d-70 - Report To Governor, Legislature.
  8.The commissioner shall report to the Governor and the Legislature no later than three years from the effective date of this act on the...
• Section 30:6d-71 - Rules, Regulations.
  9.In accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), the commissioner shall adopt rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions...
• Section 30:6d-72 - Assumption Of Cost Of Background Checks.
  10.The Department of Human Services shall assume the cost of all criminal history record background checks required pursuant to the provisions of this act.
• Section 30:6d-73 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Persons With Developmental Disabilities.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.It is in the public interest for the State to provide for the protection of individuals with developmental...
• Section 30:6d-74 - Definitions Relative To Persons With Developmental Disabilities.
  2.As used in this act: "Abuse" means wrongfully inflicting or allowing to be inflicted physical abuse, sexual abuse, or verbal or psychological abuse or...
• Section 30:6d-75 - Report Of Abuse Required.
  3. a. A case manager or case manager's supervisor in the department, a person employed or volunteering in a program, facility, community care residence,...
• Section 30:6d-76 - Actions By Department After Receiving Reports.
  4. a. Upon receipt of a report pursuant to section 3 of this act, the department shall designate an entity, as established by the...
• Section 30:6d-77 - Central Registry Of Offenders Against Individuals With Developmental Disabilities.
  5. a. There is established a Central Registry of Offenders Against Individuals with Developmental Disabilities in the department. b.The commissioner shall adopt rules and...
• Section 30:6d-78 - Records Of Report Deemed Confidential; Exceptions.
  6.All records of a report made pursuant to this act, all information obtained by the department in investigating such reports, and all reports of...
• Section 30:6d-79 - Emergency Telephone Service.
  7.The department shall maintain, at all times, an emergency telephone service for the receipt of calls involving a report, complaint, or allegation of abuse,...
• Section 30:6d-80 - Immunity From Liability, Discrimination.
  8.A person acting pursuant to this act in the making of a report under this act shall have immunity from any civil or criminal...
• Section 30:6d-81 - Report To Governor, Legislature.
  9.The Commissioner of Human Services shall study and assess the Central Registry of Offenders Against Individuals with Developmental Disabilities, and report two years after...
• Section 30:6d-82 - Rules, Regulations, Reporting Procedures.
  10.The Commissioner of Human Services shall adopt rules, regulations and reporting procedures, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) to...
• Section 30:6e-1 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Establishment Of Office Of Disability Services.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.New Jersey citizens with disabilities want the same things in life as the other residents of this State:...
• Section 30:6e-2 - Definitions Relative To Office Of Disability Services.
  2.As used in this act: "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Human Services. "Department" means the Department of Human Services. "Director" means the Director of...
• Section 30:6e-3 - Office Of Disability Services.
  3. a. There is established an Office of Disability Services in the Department of Human Services. b.The office shall not subsume within it any...
• Section 30:6e-4 - Director; Appointment, Removal Of Officers, Employees.
  4.The administrator and head of the office shall be a director who shall be known as the Director of the Office of Disability Services....
• Section 30:6e-5 - Functions, Duties Of Office.
  5. a. The office shall serve as the single point of entry within State government for persons with disabilities who are seeking assistance and...
• Section 30:6e-6 - Annual Report To Governor, Legislature.
  6.The commissioner shall report annually to the Governor and the Legislature, which report, at a minimum, shall: summarize the activities of the office for...
• Section 30:6e-7 - Duties Relative To Voter Registration In The Office.
  9.The director or other chief administrative officer of any public office of the Office of Disability Services shall: a.cause copies of the voter registration...
• Section 30:6e-8 - Rules, Regulations.
  15.The commissioner shall adopt rules and regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) to effectuate the purposes of this...
• Section 30:6f-1 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Traumatic Brain Injury
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.The Brain Injury Association of New Jersey has identified traumatic brain injury as the leading cause of death...
• Section 30:6f-2 - Definitions Relative To Traumatic Brain Injury
  2.As used in this act: "Council" means the New Jersey Advisory Council on Traumatic Brain Injury established pursuant to section 3 of this act;...
• Section 30:6f-3 - New Jersey Advisory Council On Traumatic Brain Injury
  3. a. There is established in the Department of Human Services the New Jersey Advisory Council on Traumatic Brain Injury. b.The council shall be...
• Section 30:6f-4 - Duties Of Council
  4.The council shall: a.Advise and make recommendations to the Department of Human Services and other related State agencies on ways to improve and develop...
• Section 30:6f-5 - "Traumatic Brain Injury Fund"
  5. a. There is established in the Department of the Treasury a nonlapsing, revolving fund to be known as the "Traumatic Brain Injury Fund."...
• Section 30:6f-6 - Distribution Of Monies
  6. a. Monies in the Traumatic Brain Injury Fund shall be distributed by the Department of Human Services for the following purposes: (1)as the...
• Section 30:6f-7 - Annual Report On Status Of Fund
  7.The Department of Human Services shall report annually on the status of the fund to the Governor and to the Senate and General Assembly...
• Section 30:6f-8 - Rules, Regulations
  8.The Commissioner of Human Services, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), may adopt rules and regulations necessary to effectuate...
• Section 30:7-1 - Board Of Managers Of New Jersey Firemen's Home
  30:7-1. The board of managers of the New Jersey Firemen's Home, notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, shall consist of...
• Section 30:7-2 - Powers And Duties Of Managers
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, the board of managers shall govern, manage and conduct the New Jersey Firemen's Home,...
• Section 30:7-3 - Designation, Appointment Of Officers
  30:7-3. The board of managers of the New Jersey Firemen's Home shall designate a chairman, a secretary and treasurer and, subject to the Governor's...
• Section 30:7-4 - Power, Duties Of Superintendent
  30:7-4. The superintendent shall be the chief executive officer of the New Jersey Firemen's Home and shall have the general management and care of...
• Section 30:7-5.1 - Inapplicability Of Requirement For Licensed Administrator
  Notwithstanding the requirement in section 1 of P.L.1968, c. 356 (C. 30:11-11) concerning licensure of a nursing home administrator, the New Jersey Firemen's Home...
• Section 30:7-6 - Admittance To Home; Terms, Conditions
  30:7-6. The board of managers shall establish the terms and conditions upon which an aged, needy or disabled fireman may be admitted into the...
• Section 30:7-7 - Persons Entitled To Admittance
  30:7-7. No person shall be admitted into the New Jersey Firemen's Home as a patient or guest unless he is or has been an...
• Section 30:7-8 - Benefits, Application Rejections, Guest Removal
  30:7-8. A person admitted to the New Jersey Firemen's Home shall be entitled to all its benefits and shall be furnished with clothing, subsistence,...
• Section 30:7-9 - Visits, Inspections
  30:7-9. One of the managers shall visit the New Jersey Firemen's Home at least once in every two weeks. The board shall visit the...
• Section 30:7-10 - Annual Report To Governor
  30:7-10. The board of managers shall annually on or before the first day of January in each year report to the Governor an estimate...
• Section 30:7-11 - Maintenance Of, Gifts To Home
  30:7-11. To provide the means necessary to govern, manage, conduct and sustain the New Jersey Firemen's Home, the managers may receive bequests or devises...
• Section 30:7-12 - Property Of Home Tax Exempt
  30:7-12. The property, real and personal, of the board of managers of the New Jersey Firemen's Home and held or used for the uses...
• Section 30:7b-1 - Interstate Compact On Mental Health; Findings And Purposes
  The Interstate Compact on Mental Health is hereby enacted into law and entered into by New Jersey with all other States legally joining therein...
• Section 30:7b-2 - Definitions
  ARTICLE II As used in this compact: (a) "Sending State" shall mean a party State from which a patient is transported pursuant to the...
• Section 30:7b-3 - Eligibility For Care And Treatment; Place Of Institutionalization; Transfer
  ARTICLE III (a) Whenever a person physically present in any party State shall be in need of institutionalization by reason of mental illness or...
• Section 30:7b-4 - After-care Or Supervision; Investigation; Standards Of Care And Treatment
  ARTICLE IV (a) Whenever, pursuant to the laws of the State in which a patient is physically present, it shall be determined that the...
• Section 30:7b-5 - Notice Of Escapes; Detention Upon Apprehension
  ARTICLE V Whenever a dangerous or potentially dangerous patient escapes from an institution in any party State, that State shall promptly notify all appropriate...
• Section 30:7b-6 - Transportation Of Patients
  ARTICLE VI The duly accredited officers of any State party to this compact, upon the establishment of their authority and the identity of the...
• Section 30:7b-7 - Transfer Of Patients; Effect; Payment Of Costs; Agreements With Non-party States
  ARTICLE VII (a) No person shall be deemed a patient of more than 1 institution at any given time. Completion of transfer of any...
• Section 30:7b-8 - Rights And Duties Of Guardians; Appointment Of Supplemental Or Substitute Guardians
  ARTICLE VIII (a) Nothing in this compact shall be construed to abridge, diminish, or in any way impair the rights, duties, and responsibilities of...
• Section 30:7b-9 - Applicability To Persons Institutionalized While Under Sentence Or Subject To Trial; Detention Of Patients In Prisons Or Jails
  ARTICLE IX (a) No provision of this compact except Article V shall apply to any person institutionalized while under sentence in a penal or...
