2013 New Jersey Revised Statutes
Title 30 - INSTITUTIONS AND AGENCIES
Section 30:9-66 - Applications for admission; legal settlement; maintenance; disciplining patients; discharge
30:9-66. Applications for admission; legal settlement; maintenance; disciplining patients; discharge
30:9-66. A resident of the county desiring treatment in the county hospital established under section 30:9-61 of this Title may apply for examination to a reputable physician. Such physician if he finds that the applicant is suffering from a communicable disease in any form, may apply to the superintendent for his admission.
All applications shall state whether in the judgment of the physician, the patient is able to pay in whole or in part for his care and treatment. Each application shall be filed and recorded in a book kept for that purpose in the order of its receipt.
The determination of legal settlement and liability for costs of care and maintenance of all patients shall be insofar as practicable in accordance with R.S.30:4-24 to R.S.30:4-105 and R.S.30:9-57.
No discrimination shall be made in the accommodation, care or treatment of any patient because of any payment of maintenance and no officer or employee shall accept from a patient any fee, payment or gratuity for services.
When in the judgment of the board of managers the further detention of a patient is for his benefit or the benefit of the community, he may be so detained. No patient shall be discharged without first obtaining permission of the superintendent or board of managers.
The superintendent, if he shall be a physician and if not then such member of the medical staff as shall be so designated by the board of managers, shall have the custody and control of the patients and within the regulations of the board of managers may restrain and discipline a patient in such manner as in his opinion the welfare of the patient requires. He shall discharge a patient whenever cured or whenever further detention would not benefit the patient or the community.
A patient to whom discharge is refused, or any person as his guardian ad litem, may apply to the Superior Court in a summary manner for such discharge.
Amended 1947,c.254,s.2; 1953,c.29,s.67; 1977,c.63,s.21; 1991,c.91,s.334.
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