30:9A-9. Grants and expenditures

a. Reimbursement or advancement grants shall be paid to an eligible sponsoring agency from State funds in an amount not exceeding 60% of the allowable expenditures for each project and based upon the priority services to target populations approved by the commissioner. Allowable expenditures shall include expenditures other than capital expenditures, for such purposes as the commissioner shall, by regulation, determine to be necessary or required to carry out the mental health project. The total of the annual reimbursement or advancement grants from State funds for all community mental health projects, exclusive of capital expenditures, in any one county shall be the greater of $100,000.00 or an amount equal to $1.50 multiplied by the population of that county for the 1984 fiscal year of the county and, for each fiscal year thereafter, the amount shall be increased by $0.25, up to a total of $2.00. The amount for each fiscal year shall be multiplied by the population of the county for that particular fiscal year. No county or municipality shall, in any year, appropriate an amount for community mental health projects which is less than the amount appropriated in the preceding year, nor shall any sponsoring agency use any new or additional funding made available pursuant to this act in replacement of current funding levels unless approved in writing by the commissioner.

To permit initiation, expansion, improvement or continuation of services, the commissioner may make payments in advance to any sponsoring agency of amounts not to exceed 25% in any one quarter of the fiscal year of the amount of an approved annual grant to the agency.

b. Claims for State reimbursement or advancement to the sponsoring agency shall be made in accordance with the regulations of the department.

L.1957, c. 146, p. 551, s. 9. Amended by L.1963, c. 77, s. 1; L.1967, c. 100, s. 9, eff. June 12, 1967; L.1969, c. 74, s. 1, eff. June 4, 1969; L.1973, c. 377, s. 1, eff. Jan. 14, 1974; L.1976, c. 79, s. 1, eff. Aug. 31, 1976; L.1983, c. 435, s. 1, eff. Jan. 5, 1984.