• Section 30:7b-10 - Compact Administrator; Powers And Duties
  ARTICLE X (a) Each party State shall appoint a "compact administrator" who, on behalf of his State, shall act as general coordinator of activities...
• Section 30:7b-11 - Supplementary Agreements For Provision Of Services Or Facilities
  ARTICLE XI The duly constituted administrative authorities of any 2 or more party States may enter into supplementary agreements for the provision of any...
• Section 30:7b-12 - Effective Date Of Compact
  ARTICLE XII This compact shall enter into full force and effect as to any State when enacted by it into law and such State...
• Section 30:7b-13 - Withdrawal From Compact; Status Of Patients
  ARTICLE XIII (a) A State party to this compact may withdraw therefrom by enacting a statute repealing the same. Such withdrawal shall take effect...
• Section 30:7b-14 - Liberal Construction; Severability
  ARTICLE XIV This compact shall be liberally construed so as to effectuate the purposes thereof. The provisions of this compact shall be severable and...
• Section 30:7b-15 - Authority To Designate Compact Administrator; Powers And Duties
  Pursuant to said compact, the Governor is hereby authorized and empowered to designate an officer or alternate who shall be the compact administrator and...
• Section 30:7b-16 - Supplementary Agreements With Other States
  The compact administrator is hereby authorized and empowered to enter into supplementary agreements with appropriate officials of other States pursuant to Articles VII and...
• Section 30:7b-17 - Payment Of Financial Obligations
  The compact administrator, subject to the approval of the State Treasurer, may make or arrange for any payments necessary to discharge any financial obligations...
• Section 30:7b-18 - Transmittal Of Copies Of Act
  Duly authenticated copies of this act shall, upon its approval, be transmitted by the Secretary of State to the Governor of each State, the...
• Section 30:7c-1 - Title; Interstate Corrections Compact
  1. Title. This chapter may be cited as the Interstate Corrections Compact. 2. Interstate Corrections Compact. The Interstate Corrections Compact is hereby enacted into...
• Section 30:7c-2 - Public Policy; Purpose
  INTERSTATE CORRECTIONS COMPACT ARTICLE I The party states, desiring by common action to fully utilize and improve their institutional facilities and provide adequate programs...
• Section 30:7c-3 - Definitions
  ARTICLE II As used in this compact, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: a. "State" means a state of the United States; the United...
• Section 30:7c-4 - Contracts For Confinement Of Inmates On Behalf Of Sending State
  ARTICLE III a. Each party state may make one or more contracts with any one or more of the other party states, or with...
• Section 30:7c-5 - Confinement In Or Transfer Of Inmate To Another Party State For Adequate Care Or Program Of Rehabilitation Or Treatment; Conditions; Rights Of Inmates
  ARTICLE IV a. Whenever the duly constituted authorities in a state party to this compact, and which has entered into a contract pursuant to...
• Section 30:7c-6 - Jurisdiction Of Sending State; Escapes
  ARTICLE V a. Any decision of the sending state in respect of any matter over which it retains jurisdiction pursuant to this compact shall...
• Section 30:7c-7 - Federal Aid; Acceptance
  ARTICLE VI Any state party to this compact may accept Federal aid for use in connection with any institution or program, the use of...
• Section 30:7c-8 - Effective Date Of Compact; Finding Effect
  ARTICLE VII This compact shall enter into force and become effective and binding upon the states so acting when it has been enacted into...
• Section 30:7c-9 - Withdrawal By Party State; Conditions
  ARTICLE VIII This compact shall continue in force and remain binding upon a party state until it shall have enacted a statute repealing the...
• Section 30:7c-10 - Effect On Arrangements With Nonparty State And On Laws Of Party State
  ARTICLE IX Nothing contained in this compact shall be construed to abrogate or impair any agreement or other arrangement which a party state may...
• Section 30:7c-11 - Severability
  ARTICLE X The provisions of this compact shall be liberally construed and shall be severable. If any phrase, clause, sentence or provision of this...
• Section 30:7c-12 - Powers
  The commissioner of the Department of Institutions and Agencies is hereby authorized and directed to do all things necessary or incidental to the carrying...
• Section 30:7d-1 - Transfer Of Foreign Prisoners
  If a treaty in effect between the United States and a foreign country provides for the exchange or transfer of the citizens of that...
• Section 30:7e-1 - Definitions Relative To Inmate Health Care
  1. As used in sections 2 thru 6 of this act: a. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Department of Corrections. b. "County" includes...
• Section 30:7e-2 - Liability Of Inmate For Costs
  2. a. An inmate shall be liable for the cost of, and be charged a nominal fee for, any medical care, surgery, dental care,...
• Section 30:7e-3 - Reimbursements For Medical Care Of Inmates
  3. a. Whenever the court shall determine, from its due consideration of the presentence report prepared in accordance with the provisions of N.J.S.2C:44-6 or...
• Section 30:7e-4 - Lien For Unpaid Amounts
  4. a. In the event an inmate is not covered under a health insurance plan, or if the inmate's insurance plan does not fully...
• Section 30:7e-5 - Inmates Entitled To Health Care
  5.Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 2, 3 and 4 this act, no inmate shall be denied medical care, surgery, dental care, hospitalization, treatment or...
• Section 30:7e-6 - Rules, Regulations
  6.The commissioner, in accordance with the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall promulgate rules and regulations to effectuate...
• Section 30:8-1 - Sheriffs And Jailers To Receive Prisoners; Penalty
  Sheriffs and jailers shall receive from constables or other officers all persons apprehended by such constables or officers for offenses against this state. A...
• Section 30:8-2 - Federal Prisoners Received; Subsistence And Keep
  Each sheriff and keeper of a jail in any county of this state shall receive all prisoners committed to his custody by authority of...
• Section 30:8-9 - Deputy Keepers Or Wardens; Bonds
  Each deputy keeper or warden of any county jail in this state shall give bond to the keeper, warden or board of chosen freeholders...
• Section 30:8-10 - County Jail Matrons; Appointment, Term And Compensation
  The sheriff of each county may appoint not more than three suitable women residents of the county as matrons of the county jail, who...
• Section 30:8-11 - Duties Of Jail Matrons
  The matron or matrons of the county jail appointed under authority of section 30:8-10 of this title shall have care and control over all...
• Section 30:8-12 - Sexes Separated; Female Night Guards; Appointment
  In county penitentiaries and county jails in counties of the first class in this state the female prisoners shall be, as far as the...
• Section 30:8-13 - Compensation Of Female Guards In Counties Of The First Class
  All female guards or keepers of penal institutions in counties of the first class shall be entitled to and shall receive from the county...
• Section 30:8-13.1 - Minimum And Maximum Salaries Of Guards, Keepers, Industrial Officers And Guard Orderlies In Jails, Houses Of Detention And Penitentiaries
  In each county of the first class, the salaries of the guards, keepers, industrial officers and guard orderlies, employed in the jails, houses of...
• Section 30:8-13.1b - Other Laws Not Affected
  Nothing in this act shall be deemed to affect the provisions of chapter thirty-four of the laws of one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine....
• Section 30:8-13.2 - Counties Of First Class Over 800,000; Compensation Of Employees
  From and after January first, one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine, in counties of the first class having a population exceeding eight hundred thousand...
• Section 30:8-13.3 - Repeal; Effective Date Of Act
  All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect immediately. L.1949, c. 34, p. 113, s.
• Section 30:8-13.4 - Counties Of First Class Under 700,000; Compensation Of Employees
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the salaries of the guards, keepers, industrial officers and guard orderlies, correction officers, employed in the jails,...
• Section 30:8-13.5 - Grant Of Tenure Of Office To Corrections Officer Employed In County Jail Or Penitentiary
  The board of chosen freeholders of any county of the first class having a population of less than 700,000 may, by resolution, grant tenure...
• Section 30:8-15 - Wardens And Physicians For County Jails And Penitentiaries In Counties Of First Class; Terms; Vacancies
  The board of chosen freeholders of each county of the first class may appoint for a term of 3 years a warden of the...
• Section 30:8-15.1 - Tenure For Warden
  1. Any person now holding the office, position or employment of warden of a county penitentiary or jail in a county of the first...
• Section 30:8-15.2 - Wardens Reappointed; Tenure; Removal
  Any person now or hereafter holding such office, position or employment, who has been or shall be appointed for a full term of three...
• Section 30:8-16 - Record Of Prisoners In Jails Or Other Penal Or Reformatory Institutions
  The keeper of every jail or other penal or reformatory institution supported by public moneys of any county or municipality, shall keep a book...
• Section 30:8-16.1 - Facilities For Therapy For Drug Addicts During Confinement Or After Discharge; Contracts To Provide Facilities; Appropriations And Expenditures
  It shall be lawful for the board of chosen freeholders of any county in this State to establish and maintain facilities to provide services...
• Section 30:8-16.2 - Facilities For Treatment Of Alcoholics During Confinement; Appropriations And Expenditures
  It shall be lawful for any board of chosen freeholders in this State to erect and maintain as a part of its jail, workhouse...
• Section 30:8-16.3 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "County Correctional Policy Act of 1982" . L.1981, c. 498, s. 1, eff....
