44:5-19 - Annual appropriations by fourth and sixth-class counties for maintenance of patients - New Jersey Statutes

44:5-19.  Annual appropriations by fourth and sixth-class counties for maintenance of patients
    The board of chosen freeholders of a county of the fourth or sixth class, which has no hospital located therein maintained by the county, other than the hospital or sick ward of the county almshouse, a county tuberculosis hospital or sanatorium, a county hospital or sanatorium for the insane, or a hospital for contagious and infectious diseases, may appropriate not more than $15,000.00 annually, to any one hospital, in the manner in which appropriations  for other county purposes are made, which sum shall be included in the annual  tax levy of the county and collected in the same manner and at the same time as  other county taxes, and be applied to the purpose of supporting and maintaining  such patients as may be sent to any hospital or hospitals whether privately  owned and maintained or supported by private charity.

    The sum so appropriated shall be used and applied for the benefit, comfort and maintenance of such patients, inmates of such hospital, as are residents of  the county at the time of being sent to that hospital.

     Amended by L.1969, c. 188, s. 6, eff. Nov. 7, 1969.