44:5-3 - Contracts by cities for care of persons at public expense - New Jersey Statutes

44:5-3.  Contracts by cities for care of persons at public expense    The board or body having charge of the finances of a city may enter into and  make a contract or contracts not exceeding the term of five years at a time  with any corporation or individual maintaining or operating a hospital in that  city, for the medical and surgical care and treatment of those persons whom  that board or body shall consider and determine should be cared for and treated  at public expense.  That board or body shall annually during the continuance of  the contract or contracts raise by taxation the sum needed to defray the  expenses of such medical care and treatment for the fiscal year then next  ensuing.