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2018 New Jersey Revised Statutes
Title 44 - POOR
Chapter 1
- Section 44:1-1 - Definitions
- Section 44:1-2 - Construction in general
- Section 44:1-3 - Establishment by board of freeholders
- Section 44:1-4 - Acquisition of real estate for welfare-house
- Section 44:1-5 - Erection, alteration and repair of buildings
- Section 44:1-6 - Levy, assessment and collection of money for buildings and maintenance
- Section 44:1-7 - Borrowing money and issuing obligations therefor
- Section 44:1-8 - Acceptance of gifts, devises and bequests
- Section 44:1-9 - Inspection of welfare-house
- Section 44:1-10 - Constitution and appointment in general
- Section 44:1-10.1 - Change of name to county board of social services; resolution or ordinance
- Section 44:1-10.2 - County welfare board to mean county board of social services
- Section 44:1-11 - Membership
- Section 44:1-12 - Terms of members; vacancies
- Section 44:1-12.1 - Terms of members; additional appointments
- Section 44:1-13 - Compensation and expenses of members
- Section 44:1-14 - Organization of board
- Section 44:1-15 - Supervision of relief and settlement of poor
- Section 44:1-16 - Regulation and operation of welfare-house
- Section 44:1-17 - Equipment and maintenance of welfare-house
- Section 44:1-18 - Meetings of board
- Section 44:1-19 - Public record of board proceedings
- Section 44:1-20 - Appropriations; approval by freeholders
- Section 44:1-21 - Certification of bills to board of freeholders
- Section 44:1-22 - Working expense fund
- Section 44:1-23 - Annual report to board of freeholders
- Section 44:1-24 - Appointment of superintendent; qualifications
- Section 44:1-24.1 - Temporary welfare director
- Section 44:1-24.2 - Chief administrative officer of county welfare agencies or boards of social services; duties
- Section 44:1-25 - Term of superintendent
- Section 44:1-26 - Appointment of officers and employees
- Section 44:1-27 - Salaries
- Section 44:1-28 - Regulations governing officers and employees
- Section 44:1-29 - General powers of superintendent
- Section 44:1-30 - Persons receivable in welfare-house
- Section 44:1-30.1 - Change of almshouse to welfare-house; persons to be admitted
- Section 44:1-30.2 - Persons admitted to pledge property; lien; agreement to reimburse
- Section 44:1-30.3 - Recording of certificates; warrant of satisfaction or release
- Section 44:1-31 - Exercise by superintendent or another of power of overseer; general jurisdiction
- Section 44:1-32 - Making of contract; terms
- Section 44:1-33 - Contract authorized by resolution
- Section 44:1-34 - Collection of expense from participating municipalities
- Section 44:1-35 - Constitution and appointment of welfare board
- Section 44:1-36 - Inspection of almshouse or welfare-house
- Section 44:1-37 - Procedure when municipality elects not to participate
- Section 44:1-38 - Concurrent resolutions in contiguous and adjoining counties to establish district welfare-house
- Section 44:1-39 - Submitting resolution to voters of each county
- Section 44:1-40 - Ballot; form and content
- Section 44:1-41 - Voting.
- Section 44:1-42 - Canvass, return and result of vote
- Section 44:1-43 - Constitution and appointment of district welfare board
- Section 44:1-44 - Meetings of board
- Section 44:1-45 - Compensation and expenses of members
- Section 44:1-46 - Authority of board in general
- Section 44:1-47 - Appointment of superintendent of welfare
- Section 44:1-48 - Apportionment of expense of establishment and maintenance of welfare-house
- Section 44:1-49 - Assignment of child support rights by signing application for benefits.
- Section 44:1-50 - Custody of funds raised in respective counties
- Section 44:1-51 - Payment of bills and accounts
- Section 44:1-52 - Approval of estimated cost of establishment or enlargement of welfare-house
- Section 44:1-53 - Borrowing money and issuing bonds to establish or enlarge welfare-house
- Section 44:1-54 - Term of bonds; raising of principal and interest
- Section 44:1-55 - Compelling county to share expenses and obligations
- Section 44:1-56 - Approval of plans and specifications for welfare-house
- Section 44:1-57 - Notice of readiness to accommodate poor of district
- Section 44:1-58 - Exemption of welfare-house from taxation
- Section 44:1-59 - Time of final action on resolution; notice
- Section 44:1-60 - Continuation of relief by counties not adopting plan
- Section 44:1-61 - Election by municipality not to participate
- Section 44:1-62 - Subsequent joining by municipality in county or joint county purpose
- Section 44:1-63 - Excepted municipalities to provide relief of poor independently
- Section 44:1-64 - Abolition of municipal almshouses when county relief undertaken
- Section 44:1-65 - Abolition of county and municipal almshouses when district relief undertaken
- Section 44:1-66 - Other methods of establishing almshouses
- Section 44:1-67 - Bond issues for construction, repair or equipment
- Section 44:1-68 - Classification and care of inmates
- Section 44:1-69 - Separation of sexes
- Section 44:1-70 - Denomination of supervisors of almshouses
- Section 44:1-71 - Keeping of book with certain entries as to each inmate
- Section 44:1-72 - Penalty for failure properly to keep record book
- Section 44:1-73 - Appointment
- Section 44:1-73.1 - Offices of overseer of poor and deputy overseers abolished
- Section 44:1-73.2 - Municipal director of welfare deemed referred to by mention of overseer, etc.
