New Jersey Revised Statutes Title 44 - Poor

• Section 44:1-1 - Definitions.
  44:1-1. As used in this chapter: "Almshouse" means a place where the poor are maintained at the public expense of a municipality or county,...
• Section 44:1-2 - Construction In General
  The provisions contained in this chapter shall not be construed to be exclusive. A particular grant of power contained in this chapter shall be...
• Section 44:1-3 - Establishment By Board Of Freeholders
  The board of chosen freeholders of a county may, by resolution, establish a county almshouse to be known as a welfare-house, or change the...
• Section 44:1-4 - Acquisition Of Real Estate For Welfare-house
  The board of chosen freeholders may purchase and lease real estate for the welfare-house, including any municipal almshouse suitable therefor, or acquire such property...
• Section 44:1-5 - Erection, Alteration And Repair Of Buildings
  The board of chosen freeholders may erect all necessary buildings, make all necessary improvements and repairs, and alter any existing building for the use...
• Section 44:1-6 - Levy, Assessment And Collection Of Money For Buildings And Maintenance
  The board of chosen freeholders may cause to be levied, assessed and collected from the municipalities of the county participating in the purpose such...
• Section 44:1-7 - Borrowing Money And Issuing Obligations Therefor
  The board of chosen freeholders may borrow money for the erection or purchase of the welfare-house, and for the purchase of a site therefor,...
• Section 44:1-8 - Acceptance Of Gifts, Devises And Bequests
  The board of chosen freeholders may accept and hold in trust for the county, or portion thereof so participating, any grant or devise of...
• Section 44:1-9 - Inspection Of Welfare-house
  The welfare-house shall be subject to inspection by duly authorized representatives of the state board, or the commissioner, and of the state board of
• Section 44:1-10 - Constitution And Appointment In General
  When the board of chosen freeholders has determined to establish a welfare-house for the permanent maintenance and relief of the poor of the county...
• Section 44:1-10.1 - Change Of Name To County Board Of Social Services; Resolution Or Ordinance
  The governing body of any county may, by resolution or ordinance, as appropriate, change the name of the county welfare board to the county...
• Section 44:1-10.2 - County Welfare Board To Mean County Board Of Social Services
  For any county which has adopted a resolution or ordinance pursuant to section 1 of this act, whenever the term "county welfare board" appears...
• Section 44:1-11 - Membership
  The welfare board shall be composed of not less than five nor more than seven citizens of the county or municipalities participating, at least...
• Section 44:1-12 - Terms Of Members; Vacancies
  Members shall hold their offices for five years except that the first appointments shall be respectively for one, two, three, four and five years,...
• Section 44:1-12.1 - Terms Of Members; Additional Appointments
  In any case in which the membership of a county welfare board is increased by two additional citizen members appointed pursuant to the authority...
• Section 44:1-13 - Compensation And Expenses Of Members
  Members shall receive no compensation for their services but shall be allowed their actual and necessary expenses, on the approval of the superintendent of...
• Section 44:1-14 - Organization Of Board
  The county welfare board shall elect from among its members a president, vice president and secretary-treasurer.
• Section 44:1-15 - Supervision Of Relief And Settlement Of Poor
  The county welfare board as the county bureau of relief shall have charge and supervision of the relief and settlement of the poor in...
• Section 44:1-16 - Regulation And Operation Of Welfare-house
  The county welfare board shall have charge of all matters relating to the government, discipline, contracts and fiscal concerns of the welfare-house, as appropriated...
• Section 44:1-17 - Equipment And Maintenance Of Welfare-house
  The county welfare board shall so equip and maintain the welfare-house as to provide proper heat and all furniture, materials and supplies, medical and...
• Section 44:1-18 - Meetings Of Board
  The county welfare board shall meet at the welfare-house at least once in every month, and at such other times as may be prescribed...
• Section 44:1-19 - Public Record Of Board Proceedings
  The county welfare board shall keep a public record of their proceedings in a book provided for that purpose.
• Section 44:1-20 - Appropriations; Approval By Freeholders
  All appropriations for the expenditure of money as set forth in this chapter shall be subject to the approval of the board of chosen
• Section 44:1-21 - Certification Of Bills To Board Of Freeholders
  The county welfare board shall certify all bills and accounts, including salaries and wages, and transmit them to the board of chosen freeholders of...
• Section 44:1-22 - Working Expense Fund
  The board of chosen freeholders shall provide and maintain, for the use of the county welfare board, a working expense fund of not more...
• Section 44:1-23 - Annual Report To Board Of Freeholders
  The county welfare board shall annually make to the board of chosen freeholders a report of the financial management, expenditures and other operations of...
• Section 44:1-24 - Appointment Of Superintendent; Qualifications
  The county welfare board shall appoint a superintendent of welfare who shall be the director of welfare under the direction and supervision of that...
• Section 44:1-24.1 - Temporary Welfare Director
  In case of a vacancy in the office of director of welfare the county welfare board may appoint a temporary or acting director of...
• Section 44:1-24.2 - Chief Administrative Officer Of County Welfare Agencies Or Boards Of Social Services; Duties
  9. The superintendent, director or other chief administrative officer of each county welfare agency or county board of social services shall: a. cause copies...
• Section 44:1-25 - Term Of Superintendent
  The superintendent of welfare shall hold office for one year and until the appointment of his successor unless sooner removed for cause after due...
• Section 44:1-26 - Appointment Of Officers And Employees
  The county welfare board shall appoint such other officers and employees as may be necessary.
• Section 44:1-27 - Salaries
  The county welfare board shall fix the salaries of the superintendent of welfare and the other officers and employees within the limits of the...
• Section 44:1-28 - Regulations Governing Officers And Employees
  The superintendent of welfare and the other officers and employees shall be subject to such rules and regulations in the discharge of their duties...
• Section 44:1-29 - General Powers Of Superintendent
  The superintendent of welfare shall, subject to the control of the county welfare board, be the chief executive officer of the welfare-house, and have...
• Section 44:1-30 - Persons Receivable In Welfare-house
  The superintendent of welfare under the general rules and regulations shall receive in the welfare-house such poor persons as by law are properly receivable...
• Section 44:1-30.1 - Change Of Almshouse To Welfare-house; Persons To Be Admitted
  When the board of chosen freeholders of any county has, or shall hereafter, by resolution changed the name of an existing almshouse to welfare-house,...
• Section 44:1-30.2 - Persons Admitted To Pledge Property; Lien; Agreement To Reimburse
  Every county welfare board, operating under chapter one of Title 44 of the Revised Statutes, shall require, as a condition to the admission of...
• Section 44:1-30.3 - Recording Of Certificates; Warrant Of Satisfaction Or Release
  The county clerks or registers of deeds and mortgages, as the case may be, shall record the said certificates in a book, which he...
• Section 44:1-31 - Exercise By Superintendent Or Another Of Power Of Overseer; General Jurisdiction
  The superintendent of welfare shall, in addition to his duties as chief executive officer of the welfare-house and welfare board, have general jurisdiction throughout...
• Section 44:1-32 - Making Of Contract; Terms
  Upon the certificate of the state board that the housing conditions and accommodations are sufficient and adequate for the purpose, and the approval of...
• Section 44:1-33 - Contract Authorized By Resolution
  When a county shall provide for the relief and maintenance of its permanent poor by contract with another county as authorized in this chapter,...
• Section 44:1-34 - Collection Of Expense From Participating Municipalities
  The expense under such contract shall be provided for by appropriation and paid in the same manner as other county expenses, except that it...
• Section 44:1-35 - Constitution And Appointment Of Welfare Board
  When a county shall contract with another county, as provided in this chapter, for the permanent maintenance and relief of the poor in the...
• Section 44:1-36 - Inspection Of Almshouse Or Welfare-house
  The almshouse or welfare-house shall always be open to inspection by a duly authorized agent of the board of chosen freeholders of a county...
• Section 44:1-37 - Procedure When Municipality Elects Not To Participate
  When municipalities elect not to participate in such county purpose the procedure shall be as set forth in sections 44:1-61 to 44:1-63 of this...
• Section 44:1-38 - Concurrent Resolutions In Contiguous And Adjoining Counties To Establish District Welfare-house
  The boards of chosen freeholders respectively in any two or more contiguous and adjoining counties may resolve that: a. Upon a like resolution being...
• Section 44:1-39 - Submitting Resolution To Voters Of Each County
  When two or more contiguous and adjoining counties shall, by the boards of chosen freeholders thereof, so resolve to construct and maintain a district...
• Section 44:1-40 - Ballot; Form And Content
  At the general election at which the question of the adoption of the resolution is submitted to the voters of a county, there shall...
• Section 44:1-41 - Voting.
  44:1-41. If the voter makes an x or + mark in ink or pencil in the square at the left of the word "YES,"...
• Section 44:1-42 - Canvass, Return And Result Of Vote
  A canvass and return of the votes upon the question of the acceptance of the resolution shall be made by the board of canvassers...
• Section 44:1-43 - Constitution And Appointment Of District Welfare Board
  In the event of the adoption by a majority of the legal voters qualified to vote on the proposition in each such county, or...
• Section 44:1-44 - Meetings Of Board
  A district welfare board shall meet regularly once each month and at such other times as may be necessary or as it may by...
• Section 44:1-45 - Compensation And Expenses Of Members
  The members of a district welfare board shall be paid ten dollars each for attendance at the regular monthly meetings and be reimbursed for...
• Section 44:1-46 - Authority Of Board In General
  Like qualifications and authority shall vest in a district welfare board as is vested in the welfare board of a single county and as...
• Section 44:1-47 - Appointment Of Superintendent Of Welfare
  A district welfare board may appoint a superintendent of welfare who shall be a citizen of one of the counties constituting the district, and...
• Section 44:1-48 - Apportionment Of Expense Of Establishment And Maintenance Of Welfare-house
  The proportionate expense of the joint establishment and maintenance of a district welfare-house shall, as provided in this chapter, be apportioned among the several...
• Section 44:1-49 - Budgeting And Raising Expense Of Operation And Maintenance.
  A district welfare board shall provide in a budget to be made up six weeks prior to the annual meetings of the respective boards...
• Section 44:1-50 - Custody Of Funds Raised In Respective Counties
  The sums of money raised in the respective counties in any manner authorized shall, on receipt thereof by the county treasurers, be paid to...
• Section 44:1-51 - Payment Of Bills And Accounts
  The district welfare board shall certify all bills and accounts, including salaries and wages, and transmit them to the boards of chosen freeholders concerned...
• Section 44:1-52 - Approval Of Estimated Cost Of Establishment Or Enlargement Of Welfare-house
  The estimated cost of the establishment or enlargement of a district welfare-house, including the purchase of the real and personal property therefor shall be...
• Section 44:1-53 - Borrowing Money And Issuing Bonds To Establish Or Enlarge Welfare-house
  At any time after a vote by more than one county in favor of a district welfare-house as provided in this chapter, the boards...
• Section 44:1-54 - Term Of Bonds; Raising Of Principal And Interest
  The bonds shall mature in not more than forty years from the issuance thereof. The principal and interest thereof and other necessary sums of...
• Section 44:1-55 - Compelling County To Share Expenses And Obligations
  On failure of any county, through its governing body, to make provision in any manner as required by this chapter or other law for...
• Section 44:1-56 - Approval Of Plans And Specifications For Welfare-house
  The alteration or construction and completion of such building or grounds as may be necessary for the district welfare-house shall be approved as to...
• Section 44:1-57 - Notice Of Readiness To Accommodate Poor Of District
  When the buildings as constructed or altered and furnished are completed, the district welfare board shall notify the boards of chosen freeholders of each...
• Section 44:1-58 - Exemption Of Welfare-house From Taxation
  The property of the district used and maintained for the purpose shall be free from taxation, and subject to the like privileges and immunities...
• Section 44:1-59 - Time Of Final Action On Resolution; Notice
  When a county shall propose by resolution, as in this chapter provided, to establish a county welfare-house, or to contract with another county for...
• Section 44:1-60 - Continuation Of Relief By Counties Not Adopting Plan
  Counties not determining to adopt such county or joint county purpose shall continue to support and relieve the permanent poor thereof as is otherwise
• Section 44:1-61 - Election By Municipality Not To Participate
  When a county by its board of chosen freeholders shall propose by resolution, as provided in this chapter, to establish a county welfare-house or...
• Section 44:1-62 - Subsequent Joining By Municipality In County Or Joint County Purpose
  A municipality may subsequently join in such county or joint county purpose by ordinance which shall be adopted by referendum in the manner provided...
• Section 44:1-63 - Excepted Municipalities To Provide Relief Of Poor Independently
  Municipalities excepted from participation in the establishment or maintenance of a welfare-house, shall continue to support and relieve the permanent poor thereof as is...
• Section 44:1-64 - Abolition Of Municipal Almshouses When County Relief Undertaken
  When the care and maintenance of the permanent poor is undertaken and established by a county in lieu of municipal care of such persons,...
• Section 44:1-65 - Abolition Of County And Municipal Almshouses When District Relief Undertaken
  When a district for the maintenance of the permanent poor is constituted as provided in this chapter, the respective counties and the municipalities therein,...
• Section 44:1-66 - Other Methods Of Establishing Almshouses
  Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to interfere with or prevent a county from establishing or maintaining a county almshouse as heretofore,...
• Section 44:1-67 - Bond Issues For Construction, Repair Or Equipment
  In order to meet the expense: a. Of erecting additions to or new buildings or accommodations at a county almshouse or welfare-house; or b....
