44:1-32 - Making of contract; terms - New Jersey Statutes

44:1-32.  Making of contract;  terms
    Upon the certificate of the state board that the housing conditions and accommodations are sufficient and adequate for the purpose, and the approval of  the state board of health that the sanitary conditions are such as to properly  safeguard the health of the poor persons to be maintained therein, the board of  chosen freeholders of a county may contract with the board of chosen  freeholders of another county to board and care for poor persons requiring  permanent relief of such county, excepting municipalities thereof which elect  not to participate in the county plan and which maintain their own permanent  poor, and such contract authorized by the board and entered into by the  directors of the counties concerned shall provide for the permanent maintenance  and relief of such poor persons.  A county so contracting may maintain its  permanent poor in the almshouse or welfare-house in the other contracting  county.