- Section 44:1-73.3 - No deprivation of certain county powers
- Section 44:1-73.4 - Term or compensation of directors of welfare unaffected
- Section 44:1-73.5 - Civil service, pension or retirement rights unaffected
- Section 44:1-73.6 - Rights of overseers of poor and deputy overseers unaffected for balance of term
- Section 44:1-73.7 - Effective date
- Section 44:1-74 - Term
- Section 44:1-75 - Qualifications
- Section 44:1-76 - Removal
- Section 44:1-77 - Tenure and removal or reduction in cities of first class
- Section 44:1-78 - Salary
- Section 44:1-79 - Contract by municipality for services of overseer of adjoining municipality
- Section 44:1-80 - Removal of director of welfare from duties in adjoining municipality
- Section 44:1-81 - Certificate of appointment; filing
- Section 44:1-82 - Lists of overseers
- Section 44:1-83 - Appointment and powers of deputy overseers
- Section 44:1-84 - Appointment, salaries and removal of deputies, assistants and others
- Section 44:1-85 - Helpers to overseers
- Section 44:1-86 - Determination by director of relief to be granted
- Section 44:1-87 - Inquiry into application for relief
- Section 44:1-88 - Granting of relief
- Section 44:1-89 - Permanent relief in absence of almshouse or welfare-house
- Section 44:1-90 - Contents of relief order or commitment
- Section 44:1-91 - Removal of permanent poor to almshouses or welfare-houses
- Section 44:1-92 - Length of stay of poor persons in institutions
- Section 44:1-93 - Use of all agencies for relief
- Section 44:1-94 - Obtaining employment for poor persons and families
- Section 44:1-95 - Expenses recoverable, procedure
- Section 44:1-96 - Record of receipts and expenditures
- Section 44:1-97 - Record as to every applicant for relief
- Section 44:1-98 - Filing of record on admission to institution
- Section 44:1-99 - Books relative to money received and orders for relief
- Section 44:1-100 - Materials, stationery and forms of records
- Section 44:1-101 - Annual reports by overseers
- Section 44:1-102 - Place of settlement in general
- Section 44:1-103 - Married woman and children
- Section 44:1-104 - Legitimate minor children
- Section 44:1-105 - Illegitimate minor children
- Section 44:1-106 - Minor from outside of state
- Section 44:1-107 - Persons from outside of United States
- Section 44:1-108 - Granting permanent relief where required of county of settlement
- Section 44:1-109 - Granting permanent relief in absence of county almshouse, welfare-house or district welfare-house
- Section 44:1-110 - County chargeable for permanent relief where settlement is therein
- Section 44:1-111 - Permanent relief where settlement is in county having no provision therefor
- Section 44:1-112 - Permanent relief in municipality or county other than that of settlement
- Section 44:1-113 - Permanent relief forbidden to persons without settlement and otherwise removable
- Section 44:1-114 - Procedure where relief required by person having no settlement anywhere
- Section 44:1-115 - Procedure where temporary relief required and settlement is elsewhere in state
- Section 44:1-116 - Procedure where temporary relief required and settlement is outside of state
- Section 44:1-117 - Duties of overseer
- Section 44:1-118 - Duties of county adjuster
- Section 44:1-119 - Written notice of removal
- Section 44:1-120 - Removal in absence of contest
- Section 44:1-121 - Contest; how made
- Section 44:1-122 - Failure to resist removal, review
- Section 44:1-123 - Liability of municipality, recovery
- Section 44:1-124 - Bringing poor person into municipality or county unlawfully; misdemeanor
- Section 44:1-125 - Suspension of sentence or fine upon certain conditions
- Section 44:1-126 - Furnishing transportation to non-resident poor
- Section 44:1-127 - Enabling nonresident poor to earn funds to return home
- Section 44:1-128 - When relief may be provided in home
- Section 44:1-129 - Petition for relief
- Section 44:1-130 - Summary hearing; order for home relief
- Section 44:1-131 - Continuance of relief
- Section 44:1-132 - Revocation of order for relief
- Section 44:1-133 - Payment of home relief
- Section 44:1-134 - Notice to board of children's guardians of commitment of minor to almshouse
- Section 44:1-135 - Supervision of minor committed to almshouse
- Section 44:1-136 - Temporary commitment of poor minor by overseer to institution or home
- Section 44:1-137 - Expense of temporary commitment
- Section 44:1-138 - Notice of placement to boards of freeholders and children's guardians
- Section 44:1-139 - Obtaining or compelling assistance of relatives
- Section 44:1-140 - Relatives chargeable
- Section 44:1-141 - Compelling support by relatives
- Section 44:1-142 - Contracts between overseers and relatives or others
- Section 44:1-143 - Compelling support by husband or wife
- Section 44:1-144 - Sequestration of estate
- Section 44:1-146 - Recovery of expenses of support
- Section 44:1-147 - Willful deserter as disorderly person; punishment
- Section 44:1-148 - Complaint by director of welfare
- Section 44:1-152 - Visitation of sick poor by official physicians and nurses
- Section 44:1-153 - Further medical or other relief
- Section 44:1-154 - Hospitalization and other relief where treatment is urgent
- Section 44:1-155 - Bond for maintenance from master or commander
- Section 44:1-156 - Liability of master or commander for landing persons wrongfully
- Section 44:1-157.1 - Rate of payment
- Section 44:1-158 - Acquisition of cemetery; issuance of bonds
- Section 44:1-159 - Annual appropriations to carry provisions of chapter into effect
- Section 44:1-160 - Deficiency appropriations; temporary loan bonds
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