• Section 44:1-68 - Classification And Care Of Inmates
  In the management of almshouses or welfare-houses the inmates shall be classified according to age, condition of health and ability to perform manual labor....
• Section 44:1-69 - Separation Of Sexes
  In every almshouse, poorhouse, welfare-house or other institution for the reception and maintenance of poor persons, females shall be kept separate from males at...
• Section 44:1-70 - Denomination Of Supervisors Of Almshouses
  The keepers of all almshouses, except welfare-houses under the control of a welfare board in a county, shall be denominated "supervisors" instead of "keepers"...
• Section 44:1-71 - Keeping Of Book With Certain Entries As To Each Inmate
  The supervisors or superintendent and person in charge of every institution for the poor shall keep a book, to be provided by the authority...
• Section 44:1-72 - Penalty For Failure Properly To Keep Record Book
  For the wrongful failure to keep such book according to the requirements of section 44:1-71 of this title, or for the willful alteration of...
• Section 44:1-73 - Appointment
  An overseer of the poor shall be appointed by the governing body of every municipality excepting those municipalities which shall contract for the services...
• Section 44:1-73.1 - Offices Of Overseer Of Poor And Deputy Overseers Abolished
  Notwithstanding any provisions of law to the contrary, the offices of overseer of the poor and deputy overseer of the poor in each of...
• Section 44:1-73.2 - Municipal Director Of Welfare Deemed Referred To By Mention Of Overseer, Etc.
  Whenever the terms "overseer of the poor," "overseer," "deputy overseer of the poor," and "deputy overseer," occur or any reference is made to any...
• Section 44:1-73.3 - No Deprivation Of Certain County Powers
  Nothing in this act shall be construed to deprive counties which have adopted Title 44:4 of the Revised Statutes of their powers and duties...
• Section 44:1-73.4 - Term Or Compensation Of Directors Of Welfare Unaffected
  Nothing in this act shall be construed to affect the term of office, or the compensation of any director of welfare appointed by any...
• Section 44:1-73.5 - Civil Service, Pension Or Retirement Rights Unaffected
  Nothing in this act shall be construed to deprive any person of any right or protection provided him by Title 11 of the Revised...
• Section 44:1-73.6 - Rights Of Overseers Of Poor And Deputy Overseers Unaffected For Balance Of Term
  This act shall not affect the term, tenure or compensation of any overseer of the poor or deputy overseer of the poor, of any...
• Section 44:1-73.7 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect on the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and forty-six. L.1946, c. 110, p. 342, s. 7.
• Section 44:1-74 - Term
  An overseer shall hold office for five years except where a longer term is prescribed by statute.
• Section 44:1-75 - Qualifications
  No person shall be appointed as an overseer of a municipality unless he shall: a. Be a citizen of the state and the United...
• Section 44:1-76 - Removal
  An overseer may, except as otherwise provided in section 44:1-77 of this title, be removed by the municipal governing body for cause upon written...
• Section 44:1-77 - Tenure And Removal Or Reduction In Cities Of First Class
  Overseers of the poor in cities of the first class, appointed by the governing bodies upon resolution thereof, shall hold their office during good...
• Section 44:1-78 - Salary
  The overseer in a municipality shall, in lieu of all fees, receive such salary as may be fixed by the governing body.
• Section 44:1-79 - Contract By Municipality For Services Of Overseer Of Adjoining Municipality
  Contiguous or adjoining municipalities in a county may, through their governing bodies, agree in writing after resolution duly passed in each that the overseer...
• Section 44:1-80 - Removal Of Director Of Welfare From Duties In Adjoining Municipality
  44:1-80. A director of welfare acting in contiguous or adjoining municipalities, as provided in section 44:1-79 of this Title, may be removed from his...
• Section 44:1-81 - Certificate Of Appointment; Filing
  An overseer shall forthwith or within ten days after his appointment file with the commissioner a certificate properly authenticated by the clerk of the...
• Section 44:1-82 - Lists Of Overseers
  The commissioner shall keep a complete list of all overseers of the state and furnish a list thereof from time to time, and upon...
• Section 44:1-83 - Appointment And Powers Of Deputy Overseers
  In municipalities, other than counties, having not less than five thousand inhabitants, or where the overseer has jurisdiction in more than one municipality, the...
• Section 44:1-84 - Appointment, Salaries And Removal Of Deputies, Assistants And Others
  The governing body or bodies may appoint such other assistants, clerks, visitors and nurses as in their judgment may be expedient, and fix their...
• Section 44:1-85 - Helpers To Overseers
  An overseer may appoint resident helpers without pay or fees to aid in the temporary relief of poor persons under his direction, preferably by...
• Section 44:1-86 - Determination By Director Of Relief To Be Granted
  44:1-86. The director of welfare in the municipality shall determine who are to be relieved by him, subject to an application by any person,...
• Section 44:1-87 - Inquiry Into Application For Relief
  When a person shall apply for relief for himself or another to an overseer or deputy, the overseer shall inquire into the facts, conditions...
• Section 44:1-88 - Granting Of Relief
  Upon inquiry as provided in section 44:1-87 of this title the overseer shall by a written order render such aid and material relief as...
• Section 44:1-89 - Permanent Relief In Absence Of Almshouse Or Welfare-house
  The overseer in any municipality in which there is no almshouse may provide for the permanent relief and support of poor persons as in...
• Section 44:1-90 - Contents Of Relief Order Or Commitment
  Where a person is removed to the almshouse or welfare-house or receives permanent relief by the order of the overseer or his deputy, the...
• Section 44:1-91 - Removal Of Permanent Poor To Almshouses Or Welfare-houses
  Overseers shall from time to time as persons who are poor persons within the meaning of this chapter become permanent charges upon their municipalities...
• Section 44:1-92 - Length Of Stay Of Poor Persons In Institutions
  A poor person or child who is committed or removed to an almshouse or welfare-house by an overseer shall be received by the supervisor...
• Section 44:1-93 - Use Of All Agencies For Relief
  All agencies for relief, such as widows' pensions as provided by law, aid under the authority of the rehabilitation commission and public employment service,...
• Section 44:1-94 - Obtaining Employment For Poor Persons And Families
  When an application for relief is made to the overseer or deputy of a municipality or superintendent acting when there is no overseer, in...
• Section 44:1-95 - Expenses Recoverable, Procedure
  44:1-95. If it is ascertained at any time that a person who has been assisted by or has received support from a municipality or...
• Section 44:1-96 - Record Of Receipts And Expenditures
  Overseers shall keep a record of all receipts and expenditures on their part or that of their subordinates.
• Section 44:1-97 - Record As To Every Applicant For Relief
  Overseers shall in respect to all applicants for relief keep a record which may be by card index and which shall state: a. The...
• Section 44:1-98 - Filing Of Record On Admission To Institution
  In case of the commitment or admission of a poor person or a member of his family, through the agency of the overseer, or...
• Section 44:1-99 - Books Relative To Money Received And Orders For Relief
  Overseers and deputies shall keep a book setting forth therein all moneys, goods and materials received by them, when and by whom received, and...
• Section 44:1-100 - Materials, Stationery And Forms Of Records
  The governing body or bodies shall furnish to the overseer and his deputies the necessary material, card indexes and other stationery for the purpose...
• Section 44:1-101 - Annual Reports By Overseers
  Overseers shall, annually, make to their county, municipal governing bodies, or district board, as the case may be, within thirty days after the first...
• Section 44:1-102 - Place Of Settlement In General
  Every person of full age who is a resident of, and domiciled without interruption in, a municipality for five years, or in a county...
• Section 44:1-103 - Married Woman And Children
  A married woman and her children shall always follow and have the settlement of her husband and of their father. If he has no...
• Section 44:1-104 - Legitimate Minor Children
  Legitimate minor children shall, until they have gained a settlement of their own, always follow and have the settlement of their father, if they...
• Section 44:1-105 - Illegitimate Minor Children
  Illegitimate minor children shall follow and have the settlement of their mother, unless the father is legally found or admitted by him to be...
• Section 44:1-106 - Minor From Outside Of State
  No minor who is brought into a county in this state, or who is placed out in a family therein by a person, society...
• Section 44:1-107 - Persons From Outside Of United States
  Nothing in this chapter shall apply to or affect a person from outside the United States of America, or in any way change the...
• Section 44:1-108 - Granting Permanent Relief Where Required Of County Of Settlement
  Where permanent relief is required by a poor person in a municipality in which he has gained a residence and is an inhabitant, and...
• Section 44:1-109 - Granting Permanent Relief In Absence Of County Almshouse, Welfare-house Or District Welfare-house
  Where permanent relief is required by a poor person in a municipality in a county in which he has gained a settlement and of...
• Section 44:1-110 - County Chargeable For Permanent Relief Where Settlement Is Therein
  A person who has a settlement in a county but not in a municipality thereof shall be chargeable as to permanent relief to the...
• Section 44:1-111 - Permanent Relief Where Settlement Is In County Having No Provision Therefor
  Where a poor person requiring permanent relief in a municipality has not gained a settlement therein but has gained a settlement in the county...
• Section 44:1-112 - Permanent Relief In Municipality Or County Other Than That Of Settlement
  Where a poor person who requires permanent relief in a municipality in which he is a resident or inhabitant, has a settlement in a...
• Section 44:1-113 - Permanent Relief Forbidden To Persons Without Settlement And Otherwise Removable
  Permanent relief shall not be rendered by an overseer to a person who is otherwise lawfully removable and who has no settlement in the...
• Section 44:1-114 - Procedure Where Relief Required By Person Having No Settlement Anywhere
  Where a poor person who requires relief in a municipality or county in which he is a resident and inhabitant, has not gained a...
• Section 44:1-115 - Procedure Where Temporary Relief Required And Settlement Is Elsewhere In State
  Where a poor person who requires temporary relief in a municipality in which he is a resident and inhabitant, has a settlement in some...
• Section 44:1-116 - Procedure Where Temporary Relief Required And Settlement Is Outside Of State
  Where temporary relief is required by a poor person in a municipality or county in which he is a resident and inhabitant, and it...
• Section 44:1-117 - Duties Of Overseer
  The removal of poor persons to their place of settlement or to the place where they became poor before being found or becoming domiciled...
• Section 44:1-118 - Duties Of County Adjuster
  The county adjuster shall on the application of an overseer forthwith take the steps necessary to the removal of a poor person to another...
• Section 44:1-119 - Written Notice Of Removal
  When the removal of a poor person from the place of his domicile or where he is found to the place of his settlement...
• Section 44:1-120 - Removal In Absence Of Contest
  On the day named in the notice the order for removal shall be made by the overseer of the poor of the municipality from...
• Section 44:1-121 - Contest; How Made
  44:1-121. The contest shall be made by notice to the officer giving the original notice, of a time and place when the contesting director...
• Section 44:1-122 - Failure To Resist Removal, Review
  44:1-122. On failure to resist the removal the receiving director of welfare may not decline to receive the poor person but shall receive him...
• Section 44:1-123 - Liability Of Municipality, Recovery
  44:1-123. If a director of welfare of a municipality shall neglect to receive or remove a poor person as provided in this chapter after...
• Section 44:1-124 - Bringing Poor Person Into Municipality Or County Unlawfully; Misdemeanor
  A person who shall send, bring, remove or entice to remove, or cause to be sent, brought or enticed, a poor person into a...
• Section 44:1-125 - Suspension Of Sentence Or Fine Upon Certain Conditions
  A sentence or fine imposed under the provisions of section 44:1-124 of this title may be suspended before or after conviction upon condition that...
• Section 44:1-126 - Furnishing Transportation To Non-resident Poor
  No person shall furnish a non-resident who is sick, aged, injured or crippled, with transportation at the cost of the municipality until the overseer...
• Section 44:1-127 - Enabling Nonresident Poor To Earn Funds To Return Home
  When a person not being in the place in which he usually lives, or has his home, shall apply to an overseer of the...
• Section 44:1-128 - When Relief May Be Provided In Home
  When adult poor persons own the property in whole or in part where they reside, or are receiving shelter in some other suitable home...
• Section 44:1-129 - Petition For Relief
  44:1-129. The director of welfare of a municipality shall by petition to the Superior Court, setting forth the necessary facts, apply for the person's...
• Section 44:1-130 - Summary Hearing; Order For Home Relief
  The court shall proceed in a summary manner to examine into the facts, and, upon being satisfied that permanent relief should be furnished to...
• Section 44:1-131 - Continuance Of Relief
  At the expiration of the six months' period for which relief is ordered, and every succeeding such period of time thereafter, the overseer may,...
• Section 44:1-132 - Revocation Of Order For Relief
  The court may in its discretion summarily revoke any order for such relief made by it, and thereafter all maintenance and relief for the...
• Section 44:1-133 - Payment Of Home Relief
  The sum ordered to be paid for the maintenance and support of a poor person in the home as provided in this article shall...
• Section 44:1-134 - Notice To Board Of Children's Guardians Of Commitment Of Minor To Almshouse
  The supervisor or superintendent of an almshouse or welfare-house shall within twenty-four hours of the commitment of a minor child under the age of...
• Section 44:1-135 - Supervision Of Minor Committed To Almshouse
  The care and general supervision of a minor child under the age of eighteen years who is committed to an almshouse or welfare-house shall...
• Section 44:1-136 - Temporary Commitment Of Poor Minor By Overseer To Institution Or Home
  The overseer of the poor shall upon application for permanent relief, if granted, commit a minor poor child who has gained a legal settlement...
