44:5-19.1 - Liens for medical care and hospitalization; priority - New Jersey Statutes

44:5-19.1.  Liens for medical care and hospitalization;  priority
    The board of chosen freeholders of any county, which furnishes medical care  and hospitalization to resident indigent patients who cannot be maintained by  private means, in a hospital or hospitals supported by private charity, on a  per diem per patient basis, shall have a lien against the property of any  person receiving such service in an amount equal to the cost to the county of  the maintenance of such person in such hospital, which lien shall have priority  over all unrecorded encumbrances.

     L.1957, c. 139, p. 530, s. 1, eff. July 12, 1957.