2013 New Jersey Revised Statutes
Title 30 - INSTITUTIONS AND AGENCIES
Section 30:9-36 - Pesthouses or isolation hospitals in connection with poorhouses
30:9-36. Pesthouses or isolation hospitals in connection with poorhouses
The governing body of a poorhouse may establish and maintain on lands belonging to the poorhouse an isolation hospital for communicable diseases, appoint and employ the necessary officers and employees and fix their compensation. Such governing body may, on request of the local board of health of a municipality within its jurisdiction, remove and transport to the hospital from such municipality persons suffering from contagious or infectious diseases and may convey such persons across, into or through the territory of another municipality.
Such governing body shall appropriate such sums of money as may be necessary for the establishment of the hospital or pesthouse and shall annually as part of the poorhouse appropriations, appropriate sufficient funds for the necessary and proper maintenance of such hospital or pesthouse.
Nothing in this section shall permit a municipality or its board of health, officers or agents to erect a hospital outside its boundaries except as otherwise provided by law.
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