New Jersey Statutes

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• Chapter 1

• 113
  Permanent relief forbidden to persons without settlement and otherwise removable
  
  
• 101
  Annual reports by overseers
  
  
• 100
  Materials, stationery and forms of records
  
  
• 99
  Books relative to money received and orders for relief
  
  
• 98
  Filing of record on admission to institution
  
  
• 97
  Record as to every applicant for relief
  
  
• 96
  Record of receipts and expenditures
  
  
• 95
  Expenses recoverable, procedure
  
  
• 94
  Obtaining employment for poor persons and families
  
  
• 102
  Place of settlement in general
  
  
• 103
  Married woman and children
  
  
• 104
  Legitimate minor children
  
  
• 112
  Permanent relief in municipality or county other than that of settlement
  
  
• 111
  Permanent relief where settlement is in county having no provision therefor
  
  
• 110
  County chargeable for permanent relief where settlement is therein
  
  
• 109
  Granting permanent relief in absence of county almshouse, welfare-house or district welfare-house
  
  
• 108
  Granting permanent relief where required of county of settlement
  
  
• 107
  Persons from outside of United States
  
  
• 106
  Minor from outside of state
  
  
• 105
  Illegitimate minor children
  
  
• 93
  Use of all agencies for relief
  
  
• 92
  Length of stay of poor persons in institutions
  
  
• 80
  Removal of director of welfare from duties in adjoining municipality
  
  
• 79
  Contract by municipality for services of overseer of adjoining municipality
  
  
• 78
  Salary
  
  
• 77
  Tenure and removal or reduction in cities of first class
  
  
• 76
  Removal
  
  
• 75
  Qualifications
  
  
• 74
  Term
  
  
• 73.7
  Effective date
  
  
• 81
  Certificate of appointment; filing
  
  
• 82
  Lists of overseers
  
  
• 83
  Appointment and powers of deputy overseers
  
  
• 91
  Removal of permanent poor to almshouses or welfare-houses
  
  
• 90
  Contents of relief order or commitment
  
  
• 89
  Permanent relief in absence of almshouse or welfare-house
  
  
• 88
  Granting of relief
  
  
• 87
  Inquiry into application for relief
  
  
• 86
  Determination by director of relief to be granted
  
  
• 85
  Helpers to overseers
  
  
• 84
  Appointment, salaries and removal of deputies, assistants and others
  
  
• 73.6
  Rights of overseers of poor and deputy overseers unaffected for balance of term
  
  
• 114
  Procedure where relief required by person having no settlement anywhere
  
  
• 160
  Deficiency appropriations; temporary loan bonds
  
  
• 144
  Sequestration of estate
  
  
• 143
  Compelling support by husband or wife
  
  
• 142
  Contracts between overseers and relatives or others
  
  
• 141
  Compelling support by relatives
  
  
• 140
  Relatives chargeable
  
  
• 139
  Obtaining or compelling assistance of relatives
  
  
• 138
  Notice of placement to boards of freeholders and children's guardians
  
  
• 137
  Expense of temporary commitment
  
  
• 146
  Recovery of expenses of support
  
  
• 147
  Willful deserter as disorderly person; punishment
  
  
• 148
  Complaint by director of welfare
  
  
• 159
  Annual appropriations to carry provisions of chapter into effect
  
  
• 158
  Acquisition of cemetery; issuance of bonds
  
  
• 157.1
  Rate of payment
  
  
• 156
  Liability of master or commander for landing persons wrongfully
  
  
• 155
  Bond for maintenance from master or commander
  
  
• 154
  Hospitalization and other relief where treatment is urgent
  
  
• 153
  Further medical or other relief
  
  
• 152
  Visitation of sick poor by official physicians and nurses
  
  
• 136
  Temporary commitment of poor minor by overseer to institution or home
  
  
• 135
  Supervision of minor committed to almshouse
  
  
• 123
  Liability of municipality, recovery
  
  
• 122
  Failure to resist removal, review
  
  
• 121
  Contest; how made
  
  
• 120
  Removal in absence of contest
  
  
• 119
  Written notice of removal
  
  
• 118
  Duties of county adjuster
  
  
• 117
  Duties of overseer
  
  
• 116
  Procedure where temporary relief required and settlement is outside of state
  