• Section 30:8-16.4 - Legislative Findings And Declarations
  The Legislature finds and declares that in order to more effectively protect society and promote efficiency and economy in the delivery of correctional services,...
• Section 30:8-16.5 - Financial Assistance Program For County Correctional Facilities; Eligibility Of State Prisoners For Placement; Funding
  a. There is established in the Department of Corrections a long-term, financial assistance program to provide State grants to participating counties to renovate and...
• Section 30:8-16.6 - Counties; Participation; Eligibility; Placement Goals; Rules And Regulations
  a. Any county responsible for the commitment of prisoners to State correctional facilities may participate in the financial assistance program as developed and administered...
• Section 30:8-16.7 - County Corrections Advisory Board; Comprehensive Plan; Contents; Application For Assistance
  a. The governing body of each county participating in the financial assistance program under this act shall establish a 12 member county corrections advisory...
• Section 30:8-16.8 - Authority Of Governing Body Of County
  Subject to the requirements of centralized administration and control of county correctional services under subsection b. (4) of section 5, and the provisions of...
• Section 30:8-16.9 - Planning Grant
  In order to assist a county or cooperating counties which have established a county corrections advisory board but which do not have a comprehensive...
• Section 30:8-16.10 - Amount Of Financial Assistance Grant
  If a county or counties applying for financial assistance under this act meet all the requirements for receiving such assistance, as determined by the...
• Section 30:8-16.11 - Annual Review By Commissioner; County Books, Records, Etc.; Examination
  The commissioner shall review annually the comprehensive plans submitted by a county or group of counties and the facilities and programs developed, implemented and...
• Section 30:8-16.12 - Rules And Regulations
  The commissioner, in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.), may promulgate such rules and regulations as are...
• Section 30:8-17 - Sheriff To Have Custody Of Jails; Exception
  Except as otherwise in this chapter provided the sheriff of every county shall have the care, custody and control of the county jail or...
• Section 30:8-17.1 - Keepers Or Wardens
  Except as otherwise provided in R.S. 30:8-15, in any county where the sheriff assumes the custody, keeping and charge of the county jail or...
• Section 30:8-18.1 - Requirements For Corrections Officer At County Correctional Institution
  No person shall be appointed as a corrections officer of any county correctional institution unless that person: a. Is a citizen of the United...
• Section 30:8-18.2 - Applicability Of "45-day" Rule For Violation Of Internal Rules To County Corrections Officers.
  1.A person shall not be removed from employment or a position as a county corrections officer, or suspended, fined or reduced in rank for...
• Section 30:8-19 - Resolution Of Board Of Chosen Freeholders To Take Over Custody Of Jails; Filing; Effect
  It shall be lawful for the board of chosen freeholders of any county in this state to assume and thereafter to exercise the custody,...
• Section 30:8-20 - Warden Or Keeper Of County Jail; Appointment; Term; Bond; Removal
  In any county where the board of chosen freeholders shall assume the custody, rule, keeping and charge of the county jail and of the...
• Section 30:8-21 - Liability For Escape Of Prisoners Under Civil Arrest When Surrendered To Jail Warden
  In all cases where any sheriff, undersheriff or constable shall be by law authorized or required to confine or keep in jail any person...
• Section 30:8-22 - Persons Committed To Jails To Be Delivered To Wardens
  All persons committed to a county jail which has been taken over by the board of chosen freeholders pursuant to section 30:8-19 of this...
• Section 30:8-23 - Rules And Regulations; Punishments
  When the board of chosen freeholders of any county shall have assumed the custody, rule, keeping and charge of the county jail of such...
• Section 30:8-24.1 - Compensation Of Jail Keepers In Certain Counties Of Second And Fifth Classes
  The compensation of jail keepers of jails, in counties of the second and fifth classes having a population of more than two hundred thousand,...
• Section 30:8-24.1a - Compensation Of Jail Keepers In Second-class Counties
  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 30:8-17.1 of the Revised Statutes or chapter 278 of the laws of 1947, or any other law, the...
• Section 30:8-24.1b - Increase Of Compensation Upon Recommendation Of County Sheriff
  Compensation paid to jailkeepers employed in counties of the second class may on recommendation of the county sheriff, be increased by resolution of the...
• Section 30:8-24.2 - Custody Rule, Keeping And Charge Of Jails Returned To Sheriff
  In any county of the second class where the sheriff of the county has heretofore prior to December 1, 1956, by written notice, directed...
• Section 30:8-25 - County Jail Prisoners Employed By Chosen Freeholders; Guards, Etc.
  The board of chosen freeholders of any county in this state may cause to be employed within such county any or all prisoners in...
• Section 30:8-26 - County Jail Inmates
  The county governing body may establish a wage system for payment to prisoners for their services upon work carried on by such governing body...
• Section 30:8-27 - Payment Of Wages Of Prisoner To Dependents
  When it shall appear that a prisoner has a wife or dependent children or others legally dependent on him for support, the board of...
• Section 30:8-28.4 - Compensation In Cash Or Remission Of Time From Sentence Or Both
  a. The inmates of all county penal institutions established and maintained pursuant to chapter 8 of Title 30 of the Revised Statutes who may...
• Section 30:8-29 - Additions To County Workhouses; Authority Of Chosen Freeholders To Establish
  The board of chosen freeholders of every county in this state may establish, build or purchase a workhouse at such place in the county...
• Section 30:8-30 - Conversion Of Part Of Jail Into Workhouse
  The board of chosen freeholders of any such county may convert so much of the common jail of the county as they deem proper...
• Section 30:8-31 - Workhouse As Part Of Jail Taken Over By Chosen Freeholders; Work Of Prisoners In
  In every county where the board of chosen freeholders shall appoint a keeper or warden as provided by sections 30:8-19 and 30:8-20 of this...
• Section 30:8-32 - Management Of Workhouse; Master And Employees; Rules And Regulations
  A county workhouse shall be under the direction, superintendence and government of the board of chosen freeholders who may appoint a workhouse master and...
• Section 30:8-33 - Prisoners Who May Be Sent To Workhouse; Hard Labor
  In each county having a workhouse every person sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor for not more than six months shall be delivered by...
• Section 30:8-34 - Cost Of Keeping Prisoners And Expense Of Materials For Their Labor
  All disorderly persons and others ordered by law to be sent to a county workhouse shall be kept therein at the charge and expense...
• Section 30:8-37 - Records To Be Kept By Workhouse Master; Proceeds Of Labor
  The master of every workhouse shall keep an exact account of the time of the commitment and discharge of prisoners, their maintenance, the articles...
• Section 30:8-38 - Penalty For Neglect Of Duty By Workhouse Master
  If the master of the workhouse fails properly to account and pay over the proceeds of labor as required by section 30:8-37 of this...
• Section 30:8-39 - Joint Workhouses
  The boards of chosen freeholders of two or more counties may unite in establishing or acquiring and maintaining and operating a workhouse in common...
• Section 30:8-40 - Employment Of Workhouse And Penitentiary Prisoners
  The board of chosen freeholders of any county may cause to be employed within the county, prisoners in any county workhouse or penitentiary under...
• Section 30:8-41 - Rules And Regulations For Employment Of Prisoners; Guards And Attendants; Cost Of Work
  Prisoners employed under section 30:8-40 of this title shall be under the custody and control of the board of chosen freeholders who shall make...
• Section 30:8-42 - Workhouse Inmates
  The county governing body may establish a wage system for payment to prisoners for services in work carried on by such governing body or...
• Section 30:8-43 - Support Of Dependents
  When a prisoner has a wife, child or children or others legally dependent upon him, or her, for support, the earnings of such prisoner...
• Section 30:8-44 - Work Release Or Vocational Training Of Certain Prisoners Or Incarcerated Persons.
  1.In any county in which the governing body, by ordinance or resolution, as appropriate, approves the application of this act and designates a county...
• Section 30:8-44.1 - Ineligibility For Work Release Program
  2. No person confined to a county correctional facility shall be eligible to participate in any work release or vocational training release program if...
• Section 30:8-45 - Conditions
  Every county work release and vocational training release program shall, however, be subject to the following conditions: (a) Representatives of local union central bodies...
• Section 30:8-46 - Employment; Reasonable Wages And Hours; Employment By County
  If the person so placed at outside labor has been regularly employed, arrangements shall be made for a continuation of said work insofar as...
• Section 30:8-47 - Employment In Another County
  The court may by order authorize the work release administrator to whom any person placed at outside labor is committed to arrange with another...
• Section 30:8-48 - Confinement In Jail Or Workhouse
  Whenever such person is not employed, and between the hours or periods of employment, he shall be confined in jail or workhouse. L.1968, c....
• Section 30:8-48.1 - Program For Housing In Institution Or Facility Operated By Nonprofit Organization; Ordinance Or Resolution; Inmates; Eligibility; Transfers
  a. The governing body of any county which has adopted the provisions of the act to which this act is a supplement may, by...
• Section 30:8-48.2 - Contracts; Standards
  The governing body of a county which has adopted an ordinance or resolution pursuant to this act shall enter into contracts for the housing...
• Section 30:8-49 - Work Release Earnings
  The earnings of such person shall be collected by the work release administrator and the employer shall be notified by registered mail, which notice...