• Section 44:1-137 - Expense Of Temporary Commitment
  A poor child temporarily committed by the overseer as provided in section 44:1-136 of this title shall, during such commitment and until the making...
• Section 44:1-138 - Notice Of Placement To Boards Of Freeholders And Children's Guardians
  Within twenty-four hours of such placement the overseer shall give a written notice thereof to the state board of children's guardians and the board...
• Section 44:1-139 - Obtaining Or Compelling Assistance Of Relatives
  Upon application for the relief of a poor person an overseer shall ascertain if possible the relatives chargeable by law for his support and...
• Section 44:1-140 - Relatives Chargeable
  a. The father and mother of a person under 18 years of age who applies for and is eligible to receive public assistance, and...
• Section 44:1-141 - Compelling Support By Relatives
  44:1-141. If any of the relatives mentioned in section 44:1-140 of this Title shall fail to perform the order or directions of the director...
• Section 44:1-142 - Contracts Between Overseers And Relatives Or Others
  An overseer or his deputies may contract with relatives and others not otherwise chargeable by law who are able and willing to support and...
• Section 44:1-143 - Compelling Support By Husband Or Wife
  44:1-143. When a husband or father shall desert his wife, child or children or a woman shall desert her child or children and leave...
• Section 44:1-144 - Sequestration Of Estate
  44:1-144. The Superior Court, Chancery Division, Family Part may: a. Issue process for the immediate sequestration of the personal estate and the rents and...
• Section 44:1-146 - Recovery Of Expenses Of Support
  44:1-146. The director of welfare of a municipality may bring a civil action from time to time in the Superior Court, Chancery Division, Family...
• Section 44:1-147 - Willful Deserter As Disorderly Person; Punishment
  A husband or father who willfully deserts or refuses or neglects to provide for and maintain his wife or children, or any of them,...
• Section 44:1-148 - Complaint By Director Of Welfare
  When a director of welfare having jurisdiction in such cases believes that such desertion or willful refusal or neglect to so provide for any...
• Section 44:1-152 - Visitation Of Sick Poor By Official Physicians And Nurses
  When a physician or nurse who is employed by the governing body of a municipality in this state is called upon or notified by...
• Section 44:1-153 - Further Medical Or Other Relief
  If in the judgment of the physician or nurse the person visited and aided is a poor person within the meaning of this chapter,...
• Section 44:1-154 - Hospitalization And Other Relief Where Treatment Is Urgent
  In all cases wherein medical or surgical treatment is urgent a person may be removed and admitted to a public or private hospital in...
• Section 44:1-155 - Bond For Maintenance From Master Or Commander
  When a ship or vessel shall arrive within a port, harbor or municipality within this state, having on board passengers or employees coming from...
• Section 44:1-156 - Liability Of Master Or Commander For Landing Persons Wrongfully
  A master or commander of a ship or vessel arriving as referred to in section 44:1-155 of this title, who shall land or suffer...
• Section 44:1-157.1 - Rate Of Payment
  Whenever the Division of Public Welfare in the Department of Human Services provides payment for the funeral and burial or cremation of a recipient...
• Section 44:1-158 - Acquisition Of Cemetery; Issuance Of Bonds
  A municipality, county or district may acquire by devise, gift, purchase, condemnation or in any other manner, such land as in the judgment of...
• Section 44:1-159 - Annual Appropriations To Carry Provisions Of Chapter Into Effect
  In December of each year, the overseer shall forward to the governing body or district welfare board if acting thereunder an estimate of the...
• Section 44:1-160 - Deficiency Appropriations; Temporary Loan Bonds
  When separate appropriations are made for indoor or outdoor relief of the poor in a municipality, and any one of the appropriations is expended,...
• Section 44:2-1 - Authority To Establish And Maintain Almshouses
  The board of chosen freeholders of a county may, if it shall deem it necessary or expedient, establish and maintain an almshouse at such...
• Section 44:2-2 - Control; Officers
  Any such almshouse shall be under the direction, superintendence and government of the board of chosen freeholders, which board may: a. Appoint such officers,...
• Section 44:2-3 - Establishment And Maintenance Of Joint County Almshouse
  Two or more counties may join in building or purchasing an almshouse in common, at a place agreed upon by the boards of chosen...
• Section 44:2-4 - Apportioning And Raising Funds For Joint County Almshouse
  The money necessary to be expended for building, purchasing or repairing a joint almshouse, maintaining the poor therein, procuring articles, materials and things for...
• Section 44:2-5 - Maintenance Of Poor In Almshouse
  When a county shall establish an almshouse or two or more counties shall unite in building or purchasing an almshouse, the poor of the...
• Section 44:2-6 - Maintenance Of Undesirable Poor Outside Of Almshouse
  When an adult person has been duly committed to the almshouse of a county and the board of chosen freeholders shall deem it to...
• Section 44:2-7 - Employment Of Inmates
  The board, or boards, or chosen freeholders may procure such lands and real estate, articles, materials and things for the employment of the poor...
• Section 44:2-8 - Purchase Of Municipal Almshouses By County
  When a board of chosen freeholders of a county in which no county almshouse exists shall determine to purchase or build a county almshouse,...
• Section 44:2-9 - Stewards In Third-class Counties
  The stewards of the almshouses in counties of the third class shall be appointed by the boards of chosen freeholders of the counties, which...
• Section 44:3-1 - Erecting And Improving Buildings; Acquiring Land; Names For Buildings
  The governing body of every municipality may: a. Erect, extend, alter and improve such buildings as may be necessary for the housing of the...
• Section 44:3-2 - Acquisition By City Of Lands Outside Its Limits
  No city shall acquire lands or erect buildings outside its limits for the purpose of caring for its poor, without the consent of the...
• Section 44:3-3 - Superintendents Of Indoor Relief In Cities
  The governing body or body having charge of the charities of a city may appoint a superintendent of indoor relief who shall have the...
• Section 44:3-4 - Representation Of New Township In Management Of Almshouse
  When a new township is formed out of the territory of one or more townships owning or renting real estate used for almshouse purposes...
• Section 44:4-1 - Definitions.
  44:4-1. As used in this chapter: "Almshouse" means a place for the maintenance of the poor at the public expense of a county or...
• Section 44:4-2 - Chapter Inoperative Until Adopted Upon Referendum
  The provisions of this chapter shall be and remain inoperative as to a particular county until the chapter has been adopted upon referendum as...
• Section 44:4-3 - Construction In General
  The provisions contained in this chapter shall not be construed to be exclusive. A particular grant of power contained in this chapter shall be...
• Section 44:4-4 - Establishment Of Welfare-house Or Provision For Poor By Contract
  The board of chosen freeholders of any county after the adoption of this chapter as provided in article 17 of this chapter (s. 44:4-129...
• Section 44:4-5 - Action On Resolution To Establish Welfare-house Or To Contract
  Whenever any county shall propose by resolution as in this chapter provided, to establish a county welfare-house or to contract with another county for...
• Section 44:4-6 - Acquisition Of Real Estate For Welfare-house
  The board of chosen freeholders may purchase and lease real estate for the welfare-house, or acquire such property and easements therein by lease, purchase...
• Section 44:4-7 - Erection, Alteration Or Repair Of Buildings
  The board of chosen freeholders may erect all necessary buildings, make all necessary improvements and repairs, and alter any existing building for the use...
• Section 44:4-8 - Necessary Money Charge Upon Municipalities Of County
  When a county by its board of chosen freeholders shall propose to establish a county welfare-house as provided in this chapter, and shall do...
• Section 44:4-9 - Raising Of Money For Buildings And Maintenance
  The board of chosen freeholders may: a. Cause to be levied, assessed and collected from the municipalities of the county such sums of money...
• Section 44:4-10 - Bonds For Buildings, Repairs Or Fittings
  In order to meet the expense of erecting additions to or new buildings or accommodations at any county almshouse buildings or welfare-houses, or making...
• Section 44:4-11 - Maintenance Expense Charge Upon County
  The expense of maintaining a county welfare-house shall be a charge upon the county as provided in this chapter.
• Section 44:4-12 - Acceptance Of Gifts, Devises And Bequests
  The board of chosen freeholders may accept and hold in trust for the county any grant or devise of land, or any gift or...
• Section 44:4-13 - Inspection Of Welfare-house
  A welfare-house shall be subject to inspection by duly authorized representatives of the state board, the commissioner and the state board of health; and...
• Section 44:4-14 - Abolition Of Almshouses
  After the establishment of a county welfare-house as provided in section 44:4-4 of this title, the permanent poor shall be maintained therein in lieu...
• Section 44:4-15 - Sale Of Property Formerly Used For Municipal Almshouses
  The real and personal property which has been used for municipal almshouses, abolished as provided in section 44:4-14 of this title, may be sold...
• Section 44:4-16 - Contract With Another County For Maintenance Of Permanent Poor
  Upon the certificate of the state board that the housing conditions and accommodations are adequate for the purpose, and upon the approval of the...
• Section 44:4-17 - Contract Authorized By Resolution
  The contract for the relief and maintenance of the permanent poor of a county in a welfare-house of another county shall be authorized by...
• Section 44:4-18 - Terms Of Contract
  The contract authorized by the board of chosen freeholders and entered into by the directors of the several counties concerned shall provide for the...
• Section 44:4-19 - Expense Under Contract; Payment By Proper County
  The expense under a contract for the support of the permanent poor of any county in the welfare-house of another county shall be a...
• Section 44:4-20 - Membership
  In every county wherein the provisions of this chapter have been adopted, there shall be constituted and appointed a county welfare board composed as...
• Section 44:4-21 - Terms Of Members; Vacancies
  Members shall hold their offices for five years, except that the first appointments shall be respectively for one, two, three, four and five years,...
• Section 44:4-22 - Compensation And Expenses Of Members
  Members shall receive no compensation for their services, but shall be allowed their actual and necessary expenses, on the approval of the director of...
• Section 44:4-23 - Organization Of Board
  The county welfare board shall elect from among its members a chairman and vice-chairman and a secretary-treasurer who shall furnish a suitable bond to...
• Section 44:4-24 - Supervision Of Relief And Settlement Of Poor; Complaints For Prevention Of Cruelty
  The county welfare board, as the county bureau of relief shall have charge and supervision of the relief and settlement of the poor in...
• Section 44:4-25 - Supervision Of Old Age Relief
  On the establishment of a county welfare board in any county, the functions and powers theretofore vested in and the duties required of and...
• Section 44:4-26 - Board As Manager Of Welfare-house
  When the board of chosen freeholders shall establish a county welfare-house for the permanent maintenance and relief of the poor in any county and...
• Section 44:4-27 - Equipment And Maintenance Of Welfare-house
  The county welfare board shall so equip and maintain the welfare-house as to provide proper heat and all furniture, materials and supplies, medical and...
• Section 44:4-28 - Meetings Of Board
  The county welfare board shall meet regularly once each month and at such other times as may be necessary or as it may by...
• Section 44:4-29 - Approval Of Appropriations
  All appropriations for the expenditure of money as set forth in this chapter shall be subject to the approval of the board of chosen
• Section 44:4-30 - Certification Of Bills To Board Of Freeholders
  The county welfare board shall certify all bills and accounts including salaries and wages, and transmit them to the board of chosen freeholders of...
• Section 44:4-31 - Working Expense Fund
  The board of chosen freeholders shall provide and maintain, however, a working expense fund for the use of the welfare board, raised and collected...
• Section 44:4-32 - Appointment Of Director; Qualifications
  The county welfare board shall appoint, subject to the approval of the board of chosen freeholders, a director of welfare, who shall: a. Be...
• Section 44:4-33 - Director Of Welfare, Classification For Civil Service; Working Test Period
  The director of welfare shall be and hereby is classified in the competitive class of the classified service as defined and provided in Title...
• Section 44:4-34 - Appointment And Tenure Of Other Officers And Employees
  The county welfare board shall appoint such other officers, assistants and employees as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter....
• Section 44:4-35 - Salaries
  The county welfare board shall fix the salaries of the director of welfare and such other officers, assistants and employees within the limits of...
• Section 44:4-36 - Regulations Governing Officers And Employees
  The director of welfare and the other officers and employees shall be subject to such rules and regulations in the discharge of their duties...
• Section 44:4-37 - Functions And Duties Of Director
  The director of welfare shall: a. Have general jurisdiction throughout the county of the settlement and relief of the poor and shall direct the...
• Section 44:4-38 - Functions And Duties Formerly Performed By Overseers Of Poor
  The functions and powers vested in overseers of the poor prior to April twenty-eighth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, and the duties required...
• Section 44:4-39 - Persons Receivable In Welfare-house
  The director of welfare under the general rules and regulations shall receive in the welfare-house such poor persons as by law are properly receivable...
• Section 44:4-40 - Determination By Director Of Relief To Be Granted
  44:4-40. The county director of welfare, under the direction, and subject to the approval of the county welfare board shall determine who are to...
• Section 44:4-41 - Deputy Director Of Welfare
  The county welfare board may appoint a deputy director of welfare who shall: a. Have the qualifications of a director of welfare and shall...
• Section 44:4-42 - Assistant Directors For Municipalities
  Where a county contains a city of the first or second class, the county welfare board of such county shall appoint an assistant director...
• Section 44:4-43 - Resident Helpers And Municipal Advisory Committees
  County welfare boards may appoint resident helpers, and municipal advisory committees without pay and without fees, to aid in the relief of poor persons...
