30:9-37 - Communicable disease hospital; location; bonds - New Jersey Statutes

30:9-37.  Communicable disease hospital;  location;  bonds
    The board of chosen freeholders of any county, whenever in its judgment the  public need requires, may acquire land by purchase, condemnation, gift or otherwise anywhere in the county and erect thereon suitable buildings to be used as a hospital for communicable diseases and to furnish and maintain the same.  No building in which patients are housed, shall be located within less than two hundred and fifty feet of any public highway, or of any dwelling house  or other inhabited building.  For the purpose of this section county bonds may  be issued and sold to an amount not exceeding one-tenth of one per centum  (  1/10   of 1%) of the county ratables.

     Amended by L.1953, c. 148, p. 1362, s. 1.