• Section 30:8-50 - Diminution Of Term
  Under regulations of the Department of Institutions and Agencies, he may be granted a diminution of not more than 1/4 of his term if...
• Section 30:8-51 - Violation Of Conditions
  In case of the violation of the conditions laid down for his conduct, custody and employment, any person placed at outside labor or for...
• Section 30:8-52 - Segregation From Other Prisoners
  Insofar as possible, persons admitted to outside labor or to a vocational training program under this act shall be segregated from other prisoners serving...
• Section 30:8-53 - Escape Or Attempt To Escape
  Any person admitted to outside labor or a vocational training program under this act who shall escape or attempt to escape while in such...
• Section 30:8-54 - Annual Appropriation Of Funds By Counties
  The board of chosen freeholders of any county may appropriate annually funds to provide for the rehabilitation and re-establishment as law-abiding citizens, of indigent...
• Section 30:8-55 - Use Of Funds; Cash Allowances To Discharged Jail Prisoners; Contracts With Organizations For Rehabilitation Of Indigent Discharged Jail Prisoners
  Said funds shall be expended in such manner as shall be fixed, and in accordance with such rules and regulations as shall be adopted,...
• Section 30:8-56 - Advisory Committee On County Aid To Released Prisoners
  There is hereby established in the Department of Institutions and Agencies an Advisory Committee on County Aid to Released Prisoners which shall act in...
• Section 30:8-57 - County Jail, Workhouse Or Penitentiary In Wilful And Continuous Disregard Of Minimum Standards; Phased Restriction Of Admission Of New Inmates; Order
  If the Commissioner of the Department of Corrections shall determine that a county jail, workhouse or penitentiary is in willful and continuous disregard of...
• Section 30:8-58 - Location Of Inmates Within Other Penal Facilities
  Upon the issuance of an order pursuant to section 1 of this act, the commissioner shall locate inmates assigned to any facility so restricted...
• Section 30:8-59 - Payment By County To Department Of Corrections For Reassigned Inmates
  The governing body of a county whose jail, workhouse or penitentiary has been prohibited from accepting new inmates, and whose inmates have been assigned...
• Section 30:8-60 - Rules And Regulations
  The Department of Corrections shall after notice and hearing promulgate, pursuant to law, such rules and regulations it may deem necessary to effectuate the...
• Section 30:8-61 - Short Title
  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Juvenile Offender Rehabilitation Act." L.1997,c.81, s.1.
• Section 30:8-62 - Findings, Declarations Relative To County Rehabilitative Programs For Juvenile Offenders
  2. The Legislature finds that specialized rehabilitation programs which utilize proven military techniques of regimentation and structured discipline have been shown to develop positive...
• Section 30:8-63 - Definitions Relative To Juvenile Offender Rehabilitation Programs
  3. As used in this act: "Commission" means the Juvenile Justice Commission established pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1995, c.284 (C.52:17B-170). "Juvenile offender" means...
• Section 30:8-64 - Establishment, Maintenance Of Juvenile Offender Rehabilitation Program By Counties
  4. a. The governing body of any county, by resolution or ordinance, as appropriate, may establish and maintain a juvenile offender rehabilitation program. b....
• Section 30:8-65 - Components Of Juvenile Offender Rehabilitation Program
  5. A juvenile offender rehabilitation program established and maintained pursuant to this act shall consist of the following components: a. A comprehensive, residential program...
• Section 30:8-66 - Admission To Juvenile Offender Program
  6. Any juvenile offender who is serving a term of incarceration at a facility operated by the commission may: a. request admission to the...
• Section 30:8-67 - Noncompliance By Juvenile Offender
  7. If an offender fails to comply with the requirements of the juvenile offender program, the offender shall be placed in the custody of...
• Section 30:8-68 - Determination Of Parole After Program Completion
  8. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary concerning primary parole eligibility dates and parole release dates of juvenile inmates, whenever a...
• Section 30:8-69 - Juvenile Not Relieved From Other Penalties
  9. Nothing in this act shall be construed to exempt any person who is admitted to a juvenile offender program established and maintained pursuant...
• Section 30:9-1 - Appointment Of Superintendents, Physicians For County Hospitals.
  30:9-1. The counties of the first class shall appoint a superintendent for each county hospital and the physicians for the several county hospitals. The...
• Section 30:9-3 - Bylaws, Rules, Regulations Of County Psychiatric Facility
  The governing body of the county may adopt bylaws, rules and regulations for the management and government of a county psychiatric facility; the admission,...
• Section 30:9-3.1 - Commissary Or Store; Establishment; Cost; Profits.
  1. Counties are empowered to maintain a commissary or store for the sale of commodities to patients, patients' visitors, and employees of any county...
• Section 30:9-4 - Enlargement Of Or Additions To Psychiatric Hospital.
  30:9-4. If a psychiatric hospital is owned and maintained by the county, and it becomes necessary either to enlarge the hospital by the building...
• Section 30:9-5 - Issuance Of Bonds By County.
  30:9-5. The county may issue bonds in the corporate name of the county to meet the expense of erecting new buildings, additions, or accommodations...
• Section 30:9-6 - Consolidation Of County Psychiatric Hospitals.
  30:9-6. The board of chosen freeholders or governing body of a county, by a resolution or ordinance, as appropriate, adopted by the affirmative vote...
• Section 30:9-7 - Sale Of Lands, Buildings By County.
  30:9-7. If county psychiatric hospitals are consolidated as provided by R.S.30:9-6, the county may sell its lands and buildings used for a psychiatric hospital...
• Section 30:9-8 - Change Of Location Of County Psychiatric Hospital.
  30:9-8. If the board of chosen freeholders or the governing body of the county amended 2013, c.103, s.99.determines, by a resolution or ordinance, as...
• Section 30:9-9 - Agreement For Relocation Between Counties.
  30:9-9. If the county desiring to change the location of a county psychiatric hospital under authority of R.S.30:9-8 determines there is no suitable location...
• Section 30:9-10 - Disagreement As To Cost Of Maintenance Of Hospital; Action In Superior Court
  In the event of a single board erecting such hospital and the two boards cannot agree as to the sum to be paid for...
• Section 30:9-11 - Contracts For County Psychiatric Hospitals.
  30:9-11. If the cost of work performed and materials furnished in the construction, fitting, furnishing, and equipping of county psychiatric hospitals, or laying out...
• Section 30:9-12 - Superintendents.
  30:9-12. Counties of the first class, in appointing superintendents for the county psychiatric hospitals, may designate and prescribe the terms of office of the...
• Section 30:9-12.1 - Counties Over 400,000; County Hospitals; Lands And Buildings
  The board of chosen freeholders of any county having a population in excess of 400,000 may establish, erect and maintain a county hospital or...
• Section 30:9-12.2 - Board Of Managers
  The board of freeholders of any such county establishing and maintaining a county hospital or hospitals under authority of this act shall have power...
• Section 30:9-12.3 - President And Vice-presidents Of Board; Superintendent
  The board of managers shall elect from its membership a president and one or more vice-presidents. It shall appoint a superintendent who shall hold...
• Section 30:9-12.4 - Secretary And Custodian Of Funds
  The board of managers shall appoint a secretary and a custodian of funds. It shall also fix and determine the compensation, term of office,...
• Section 30:9-12.5 - Powers And Duties Of Board Of Managers
  The board of managers shall fix the salaries of the superintendent and other officers and employees subject to the approval of the board of...
• Section 30:9-12.6 - Powers And Duties Of Superintendent
  The superintendent shall be the chief executive officer of the hospital and subject to the rules, regulations and powers of the board of managers...
• Section 30:9-12.7 - Admissions For Other Than Mental Illness
  The admission of any person to a county hospital for other than mental illness established under this act shall be subject to the regulations...
• Section 30:9-12.8 - Persons Who May Be Treated
  A county hospital or hospitals established under this act shall be devoted to the care and treatment of: (a) Persons suffering from communicable diseases;...
• Section 30:9-12.9 - Investigation Of Patient
  9. The board of managers shall designate an officer or employee of the institution who shall be charged with the duty, upon the admission...
• Section 30:9-12.10 - Fidelity Bonds
  The board of managers may in its discretion require any official or employee to give bond for the faithful performance of his duties and...
• Section 30:9-12.11 - Special Policemen
  The board of managers may appoint and commission as many special policemen for such county hospital as it may deem necessary. Within such territory...
• Section 30:9-12.12 - Liability Of Officers, Employees And Board Members
  No action at law shall lie or be maintained against any officer or employee or member of the board of managers for refusing to...
• Section 30:9-12.13 - Abolishment Of Office Or Employment; Consolidation; Transfers
  The board of managers shall have power to abolish any office or employment which it shall find to be unnecessary, to combine and consolidate...
• Section 30:9-12.14 - Consolidation Of County Hospitals With Other Agencies And Facilities
  The board of chosen freeholders in any such county establishing a hospital pursuant to this act by resolution, may consolidate its county hospitals, homes...
• Section 30:9-12.15 - Second Class Counties; Admission Of Patients Able To Pay; Charges
  Wherever a general hospital is or shall be operated by the board of chosen freeholders of a county of the second class, the said...