• Section 44:4-44 - Use Of All Agencies For Relief
  All agencies for relief, such as widows' pensions, as provided by law, aid under the authority conferred upon the rehabilitation commission and public employment...
• Section 44:4-45 - Records Of Proceedings And Of Relief Furnished
  The county welfare board shall keep a public record of its proceedings in a book provided for that purpose, and, as the county bureau...
• Section 44:4-46 - Books Showing Receipts; Record Of Orders For Relief
  The county welfare board shall keep a book, setting forth therein all money, goods, and materials received by it and, in addition thereto, a...
• Section 44:4-47 - Periodical Reports To Chosen Freeholders
  The county welfare board, as the county bureau of relief, shall make periodical reports to the board of chosen freeholders at such times and...
• Section 44:4-48 - Annual Report As To Welfare-house
  The county welfare board shall make annually a report of the financial management and expenditures and other operations of the welfare-house and the number...
• Section 44:4-49 - Director's Record Of Receipts And Expenditures
  Directors of welfare shall keep a record of all receipts and expenditures on their part or that of their subordinates.
• Section 44:4-50 - Director's Record Of Applicants For Relief
  Directors of welfare shall keep a record which may be by card index and which shall state in respect to all applicants for relief:...
• Section 44:4-51 - Filing Of Record On Admission To Institution
  In case of the commitment or admission of a poor person or a member of his family, through the agency of the director of...
• Section 44:4-52 - Annual Report Of Director To Chosen Freeholders
  Directors of welfare under the direction of the respective county welfare boards shall make to their respective county boards of chosen freeholders annually within...
• Section 44:4-53 - Material, Stationery And Forms Of Records
  The board of chosen freeholders shall furnish to the county welfare board the necessary material, card indexes and other stationery for the purpose of...
• Section 44:4-54 - Inspection Of Records And Reports
  All records and reports shall be subject to inspection by duly authorized representatives of the state board or the commissioner.
• Section 44:4-55 - Book Kept In Every Institution; Required Entries
  The person in charge of every institution for the poor shall keep a book, to be provided by the authority charged with the care...
• Section 44:4-56 - Penalty For Failure To Keep Book
  For the wrongful neglect or refusal to keep the book according to the requirements of section 44:4-55 of this title, for the willful alteration...
• Section 44:4-57 - Place Of Settlement In General
  Every person of full age who is a resident of, and domiciled without interruption in any county for five years, excluding any time spent...
• Section 44:4-58 - Married Woman And Children
  A married woman and her children shall always follow and have the settlement of her husband and of their father. If he has no...
• Section 44:4-59 - Legitimate Minor Children
  Legitimate minor children shall, until they have gained a settlement of their own, always follow and have the settlement of their father, if they...
• Section 44:4-60 - Illegitimate Minor Children
  Illegitimate minor children shall follow and have the settlement of their mother, unless the father is legally found or admitted by him to be...
• Section 44:4-61 - Minors From Outside Of State
  No minor who is brought into any county in this state, or who is placed out in any family therein by any person, society...
• Section 44:4-62 - Persons From Outside Of United States
  Nothing in this chapter shall apply to or affect any person from outside the United States of America, or in any way change the...
• Section 44:4-63 - Permanent Relief In Place Of Settlement
  Where permanent relief is required by any poor person in a county in which he has gained a settlement the director of welfare under...
• Section 44:4-64 - Permanent Relief In County Other Than That Of Settlement
  Where permanent relief is required by a poor person in any county in which he is a resident or an inhabitant, whose place of...
• Section 44:4-65 - Temporary Provision For Persons Having No Settlement In County
  Permanent relief shall not be rendered by any county welfare board to any person who is otherwise lawfully removable and who has no settlement...
• Section 44:4-66 - Procedure Where Relief Sought By Person Having No Settlement Anywhere
  Where relief is required by a poor person in any county in which he is a resident and inhabitant, who shall not have gained...
• Section 44:4-67 - Temporary Relief In County Other Than That Of Settlement
  When temporary relief is required by a poor person in any county in which he is a resident and inhabitant, whose place of settlement...
• Section 44:4-68 - Temporary Relief By Person Having Settlement Outside Of State
  Where temporary relief is required by a poor person in a county in which he is a resident and inhabitant, and it is ascertained...
• Section 44:4-69 - County Chargeable With Relief Of All Persons Having Settlement
  Every person who has, or shall acquire a settlement in any county shall be chargeable as to permanent relief and be supported and maintained...
• Section 44:4-70 - Settlement; Determination; Effect Of Temporary Removal
  Every person of full age who shall be a resident of and domiciled without interruption in any municipality of a county wherein this chapter...
• Section 44:4-71 - Temporary Relief For Person Having Legal Settlement Elsewhere
  Where temporary relief is required by a poor person in a municipality in which he is a resident and inhabitant, in which municipality he...
• Section 44:4-72 - Removal Of Poor Person To Place Of Legal Settlement; Procedure
  44:4-72. When the removal of a poor person from the place of his domicile or where he is found to the place of his...
• Section 44:4-73 - Duties Of Director Of Welfare And County Adjuster
  The director of welfare under the direction of the county welfare board in any county shall take the necessary steps looking to the removal...
• Section 44:4-74 - Written Notice Of Removal
  When the removal of a poor person from the place of his domicile or where he is found to the place of his settlement...
• Section 44:4-75 - Removal In Absence Of Contest
  On the day named in the notice, the order for removal shall be made by the removing director of welfare, and the poor person...
• Section 44:4-76 - Contest; How Made
  44:4-76. Such contest shall be made by notice to the officer giving the original notice, fixing a time and place when the contesting county...
• Section 44:4-77 - Failure To Resist Removal; Review When Failure Explained
  On failure to resist such removal the receiving county welfare board or overseer or county adjuster, as the case may be, may not decline...
• Section 44:4-78 - Liability Of County Or Municipality Failing To Receive Or Remove Poor Person
  44:4-78. If any director of welfare under direction of the county welfare board or any overseer or county adjuster as the case may be...
• Section 44:4-79 - Bringing Poor Person Into County Unlawfully; Misdemeanor
  A person who shall send, bring, remove or entice to remove, or cause to be sent, brought or enticed, any poor person into a...
• Section 44:4-80 - Suspension Of Sentence Or Fine Upon Certain Conditions
  A sentence or fine imposed under the provisions of section 44:4-79 of this title may be suspended before or after conviction upon condition that...
• Section 44:4-81 - Furnishing Transportation To Nonresident Poor
  No person shall furnish a nonresident who is sick, aged, injured or crippled, with transportation at the cost of the county until the director...
• Section 44:4-82 - Inquiry Into Case By Director
  When a person shall apply for relief for himself or another to a county welfare board, the director of welfare, under the direction of...
• Section 44:4-83 - Rendition Of Aid
  The director of welfare, by a written order, shall render such aid and material relief as he may in his discretion, subject to the...
• Section 44:4-84 - Temporary Relief In Suitable Home
  If any such poor person is receiving shelter in some suitable home or habitation, and it is possible to maintain him as adequately and...
• Section 44:4-85 - Relief Order And Commitment; Contents
  In all cases where a person is removed to the welfare-house or receives permanent relief by the order of the county welfare board, such...
• Section 44:4-86 - Investigation And Supervision By Welfare Board
  The county welfare board shall: a. Investigate every application for relief; b. Supervise by periodic visitation every person receiving such relief; c. Devise ways...
• Section 44:4-87 - Obtaining Employment For Poor Persons And Families
  When an application for relief is made to the county welfare board in behalf of any person who claims or alleges to be poor...
• Section 44:4-88 - Length Of Stay Of Poor Person In Welfare-house
  Any poor person or child who is committed or removed to a welfare-house shall be received by the director of welfare, and be supported...
• Section 44:4-89 - Classification And Care Of Inmates Of Welfare-houses
  In the management of welfare-houses the inmates shall be classified according to age, condition of health and ability to perform manual labor. Some form...
• Section 44:4-90 - Separation Of Sexes; Exception
  In welfare-houses or other institutions for the reception and maintenance of poor persons, females shall be kept separate from males at all times in...
• Section 44:4-91 - Expenses Recoverable From Poor Person Or Estate; Insurance
  If it is ascertained at any time that a person who has been assisted by or has received support from any municipality or county...
• Section 44:4-91.1 - Pledge Of Property As Guaranty For Reimbursement; Agreement To Reimburse
  Every county welfare board, operating under chapter 4 of Title 44 of the Revised Statutes, shall require, as a condition to the admission of...
• Section 44:4-91.2 - Filing Certificate Of Costs Of Care Furnished; Legal Claim, Enforcement
  1. At any time the county welfare board may execute and file with the county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages, as the...
• Section 44:4-91.3 - Record Of Welfare House And Outdoor Liens
  The county clerks or registers of deeds and mortgages, as the case may be, shall record in a book to be known as "Welfare-House...
• Section 44:4-92 - When Relief May Be Provided In Home
  If adult poor persons own the property where they reside in whole or in part, or are receiving shelter in some other suitable home...
• Section 44:4-93 - Permanent Relief; Amount To Be Adequate; Payable Monthly
  The director of welfare under the direction and subject to the approval of the county welfare board shall furnish permanent relief in an amount...
• Section 44:4-94 - Semiannual Report Relative To Continuance Of Relief
  At the expiration of six months from the time of granting permanent relief in the home, and every succeeding such period of time thereafter,...
• Section 44:4-95 - Notice To Board Of Children's Guardians Of Commitment Of Minors To Welfare-house
  The director of welfare under the direction of the county welfare board shall within twenty-four hours of the commitment of all minor children under...
• Section 44:4-96 - Supervision Of Minors Committed To Welfare-house
  The care and general supervision of all minor children under the age of eighteen years who are committed to the welfare-house as mentioned in...
• Section 44:4-97 - Temporary Commitment Of Poor Minor By Director To Institution Or Home
  The director of welfare under the direction of the county welfare board shall, upon application for permanent relief, if granted, commit any minor poor...
• Section 44:4-98 - Notice Of Placement To Boards Of Freeholders And Children's Guardians
  Within twenty-four hours of such placement the director of welfare shall give a written notice thereof to the state board of children's guardians, and...
• Section 44:4-99 - Transfer Of Children From Welfare-house To Charitable Society; Maintenance
  L.1933, c. 103, p. 211, entitled "A supplement to an act entitled "A supplement to an act entitled "An act for the settlement and...
• Section 44:4-100 - Ascertaining And Obtaining Or Compelling Assistance Of Relatives
  Upon application for the relief of a poor person the county welfare board shall ascertain if possible the relatives chargeable by law for his...
• Section 44:4-101 - Relatives Chargeable
  a. The father and mother of a person under 18 years of age who applies for and is eligible to receive public assistance, and...
• Section 44:4-102 - Compelling Support By Relatives
  44:4-102. If any of the relatives mentioned in section 44:4-101 of this Title shall fail to perform the order or directions of the county...
• Section 44:4-103 - Contracts Between Welfare Board And Relatives Or Others
  In all cases where there are relatives and others not otherwise chargeable by law who are able and willing to support and maintain or...
• Section 44:4-104 - Compelling Support By Husband Or Wife
  44:4-104. When a husband or father shall desert his wife, child or children or a woman shall desert her child or children and leave...
• Section 44:4-105 - Sequestration Of Estate
  44:4-105. The Superior Court, Chancery Division, Family Part may: a. Issue process for the immediate sequestration of the personal estate and the rents and...
• Section 44:4-107 - Recovery Of Expenses Of Support
  The county welfare board through the county director of welfare, may bring a civil action from time to time in that court for such...
• Section 44:4-108 - Willful Deserter As Disorderly Person; Punishment
  A husband or father who willfully deserts or refuses or neglects to provide for and maintain his wife or children, or any of them,...
• Section 44:4-109 - Complaint By Director Of Welfare
  When a director of welfare having jurisdiction in such cases believes that such desertion or willful refusal or neglect to so provide for any...
• Section 44:4-112 - Visitation Of Sick Poor By Official Physicians And Nurses
  When a physician or nurse who is employed by the governing body of a county or municipality is called upon or notified by the...
• Section 44:4-113 - Contract For Visiting Nursing Care
  Where a contract for the visiting nursing care of sick poor persons in such municipalities is desired by the municipal authorities the county welfare...
• Section 44:4-114 - Further Medical Or Other Relief
  If it shall appear that the person visited and aided is a poor person within the meaning of this chapter, the physician or nurse...
• Section 44:4-115 - Hospitalization And Other Relief Where Treatment Is Urgent
  In all cases wherein medical or surgical treatment is urgent, a poor person may be removed and admitted to any public or private hospital...
• Section 44:4-116 - Bond For Maintenance From Master Or Commander
  When a ship or vessel shall arrive within a port, harbor or county within this state, having on board passengers or employees coming from...
• Section 44:4-117 - Liability Of Master Or Commander For Landing Persons Wrongfully
  A master or commander of a ship or vessel arriving as referred to in section 44:4-116 of this title, who shall land or suffer...
• Section 44:4-118 - Burial Of Poor
  When a person shall die in a county without leaving money or other means sufficient to defray his funeral expenses, the director of welfare...
• Section 44:4-119 - Acquisition Of Cemetery By County; Issuance Of Bonds
  A county may acquire by devise, gift, purchase, condemnation or in any other manner, such land as in the judgment of the governing body...