  
• 124
  Bringing poor person into municipality or county unlawfully; misdemeanor
  
  
• 125
  Suspension of sentence or fine upon certain conditions
  
  
• 126
  Furnishing transportation to non-resident poor
  
  
• 134
  Notice to board of children's guardians of commitment of minor to almshouse
  
  
• 133
  Payment of home relief
  
  
• 132
  Revocation of order for relief
  
  
• 131
  Continuance of relief
  
  
• 130
  Summary hearing; order for home relief
  
  
• 129
  Petition for relief
  
  
• 128
  When relief may be provided in home
  
  
• 127
  Enabling nonresident poor to earn funds to return home
  
  
• 115
  Procedure where temporary relief required and settlement is elsewhere in state
  
  
• 73.5
  Civil service, pension or retirement rights unaffected
  
  
• 34
  Collection of expense from participating municipalities
  
  
• 25
  Term of superintendent
  
  
• 24.2
  Chief administrative officer of county welfare agencies or boards of social services; duties
  
  
• 24.1
  Temporary welfare director
  
  
• 24
  Appointment of superintendent; qualifications
  
  
• 23
  Annual report to board of freeholders
  
  
• 22
  Working expense fund
  
  
• 21
  Certification of bills to board of freeholders
  
  
• 20
  Appropriations; approval by freeholders
  
  
• 26
  Appointment of officers and employees
  
  
• 27
  Salaries
  
  
• 28
  Regulations governing officers and employees
  
  
• 33
  Contract authorized by resolution
  
  
• 32
  Making of contract; terms
  
  
• 31
  Exercise by superintendent or another of power of overseer; general jurisdiction
  
  
• 30.3
  Recording of certificates; warrant of satisfaction or release
  
  
• 30.2
  Persons admitted to pledge property; lien; agreement to reimburse
  
  
• 30.1
  Change of almshouse to welfare-house; persons to be admitted
  
  
• 30
  Persons receivable in welfare-house
  
  
• 29
  General powers of superintendent
  
  
• 19
  Public record of board proceedings
  
  
• 18
  Meetings of board
  
  
• 9
  Inspection of welfare-house
  
  
• 8
  Acceptance of gifts, devises and bequests
  
  
• 7
  Borrowing money and issuing obligations therefor
  
  
• 6
  Levy, assessment and collection of money for buildings and maintenance
  
  
• 5
  Erection, alteration and repair of buildings
  
  
• 4
  Acquisition of real estate for welfare-house
  
  
• 3
  Establishment by board of freeholders
  
  
• 2
  Construction in general
  
  
• 10
  Constitution and appointment in general
  
  
• 10.1
  Change of name to county board of social services; resolution or ordinance
  
  
• 10.2
  County welfare board to mean county board of social services
  
  
• 17
  Equipment and maintenance of welfare-house
  
  
• 16
  Regulation and operation of welfare-house
  
  
• 15
  Supervision of relief and settlement of poor
  
  
• 14
  Organization of board
  
  
• 13
  Compensation and expenses of members
  
  
• 12.1
  Terms of members; additional appointments
  
  
• 12
  Terms of members; vacancies
  
  
• 11
  Membership
  
  
• 1
  Definitions
  
  
• 35
  Constitution and appointment of welfare board
  
  
• 73.4
  Term or compensation of directors of welfare unaffected
  
  
• 65
  Abolition of county and municipal almshouses when district relief undertaken
  
  
• 64
  Abolition of municipal almshouses when county relief undertaken
  
  
• 63
  Excepted municipalities to provide relief of poor independently
  
  
• 62
  Subsequent joining by municipality in county or joint county purpose
  
  
• 61
  Election by municipality not to participate
  
  
• 60
  Continuation of relief by counties not adopting plan
  
  
• 59
  Time of final action on resolution; notice
  
  
• 58
  Exemption of welfare-house from taxation
  
  
• 66
  Other methods of establishing almshouses
  
  
• 67
  Bond issues for construction, repair or equipment
  
  
• 68
  Classification and care of inmates
  
  
• 73.3
  No deprivation of certain county powers
  
  
• 73.2
  Municipal director of welfare deemed referred to by mention of overseer, etc.
  