• Section 30:9-12.15a - Counties Of First Class Having 700,000 To 900,000 Population; Admission Of Patients
  In any county of the first class having a population of more than 700,000 but less than 900,000 inhabitants, a person may be admitted...
• Section 30:9-12.15b - Counties Of First Class Having 700,000 To 900,000 Population; Admission Of Patients Notwithstanding Failure To Meet Qualifications Of Section 30:9-12.8
  In any county of the first class having a population of more than 700,000 but less than 900,000 inhabitants, persons, requiring hospital care and...
• Section 30:9-12.16 - Institution For Treatment Of Alcoholics; Resolution For Establishment
  The board of chosen freeholders of any county, by resolution, may provide for the establishment of an institution for the medical treatment of alcoholics...
• Section 30:9-12.17 - Contents Of Resolution; Board Of Managers
  Any such resolution may provide for the appointment of a board of managers for such institution or may provide for the management, control and...
• Section 30:9-12.18 - Powers And Duties Of Board Of Managers
  Where any such institution is provided for, the board of managers, subject to the approval of the board of chosen freeholders, may: (a) arrange...
• Section 30:9-12.19 - Admission Of Patients; Rules And Regulations
  The said board of managers shall prescribe the rules and regulations for the admission of persons to the institution in their charge and for...
• Section 30:9-12.20 - Admission Or Commitment By Order Of Court In Criminal Cases
  5. Admission to said institution or the use of the said facilities shall also be provided by the board of managers when ordered by...
• Section 30:9-12.21 - Commitment Upon Application After Notice And Hearing
  Commitments to the said institution may also be made by any such judge or magistrate upon a determination, after notice and hearing, that a...
• Section 30:9-12.22 - Counties With 265,000 To 330,000 Population; Establishment Of Institution For Disabled Or Aged Persons; Powers
  The board of chosen freeholders of any county having a population not less than 265,000 and not more than 330,000 inhabitants, may establish, erect...
• Section 30:9-12.23 - Board Of Managers; Appointment; Term; Vacancies; Compensation; Expenses
  The board of freeholders of any such county establishing and maintaining a county institution under authority of this act may appoint a board of...
• Section 30:9-12.24 - Chairman And Vice-chairman; Secretary; Treasurer
  The board of managers shall annually choose from among its members a chairman and vice-chairman. The secretary of the board of managers shall be...
• Section 30:9-12.25 - Powers And Duties Of Chairman, Board Of Managers And Board Of Chosen Freeholders
  The chairman shall preside at all meetings of the board of managers. In the absence or incapacity of the chairman, the vice-chairman shall have...
• Section 30:9-12.26 - Administrator; Appointment; Term; Salary; Secretary To Board
  The board of chosen freeholders shall appoint a competent and qualified administrator who shall serve for a term of 3 years. The salary of...
• Section 30:9-12.27 - Powers And Duties Of Administrator
  The administrator shall be the chief executive officer of the institution and subject to the rules, regulations and powers of the board of managers...
• Section 30:9-12.28 - Investigation Of Patients' Financial Circumstances By County Welfare Board
  The board of managers may designate the county welfare board to investigate the patients' financial circumstances or of those legally responsible for said patients'...
• Section 30:9-12.29 - Short Title
  This act shall be known as the "Public General Hospital Assistance Act." L.1977, c. 289, s. 1, eff. Dec. 1, 1977.
• Section 30:9-12.30 - Legislative Findings
  The Legislature hereby finds that: a. Certain public general hospitals in this State provide essential health care and special services not provided by any...
• Section 30:9-12.31 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Nonthird party patient" means a hospital in-patient receiving acute care whose hospital expenses are not paid primarily by...
• Section 30:9-12.32 - Information To Be Submitted By Hospitals
  From time to time, as determined by the commissioner, but not less than quarterly, each hospital seeking assistance under this act shall submit to...
• Section 30:9-12.33 - Determination Of Fulfillment Of Conditions; Contracts With Public General Hospital And Local Government; Schedule; Provisions
  a. The commissioner shall determine whether: (1) The calculation by the hospital of total patient-days and nonthird party patient-days is accurate; (2) The medical...
• Section 30:9-12.34 - Board Of Managers Of Institution Receiving Funds; Additional Members; Appointment; Reconstitution Of Financially Distressed Hospital
  a. Notwithstanding the provisions of P.L.1947, c. 34, s. 2 (C. 30:9-12.2) and R.S. 30:9-14, the Governor shall appoint two individuals to serve as...
• Section 30:9-12.35 - Duties And Powers Of Commissioner
  The commissioner is directed to enter into contracts and to make payments subject to available appropriations and is empowered to issue all necessary rules,...
• Section 30:9-13 - Power To Establish Municipal Hospitals; Executive Officer
  Every municipality may from time to time acquire, operate and maintain one or more hospitals for sick and injured persons, and for that purpose...
• Section 30:9-14 - Board Of Managers
  a. The governing body of any municipality establishing and maintaining a hospital or hospitals under authority of section 30:9-13 of this Title shall have...
• Section 30:9-15 - Powers Granted Deemed Additional
  The powers granted by sections 30:9-13 and 30:9-14 of this title are in addition to the powers granted by other laws and said sections...
• Section 30:9-16 - Hospitals For Indigent Sick And Disabled; Establishment By Cities
  The governing body of any city whenever, in its judgment, the public needs require it, may establish and maintain therein a hospital which shall...
• Section 30:9-17 - Management Of Hospitals For Indigent Sick And Disabled; Rules And Regulations; Physicians, Superintendents And Other Employees; No Discrimination In Admission Or Treatment Of Patient
  The management and control of all hospitals established under authority of section 30:9-16 of this Title shall be vested in the board of health...
• Section 30:9-18 - Improvement, Reconstruction And Repair Of City Hospitals
  Whenever the municipal board or body in charge of a hospital established under section 30:9-16 of this title shall pursuant to resolution duly passed,...
• Section 30:9-19 - Loans To Meet Expenditures; Bonds; Expenditures For Furnishings And Equipment
  A city through its governing body may from time to time or at once, as may be deemed most advantageous, borrow the money necessary...
• Section 30:9-20 - Additional City Hospital Accommodations; Bonds; Control And Management
  Whenever the municipal board, body or authority having control of the finances of any city shall determine that new or additional hospital accommodations are...
• Section 30:9-21 - Bonds For New City Hospitals In Cities Of The First Class; Issue And Sale
  Whenever, in the judgment of the municipal board or body having charge of the finances in any city of the first class, the buildings...
• Section 30:9-22 - Trustees Of City Hospitals In Cities Of First Class; Appointment; Terms; Bonds; Powers And Duties
  Whenever the bonds authorized by section 30:9-21 of this title shall have been directed to be issued by the municipal board having charge of...
• Section 30:9-23 - Purchase Of Lands And Erection Of Buildings For New City Hospitals In Cities Of First Class; Contracts
  The lands to be purchased and the building or buildings to be erected pursuant to section 30:9-21 shall be purchased, erected and furnished by...
• Section 30:9-23.1 - Medical Director, Supervisor Of Nurses And Purchasing Agent For All County And Municipal Hospitals Or Institutions In Certain Counties; Salaries; Qualifications Of Director
  Whenever a city of the first class has established or establishes a city hospital or medical center with a capacity of more than one...
• Section 30:9-23.2 - Powers And Duties Of Medical Director
  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any of the statutes or any provisions thereof, should a city and a county of the first class...
• Section 30:9-23.3 - Assistant; Qualifications; Compensation Payable By Whom
  The said medical director when appointed jointly by the county and municipality under the provisions of this act shall have power to appoint one...
• Section 30:9-23.4 - Clerical Assistants; Agreed Compensation; Suspension Or Dismissal
  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any of the statutes or any provisions thereof, a medical director appointed hereunder may appoint clerical assistants, such...
• Section 30:9-23.5 - Pension Funds; Persons Paid Partly By County And Partly By Municipality; Transfer Of Credits
  Any person heretofore or hereafter appointed pursuant to the act of which this act is a supplement whose compensation is paid partly by the...
• Section 30:9-23.6 - Affiliation Of Hospitals With Medical And Dental Colleges
  The board of chosen freeholders of any county or the governing body of any municipality, wherein a public hospital is located under the control...
• Section 30:9-23.7 - Contract Provisions
  Any such contract may provide: (a) for the designation of the hospital or parts thereof as a teaching hospital and for access thereto by...
• Section 30:9-23.8 - Lease Of Equipment Or Space
  The board of chosen freeholders of any county or the governing body of any municipality, wherein such public hospital is located, is authorized to...
• Section 30:9-23.9 - Sharing Of Facilities And Costs
  Any contract authorized by this act may provide for the sharing of hospital facilities and services and of the cost or expense of such...
• Section 30:9-23.10 - Duration Of Contracts And Leases
  Any contract, agreement or lease authorized by this act may be entered into for a term not to exceed 50 years. L.1955, c. 22,...
• Section 30:9-23.11 - Additional Authority--advertising, Bids, Security
  The authority conferred by this act in the case of any municipality shall be in addition to the authority of the municipality to contract...
• Section 30:9-23.12 - Rights Of Employees
  No contract, agreement or lease authorized by this act shall deprive any employee of the county or municipality of any civil service status or...