• Section 44:4-120 - Appropriations For Year Following Adoption Of Chapter
  Within fifteen days after this chapter takes effect and becomes operative in any county the county welfare board shall: a. Meet with the board...
• Section 44:4-121 - Estimates For Ensuing Calendar Or Fiscal Years
  On November first of each year thereafter, the county welfare board shall forward to the board of chosen freeholders an estimate of the amount...
• Section 44:4-122 - Appropriation By Freeholders For Relief Of Permanent Or Indoor Poor
  Such provision for expense for the relief of the permanent or indoor poor shall upon the approval of the board of chosen freeholders, be...
• Section 44:4-123 - Additional County Appropriation When Original Appropriation Inadequate
  When the sums appropriated as provided in section 44:4-122 of this title are expended or exhausted during the year and for the purpose for...
• Section 44:4-124 - Raising Or Borrowing Of Additional Sums
  Such additional sums may be paid from unexpended balances not required by law to be expended for a specific purpose, or from contingent funds,...
• Section 44:4-125 - Appropriations By Municipalities For Temporary Or Outdoor Poor
  The expenditures, exclusive of administrative expenses, for relief under the provisions of this chapter of the temporary or outdoor poor residing in the respective...
• Section 44:4-126 - Additional Municipal Appropriations
  When any sum appropriated as provided in section 44:4-125 of this title has been expended or exhausted, during the year and for the purpose...
• Section 44:4-127 - Emergency County Appropriation When Municipality Fails To Appropriate Additional Sum
  When a municipality fails to appropriate an additional sum for this purpose, the board of chosen freeholders shall provide for the relief of the...
• Section 44:4-128 - Unexpended Balances Of Municipal Appropriations
  Any unexpended balance of such municipal appropriation shall be carried over and made available for the relief of the temporary or outdoor poor within...
• Section 44:4-129 - Proposal By Resolution To Adopt Chapter
  The board of chosen freeholders of any county the legal voters of which have failed to adopt the provisions of this chapter as herein...
• Section 44:4-130 - Time For Final Action On Resolution
  Final action by the board of chosen freeholders of the county on the resolution shall be adjourned for at least one month from the...
• Section 44:4-131 - Notice Of Time And Place Of Final Action; Adjournment
  Within two weeks after the proposal of the resolution, notice of the time and place of final action to be taken thereon shall be...
• Section 44:4-132 - Submission Of Question To Voters Of County; Notice
  Upon the adoption of the resolution by the board of chosen freeholders, the question of the adoption of the provisions of this chapter in...
• Section 44:4-133 - Ballot; Form And Content
  At any such election at which the question of the adoption of the provisions of this chapter is submitted to the legal voters of...
• Section 44:4-134 - Voting
  44:4-134. If the voter makes an x or + mark in ink or pencil in the square at the left of the word "yes,"...
• Section 44:4-135 - Canvass And Return Of Votes; When Chapter Becomes Operative
  A canvass and return of the votes cast in the county upon the question of the adoption of this chapter shall be made by...
• Section 44:5-1 - Health Of Indigent And Recreation Of Needy Children
  A municipality may: a. Establish laboratories and dispensatories; b. Employ visiting nurses, supply medicines and medical services to the indigent sick; and c. Provide...
• Section 44:5-2 - Annual Appropriation In Municipalities To Maintain Indigent Patients And Assist Health Care Facilities
  Any municipality which has no health care facility therein maintained by such municipality may make an appropriation in each year of an amount which,...
• Section 44:5-2a - Health Care Facility Defined
  As used in this amendatory and supplementary act "health care facility" means the private facility or institution, engaged principally in providing services for health...
• Section 44:5-2.1 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect immediately. L.1949, c. 227, p. 716, s. 2. Amended by L.1950, c. 291, p. 989, s. 2.
• Section 44:5-3 - Contracts By Cities For Care Of Persons At Public Expense
  The board or body having charge of the finances of a city may enter into and make a contract or contracts not exceeding the...
• Section 44:5-4 - Contracts By Cities For Care Of Indigent Patients; Referendum
  A city which has no hospital located therein maintained by the city, shall, when the provisions of sections 44:5-4 to 44:5-7 of this title...
• Section 44:5-5 - Referendum; Ballot, Form
  44:5-5. The question of the adoption of the provisions of sections 44:5-4 to 44:5-7 of this title shall not be submitted to the electors...
• Section 44:5-6 - Making Of Contract
  If a majority of all the ballots cast at the election referred to in section 44:5-5 of this title are in favor of the...
• Section 44:5-7 - Annual Appropriation By City During Existence Of Contract
  Upon the execution of a contract by a city as provided in sections 44:5-4 and 44:5-6 of this title, the proper municipal authorities of...
• Section 44:5-8 - Authorization Of Increased Annual Appropriations In Certain Cities
  A city which prior to February first, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two, adopted the provisions of sections 44:5-4 to 44:5-7 of this title,...
• Section 44:5-9 - Contracts By Cities For Care Of Diseased Patients
  The board or body having charge of the finances of a city which at the time does not maintain and operate a municipal hospital...
• Section 44:5-10 - Annual Appropriations In Certain Municipalities To Maintain Patients Or Assist Hospitals
  A village, borough, town or township which has no hospital located therein maintained by the municipality may make an annual appropriation, in the manner...
• Section 44:5-10.1 - Annual Appropriations In Certain Municipalities For Contributions To Hospitals
  Any village, borough, town or township which has no hospital located therein maintained by the municipality may make an annual appropriation, in the manner...
• Section 44:5-10.2 - Construction Or Enlargement Of Private Health Care Facility; Municipal Appropriations
  Any municipality which has no health care facility therein maintained by such municipality, may appropriate a sum or sums of money to be applied...
• Section 44:5-12 - Distribution Of Appropriation Among Nonprofit Hospitals Or Clinics In County
  Money appropriated by a governing body and distributed and paid to any hospital by virtue of section 44:5-11 of this Title, shall, if there...
• Section 44:5-13 - Annual Reports To Freeholders By Hospitals Participating In Appropriation
  A hospital desiring to participate in the funds referred to in sections 44:5-11 and 44:5-12 of this title shall, prior to December fifteenth of...
• Section 44:5-14 - Appropriations By Counties For Constructing Or Enlarging Private Charitable Hospitals
  The board of chosen freeholders of a county which has no hospital located therein wholly maintained by the county, other than the hospital or...
• Section 44:5-15 - Bond Issues By Counties For Construction Or Alteration Of Charitable Hospitals
  The board of chosen freeholders of a county which has no hospital located therein maintained by the county, other than a hospital or sick...
• Section 44:5-16 - Annual Appropriations For Maintenance Of Charitable Hospitals And For Care And Treatment Of Poor
  A. Any county having a population less than 850,000 according to the latest federal decennial census may make annual appropriations not exceeding in the...
• Section 44:5-17 - Provision By Counties Over 850,000 For Maintenance Of Patients In Hospitals
  The governing body of a county having a population of 850,000 or more according to the latest federal decennial census may make provision for...
• Section 44:5-18 - Annual Appropriations For Purposes Of Section 44:5-17
  The governing body of a county having a population of 850,000 or more according to the latest federal decennial census may make for the...
• Section 44:5-18.1 - Psychiatric Diagnosis And Treatment Of Indigent Residents; Appropriation For
  The board of chosen freeholders of any county which has no county mental or psychiatric hospital or clinic may appropriate not more than ten...
• Section 44:5-19.1 - Liens For Medical Care And Hospitalization; Priority
  The board of chosen freeholders of any county, which furnishes medical care and hospitalization to resident indigent patients who cannot be maintained by private...
• Section 44:5-19.2 - Form
  The lien shall state the name of the patient, the date of his admission, the rate at which payment is made by the county...
• Section 44:5-19.3 - Time Of Filing
  Any such lien may be filed at any time during the period of hospitalization and within 2 years after the date of discharge from...
• Section 44:5-19.4 - Place Of Filing; Effective Date Of Lien
  The lien shall be filed with the clerk or register of deeds and mortgages of the county, as the case may be, or with...
• Section 44:5-19.5 - Clerk Or Register Of Deeds; Duties; Fees
  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 44:5-19.6 - Property Concerned
  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 44:5-19.7 - Settlement Of Lien
  The board of chosen freeholders of the county is authorized to compromise and make settlement of any claim for which any lien is filed...
• Section 44:5-19.8 - Discharge
  Any lien so filed may be discharged by filing in the office in which it is entered a certificate setting forth that the same...
• Section 44:5-19.9 - Support By Relatives
  Upon application for medical care and hospitalization by any person, or upon the furnishing of the same by the county to any person, in...
• Section 44:5-19.10 - Court Action To Force Responsible Relative To Pay
  10. Should any relative responsible for the support of such applicant or person receiving such service fail to obey the order or direction with...
• Section 44:6-1 - Maintenance By Municipalities Of Clinics For Indigent Children
  The board or body having control of the finances of a municipality may appropriate annually such sum as it may deem advisable to be...
• Section 44:6-2 - Maintenance By Boards Of Education Of Clinics For Indigent Children
  The board of education of a municipality or county may maintain and conduct therein dental clinics for the treatment and relief of indigent children....
• Section 44:6-3 - Appropriations By First-class Cities To Dental Associations Conducting Clinics For Indigent Children
  Whenever a dental association regularly incorporated under the laws of this state shall maintain and conduct in a city of the first class a...
• Section 44:6-4 - Appropriations By Certain Cities To Dental Associations Conducting Clinics For Indigent Persons
  Whenever a dental association regularly incorporated under the laws of this state shall maintain and conduct in a city, other than a city of...
• Section 44:6-5 - Appropriations For Dental Clinics
  The board of chosen freeholders of any county wherein there is in use a permanently located dental clinic, or a trailer or mobile dental...
• Section 44:7-1 - Definitions.
  44:7-1. As used in this chapter: "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Human Services. "State board" means the State Board of Human Services. "State division"...
• Section 44:7-2 - Construction
  This chapter shall be liberally construed and nothing therein shall be construed as repealing any other law or part thereof providing for the settlement...
• Section 44:7-3 - Persons Entitled To Old Age Assistance; Applications
  Subject to the provisions of this chapter, every needy person, sixty-five years of age or upwards, residing in this State, and otherwise qualified as...
• Section 44:7-4 - Recipient Of Assistance Not Deemed Pauper
  No person receiving assistance under this chapter shall be deemed to be or classified as a pauper by reason thereof.
• Section 44:7-5 - Eligibility Of Applicants; Details
  Old age assistance shall be granted under this chapter to any person who: a. Has attained the age of 65 years; b. Lacks adequate...
• Section 44:7-6 - Division Of Old Age Assistance Continued; Director; Powers And Duties; Rules And Regulations Subject To Approval Of Civil Service Commission
  The division of old age assistance created in the Department of Institutions and Agencies by the act entitled "An act to provide for the...
• Section 44:7-6.1 - Wages And Terms And Conditions Of Employment; Collective Negotiation With Authorized Employee Organization
  Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 44:7-6 or P.L.1950, c. 166 (C. 30:4B-1 et seq.), a county welfare agency has complete authority to establish wages...
• Section 44:7-6.2 - Negotiated Agreement Not In Compliance With Federal Law And Endangers Receipt Of Federal Funds; Notice; Hearing; Determination; Authority Of Commissioner
  a. If the Commissioner of Human Services determines that (1) a provision in an agreement between a county welfare agency and an authorized employee...
• Section 44:7-6.3 - Action Or Notice Of Action To Be Taken On Wages Or Terms And Conditions Of Employment By Federal Government; Consultation On Position By Commissioner
  If the federal government initiates an action or notifies the Commissioner of Human Services of any action it may take that affects any wages...
• Section 44:7-7 - County Welfare Boards; Creation; Organization; Membership; Terms; Vacancies; Expenses
  The board of chosen freeholders of each of the several counties shall cause to be established in the respective counties, where such is not...
• Section 44:7-8 - Powers Of County Welfare Boards; Funds Provided By Freeholders
  The county welfare boards shall receive and act upon applications for assistance under and in accordance with this chapter, and do all other acts...
• Section 44:7-9 - County Welfare Board; Election Of Officers; Director Not To Be Member; Officers And Employees; Civil Service Classification; Permanent Status
  The county welfare board shall annually elect from among its members a chairman, vice-chairman and secretary-treasurer. The director of welfare, appointed as hereinafter provided,...
• Section 44:7-10 - Duties Of Secretary-treasurer; Bond
  The secretary-treasurer of the county welfare board shall receive from the county treasurer of his respective county such sums as shall represent the county's...
• Section 44:7-11 - Director Of Welfare; Working Test Period; Duties; Qualifications; Deputy Director; Civil Service Classification Of Director And Deputy
  The county welfare board shall appoint a director of welfare, who shall have the qualifications herein provided. The county adjuster, when qualified, may be...
• Section 44:7-12 - Relief Granted By County Welfare Boards; Amount And Nature; Treatment Other Than Medical Treatment
  The county welfare board, as the bureau of old age assistance, shall receive and act upon applications filed pursuant to this chapter, and shall...
• Section 44:7-13 - Burial Of Old-age Assistance Recipient
  If, on the death of a person receiving old-age assistance, it shall appear to the satisfaction of the county welfare agency after investigation that...
• Section 44:7-14 - Recipient To Pledge Property
  44:7-14. (a) Every county welfare board shall require, as a condition to granting assistance in any case, that all or any part of the...
