44:11-7 - Discharge of representative - New Jersey Statutes

44:11-7.  Discharge of representative
    (a) When at a hearing held upon application of the recipient the court determines from the certification of 2 physicians, or other acceptable evidence, that the recipient is no longer functionally incompetent, the court may discharge the representative payee.

    (b) Whenever it appears upon application and good cause shown by the representative payee or the welfare board that such representative payee should  be relieved of his duties, the court may discharge such representative payee  and, if the circumstances still require, appoint in his stead some other fit  and proper person.

     L.1964, c. 155, s. 7.