• Section 30:9-23.13 - Board Of Managers--power And Authority
  Where the board of chosen freeholders of any county, or the governing body of any municipality, has appointed a board of managers of any...
• Section 30:9-23.14 - Powers Granted By Other Laws
  The powers granted under this act are in addition to any powers granted by other laws and the sections of this act shall not...
• Section 30:9-23.15 - Short Title.
  1.Sections 1 through 9 of this act shall be known and may be cited as the "Municipal Hospital Authority Law." L.2006,c.46,s.1.
• Section 30:9-23.16 - Charitable Transfer To Authority.
  2.The transfer of a hospital to an authority by a charitable nonprofit entity pursuant to this act shall be deemed to be in furtherance...
• Section 30:9-23.17 - Definitions Relative To Municipal Hospital Authorities.
  3.For the purposes of this act: "Authority" means a municipal hospital authority created pursuant to section 4 of this act. "Bonds" means bonds issued...
• Section 30:9-23.18 - Creation Of Municipal Hospital Authority.
  4. a. The governing body of a city may create, by ordinance, a body corporate and politic to be known as the " ....
• Section 30:9-23.19 - Governing Board Of Authority.
  5. a. The authority shall be governed by an 11-member board. The members shall be divided among four classes. The Class I member shall...
• Section 30:9-23.20 - Powers, Duties Of Authority.
  6. a. The authority shall exercise its powers and duties to manage and operate a hospital owned by it through a contract or contracts...
• Section 30:9-23.21 - Issuance Of Bonds, Notes; Contracts Between City And Authority.
  7. a. Bonds or notes issued under this act shall be issued and sold in the same manner, and subject to the same restrictions,...
• Section 30:9-23.22 - Construction Of Act.
  8.Nothing in P.L.2006, c.46 (C.30:9-23.15 et al.) shall be construed to apply to a hospital operated by a municipality pursuant to the provisions of...
• Section 30:9-23.23 - Transfer Exempt, Certain.
  9.The transfer of a hospital to an authority pursuant to the provisions of P.L.2006, c.46 (C.30:9-23.15 et al.) shall be exempt from the provisions...
• Section 30:9-24 - Maternity Hospitals In Counties Of The First Class; Bond Issue
  The board of chosen freeholders of a county of the first class, whenever in its judgment the public need requires, may acquire land by...
• Section 30:9-25 - Board Of Managers Of Maternity Hospital; Duties And Powers
  When a county maternity hospital shall have been built and is ready for occupancy, the director of the board of chosen freeholders shall with...
• Section 30:9-25.1 - Allocation Of Positions And Employments To Classified Service
  All positions and employments in county maternity hospitals, in counties of the first class, created pursuant to the provisions of section 30:9-24 of the...
• Section 30:9-25.2 - Certification Of Names Of Employees To Civil Service Commission
  Upon receipt from the Civil Service Commission of a list of the positions and employments so allocated to the classified service and their appropriate...
• Section 30:9-26 - Use Of Hospital; Gynecologic Service; Charges
  A maternity hospital established under section 30:9-24 of this Title shall be used exclusively for the care and treatment of persons in the county...
• Section 30:9-27 - Contracts For Mutual Services Between County And Municipality
  Whenever a county establishes a hospital under section 30:9-24 of this title adjacent to or near a municipal hospital, the county and municipality in...
• Section 30:9-27.1 - Sale To Municipality
  Notwithstanding the provisions of section 13 of P.L.1971, c. 199 (C. 40A:12-13) or of any other law to the contrary, any county of the...
• Section 30:9-27.2 - Consolidation As Separate Department Of Municipal Hospital; Services For Residents Of County And Municipality
  Any municipality accepting the transfer and conveyance of the county maternity hospital, may consolidate the hospital as a separate department of its municipal hospital...
• Section 30:9-27.3 - Assumption And Payment Of Deficits By County
  Any contract or agreement between a county and a municipality providing for the transfer and conveyance of a county maternity hospital as authorized by...
• Section 30:9-27.4 - Rights Of County Or Municipal Employees
  No contract or agreement between a county and a municipality pursuant to this act shall deprive any county or municipal employee of any civil...
• Section 30:9-27.5 - Limitation On Payment Of Deficits By County; Independent Audits By County Auditor
  The liability of a county for annual operating deficits shall cease and terminate not later than 5 years from the making of the agreement...
• Section 30:9-27.6 - County Employee Transferred To Municipal Employment; Membership In County Pension Fund
  Any employee being transferred from county to municipal employment may retain membership in the county pension fund. If the employee elects to remain in...
• Section 30:9-57 - Commitment For Failure To Observe Rules
  30:9-57. A person with communicable tuberculosis who fails to obey the rules or regulations promulgated in accordance with R.S.26:4-70 by the State Department of...
• Section 30:9-87 - Joint Purchases By Health-care Facilities
  Notwithstanding the provisions of the "Local Public Contracts Law," P.L. 1971, c. 198 (C. 40A:11-1 et seq.) to the contrary, a hospital or institution...
• Section 30:9-88 - Public Bidding Exemption
  Any purchase, contract or agreement described in section 1 of this act may be made, negotiated or awarded by the board of managers or...
• Section 30:9a-1 - Declaration Of Policy
  1. It is declared to be the public policy of this State to encourage the development of preventive, treatment and transitional services for mental...
• Section 30:9a-2 - Definitions
  2. For the purpose of this act the following terms are hereby defined: "Community Mental Health Citizens Advisory Board" shall mean a board of...
• Section 30:9a-3 - Establishment Of Service; Board; Members; Meetings; Mental Health Administrator
  The several counties are hereby authorized to provide for community mental health services in accordance with the provisions of this act. Each county board...
• Section 30:9a-4 - Term Of Members
  The term of each member of the county mental health board shall be for 3 years and shall terminate on June 30, provided, however,...
• Section 30:9a-5 - Powers And Duties
  Subject to the provisions of this chapter, and the regulations of the department, every county mental health board shall have the power and duty...
• Section 30:9a-6 - Community Projects
  a. Community mental health projects shall be submitted annually by sponsoring agencies to the county mental health board and the department in accordance with...
• Section 30:9a-7 - Project Application
  Each project application shall contain such information and be submitted in such form and at such time as may be required by regulations of...
• Section 30:9a-8 - Approval Of Project
  The commissioner, with due regard for the recommendations made by the community mental health board, shall approve for State financial participation community mental health...
• Section 30:9a-9 - Grants And Expenditures
  a. Reimbursement or advancement grants shall be paid to an eligible sponsoring agency from State funds in an amount not exceeding 60% of the...
• Section 30:9a-9.1 - Distribution Of Appropriated Money; Considerations
  The Commissioner of the Department of Human Services shall, in distributing any amounts appropriated pursuant to this act, give due consideration to committing funds...
• Section 30:9a-9.2 - Target Populations; Initiation Or Expansion Of Services
  a. The reimbursement or advancement grants shall be used to initiate or expand services to the following target populations and such other populations as...
• Section 30:9a-10 - Rules And Regulations
  The commissioner, with due regard for the recommendations made by the community mental health board, shall make, promulgate, modify, repeal and enforce such rules...
• Section 30:9a-11 - Financial Grant-in-aid For Capital Expenditures
  It is declared to be the policy of this State to encourage sponsoring agencies as described herein to establish community mental health centers by...
• Section 30:9a-12 - Findings, Declarations
  The Legislature finds and declares that the incidence of suicide among adolescents has increased alarmingly and suicide presently ranks as the second leading cause...
• Section 30:9a-13 - Youth Suicide Prevention Program
  The Commissioner of the Department of Human Services shall establish a program of youth suicide prevention projects which shall be administered by community mental...
• Section 30:9a-14 - Guidelines
  The Commissioner of Human Services in consultation with the Commissioner of Education shall prepare guidelines for the youth suicide prevention program. In addition to...
• Section 30:9a-15 - Proposals
  a. The commissioner shall solicit proposals for suicide prevention projects from community mental health services providers interested in participating in the program. The commissioner...
• Section 30:9a-16 - Cooperation With School Boards
  The community mental health services provider shall prepare its funding proposal in cooperation with two or more local boards of education which are interested...
• Section 30:9a-18 - Definitions Relative To Mental Health Programs
  1. As used in sections 1 through 4 of this act: "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Human Services. "Mental health program" means a program...
• Section 30:9a-19 - License Required For Conducting, Maintaining, Operating Mental Health Program; Fees.
  2. a. A person shall not conduct, maintain or operate a mental health program unless: (1) the commissioner or the Commissioner of Children and...
• Section 30:9a-20 - Construction Of Act.
  3.Nothing in this act shall be construed to: a.limit the authority of the Department of Health and Senior Services with respect to the licensure...
• Section 30:9a-21 - Rules, Regulations.
  4.The commissioner or the Commissioner of Children and Families, as applicable, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall adopt...
• Section 30:9a-22 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Youth Suicide.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.Overall, suicide is the 11th leading cause of death for all Americans and the third leading cause of...
• Section 30:9a-23 - Definitions Relative To Youth Suicide.
  2.As used in this act: "Alcohol and drug counselor" means a person who is a certified alcohol and drug counselor or a licensed clinical...