• Section 44:7-15 - Certificate Of Amount Of Assistance; Filing; Effect; Proceedings For Collection And Satisfaction; Levy; Disposition Of Proceeds; Voluntary Conveyance
  At any time the county welfare agency may execute and file with the county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages, as the case...
• Section 44:7-16 - Record Of Reimbursement Agreements; Satisfaction
  The county clerks or registers of deeds and mortgages, as the case may be, shall record in a book to be known as "reimbursement...
• Section 44:7-17 - Application For Assistance
  An applicant for old age assistance shall make his application therefor to the county welfare board for the county in which the applicant resides....
• Section 44:7-18 - Investigation Of And Notice To Applicant; Review Of Determination
  When the county welfare board receives an application for old age assistance, an investigation and record shall promptly be made of the circumstances of...
• Section 44:7-19 - Assistance By Relatives; Enforcement
  44:7-19. The county director of welfare in cases of application for old age assistance shall ascertain, if possible, the relatives and other persons chargeable...
• Section 44:7-20 - Director's Power To Issue Subpoenas; Contempt; False Testimony
  44:7-20. For the purpose of ascertaining and determining the facts and circumstances concerning any application for assistance made under this chapter the county director...
• Section 44:7-21 - Report When Application Granted; Change Of Amount Of Assistance; Cancellation, Revocation Or Suspension
  If the application for assistance be granted, the county welfare board shall report the fact to the State division. The amount of assistance may...
• Section 44:7-22 - Reconsideration Of Grant; Revised Grant
  All old age assistance under this chapter shall be reconsidered from time to time as may be provided for by the rules of the...
• Section 44:7-23 - Reports By County Welfare Board To State Division
  The county welfare board shall report to the state division at such times and in such manner and form as the division may prescribe,...
• Section 44:7-24 - Ascertainment And Appropriation Of County's Share Of Cost; Temporary Rates; Payments
  Subject to payment of the State's share, each county welfare board shall furnish old age assistance as provided in this chapter to the persons...
• Section 44:7-25 - State's Share; Additional Payment
  44:7-25. The State shall pay to each county welfare board the full amount of any funds received by the State from the federal government...
• Section 44:7-26 - Claims For State's Share Filed Monthly; Approval And Payment
  Claims for the state's share as provided in section 44:7-25 of this title shall be presented monthly in advance by the county welfare board...
• Section 44:7-27 - Allotment Of Federal Funds; Payment
  Any funds received by the State from the Federal Government for administrative costs of old age assistance shall be ratably shared by the State...
• Section 44:7-28 - Governor To Include State's Share In Budget; Annual Appropriation
  The governor shall fix and determine and state in his annual budget message a sum sufficient to pay the estimated amount of the state's...
• Section 44:7-29 - State Treasurer To Receive Federal Funds; Adjustment Between Contributing Agencies
  The State Treasurer may receive from the Federal Government such grants of money as shall represent the Federal Government's share of old age assistance...
• Section 44:7-30 - County And State Settlement; Liability Of Respective Counties
  For the purposes of this chapter, any person applying for old age assistance shall be deemed at all times a resident of that county...
• Section 44:7-31 - Complaint Filed When Assistance Improperly Granted; Investigation; Payments Suspended Or Canceled
  Any person who has knowledge that old age assistance is being improperly granted or administered under this chapter may file a complaint in writing...
• Section 44:7-32 - Obtaining Assistance Falsely A Misdemeanor; Future Grants Denied
  Any person who, by means of a false statement, or false representation, or by impersonation, or other fraudulent device, obtains or attempts to obtain,...
• Section 44:7-33 - Violation Of Chapter; Penalty
  Any person who knowingly violates any provision of this chapter for which no penalty is specifically provided shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and...
• Section 44:7-34 - Recipient Of Assistance Not To Receive Other Public Aid
  A person sixty-five years of age or more not receiving old age assistance under this chapter is not by reason of his age debarred...
• Section 44:7-35 - Assistance Exempt From Taxation Levy And Process; Bankruptcy
  All amounts paid as old age assistance shall be exempt from any tax levied by the state or by any subdivision thereof, and exempt...
• Section 44:7-36 - First Class Counties Over 800,000 Having Municipal Welfare Home But No County Welfare Home; Annual Payments To County Welfare Board For Cost Of Maintenance Of Persons In Home
  In any county of the first class having a population of over eight hundred thousand, in which there is no county welfare home, and...
• Section 44:7-37 - Appropriation For Year In Which Act Is Adopted; Borrowing Funds
  If the board of chosen freeholders shall have made no appropriation in its annual budget to carry out the provisions of this act for...
• Section 44:7-38 - Permanent And Total Disability; Assistance From County Welfare Board; Residence
  Subject to the provisions of this act and the provisions of chapter 7 of Title 44 of the Revised Statutes as hereinafter specified, any...
• Section 44:7-39 - Laws Governing Assistance For Permanent And Total Disability
  The assistance to be extended under this act shall be known as "assistance for the permanently and totally disabled," but shall in all other...
• Section 44:7-40 - Payments By State To Each County Welfare Board
  The State shall pay to each county welfare board the full amount of any funds received by the State from the federal government as...
• Section 44:7-41 - Application For Assistance For Permanent And Total Disability
  All persons wishing to make application for assistance for the permanently and totally disabled shall have opportunity to do so and assistance shall be...
• Section 44:7-42 - Rules And Regulations And Administrative Orders
  Under general policies established by the State Board of Control, the Commissioner of Institutions and Agencies is authorized, directed and empowered to issue all...
• Section 44:7-43 - Needy Blind Persons; Assistance From County Welfare Board
  Subject to the provisions of this act and the provisions of chapter 7 of Title 44 of the Revised Statutes as hereinafter specified, any...
• Section 44:7-44 - Law Governing Assistance For The Blind
  The assistance to be extended under this act shall be known as "assistance for the blind," but shall in all other respects be governed...
• Section 44:7-45 - Rules, Regulations And Administrative Orders
  Under general policies established by the State Board of Control, the Commissioner of Institutions and Agencies is authorized, directed and empowered to issue, or...
• Section 44:7-46 - Payments By State To Each County Welfare Board
  The State shall pay to each county welfare board the full amount of any funds received by the State from the federal government as...
• Section 44:7-47 - Transfer Of Functions, Powers And Duties
  All of the functions, powers and duties of, and records and property maintained by, and unexpended appropriation balances available to the Commission for the...
• Section 44:7-48 - Supplementary Provisions
  Sections 41 through 45 of this act shall supplement chapter 7 of Title 44 of the Revised Statutes. L.1962, c. 197, s. 46.
• Section 44:7-49 - Repeals
  Sections 30:6-3, 30:6-4, 30:6-5, 30:6-8, 30:6-9, 30:6-10 and 30:6-14 of the Revised Statutes are repealed. L.1962, c. 197, s. 47.
• Section 44:7-50 - Repeals
  The act entitled "An act relating to assistance to needy blind persons in New Jersey, supplementing chapter 6 of Title 30, and amending sections...
• Section 44:7-76 - Persons Authorized To Receive Assistance
  Subject to the provisions of this act, any resident of New Jersey who has attained the age of 65 years, who is not eligible...
• Section 44:7-77 - "Medical Assistance For The Aged" Defined
  For the purposes of this act "medical assistance for the aged" means payment for and on behalf of eligible individuals of part or all...
• Section 44:7-78 - Included Costs
  There may be included in a grant of medical assistance for the aged for any of the services set forth in section 2: (a)...
• Section 44:7-79 - Administration Of Medical Assistance
  Medical assistance for the aged shall be administered by the Department of Institutions and Agencies. L.1962, c. 222, s. 4. Amended by L.1969, c....
• Section 44:7-80 - Application For Assistance; Investigation; Scope Of Payments
  No grant of medical assistance for the aged shall be made prior to the filing of an application therefor, and the making of an...
• Section 44:7-81 - Duties Of Commissioner Of Institutions And Agencies
  Under general policies established by the State Board of Control, the Commissioner of Institutions and Agencies is authorized, directed and empowered to issue, or...
• Section 44:7-82 - Funds By State For Medical Assistance For The Aged
  The State shall provide such funds as may be necessary to meet expenditures for medical assistance for the aged. The State shall also pay...
• Section 44:7-84 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect July 1, 1963, but all arrangements necessary or appropriate to enable this act to become fully effective on said...
• Section 44:7-85 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Basic payment" means any supplemental security income payment made to an aged, blind or disabled person by the...
• Section 44:7-86 - Eligibility; Determination Of Amount
  Any person whose income, including any basic payment, is below the public assistance standard established by the commissioner and the government pursuant to the...
• Section 44:7-87 - Duties Of The Commissioner
  3. The commissioner shall: a. Enter into agreements with the government to secure the administration of supplementary payments by the government for such time...
• Section 44:7-88 - Duties And Responsibilities Of Welfare Boards
  4. Welfare boards shall: a. Be relieved of those duties and responsibilities, under "Old Age Assistance," R.S.44:7-3 to 44:7-37, "Permanent and Total Disability Assistance,"...
• Section 44:7-89 - Nonliability Of Recipient Of Supplementary Payments Or His Legally Liable Relative For Repayment; Enforcement Of Lien Arising Prior To January 1, 1974
  Supplementary payments shall not be considered a loan by the State or by the welfare boards. No requirement under Title 44 or Title 30...
• Section 44:7-90 - Eligibility For Medical Assistance Under New Jersey Medical Assistance And Health Services Act
  Any person eligible for basic payments under the Federal Act, any person eligible for supplementary payments and any essential person, may be determined pursuant...
• Section 44:7-91 - Supersedure Of Inconsistent Laws
  All laws and parts of laws of this State inconsistent with this act are hereby deemed superseded to the extent of such inconsistency. L.1973,...
• Section 44:7-92 - Severability
  If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of the act shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such...
• Section 44:7-93 - Services Provided To Eligible Residents By County Welfare Board.
  35. a. As used in this section, "eligible resident" means a resident of a residential health care facility, rooming house, or boarding house who...
• Section 44:8-107 - Short Title, Other References
  1. a. This act may be cited as the "Work First New Jersey General Public Assistance Act." b. Whenever the term "General Public Assistance...
• Section 44:8-108 - Definitions
  2. As used in this act: "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Department of Human Services; "Department" means the Department of Human Services; "Employable...
• Section 44:8-109 - Public Policy
  3. It is hereby declared to be the public policy of this State that every needy person shall, while in this State, be entitled...
• Section 44:8-110 - Administration And Distribution Of State Aid For Public Assistance
  State aid for public assistance for the municipalities and counties of this State shall be administered and distributed by the commissioner in the manner...
• Section 44:8-110.1 - Disbursement Of Funds For Legal Services For Successful Appeals
  1. The Division of Family Development in the Department of Human Services shall disburse funds from the Payments to Municipalities for Cost of General...
• Section 44:8-110.2 - Reduction Of Amount Of Payments To Municipalities For Cost Of General Assistance Funds
  2. The Division of Family Development shall reduce the amount of Payments to Municipalities for Cost of General Assistance funds otherwise obliged to be...
• Section 44:8-110.3 - Rules, Regulations
  3. The Commissioner of the Department of Human Services shall promulgate rules and regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et...
• Section 44:8-111 - Commissioner's Duties
  5. The commissioner shall: (a) Act as the agent of the State in effectuating the purposes of any reciprocal interstate agreements respecting the transportation...
• Section 44:8-111.1 - Centralized Registry Established; Updating Of Information
  1. The Commissioner of Human Services shall establish a centralized registry in the Division of Family Development of the Department of Human Services to...
• Section 44:8-111.2 - Registry Information Made Available; Provision For Comparison Checks
  2. a. The commissioner shall make the information in the centralized registry established pursuant to section 1 of P.L.1994, c.147 (C.44:8-111.1) available to those...
• Section 44:8-111.3 - Report
  3. The commissioner shall report to the Governor and the Legislature no later than one year after the effective date of this act, and...
• Section 44:8-112 - Powers Of Commissioner
  6. The commissioner may: (a) Determine and prescribe the number and qualifications of the personnel employed or to be employed in administering public assistance...
• Section 44:8-113 - Administration As To Municipalities Or Counties
  7. The commissioner may, as to each municipality or county in which public assistance is administered by the commissioner under P.L.1947, c.156 (C.44:8-107 et...
• Section 44:8-114 - Administration And Funding Of Public Assistance
  8. a. The State shall provide, through each municipality or county, as appropriate, public assistance to the persons eligible therefor, residing therein or otherwise...
• Section 44:8-115 - Local Assistance Boards; Membership; Appointment; Compensation
  Each local assistance board shall be composed of three or five persons as shall be fixed by the governing body of the municipality and...
• Section 44:8-116 - Terms Of Members Of Local Assistance Boards; Vacancies
  The term of one member of each local assistance board shall be for one year and such member only may be appointed from among...
• Section 44:8-117 - Organization Of Local Assistance Boards; Director Of Welfare; Employees
  Each local assistance board shall organize and select a chairman and a secretary, and shall appoint a director of welfare who shall be the...
• Section 44:8-117.1 - Municipality Authorized To Establish Staffing Level Of Welfare Department
  1. Notwithstanding any provisions of law to the contrary, the governing body of a municipality shall have the authority to establish staffing levels for...
• Section 44:8-118 - Duties Of Welfare Director
  12. The director of welfare of each municipality shall as to that municipality, or the county welfare director shall as to that county, as...
