STATE STATUTES & CODES

NEW JERSEY STATUTES AND CODES

Section 44:4

• 44:4-1 - Definitions
• 44:4-2 - Chapter inoperative until adopted upon referendum
• 44:4-3 - Construction in general
• 44:4-4 - Establishment of welfare-house or provision for poor by contract
• 44:4-5 - Action on resolution to establish welfare-house or to contract
• 44:4-6 - Acquisition of real estate for welfare-house
• 44:4-7 - Erection, alteration or repair of buildings
• 44:4-8 - Necessary money charge upon municipalities of county
• 44:4-9 - Raising of money for buildings and maintenance
• 44:4-10 - Bonds for buildings, repairs or fittings
• 44:4-11 - Maintenance expense charge upon county
• 44:4-12 - Acceptance of gifts, devises and bequests
• 44:4-13 - Inspection of welfare-house
• 44:4-14 - Abolition of almshouses
• 44:4-15 - Sale of property formerly used for municipal almshouses
• 44:4-16 - Contract with another county for maintenance of permanent poor
• 44:4-17 - Contract authorized by resolution
• 44:4-18 - Terms of contract
• 44:4-19 - Expense under contract;  payment by proper county
• 44:4-20 - Membership
• 44:4-21 - Terms of members;  vacancies
• 44:4-22 - Compensation and expenses of members
• 44:4-23 - Organization of board
• 44:4-24 - Supervision of relief and settlement of poor;  complaints for prevention of cruelty
• 44:4-25 - Supervision of old age relief
• 44:4-26 - Board as manager of welfare-house
• 44:4-27 - Equipment and maintenance of welfare-house
• 44:4-28 - Meetings of board
• 44:4-29 - Approval of appropriations
• 44:4-30 - Certification of bills to board of freeholders
• 44:4-31 - Working expense fund
• 44:4-32 - Appointment of director;  qualifications
• 44:4-33 - Director of welfare, classification for civil service; working test period
• 44:4-34 - Appointment and tenure of other officers and employees
• 44:4-35 - Salaries
• 44:4-36 - Regulations governing officers and employees
• 44:4-37 - Functions and duties of director
• 44:4-38 - Functions and duties formerly performed by overseers of poor
• 44:4-39 - Persons receivable in welfare-house
• 44:4-40 - Determination by director of relief to be granted 
• 44:4-41 - Deputy director of welfare
• 44:4-42 - Assistant directors for municipalities
• 44:4-43 - Resident helpers and municipal advisory committees
• 44:4-44 - Use of all agencies for relief
• 44:4-45 - Records of proceedings and of relief furnished
• 44:4-46 - Books showing receipts;  record of orders for relief
• 44:4-47 - Periodical reports to chosen freeholders
• 44:4-48 - Annual report as to welfare-house
• 44:4-49 - Director's record of receipts and expenditures
• 44:4-50 - Director's record of applicants for relief
• 44:4-51 - Filing of record on admission to institution
• 44:4-52 - Annual report of director to chosen freeholders
• 44:4-53 - Material, stationery and forms of records
• 44:4-54 - Inspection of records and reports
• 44:4-55 - Book kept in every institution;  required entries
• 44:4-56 - Penalty for failure to keep book
• 44:4-57 - Place of settlement in general
• 44:4-58 - Married woman and children
• 44:4-59 - Legitimate minor children
• 44:4-60 - Illegitimate minor children
• 44:4-61 - Minors from outside of state
• 44:4-62 - Persons from outside of United States
• 44:4-63 - Permanent relief in place of settlement
• 44:4-64 - Permanent relief in county other than that of settlement
• 44:4-65 - Temporary provision for persons having no settlement in county
• 44:4-66 - Procedure where relief sought by person having no settlement anywhere
• 44:4-67 - Temporary relief in county other than that of settlement
• 44:4-68 - Temporary relief by person having settlement outside of state
• 44:4-69 - County chargeable with relief of all persons having settlement
• 44:4-70 - Settlement;  determination;  effect of temporary removal
• 44:4-71 - Temporary relief for person having legal settlement elsewhere