• Section 30:9a-24 - Report By Teacher Of Attempted, Completed Suicide By Student; Other Reporting Requirements.
  3. a. Any teaching staff member, who, as a result of information obtained in the course of the person's employment, has reasonable cause to...
• Section 30:9a-25 - New Jersey Youth Suicide Prevention Advisory Council.
  4.There is established in the Department of Children and Families the New Jersey Youth Suicide Prevention Advisory Council. a.The purpose of the council shall...
• Section 30:9a-26 - Public Awareness Campaign On Youth Suicide Prevention And Intervention.
  5.The Commissioner of Human Services shall develop and publicize, in consultation with the council, a public awareness campaign on youth suicide prevention and intervention,...
• Section 30:9a-27 - Compilation Of Data, Annual Report.
  6. a. The division shall compile data about reported attempted and completed suicides by youths in the State, without identifying any individuals involved. b.The...
• Section 30:9a-28 - Regulations.
  7.The Commissioner of Human Services, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall adopt regulations to carry out the purposes...
• Section 30:9a-29 - Statewide Youth Suicide Prevention Plan; Development, Adoption.
  1. a. The Commissioner of Children and Families, in consultation with the Department of Human Services, and the New Jersey Youth Suicide Prevention Advisory...
• Section 30:9a-30 - Preparation Of Report.
  2.The Commissioners of Human Services and Children and Families, in consultation with the Commissioner of Health and Senior Services, shall prepare a report reviewing...
• Section 30:9a-31 - Review Of Grant Application Procedures; Applications.
  3. a. The Commissioner of Children and Families shall review the Department of Children and Families grant application procedures to ensure that grant applications...
• Section 30:9a-32 - Report To Governor, Legislature.
  4.The commissioner, within 18 months after the effective date of this act, shall report to the Governor, and to the Legislature pursuant to section...
• Section 30:9a-33 - Rules, Regulations.
  5.The commissioner, in accordance with the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall promulgate such rules and regulations as...
• Section 30:9b-1 - Findings, Declarations
  The Legislature finds and declares that: there is a great need to foster innovative, cost-effective social and health services; self-help and mutual aid groups...
• Section 30:9b-2 - Self-help Clearinghouse
  2. The Commissioner of the Department of Human Services shall establish a Self-Help Clearinghouse in the Division of Mental Health Services. L.1985,c.296,s.2; amended 1995,c.4,s.8.
• Section 30:9b-3 - Guidelines; Funding
  a. The commissioner shall prepare guidelines for the Self-Help Clearinghouse. b. The commissioner shall solicit proposals from nonprofit organizations interested in establishing a Statewide...
• Section 30:9b-4 - Rules, Regulations
  4.Subject to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), the commissioner shall adopt the rules and regulations necessary to effectuate the purposes...
• Section 30:11-10 - Provisions Applicable To Private Mental Hospitals.
  6.The provisions of article 3 of chapter 4 of Title 30 of the Revised Statutes, except as concerning or pertaining to the investigation and...
• Section 30:11-11 - Public Policy; License Required; Application
  It is declared to be the public policy of this State to provide for the development, establishment and enforcement of basic standards for the...
• Section 30:11-12 - Applications For License; Evidence Of Ability To Comply With Minimum Standards
  Application for license required by this act shall be made upon forms furnished by the Commissioner of the Department of Institutions and Agencies. The...
• Section 30:11-13 - Licensing Of Nursing Home Administrators; Regulations
  Upon receipt of an application for license and a license fee of $100, and an examination fee of $100, the department shall cause an...
• Section 30:11-14 - $100 Fee For 2-year License
  A license to act as an administrator of a convalescent home or private nursing home shall be valid for two years from the date...
• Section 30:11-15 - Conditional License; Duration
  Any administrator supervising any convalescent home or private nursing home in operation at the time of promulgation of any applicable rules, regulations or minimum...
• Section 30:11-16 - Denial, Suspension Or Revocation Of License
  The State Board of Control, after serving the licensee with specific charges in writing, at least 30 days in advance of a hearing, and...
• Section 30:11-17 - Hearing; Procedure
  The Nursing Home Administrator's Licensing Board shall afford the licensee an opportunity for a prompt and fair hearing before deciding on the matter of...
• Section 30:11-18 - Notice; Specification Of Charges; Hearing; Appeal
  Notice of the pending revocation, suspension, or denial of a license together with a specification of charges shall be sent to the applicant or...
• Section 30:11-19 - Arrangement Of Hearings; Decisions
  The Commissioner of the Department of Institutions and Agencies shall arrange for prompt and fair hearings on all such cases, render written decisions stating...
• Section 30:11-20 - Nursing Home Administrator's Licensing Board; Appointment; Membership; Qualifications; Terms; Compensation; Reimbusement For Expenses
  10. The Commissioner of the Department of Health and Senior Services subject to the approval of the Governor, shall appoint a Nursing Home Administrator's...
• Section 30:11-21 - Responsibilities And Duties Of Board
  The nursing home administrator's licensing board shall have the following responsibilities and duties; a. Develop, and promulgate by regulation approved by the State Board...
• Section 30:11-22 - Nursing Home Administrator Defined
  As used in this act, the term "nursing home administrator" means any individual who is charged with the general administration or supervision of a...
• Section 30:11-23 - Qualification Of Applicants, Criminal History Record Background Check.
  13. Except as to persons who shall qualify for a conditional license pursuant to the provisions of this act, no license shall be issued...
• Section 30:11-24 - Notice Of Change In Facts In Application
  Whenever any change shall occur in the facts as set forth in any application for a license, the licensee or applicant shall file with...
• Section 30:11-25 - Questions To Applicants; Declarations; Effect Of Fraud And Misrepresentation
  Applicants shall answer such questions as may be asked concerning their character, residence, citizenship and ability to operate a nursing home or convalescent home...
• Section 30:11-26 - Violation; Penalty
  Any person, firm, partnership, corporation or association who shall operate or conduct a convalescent home or private nursing home without first obtaining an administrator...
• Section 30:11-27 - Injunctions
  The department may, in the manner provided by law maintain an action in the name of the State of New Jersey for injunction against...
• Section 30:11-28 - Services Of State Employees To Carry Out Duties
  The Nursing Home Administrator's Licensing Board is hereby empowered within the limits of appropriations made available to it and on a cost reimbursable basis,...
• Section 30:11a-1 - Definitions
  For purposes of this act, a residential health care facility is defined as any facility, whether in single or multiple dwellings, whether public or...
• Section 30:11a-2 - Certificate Of Approval
  Residential health care facilities as defined in section 1, shall operate within this State pursuant to certificate of approval first had and obtained for...
• Section 30:11a-3 - Rules, Regulations And Standards
  The State Department of Health shall adopt, promulgate and enforce such rules, regulations and standards with respect to the residential health care facilities to...
• Section 30:11a-4 - Application For Certificate Of Approval
  Application for a certificate of approval shall be made upon forms furnished by the department, and the applicant shall be required to furnish any...
• Section 30:11a-5 - Investigation Of Applicant; Certificate Not Transferable; Display
  Upon receipt of an application for a certificate of approval, the department shall cause an investigation to be made of the applicant and the...
• Section 30:11a-6 - Existing Facility; Reasonable Time To Comply With Rules, Regulations Or Standards
  Any residential health care facility which is in operation on the effective date of this act, or at the time of promulgation of any...
• Section 30:11a-7 - Duration Of Certificate Of Approval
  A certificate of approval shall be valid for one year from date of issue, unless sooner revoked or suspended for cause. L.1953, c. 212,...
• Section 30:11a-8 - Denial, Revocation Or Suspension Of Certificates Of Approval
  The State Board of Control may deny, revoke or suspend any and all certificates of approval granted under the authority of this act, because...
• Section 30:11a-9 - Inspection Of Premises; Alterations, Additions Or Improvements
  The department shall make or cause to be made such inspections of the premises of any residential health care facility from time to time...
• Section 30:11a-10 - Penalties For Operating Uncertified Residential Health Care Facility.
  10. (a) Any person, firm, corporation, partnership, society or association who shall operate or conduct a residential health care facility without first obtaining the...
• Section 30:11a-11 - Effect Of Issuance Of Certificate Of Approval
  The issuance of a certificate of approval pursuant to this act shall not preclude a subsequent determination by the department that the establishment so...
• Section 30:11a-12 - Denial Of Application On Ground Of Existence Of Adequate Facilities; Prohibition; Treatment Of Individuals Opposed To Medical Treatment
  Nothing in this act shall vest authority or be construed to vest authority in the Department of Health to deny any application for a...
• Section 30:11a-13 - Additional Officers And Employees; Costs Of Administration
  The department is authorized, directed and empowered to employ, in compliance with the provisions of Title 11 of the Revised Statutes, such additional officers...
• Section 30:11a-14 - Effective Date
  Section thirteen of this act shall take effect immediately, and all other sections of this act shall take effect July first, one thousand nine...
• Section 30:11b-1 - Findings.
  1.The Legislature finds that many developmentally disabled persons who are now housed in large institutions can be better cared for and given training for...
• Section 30:11b-2 - Definitions.