• Section 44:8-119 - Applicant's Affidavit
  13. Each applicant for public assistance in any municipality or county shall be required to make an affidavit to the correctness of his or...
• Section 44:8-120 - Immediate Assistance
  14. Immediate public assistance shall be rendered promptly to any needy person by the director of welfare of the municipality or the county welfare...
• Section 44:8-121 - Inquiry By Director
  15. When a person shall apply for public assistance for himself or his dependents, the municipal or county director of welfare, as appropriate, shall...
• Section 44:8-122 - Aid And Assistance After Reasonable Inquiry
  The director of welfare, by a written order, shall render such aid and material assistance as he may in his discretion, after reasonable inquiry,...
• Section 44:8-123 - Order After Complete Investigation
  The director of welfare upon completion of investigation shall determine whether or not continued assistance is necessary, and shall make such order as in...
• Section 44:8-124 - Continued Assistance, Manner Of; Extent
  Continued assistance under this act may be provided in such a manner as to meet any or all of the several needs of, or...
• Section 44:8-125 - Deductions From Public Assistance
  19. The fact that an applicant for public assistance or any of his dependents shall be receiving, or entitled to receive, income from other...
• Section 44:8-126 - Exploitation Of Recipients
  No welfare department of any municipality shall directly or indirectly exploit or permit to be exploited recipients of public assistance for political purposes. L.1947,...
• Section 44:8-127 - Revocation Of Order For Continued Assistance
  The director of welfare may in his discretion summarily revoke any order for continued assistance whenever it shall appear that the person is no...
• Section 44:8-128 - Determination Annually Of "Preceding Year's Ratables" And Public Assistance Loads Of Municipalities
  In each year, the commissioner shall ascertain and determine as to each municipality in the State: (a) The sum total of the net valuation...
• Section 44:8-129 - Determining Amount Of State Aid
  23. In each year the commissioner shall determine the amount of State aid which each municipality or county, as appropriate, shall receive in such...
• Section 44:8-130 - Advance Payments To Municipality Before Determination Of "Current Year's Public Assistance Load"
  The commissioner may make payments, from time to time, under the above stated formula to any such municipality in advance of the determination of...
• Section 44:8-131 - Deductions From Amount Of State Aid Payable To Municipalities
  The commissioner shall deduct from the amount of the State aid payable to any municipality in any one year an amount equal to the...
• Section 44:8-132 - Counties Furnishing Hospitalization In Maternity Hospitals
  State aid shall also be payable to any county furnishing hospitalization in a county maternity hospital to nonpaying patients, who are bona fide public...
• Section 44:8-133 - Commissioner To Administer Public Assistance In Municipality When
  The commissioner shall administer public assistance in any year, (a) In any municipality, in which the "preceding year's public assistance millage" for such year...
• Section 44:8-134 - Duties Of Municipality When Public Assistance Is Administered By Commissioner
  In any municipality in which public assistance shall be administered by the commissioner during any year, (a) All books, records, supplies, equipment or other...
• Section 44:8-135 - Election Of Municipality To Administer Its Own Public Assistance In Following Year
  If any municipality, in which public assistance is being administered by the commissioner in any year, shall give notice in writing to the commissioner,...
• Section 44:8-136 - Election Of Municipality To Administer Its Own Public Assistance During Current Year
  Any municipality, in which the commissioner is administering public assistance pursuant to the provisions of this act in any year, may elect to administer...
• Section 44:8-137 - Municipality Or County To Pay Cost Of Administration
  31. The cost of administration of public assistance within any municipality or county, as appropriate, shall be paid by that municipality or county, as...
• Section 44:8-138 - "Public Assistance Trust Fund Account"
  Every payment for State aid made pursuant to this act to a municipality shall be made to the treasurer of the municipality and shall...
• Section 44:8-139 - Transfer Of Current Budget Appropriation For Public Assistance
  No municipality receiving State aid for relief for any year shall, during said year, make any transfer of its current budget appropriation for public...
• Section 44:8-140 - False Statements By Applicants
  Any person applying for public assistance under the provisions of this act who shall make any false statement and by reason thereof receives benefits...
• Section 44:8-140.1 - Civil, Criminal Penalties For Fraudulent Receipt Of Benefits Or Payments For General Public Assistance
  1.A person who willfully obtains benefits to which he is not entitled and a provider who willfully receives payments to which he is not...
• Section 44:8-142 - Officers And Board Members Failing To Comply
  If any municipal officer, board or body shall willfully fail or refuse to comply with any of the provisions of this act, such officer,...
• Section 44:8-143 - Repeal
  The following acts together with all amendments thereof and supplements thereto are repealed: An act to provide for the protection, welfare of and financial...
• Section 44:8-144 - Laws Saved From Repeal Or Modification
  This act shall not be construed to repeal, alter or modify the provisions of chapter one of Title 44, or chapter four of Title...
• Section 44:8-145 - Revision Of Prior Laws, Construction As; Existing Positions Not Affected
  This act shall be construed as a revision of prior laws and its provisions not inconsistent with those of prior laws shall be construed...
• Section 44:8-145.1 - Transfer From Municipal To County Welfare Agency
  28. a. A municipality may, by mutual agreement with the county in which it is located, provide for the transfer from its municipal welfare...
• Section 44:8-145.2 - Appointment Of Assistant County Welfare Director
  29.Each county welfare director may appoint a person to serve as assistant county welfare director for general public assistance or to another supervisory position...
• Section 44:8-145.3 - Allocation Of Functions, Powers, And Duties
  30.The county welfare director of each county is authorized to allocate the functions, powers and duties of each municipal welfare agency in the county...
• Section 44:8-145.4 - Employees Transferred, Remuneration, Service Intact; Provision Of Services To Municipal Agency Permitted
  31. a. A person who is a full-time employee of a municipal welfare agency, or who works on a full-time basis for municipal welfare...
• Section 44:8-145.5 - Rules, Regulations
  32.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 44:8-159 - Rebates For Pharmaceutical Products; Requirements.
  14. a. The Commissioner of Human Services shall contract with manufacturers of pharmaceutical products to provide rebates for pharmaceutical products covered under the Work...
• Section 44:8a-48 - Repeal; Sections Superseded
  Sections ten to fifteen, inclusive, and sections twenty-one to twenty-four, inclusive, of chapter one hundred thirty of the laws of one thousand nine hundred...
• Section 44:10-1.1 - Reference To County Welfare Board To Mean Reference To County Welfare Agency
  Whenever in any law, rule, regulation or document not specifically repealed or otherwise affected by this act, reference is made to the county welfare...
• Section 44:10-1.2 - Reference To Program Of Assistance For Dependent Children To Mean Program Of Aid To Families With Dependent Children
  Whenever in any law, rule, regulation or document not specifically repealed or otherwise affected by this act, reference is made to the program of...
• Section 44:10-5.6 - Payment Cycles
  5. The Department of Human Services shall cycle the issuance of benefits over multiple dates throughout the month in a manner that best serves...
• Section 44:10-5.7 - Evaluation, Implementation Of System
  6. a. The Department of Human Services shall evaluate the operation of the electronic benefit distribution system in the initial counties, and, as deemed...
• Section 44:10-5.8 - Implementation Plan, Reports
  7. a. The Commissioner of Human Services shall prepare an electronic benefit distribution system implementation plan, in consultation with the county welfare agencies in...
• Section 44:10-5.9 - Work First New Jersey Program Administrators, Duties
  30. The director or other chief administrative officer of each agency or office administering assistance under the Work First New Jersey program established pursuant...
• Section 44:10-9 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "REACH Program Act." L. 1987, c. 282, s. 1; per s.11 as amended...
• Section 44:10-10 - Findings, Declarations
  The Legislature finds and declares: that providing the means and opportunity for recipients of public assistance to enter the economic mainstream and to realize...
• Section 44:10-11 - Definitions
  As used in this act: "Aid to families with dependent children" means the program established pursuant to P.L. 1959, c. 86 (C. 44:10-1 et...
• Section 44:10-12 - Reach Program
  The Commissioner of Human Services, in consultation with the Commissioners of Labor, Education, Community Affairs, and Commerce and Economic Development, and the Chancellor of...
• Section 44:10-13 - Powers, Duties Of Commissioner
  The Commissioner of Human Services, in consultation with the Commissioners of Labor, Education, Community Affairs, and Commerce and Economic Development, and the Chancellor of...
• Section 44:10-14 - Registration Of Able-bodied Aid Recipients
  a. Every able-bodied prospective recipient of aid to families with dependent children in this State shall register with the REACH program at the time...
• Section 44:10-15 - Individualized Service Plans
  a. Each participant in the REACH program shall receive educational, training or employment services and supportive services according to an individualized service plan which...
• Section 44:10-16 - County Planning Committees
  The Commissioner of Human Services shall establish the REACH program on a county-by-county basis according to a program implementation plan specifically designed to meet...
• Section 44:10-17 - Reports
  a. The commissioner shall submit to the Senate Revenue, Finance and Appropriations Committee and the General Assembly Appropriations Committee, or their successor committees, and...
• Section 44:10-18 - Independent Evaluation
  The commissioner shall provide for an independent evaluation of the REACH program by a private entity under contract with the Department of Human Services...
• Section 44:10-34 - Definitions Relative To Welfare Reform, Work Activity
  1. As used in this act: "Alternative work experience" means unpaid work and training only with a public, private nonprofit or private charitable employer...
• Section 44:10-35 - Evaluation Of Caregiver's Eligibility For Benefits
  2. A person , other than a natural or adoptive parent or stepparent, who is a care giver to a dependent child who is...
• Section 44:10-36 - Eligibility Of Parent For Benefits
  3. A parent who is eligible for benefits who is married to a person who is not the parent of one or more of...
• Section 44:10-37 - Certain Income Disregarded In Computing Benefit.
  4.In computing the cash assistance benefit provided to recipients, the following disregards shall be applied to the earned income of each person in the...
• Section 44:10-38 - Provision Of Supportive Services
  5. a. The program shall provide supportive services to a recipient as a last resort when no other source of support is available, except...
• Section 44:10-39 - Subsidy For Campus-based Child Care
  6. A community college which provides campus-based child care and any work activity to a recipient as part of that recipient's individual responsibility plan...
• Section 44:10-40 - Medical Assistance Allowed, Certain
  7. a. Single adults and couples without dependent children shall not be eligible for medical assistance for inpatient or outpatient hospital care or long-term...
• Section 44:10-41 - Report On Work First New Jersey Program
  8. a. The commissioner, in cooperation with other affected agencies of State government, shall report biennially to the Governor and the Legislature on the...
• Section 44:10-42 - Establishment, Updating Of Standard Of Need
  9. The commissioner shall establish by regulation a standard of need and update the standard annually. The standard of need shall serve only as...
• Section 44:10-43 - Rules, Regulations
  13. 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 44:10-44 - Definitions Relative To Welfare Reform, Eligibility.
  1.As used in this act: "Applicant" means an applicant for benefits provided by the Work First New Jersey program. "Assistance unit" means: a single...
• Section 44:10-45 - Determination Of Eligibility For Benefits
  2. a. Benefits under the Work First New Jersey program shall be determined according to standards of income and resources established by the commissioner....
• Section 44:10-46 - Eligibility For Persons With Less Than One Year Of State Residence
  3. A recipient who has resided in New Jersey for less than 12 consecutive months shall be eligible to receive cash assistance benefits in...
• Section 44:10-47 - Disclosure Of Applicant Information
  4. Information concerning applicants or recipients shall not be disclosed except for purposes directly connected with the administration of the program, in accordance with...
• Section 44:10-48 - Eligibility Of Citizens, Eligible Aliens.
  5. a. Only those persons who are United States citizens or eligible aliens shall be eligible for benefits under the Work First New Jersey...
• Section 44:10-49 - Assignment Of Child Support Rights By Signing Application For Benefits.
  6. a. The signing of an application for benefits under the Work First New Jersey Program shall constitute an assignment of any child support...
• Section 44:10-50 - Absent Child, Eligibility For Benefits
  7. a. A dependent child who has been or is expected by a parent, legal guardian or caretaker relative to be absent from the...
• Section 44:10-51 - Provision Of Emergency Assistance
  8. a. Emergency assistance shall be provided only to recipients of Work First New Jersey and persons receiving Supplemental Security Income pursuant to P.L.1973,...
• Section 44:10-52 - Opportunity For Hearing
  9. The commissioner shall assure that an applicant or recipient shall be afforded the opportunity for a hearing if the applicant's or recipient's claim...
• Section 44:10-53 - Waiving Compliance With Work First New Jersey Program For Certain Projects
  10. In the case of an experimental, pilot or demonstration project which in the judgment of the commissioner is likely to assist in promoting...
• Section 44:10-54 - Rules, Regulations
  13. 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 44:10-55 - Short Title
  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Work First New Jersey Act." L.1997,c.38,s.1.
• Section 44:10-56 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Work First New Jersey Program.
  2.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.The federal "Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996," Pub.L.104-193, establishes the federal block grant for...
• Section 44:10-57 - Definitions Relative To Work First New Jersey Program
  3. As used in this act: "Alternative work experience" means unpaid work and training only with a public, private nonprofit or private charitable employer...
• Section 44:10-58 - Establishment Of Work First New Jersey Program
  4. a. The Work First New Jersey program is established in the Department of Human Services. The commissioner shall take such actions as are...