• 44:4-72 - Removal of poor person to place of legal settlement; procedure 
• 44:4-73 - Duties of director of welfare and county adjuster
• 44:4-74 - Written notice of removal
• 44:4-75 - Removal in absence of contest
• 44:4-76 - Contest; how made 
• 44:4-77 - Failure to resist removal;  review when failure explained
• 44:4-78 - Liability of county or municipality failing to receive or remove poor person 
• 44:4-79 - Bringing poor person into county unlawfully;  misdemeanor
• 44:4-80 - Suspension of sentence or fine upon certain conditions
• 44:4-81 - Furnishing transportation to nonresident poor
• 44:4-82 - Inquiry into case by director
• 44:4-83 - Rendition of aid
• 44:4-84 - Temporary relief in suitable home
• 44:4-85 - Relief order and commitment;  contents
• 44:4-86 - Investigation and supervision by welfare board
• 44:4-87 - Obtaining employment for poor persons and families
• 44:4-88 - Length of stay of poor person in welfare-house
• 44:4-89 - Classification and care of inmates of welfare-houses
• 44:4-90 - Separation of sexes;  exception
• 44:4-91 - Expenses recoverable from poor person or estate;  insurance
• 44:4-91.1 - Pledge of property as guaranty for reimbursement;  agreement to  reimburse
• 44:4-91.2 - Filing certificate of costs of care furnished; legal claim, enforcement 
• 44:4-91.3 - Record of welfare house and outdoor liens
• 44:4-92 - When relief may be provided in home
• 44:4-93 - Permanent relief;  amount to be adequate;  payable monthly
• 44:4-94 - Semiannual report relative to continuance of relief
• 44:4-95 - Notice to board of children's guardians of commitment of minors to  welfare-house
• 44:4-96 - Supervision of minors committed to welfare-house
• 44:4-97 - Temporary commitment of poor minor by director to institution or home
• 44:4-98 - Notice of placement to boards of freeholders and children's guardians
• 44:4-99 - Transfer of children from welfare-house to charitable society; maintenance
• 44:4-100 - Ascertaining and obtaining or compelling assistance of relatives
• 44:4-101 - Relatives chargeable
• 44:4-102 - Compelling support by relatives 
• 44:4-103 - Contracts between welfare board and relatives or others
• 44:4-104 - Compelling support by husband or wife 
• 44:4-105 - Sequestration of estate 
• 44:4-107 - Recovery of expenses of support
• 44:4-108 - Willful deserter as disorderly person;  punishment
• 44:4-109 - Complaint by director of welfare
• 44:4-112 - Visitation of sick poor by official physicians and nurses
• 44:4-113 - Contract for visiting nursing care
• 44:4-114 - Further medical or other relief
• 44:4-115 - Hospitalization and other relief where treatment is urgent
• 44:4-116 - Bond for maintenance from master or commander
• 44:4-117 - Liability of master or commander for landing persons wrongfully
• 44:4-118 - Burial of poor
• 44:4-119 - Acquisition of cemetery by county;  issuance of bonds
• 44:4-120 - Appropriations for year following adoption of chapter
• 44:4-121 - Estimates for ensuing calendar or fiscal years
• 44:4-122 - Appropriation by freeholders for relief of permanent or indoor poor
• 44:4-123 - Additional county appropriation when original appropriation inadequate
• 44:4-124 - Raising or borrowing of additional sums
• 44:4-125 - Appropriations by municipalities for temporary or outdoor poor
• 44:4-126 - Additional municipal appropriations
• 44:4-127 - Emergency county appropriation when municipality fails to appropriate additional sum
• 44:4-128 - Unexpended balances of municipal appropriations
• 44:4-129 - Proposal by resolution to adopt chapter
• 44:4-130 - Time for final action on resolution
• 44:4-131 - Notice of time and place of final action;  adjournment
• 44:4-132 - Submission of question to voters of county;  notice
• 44:4-133 - Ballot; form and content
• 44:4-134 - Voting 
• 44:4-135 - Canvass and return of votes;  when chapter becomes operative

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