  
• 73.1
  Offices of overseer of poor and deputy overseers abolished
  
  
• 73
  Appointment
  
  
• 72
  Penalty for failure properly to keep record book
  
  
• 71
  Keeping of book with certain entries as to each inmate
  
  
• 70
  Denomination of supervisors of almshouses
  
  
• 69
  Separation of sexes
  
  
• 57
  Notice of readiness to accommodate poor of district
  
  
• 56
  Approval of plans and specifications for welfare-house
  
  
• 44
  Meetings of board
  
  
• 43
  Constitution and appointment of district welfare board
  
  
• 42
  Canvass, return and result of vote
  
  
• 41
  Voting.
  
  
• 40
  Ballot; form and content
  
  
• 39
  Submitting resolution to voters of each county
  
  
• 38
  Concurrent resolutions in contiguous and adjoining counties to establish district welfare-house
  
  
• 37
  Procedure when municipality elects not to participate
  
  
• 36
  Inspection of almshouse or welfare-house
  
  
• 45
  Compensation and expenses of members
  
  
• 46
  Authority of board in general
  
  
• 55
  Compelling county to share expenses and obligations
  
  
• 54
  Term of bonds; raising of principal and interest
  
  
• 53
  Borrowing money and issuing bonds to establish or enlarge welfare-house
  
  
• 52
  Approval of estimated cost of establishment or enlargement of welfare-house
  
  
• 51
  Payment of bills and accounts
  
  
• 50
  Custody of funds raised in respective counties
  
  
• 48
  Apportionment of expense of establishment and maintenance of welfare-house
  
  
• 47
  Appointment of superintendent of welfare
  
  
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• Chapter 2

• 9
  Stewards in third-class counties
  
  
• 8
  Purchase of municipal almshouses by county
  
  
• 7
  Employment of inmates
  
  
• 6
  Maintenance of undesirable poor outside of almshouse
  
  
• 5
  Maintenance of poor in almshouse
  
  
• 4
  Apportioning and raising funds for joint county almshouse
  
  
• 3
  Establishment and maintenance of joint county almshouse
  
  
• 2
  Control; officers
  
  
• 1
  Authority to establish and maintain almshouses
  
  
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• Chapter 3

• 4
  Representation of new township in management of almshouse
  
  
• 3
  Superintendents of indoor relief in cities
  
  
• 2
  Acquisition by city of lands outside its limits
  
  
• 1
  Erecting and improving buildings; acquiring land; names for buildings
  
  
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• Chapter 4

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

• 19.1
  Liens for medical care and hospitalization; priority
  
  
• 19
  Annual appropriations by fourth and sixth-class counties for maintenance of patients
  
  
• 18.1
  Psychiatric diagnosis and treatment of indigent residents; appropriation for
  
  
• 18
  Annual appropriations for purposes of section 44:5-17
  
  
• 17
  Provision by counties over 850,000 for maintenance of patients in hospitals
  
  
• 16
  Annual appropriations for maintenance of charitable hospitals and for care and treatment of poor
  
  
• 15
  Bond issues by counties for construction or alteration of charitable hospitals
  
  
• 19.2
  Form
  
  
• 19.3
  Time of filing
  
  
• 19.4
  Place of filing; effective date of lien
  
  
• 19.5
  Clerk or register of deeds; duties; fees
  
  
• 19.6
  Property concerned
  
  
• 19.7
  Settlement of lien
  
  
• 19.8
  Discharge
  
  
• 19.9
  Support by relatives
  
  
• 19.10
  Court action to force responsible relative to pay
  
  
• 14
  Appropriations by counties for constructing or enlarging private charitable hospitals
  
