30:4C-32 - Burial of child receiving care, etc. - New Jersey Statutes

30:4C-32.    Burial of child receiving care, etc. 
     Whenever a child receiving care, custody, or guardianship as provided by this act has died, and an investigation by the Division of Youth and Family Services discloses that there are insufficient funds from any other source to provide proper burial, such division shall authorize the expenditure of an amount reasonably necessary to provide proper burial for such child, and such amount shall be a proper charge against State funds, within the limits of available appropriations, in the same manner and extent as expenditures for maintenance. 

    The amount reasonably necessary to provide proper burial shall be determined by the average cost for a proper burial and funeral charged by funeral directors in the locality in which the child is buried. 

    L.1951,c.138,s.32; amended 1962,c.197,s.33; 1985,c.282,s.1; 1990,c.66,s.5.