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2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes
Title 44 - Poor
Section 44:1-124 - Bringing poor person into municipality or county unlawfully; misdemeanor

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NJ Rev Stat § 44:1-124 (2021)
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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 municipality or county from any other municipality or county within this state without first having obtained the consent of the overseer of the municipality or the superintendent if there is no overseer appointed and qualified therein, or the county welfare board of the county, as the case may be, or from any other state into any municipality or county within this state without first having obtained the consent of the commissioner and furnishing suitable bond, and there leave or attempt to leave the person without first having obtained that consent, in order that the support or maintenance of the poor person upon the municipality or county may be avoided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and the poor person shall not gain a legal settlement thereby and shall be returned from whence he came in the manner provided by law.

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