  
• 13
  Annual reports to freeholders by hospitals participating in appropriation
  
  
• 12
  Distribution of appropriation among nonprofit hospitals or clinics in county
  
  
• 1
  Health of indigent and recreation of needy children
  
  
• 2
  Annual appropriation in municipalities to maintain indigent patients and assist health care facilities
  
  
• 2a
  Health care facility defined
  
  
• 2.1
  Effective date
  
  
• 3
  Contracts by cities for care of persons at public expense
  
  
• 4
  Contracts by cities for care of indigent patients; referendum
  
  
• 5
  Referendum; ballot, form
  
  
• 6
  Making of contract
  
  
• 7
  Annual appropriation by city during existence of contract
  
  
• 11
  Annual appropriations by counties to maintain patients in nonprofit hospitals or clinics
  
  
• 10.2
  Construction or enlargement of private health care facility; municipal appropriations
  
  
• 10.1
  Annual appropriations in certain municipalities for contributions to hospitals
  
  
• 10
  Annual appropriations in certain municipalities to maintain patients or assist hospitals
  
  
• 9
  Contracts by cities for care of diseased patients
  
  
• 8
  Authorization of increased annual appropriations in certain cities
  
  
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• Chapter 6

• 5
  Appropriations for dental clinics
  
  
• 4
  Appropriations by certain cities to dental associations conducting clinics for indigent persons
  
  
• 3
  Appropriations by first-class cities to dental associations conducting clinics for indigent children
  
  
• 2
  Maintenance by boards of education of clinics for indigent children
  
  
• 1
  Maintenance by municipalities of clinics for indigent children
  
  
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• Chapter 7

• 42
  Rules and regulations and administrative orders
  
  
• 43
  Needy blind persons; assistance from county welfare board
  
  
• 44
  Law governing assistance for the blind
  
  
• 45
  Rules, regulations and administrative orders
  
  
• 46
  Payments by state to each county welfare board
  
  
• 47
  Transfer of functions, powers and duties
  
  
• 48
  Supplementary provisions
  
  
• 41
  Application for assistance for permanent and total disability
  
  
• 40
  Payments by State to each county welfare board
  
  
• 39
  Laws governing assistance for permanent and total disability
  
  
• 38
  Permanent and total disability; assistance from county welfare board; residence
  
  
• 37
  Appropriation for year in which act is adopted; borrowing funds
  
  
• 36
  First class counties over 800,000 having municipal welfare home but no county welfare home; annual payments to county welfare board for cost of maintenance of persons in home
  
  
• 35
  Assistance exempt from taxation levy and process; bankruptcy
  
  
• 34
  Recipient of assistance not to receive other public aid
  
  
• 33
  Violation of chapter; penalty
  
  
• 49
  Repeals
  
  
• 50
  Repeals
  
  
• 76
  Persons authorized to receive assistance
  
  
• 92
  Severability
  
  
• 91
  Supersedure of inconsistent laws
  
  
• 90
  Eligibility for medical assistance under New Jersey Medical Assistance and Health Services Act
  
  
• 89
  Nonliability of recipient of supplementary payments or his legally liable relative for repayment; enforcement of lien arising prior to January 1, 1974
  
  
• 88
  Duties and responsibilities of welfare boards
  
  
• 87
  Duties of the commissioner
  
  
• 86
  Eligibility; determination of amount
  
  
• 85
  Definitions
  
  
• 84
  Effective date
  
  
• 82
  Funds by state for medical assistance for the aged
  
  
• 81
  Duties of commissioner of institutions and agencies
  
  
• 80
  Application for assistance; investigation; scope of payments
  
  
• 79
  Administration of medical assistance
  
  
• 78
  Included costs
  
  
• 77
  "Medical assistance for the aged" defined
  
  
• 93
  Services provided to eligible residents by county welfare board.
  
