44:5-4 - Contracts by cities for care of indigent patients; referendum - New Jersey Statutes

44:5-4.  Contracts by cities for care of indigent patients;  referendum
    A city which has no hospital located therein maintained by the city, shall,  when the provisions of sections 44:5-4 to 44:5-7 of this title are assented to  by a majority of the electors as hereinafter provided, make and enter into a  contract or agreement with any regularly incorporated hospital supported in  whole or in part by private subscription and located in the city, to pay to  that hospital for a period not exceeding ten years in any one term, a sum equal  to one-third of a mill on every dollar of assessable property returned by the  assessor of the city, for the purpose of supporting, maintaining and caring for  such indigent patients as may be sent to that hospital by order of any city  physician, overseer of the poor or other proper authority of the city.  Said  sections 44:5-4 to 44:5-7 shall not take effect in any city until assented to  by a majority of the legal electors thereof voting at any election for  municipal officers to be held in the city.