• Section 44:10-59 - Primary Responsibility For Support; Benefits Eligibility
  5. a. All adult persons, except as otherwise provided by law governing the Work First New Jersey program, are charged with the primary responsibility...
• Section 44:10-60 - Requirements For Benefits For Individuals Under 18 With A Dependent Child
  6. a. If an applicant or recipient is less than 18 years of age, has never married, and is pregnant or is caring for...
• Section 44:10-61 - Benefits Not To Increase Due To Birth Of Child; Exceptions
  7. a. The level of cash assistance benefits payable to an assistance unit with dependent children shall not increase as a result of the...
• Section 44:10-62 - Adult Recipient To Seek Employment.
  8. a. As defined by the commissioner, each adult recipient shall continuously and actively seek employment in an effort to remove the assistance unit...
• Section 44:10-62.1 - Short Title.
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Public Assistance Cost Reduction and Transportation Independence Pilot Program Act." L.2008, c.105, s.1.
• Section 44:10-62.2 - Findings, Declarations Relative To "Public Assistance Cost Reduction And Transportation Independence Pilot Program Act."
  2.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.The Work First New Jersey program provides transportation assistance to eligible persons to further employment opportunities, to promote...
• Section 44:10-62.3 - Establishment Of Pilot Program For Transfer Of Ownership Of Surplus State Motor Vehicles To Certain Nonprofit Entities.
  3. a. The State Treasurer is authorized to establish a pilot program for the transfer of ownership and title of surplus State motor vehicles...
• Section 44:10-63.1 - Work First New Jersey Program, Failure To Cooperate, Sanctions.
  2.In an assistance unit with a single adult or couple without dependent children or a single adult or couple with dependent children, the failure...
• Section 44:10-64 - Satisfaction Of Sanction, Repayment Obligation
  10. a. A person shall be required to satisfy any sanction or repayment obligation incurred pursuant to any federal or State law governing public...
• Section 44:10-65 - Community, Alternative Work Experience Not Considered Employment
  11. Participation by a recipient in a community work experience or alternative work experience provided by a sponsor pursuant to this act shall not...
• Section 44:10-66 - Workers' Compensation Status Of Recipient Participating In Community Alternative Work Experience
  12. For the purposes of chapter 15 of Title 34 of the Revised Statutes, a recipient who participates in a community work experience or...
• Section 44:10-67 - Injury, Illness, Death Arising From Community, Alternative Work Experience
  13. Any recipient participating in community work experience or alternative work experience or dependent of the recipient who is provided compensation , benefits, or...
• Section 44:10-68 - Action Against Program As Tort Claim
  14. The sole recourse of a person, other than a recipient or a sponsor, who is injured as a result of an act or...
• Section 44:10-69 - Reimbursement To Tort Claims Fund
  15. The program shall reimburse the fund established pursuant to N.J.S.59:12-1 for all costs incurred by the fund in connection with a recipient's participation...
• Section 44:10-70 - 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 44:10-71 - Definitions Relative To Work First New Jersey Program
  1. As used in this act: "Assistance unit" means: a single person without dependent children; a couple without dependent children; dependent children only; or...
• Section 44:10-72 - Time Limit On Eligibility For Benefits
  2. a. Effective no later than the 30th day after the date of enactment of this act, a recipient's eligibility for benefits shall be...
• Section 44:10-73 - Implementation Of Work First New Jersey Program By Municipal Or County Agency, Reimbursement
  3. a. The county agency shall be responsible for implementing the Work First New Jersey program in accordance with regulations adopted by the commissioner...
• Section 44:10-74 - Allocation Of Federal Funding
  4. a. The commissioner shall allocate among the counties the federal funding available for administrative costs from the federal block grant funds for temporary...
• Section 44:10-75 - Implementation Of Electronic Benefit Distribution System.
  5. a. The department shall implement the electronic benefit distribution system established pursuant to P.L.1985, c.501 (C.44:10-5.1 et seq.) in every county of the...
• Section 44:10-76 - Social Security Number Used As Common Identifier Of Individuals
  6. The federal Social Security number shall be used as the common identifier of individuals for any record, license, certificate or other document identifying...
• Section 44:10-77 - Establishment, Implementation Of Technological Investments.
  7. The commissioner, in consultation with the State Treasurer, is authorized to establish and implement necessary technological investments appropriate to create a Statewide community-based...
• Section 44:10-78 - Rules, Regulations
  17. 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 44:10-79 - Short Title.
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New Jersey Supplementary Food Stamp Program Act." L.1998,c.32,s.1.
• Section 44:10-80 - Definitions Relative To New Jersey Supplementary Food Stamp Program.
  2.As used in this act: "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Human Services. "Department" means the Department of Human Services. "Federal food stamp program" means...
• Section 44:10-81 - New Jersey Supplementary Food Stamp Program.
  3. a. There is established the New Jersey Supplementary Food Stamp Program in the Department of Human Services. The purpose of the program is...
• Section 44:10-81.1 - Food Stamp Application Form, Ordinary, Concise Language Required.
  1. a. The Commissioner of Human Services shall review and, to the maximum extent permissible under federal law, streamline the application form for participation...
• Section 44:10-82 - Eligibility Of Noncitizen For Program.
  4. a. A noncitizen shall be eligible for participation in the program if that person was: lawfully admitted into the United States prior to...
• Section 44:10-83 - State Payment Of County Administrative Costs.
  5.The State shall pay the full amount of each county's administrative costs applicable to households that contain only persons eligible for the program. These...
• Section 44:10-84 - Noncitizen Federal Food Stamp Recipients Not Eligible.
  6.A noncitizen who is eligible for the federal food stamp program shall not be eligible for the program. A noncitizen who is ineligible for...
• Section 44:10-85 - Rules, Regulations.
  11.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 44:10-86 - Short Title
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New Jersey Individual Development Account Act." L.2001,c.93,s.1.
• Section 44:10-87 - Findings, Declarations Regarding Individual Development Accounts
  2. a. The Legislature finds and declares that: (1)Economic well-being does not come solely from income, spending and consumption, but also requires savings, investment...
• Section 44:10-88 - Definitions Regarding Individual Development Accounts
  3.As used in this act: "Account holder" means a person who is the owner of an individual development account. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of...
• Section 44:10-89 - New Jersey Individual Development Account Program
  4. a. The New Jersey Individual Development Account Program is hereby established within the Department of Community Affairs. The purpose of this program shall...
• Section 44:10-90 - Opening An Individual Development Account; Conditions
  5. a. An eligible individual may, in agreement with a community-based organization selected by the commissioner pursuant to section 4 of this act, open...
• Section 44:10-91 - Transfer Of Account On Death Of Holder
  6. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, in the event of the death of the account holder, the ownership...
• Section 44:10-92 - Moneys In, Interest On Account Not Considered Gross Income
  7. a. Moneys deposited into or withdrawn from an individual development account by an account holder pursuant to subsection c. of section 5 of...
• Section 44:10-93 - Regulations; Consultation With Human Services
  8. a. The commissioner shall promulgate regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), necessary to effectuate the provisions of...
• Section 44:10-94 - Report To Legislature
  9. a. The commissioner shall report to the Legislature annually on the effectiveness of the program in providing eligible individuals in this State with...
• Section 44:10-95 - Short Title.
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New Jersey SNAP Employment and Training Provider Demonstration Project Act." L.2013, c.45, s.1.
• Section 44:10-96 - Definitions Relative To The "New Jersey Snap Employment And Training Provider Demonstration Project Act."
  2.As used in this act: "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Human Services. "Demonstration project participant" means an eligible participant who elects to participate in...
• Section 44:10-97 - New Jersey Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Employment And Training Provider Demonstration Project.
  3. a. The Department of Human Services shall establish the New Jersey Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Employment and Training Provider Demonstration Project under which...
• Section 44:10-98 - Proposals To Participate In Demonstration Project.
  4. a. The commissioner shall issue a request for proposals from qualifying agencies to participate in the demonstration project no later than 60 days...
• Section 44:10-99 - Collaboration Between Partnering Providers And County Welfare Agencies.
  5. a. A county welfare agency shall collaborate with all partnering providers whose service areas include the county to: inform all eligible participants, upon...
• Section 44:10-100 - Programmatic Functions Required By Partnering Provider.
  6. a. Each partnering provider shall be required to perform the following programmatic functions and to maintain sufficient capacity to perform these functions effectively:...
• Section 44:10-101 - County Welfare Agencies, Department To Assist Partnering Providers.
  7. a. The county welfare agencies, under the oversight of the department, shall assist partnering providers by: (1)collaborating with partnering providers, the department, and...
• Section 44:10-102 - Submission Of Revised State Employment And Training Plan.
  8. a. The department shall submit a revised State Employment and Training Plan to the Food and Nutrition Service in the United States Department...
• Section 44:10-103 - Report To Governor, Legislature.
  9.The commissioner shall issue a report no later than six months following the effective date of this act, and annually thereafter no later than...
• Section 44:10-104 - Certain Income Excluded In Determining Eligibility.
  10.Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law or regulation to the contrary, the department and the county welfare agencies shall exclude from a household's...
• Section 44:11-1 - Definitions.
  1.As used in P.L.1964, c.155 (C.44:11-1 et seq.): "Court" means the Superior Court in the county whose welfare board is responsible for making payments...
• Section 44:11-2 - Appointment Of Representative Payee; Contents Of Complaints.
  2.Whenever it appears necessary to appoint a representative payee for a recipient who is functionally incapacitated, a complaint seeking such appointment may be filed...
• Section 44:11-3 - Statement That Recipient Is Functionally Incapacitated.
  3.A verified statement by the director of the welfare board, or the director's authorized representative, annexed to the complaint and setting forth that a...
• Section 44:11-4 - Hearing; Evidence; Appointment Of Representative.
  4.Upon the filing of a complaint and verified statement as provided by P.L.1964, c.155 (C.44:11-1 et seq.), the court shall proceed in a summary...
• Section 44:11-5 - Powers And Duties Of Representative
  A representative payee appointed pursuant to this act shall be authorized and empowered to receive payments of public assistance made for and on behalf...
• Section 44:11-6 - Responsibility For Payments; Statement Of Account; Disposition Of Balance On Death Or Discharge Of Representative
  (a) A representative payee appointed pursuant to this act shall be personally responsible for the proper expenditure of all payments of public assistance made...
• Section 44:11-7 - Discharge Of Representative.
  7. (a) When at a hearing held upon application of the recipient the court determines from the certification of two physicians, or other acceptable...
• Section 44:11-8 - Liberal Construction; Costs
  This act shall be liberally construed to secure the beneficial intent and purpose hereof. All proceedings under this act shall be without costs except...
• Section 44:12-1 - Definitions
  For the purposes of this act "Federal Government" means the United States of America, acting through the Office of Economic Opportunity, established under an...
• Section 44:12-2 - Local Units; Powers.
  2.In order to facilitate cooperation with the Federal Government in carrying out the programs contemplated by the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 or related...
• Section 44:12-3 - Rules And Regulations
  The director of the New Jersey Office of Economic Opportunity may prescribe rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of this act. L.1966, c....
• Section 44:12-4 - Powers As Additional And Supplemental To Other Laws
  The powers conferred by this act shall be in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law, and shall not be...
• Section 44:12-5 - Construction Of Act
  This act shall be liberally construed to effectuate its purpose. L.1966, c. 13, s. 5.
• Section 44:12-6 - Approval Of Prior Acts And Actions
  All acts and actions heretofore taken by any local unit in co-operation with the Federal Government in carrying out the programs contemplated by the...
• Section 44:14-1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "County Welfare Per Capita Cost Limitation Act of 1981." L.1981, c. 60, s....
• Section 44:14-2 - Legislative Findings And Declarations
  The Legislature finds and declares: that there is a wide disparity in the cost of welfare between counties despite the assumption of the major...
• Section 44:14-3 - Distribution Of Funds; Determination
  Funds shall be distributed under this act according to the following formula; CW CWS E=---- -- ------ x CP CP SP where: E is...
• Section 44:14-4 - Entitlement; Certification
  On or before January 10 of each year the Commissioner of Human Services shall determine and certify to the chief financial officer of each...
• Section 44:14-5 - Semiannual Payments By State Treasurer
  The State Treasurer shall make payments required under this act in two equal installments, the first to be payable annually on August 1 of...
• Section 44:14-6 - Anticipation Of Amount Of Funds
  A county entitled to receive funds under this act shall anticipate the amount certified by the Commissioner of Human Services in its budget. L.1981,c.60,s.6;...
• Section 44:14-7 - Reduction Of Base Upon Which Limitation On County Expenditures Is Determined
  In 1982, a county receiving funds under this act shall reduce the base upon which the limitation on county expenditures is determined in an...
• Section 44:15-1 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Elder Economic Security.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that low-income elderly residents of the State are pressured by a widening gap between their increasing housing, health care,...
• Section 44:15-2 - Utilization Of Nj Elder Index By Dhs.
  2. a. The Department of Human Services shall utilize the NJ Elder Index to improve the coordination and delivery of public benefits and services...
• Section 44:15-3 - Report By Department; Referral To Nj Elder Index And Related Data.
  3. a. In any case in which the department reports on the incomes of public benefit participants, the department shall compare participant incomes to...
• Section 44:15-4 - Compliance Subject To Appropriation Of Sufficient Funds, Funding Availability, Resources.
  4.Compliance with the requirements of P.L.2015, c.53 (C.44:15-1 et seq.) shall be subject to the appropriation of sufficient funds and the availability of sufficient...

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