  
• 32
  Obtaining assistance falsely a misdemeanor; future grants denied
  
  
• 1
  Definitions
  
  
• 13
  Burial of old-age assistance recipient
  
  
• 12
  Relief granted by county welfare boards; amount and nature; treatment other than medical treatment
  
  
• 11
  Director of welfare; working test period; duties; qualifications; deputy director; civil service classification of director and deputy
  
  
• 10
  Duties of secretary-treasurer; bond
  
  
• 9
  County welfare board; election of officers; director not to be member; officers and employees; civil service classification; permanent status
  
  
• 8
  Powers of county welfare boards; funds provided by freeholders
  
  
• 7
  County welfare boards; creation; organization; membership; terms; vacancies; expenses
  
  
• 6.3
  Action or notice of action to be taken on wages or terms and conditions of employment by federal government; consultation on position by commissioner
  
  
• 6.2
  Negotiated agreement not in compliance with federal law and endangers receipt of federal funds; notice; hearing; determination; authority of commissioner
  
  
• 6.1
  Wages and terms and conditions of employment; collective negotiation with authorized employee organization
  
  
• 6
  Division of old age assistance continued; director; powers and duties; rules and regulations subject to approval of Civil Service Commission
  
  
• 5
  Eligibility of applicants; details
  
  
• 4
  Recipient of assistance not deemed pauper
  
  
• 3
  Persons entitled to old age assistance; applications
  
  
• 2
  Construction
  
  
• 14
  Recipient to pledge property
  
  
• 15
  Certificate of amount of assistance; filing; effect; proceedings for collection and satisfaction; levy; disposition of proceeds; voluntary conveyance
  
  
• 31
  Complaint filed when assistance improperly granted; investigation; payments suspended or canceled
  
  
• 30
  County and state settlement; liability of respective counties
  
  
• 29
  State treasurer to receive federal funds; adjustment between contributing agencies
  
  
• 28
  Governor to include state's share in budget; annual appropriation
  
  
• 27
  Allotment of federal funds; payment
  
  
• 26
  Claims for state's share filed monthly; approval and payment
  
  
• 25
  State's share; additional payment
  
  
• 24
  Ascertainment and appropriation of county's share of cost; temporary rates; payments
  
  
• 23
  Reports by county welfare board to state division
  
  
• 16
  Record of reimbursement agreements; satisfaction
  
  
• 17
  Application for assistance
  
  
• 18
  Investigation of and notice to applicant; review of determination
  
  
• 19
  Assistance by relatives; enforcement
  
  
• 20
  Director's power to issue subpoenas; contempt; false testimony
  
  
• 21
  Report when application granted; change of amount of assistance; cancellation, revocation or suspension
  
  
• 22
  Reconsideration of grant; revised grant
  
  
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• Chapter 8

• 137
  Municipality or county to pay cost of administration
  
  
• 136
  Election of municipality to administer its own public assistance during current year
  
  
• 135
  Election of municipality to administer its own public assistance in following year
  
  
• 134
  Duties of municipality when public assistance is administered by commissioner
  
  
• 133
  Commissioner to administer public assistance in municipality when
  
  
• 132
  Counties furnishing hospitalization in maternity hospitals
  
  
• 131
  Deductions from amount of State aid payable to municipalities
  
  
• 130
  Advance payments to municipality before determination of "current year's public assistance load"
  
  
• 129
  Determining amount of State aid
  
  
• 128
  Determination annually of "preceding year's ratables" and public assistance loads of municipalities
  
  
• 127
  Revocation of order for continued assistance
  
  
• 126
  Exploitation of recipients
  
  
• 138
  "Public assistance trust fund account"
  
  
• 139
  Transfer of current budget appropriation for public assistance
  
  
• 140
  False statements by applicants
  
  
• 159
  Rebates for pharmaceutical products; requirements.
  