  2."Alzheimer's disease and related disorders" means a form of dementia characterized by a general loss of intellectual abilities of sufficient severity to interfere with...
• Section 30:11b-3 - Assistance In Self-care, Developing Potential
  3. Every community residence for the developmentally disabled, every community residence for the mentally ill and every community residence for persons with head injuries...
• Section 30:11b-4 - Licenses; Regulations.
  4.All such residences which are operated by any individual or individuals, corporation, partnership, society or association, whether public or private, whether incorporated or unincorporated,...
• Section 30:11b-4.1 - Applicable Act
  The provisions of the "Uniform Fire Safety Act," P.L. 1983, c. 383 (C. 52:27D-193 et seq.) shall apply to any residence licensed or regulated...
• Section 30:11b-4.2 - Program Standards.
  10. a. Within six months of the effective date of P.L.1987, c.112, the Director of the Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services in...
• Section 30:11b-5 - Geographic Location.
  5.The geographic location of community residences for the developmentally disabled, community residences for the mentally ill and community residences for persons with head injuries...
• Section 30:11b-6 - Residents Of Municipality
  6. All residents of community residences for the developmentally disabled, community residences for the mentally ill and community residences for persons with head injuries...
• Section 30:11b-7 - Fiscal Audit, Analysis; Review
  One year after the effective date of this act and annually thereafter the office of the State Auditor in the Office of Legislative Services...
• Section 30:12-1 - Consent Of Municipality To Establishment Or Maintenance By Persons Or Corporations
  No person or corporation shall locate, erect, build, establish or maintain, either temporarily or permanently, any pesthouse or hospital or building for the treatment...
• Section 30:12-2 - Consent Of Municipality To Location Of Communicable Disease Institution For Profit
  No person, corporation or association, except municipal corporations or corporations not organized for pecuniary profit shall establish or maintain for profit any hospital, or...
• Section 30:13-1 - Legislative Findings And Declarations
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the well-being of nursing home residents in the State of New Jersey requires a delineation of the...
• Section 30:13-2 - Definitions.
  2.For the purposes of this act: a."Administrator" means any individual who is charged with the general administration or supervision of a nursing home whether...
• Section 30:13-3 - Responsibilities Of Nursing Homes.
  3.Every nursing home shall have the responsibility for: a. (1) Maintaining a complete record of all funds, personal property and possessions of a nursing...
• Section 30:13-3.1 - Provisions Relative To Medicare, Medicaid.
  3. a. A nursing home shall not, with respect to an applicant for admission or a resident of the facility: (1) require that the...
• Section 30:13-3.2 - Applicability Of Act.
  4. Except as otherwise provided in this act, the provisions of P.L.1976, c.120 (C.30:13-1 et seq.) and section 3 of P.L.1997, c.241 (C.30:13-3.1) shall...
• Section 30:13-4 - Responsibilities As Inclusive But Not Limitation
  The responsibilities of nursing homes shall include, but shall not be limited to, those enumerated in this act. L.1976, c. 120, s. 4, eff....
• Section 30:13-4.1 - Nursing Home Security Deposits; Disposition
  1. Whenever a nursing home requires a security deposit advanced prior to the admission of a person to the nursing home, the money or...
• Section 30:13-4.2 - Violations; Enforcement
  2. A person shall have a cause of action against the nursing home for any violation of this act. The Department of Health may...
• Section 30:13-5 - Rights Of Nursing Home Residents.
  5.Every resident of a nursing home shall: a.Have the right to manage his own financial affairs unless he or his guardian authorizes the administrator...
• Section 30:13-6 - Discharge Or Transfer Of Resident.
  6.A nursing home resident may arrange for the resident's own discharge from a nursing home upon presentation of a written release and, if the...
• Section 30:13-7 - Written Notice Of Rights, Obligations And Prohibitions; Copy To Residents; Posting
  The administrator of a nursing home shall ensure that a written notice of the rights, obligations and prohibitions set forth in this act be...
• Section 30:13-8 - Violations; Causes Of Action; Damages.
  8. a. Any person or resident whose rights as defined herein are violated shall have a cause of action against any person committing such...
• Section 30:13-8.1 - Clauses Waiving Right To Sue In Nursing Home Admission Agreements Void, Unenforceable.
  1.Any provision or clause waiving or limiting the right to sue for negligence or malpractice in any admission agreement or contract between a patient...
• Section 30:13-9 - Inapplicability Of Provisions On Medical Care Or Treatment Contrary To Tenets Of Nursing Home Operated By Certain Religious Denominations
  Nothing in this act shall be construed to require the provision of any medical care or treatment by any nursing home operated by and...
• Section 30:13-10 - Rules And Regulations
  The Commissioner of Health is hereby authorized to adopt reasonable rules and regulations, in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, P.L.1968,...
• Section 30:13-10.1 - Written Explanation Of Medicare, Medicaid Provisions Required.
  5. The Department of Health and Senior Services shall provide a written explanation of the provisions of section 3 of P.L.1997, c.241 (C.30:13-3.1) to...
• Section 30:13-11 - Severability
  If any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence or other part of this act is adjudged unconstitutional or invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or...
• Section 30:13-12 - Definition
  As used in this act, "Mantoux tuberculin skin test" means a test for evidence of tuberculosis infection involving the intracutaneous injection of five tuberculin...
• Section 30:13-13 - Nursing Home Employees Required To Be Given Mantoux Tuberculin Skin Test
  A nursing home as defined in section 2 of P.L.1976, c.120 (C.30:13-2) or licensed pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et seq.) shall require in...
• Section 30:13-14 - Requirements Of Testing Program
  The testing program established pursuant to this act shall be subject to the same requirements as the existing tuberculosis examination program for employees of...
• Section 30:13-15 - Rules, Regulations
  The Commissioner of Health shall, pursuant to the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) adopt rules and regulations necessary...
• Section 30:13-16 - Review Of Medicaid Recipient In Free-standing Special Care Nursing Facility.
  1. a. A Medicaid recipient who has been determined to be eligible to reside in a free-standing special care nursing facility specializing in the...
• Section 30:13-17 - Rules, Regulations.
  2.In accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), the Commissioner of Health and Senior Services shall promulgate rules and regulations...
• Section 30:14-1 - Purpose
  The Legislature finds and declares that there is a present and growing need to develop services to protect victims of domestic violence. It is...
• Section 30:14-2 - Title Of Act
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Shelters for Victims of Domestic Violence Act." L.1979, c. 337, s. 2, eff....
• Section 30:14-3 - Department Of Human Services; Operation Of Shelters
  The Department of Human Services shall provide services to those public or private agencies, which meet the standards set forth in this act, to...
• Section 30:14-4 - Advisory Council On Domestic Violence.
  4. a. There is created an Advisory Council on Domestic Violence which shall consist of 20 members: the Director of the Division on Women...
• Section 30:14-5 - Standards For Shelters
  The Commissioner of Human Services, in consultation with the advisory council, shall establish standards to be met by those shelters applying for services to...
• Section 30:14-6 - Commissioner Of Human Services; Duties
  The Commissioner of Human Services, in consultation with the advisory council, shall: a. Provide technical assistance to help public and private agencies to qualify...
• Section 30:14-6.1 - Plan To Increase Awareness For Providers Of Services For Victims Of Domestic Violence Of Workforce Development Initiative.
  5.The Commissioner of Human Services, in consultation with the Advisory Council on Domestic Violence and the Commissioner of Community Affairs shall develop a plan...
• Section 30:14-7 - Facilities Of Shelter
  A shelter shall provide a residential area which provides safe refuge for victims of domestic violence. A shelter shall also provide a day program...
• Section 30:14-8 - Services Of Shelter
  A shelter shall arrange for the provision of the following services to victims of domestic violence: a. Emergency medical care. b. Emergency legal assistance....
• Section 30:14-9 - Services From Other Agencies
  The shelter staff shall advocate the delivery of services from such agencies as county welfare departments and law enforcement and legal services agencies to...
• Section 30:14-10 - Staff Members; Bilingual Personnel
  To the extent feasible, one or more of the shelter personnel shall be bilingual. An effort shall be made to recruit former victims of...
• Section 30:14-11 - Funding
  The governing body of any county or municipality may appropriate funds or in-kind donations for the support of any private, nonprofit shelter for victims...
• Section 30:14-12 - Federal Funds
  The commissioner shall seek and make use of any funds which are available from Federal or other sources in order to augment any State...
• Section 30:14-13 - Confidentiality For Persons Seeking Shelter Services
  Information which may reveal the identity or location of a person seeking shelter services shall not be disclosed, except as otherwise specifically required by...
• Section 30:14-13.1 - Shelter, Domestic Violence Victims; Location, Not Public Record
  1.Information which may identify the location of a shelter for victims of domestic violence shall not be deemed to be a public record pursuant...
• Section 30:14-14 - Minors; Release Of Custody
  No shelter providing care for a minor who was in the actual custody of a parent at the time the parent applied for shelter...
• Section 30:14-15 - "Domestic Violence Victims' Fund."
  3. a. There is hereby established the "Domestic Violence Victims' Fund," a dedicated fund within the General Fund and administered by the Division of...
• Section 30:14-16 - Rules, Regulations.
  5.The Department of Human Services may promulgate rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of this act pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968,...

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