  
• 145.5
  Rules, regulations
  
  
• 145.4
  Employees transferred, remuneration, service intact; provision of services to municipal agency permitted
  
  
• 145.3
  Allocation of functions, powers, and duties
  
  
• 145.2
  Appointment of assistant county welfare director
  
  
• 145.1
  Transfer from municipal to county welfare agency
  
  
• 145
  Revision of prior laws, construction as; existing positions not affected
  
  
• 144
  Laws saved from repeal or modification
  
  
• 143
  Repeal
  
  
• 142
  Officers and board members failing to comply
  
  
• 140.1
  Civil, criminal penalties for fraudulent receipt of benefits or payments for general public assistance
  
  
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• 48
  Repeal; sections superseded
  
  
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• Chapter 8

• 107
  Short title, other references
  
  
• 112
  Powers of commissioner
  
  
• 111.3
  Report
  
  
• 111.2
  Registry information made available; provision for comparison checks
  
  
• 111.1
  Centralized registry established; updating of information
  
  
• 111
  Commissioner's duties
  
  
• 110.3
  Rules, regulations
  
  
• 110.2
  Reduction of amount of Payments to Municipalities for Cost of General Assistance funds
  
  
• 110.1
  Disbursement of funds for legal services for successful appeals
  
  
• 110
  Administration and distribution of state aid for public assistance
  
  
• 109
  Public policy
  
  
• 108
  Definitions
  
  
• 113
  Administration as to municipalities or counties
  
  
• 114
  Administration and funding of public assistance
  
  
• 125
  Deductions from public assistance
  
  
• 124
  Continued assistance, manner of; extent
  
  
• 123
  Order after complete investigation
  
  
• 122
  Aid and assistance after reasonable inquiry
  
  
• 121
  Inquiry by director
  
  
• 120
  Immediate assistance
  
  
• 119
  Applicant's affidavit
  
  
• 115
  Local assistance boards; membership; appointment; compensation
  
  
• 116
  Terms of members of local assistance boards; vacancies
  
  
• 117
  Organization of local assistance boards; director of welfare; employees
  
  
• 117.1
  Municipality authorized to establish staffing level of welfare department
  
  
• 118
  Duties of welfare director
  
  
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• Chapter 10

• 67
  Injury, illness, death arising from community, alternative work experience
  
  
• 68
  Action against program as tort claim
  
  
• 69
  Reimbursement to tort claims fund
  
  
• 70
  Rules, regulations
  
  
• 71
  Definitions relative to Work First New Jersey program
  
  
• 72
  Time limit on eligibility for benefits
  
  
• 73
  Implementation of Work First New Jersey program by municipal or county agency, reimbursement
  
  
• 74
  Allocation of federal funding
  
  
• 66
  Workers' compensation status of recipient participating in community alternative work experience
  
  
• 65
  Community, alternative work experience not considered employment
  
  
• 64
  Satisfaction of sanction, repayment obligation
  
  
• 59
  Primary responsibility for support; benefits eligibility
  
  
• 60
  Requirements for benefits for individuals under 18 with a dependent child
  
  
• 61
  Benefits not to increase due to birth of child; exceptions
  
  
• 62
  Adult recipient to seek employment.
  
  
• 62.1
  Short title.
  
  
• 62.2
  Findings, declarations relative to "Public Assistance Cost Reduction and Transportation Independence Pilot Program Act."
  
  
• 62.3
  Establishment of pilot program for transfer of ownership of surplus State motor vehicles to certain nonprofit entities.
  
  
• 63.1
  Work First New Jersey Program, failure to cooperate, sanctions.
  
  
• 75
  Implementation of electronic benefit distribution system.
  
  
• 76
  Social security number used as common identifier of individuals
  
  
• 86
  Short title
  
  
• 87
  Findings, declarations regarding individual development accounts
  
  
• 88
  Definitions regarding individual development accounts
  
  
• 89
  New Jersey Individual Development Account Program
  
  
• 90
  Opening an individual development account; conditions
  
  
• 91
  Transfer of account on death of holder
  
  
• 92
  Moneys in, interest on account not considered gross income
  
  
• 93
  Regulations; consultation with Human Services
  
  
• 85
  Rules, regulations.
  
  
• 84
  Noncitizen federal food stamp recipients not eligible.
  
  
• 77
  Establishment, implementation of technological investments.
  
  
• 78
  Rules, regulations
  
  
• 79
  Short title.
  
  
• 80
  Definitions relative to New Jersey Supplementary Food Stamp Program.
  
  
• 81
  New Jersey Supplementary Food Stamp Program.
  
  
• 81.1
  Food stamp application form, ordinary, concise language required.
  
  
• 82
  Eligibility of noncitizen for program.
  
  
• 83
  State payment of county administrative costs.
  
  
• 94
  Report to Legislature
  
  
• 58
  Establishment of Work First New Jersey program
  
  
• 49
  Assignment of child support rights by signing application for benefits.
  
  
• 13
  Powers, duties of commissioner
  
  
• 14
  Registration of able-bodied aid recipients
  
  
• 15
  Individualized service plans
  
  
• 16
  County planning committees
  
  
• 17
  Reports
  
  
• 18
  Independent evaluation
  
  
• 34
  Definitions relative to welfare reform, work activity
  
  
• 35
  Evaluation of caregiver's eligibility for benefits
  
  
• 12
  REACH program
  
  
• 11
  Definitions
  
  
• 1.1
  Reference to county welfare board to mean reference to county welfare agency
  
  
• 1.2
  Reference to program of assistance for dependent children to mean program of aid to families with dependent children
  
  
• 5.6
  Payment cycles
  
  
• 5.7
  Evaluation, implementation of system
  
  
• 5.8
  Implementation plan, reports
  
  
• 5.9
  Work First New Jersey program administrators, duties
  
  
• 9
  Short title
  
  
• 10
  Findings, declarations
  
  
• 36
  Eligibility of parent for benefits
  
  
• 37
  Certain income disregarded in computing benefit.
  
  
• 50
  Absent child, eligibility for benefits
  
  
• 51
  Provision of emergency assistance
  
  
• 52
  Opportunity for hearing
  
  
• 53
  Waiving compliance with Work First New Jersey program for certain projects
  
  
• 54
  Rules, regulations
  
  
• 55
  Short title
  
  
• 56
  Findings, declarations relative to Work First New Jersey Program.
  
  
• 57
  Definitions relative to Work First New Jersey program
  
  
• 48
  Eligibility of citizens, eligible aliens.
  
  
• 47
  Disclosure of applicant information
  
  
• 46
  Eligibility for persons with less than one year of State residence
  
  
• 38
  Provision of supportive services
  
  
• 39
  Subsidy for campus-based child care
  
  
• 40
  Medical assistance allowed, certain
  
  
• 41
  Report on Work First New Jersey program
  
  
• 42
  Establishment, updating of standard of need
  
  
• 43
  Rules, regulations
  
  
• 44
  Definitions relative to welfare reform, eligibility.
  
  
• 45
  Determination of eligibility for benefits
  
  
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• Chapter 11

• 8
  Liberal construction; costs
  
  
• 7
  Discharge of representative
  
  
• 6
  Responsibility for payments; statement of account; disposition of balance on death or discharge of representative
  
  
• 5
  Powers and duties of representative
  
  
• 4
  Hearing; evidence; appointment of representative
  
  
• 3
  Statement of incompetency by director of welfare board
  
  
• 2
  Appointment of representative payee; contents of complaint
  
  
• 1
  Definitions
  
  
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• Chapter 12

• 6
  Approval of prior acts and actions
  
  
• 5
  Construction of act
  
  
• 4
  Powers as additional and supplemental to other laws
  
  
• 3
  Rules and regulations
  
  
• 2
  Local units; powers.
  
  
• 1
  Definitions
  
  
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• Chapter 14

• 6
  Anticipation of amount of funds
  
  
• 5
  Semiannual payments by state treasurer
  
  
• 4
  Entitlement; certification
  
  
• 3
  Distribution of funds; determination
  
  
• 2
  Legislative findings and declarations
  
  
• 1
  Short title
  
  
• 7
  Reduction of base upon which limitation on county expenditures is determined