Title 44 - Poor

Section 44:1-1 - Definitions.
Section 44:1-2 - Construction in general
Section 44:1-3 - Establishment by board of freeholders
Section 44:1-4 - Acquisition of real estate for welfare-house
Section 44:1-5 - Erection, alteration and repair of buildings
Section 44:1-6 - Levy, assessment and collection of money for buildings and maintenance
Section 44:1-7 - Borrowing money and issuing obligations therefor
Section 44:1-8 - Acceptance of gifts, devises and bequests
Section 44:1-9 - Inspection of welfare-house
Section 44:1-10 - Constitution and appointment in general
Section 44:1-10.1 - Change of name to county board of social services; resolution or ordinance
Section 44:1-10.2 - County welfare board to mean county board of social services
Section 44:1-11 - Membership
Section 44:1-12 - Terms of members; vacancies
Section 44:1-12.1 - Terms of members; additional appointments
Section 44:1-13 - Compensation and expenses of members
Section 44:1-14 - Organization of board
Section 44:1-15 - Supervision of relief and settlement of poor
Section 44:1-16 - Regulation and operation of welfare-house
Section 44:1-17 - Equipment and maintenance of welfare-house
Section 44:1-18 - Meetings of board
Section 44:1-19 - Public record of board proceedings
Section 44:1-20 - Appropriations; approval by freeholders
Section 44:1-21 - Certification of bills to board of freeholders
Section 44:1-22 - Working expense fund
Section 44:1-23 - Annual report to board of freeholders
Section 44:1-24 - Appointment of superintendent; qualifications
Section 44:1-24.1 - Temporary welfare director
Section 44:1-24.2 - Chief administrative officer of county welfare agencies or boards of social services; duties
Section 44:1-25 - Term of superintendent
Section 44:1-26 - Appointment of officers and employees
Section 44:1-27 - Salaries
Section 44:1-28 - Regulations governing officers and employees
Section 44:1-29 - General powers of superintendent
Section 44:1-30 - Persons receivable in welfare-house
Section 44:1-30.1 - Change of almshouse to welfare-house; persons to be admitted
Section 44:1-30.2 - Persons admitted to pledge property; lien; agreement to reimburse
Section 44:1-30.3 - Recording of certificates; warrant of satisfaction or release
Section 44:1-31 - Exercise by superintendent or another of power of overseer; general jurisdiction
Section 44:1-32 - Making of contract; terms
Section 44:1-33 - Contract authorized by resolution
Section 44:1-34 - Collection of expense from participating municipalities
Section 44:1-35 - Constitution and appointment of welfare board
Section 44:1-36 - Inspection of almshouse or welfare-house
Section 44:1-37 - Procedure when municipality elects not to participate
Section 44:1-38 - Concurrent resolutions in contiguous and adjoining counties to establish district welfare-house
Section 44:1-39 - Submitting resolution to voters of each county
Section 44:1-40 - Ballot; form and content
Section 44:1-41 - Voting.
Section 44:1-42 - Canvass, return and result of vote
Section 44:1-43 - Constitution and appointment of district welfare board
Section 44:1-44 - Meetings of board
Section 44:1-45 - Compensation and expenses of members
Section 44:1-46 - Authority of board in general
Section 44:1-47 - Appointment of superintendent of welfare
Section 44:1-48 - Apportionment of expense of establishment and maintenance of welfare-house
Section 44:1-49 - Budgeting and raising expense of operation and maintenance.
Section 44:1-50 - Custody of funds raised in respective counties
Section 44:1-51 - Payment of bills and accounts
Section 44:1-52 - Approval of estimated cost of establishment or enlargement of welfare-house
Section 44:1-53 - Borrowing money and issuing bonds to establish or enlarge welfare-house
Section 44:1-54 - Term of bonds; raising of principal and interest
Section 44:1-55 - Compelling county to share expenses and obligations
Section 44:1-56 - Approval of plans and specifications for welfare-house
Section 44:1-57 - Notice of readiness to accommodate poor of district
Section 44:1-58 - Exemption of welfare-house from taxation
Section 44:1-59 - Time of final action on resolution; notice
Section 44:1-60 - Continuation of relief by counties not adopting plan
Section 44:1-61 - Election by municipality not to participate
Section 44:1-62 - Subsequent joining by municipality in county or joint county purpose
Section 44:1-63 - Excepted municipalities to provide relief of poor independently
Section 44:1-64 - Abolition of municipal almshouses when county relief undertaken
Section 44:1-65 - Abolition of county and municipal almshouses when district relief undertaken
Section 44:1-66 - Other methods of establishing almshouses
Section 44:1-67 - Bond issues for construction, repair or equipment
Section 44:1-68 - Classification and care of inmates
Section 44:1-69 - Separation of sexes
Section 44:1-70 - Denomination of supervisors of almshouses
Section 44:1-71 - Keeping of book with certain entries as to each inmate
Section 44:1-72 - Penalty for failure properly to keep record book
Section 44:1-73 - Appointment
Section 44:1-73.1 - Offices of overseer of poor and deputy overseers abolished
Section 44:1-73.2 - Municipal director of welfare deemed referred to by mention of overseer, etc.
Section 44:1-73.3 - No deprivation of certain county powers
Section 44:1-73.4 - Term or compensation of directors of welfare unaffected
Section 44:1-73.5 - Civil service, pension or retirement rights unaffected
Section 44:1-73.6 - Rights of overseers of poor and deputy overseers unaffected for balance of term
Section 44:1-73.7 - Effective date
Section 44:1-74 - Term
Section 44:1-75 - Qualifications
Section 44:1-76 - Removal
Section 44:1-77 - Tenure and removal or reduction in cities of first class
Section 44:1-78 - Salary
Section 44:1-79 - Contract by municipality for services of overseer of adjoining municipality
Section 44:1-80 - Removal of director of welfare from duties in adjoining municipality
Section 44:1-81 - Certificate of appointment; filing
Section 44:1-82 - Lists of overseers
Section 44:1-83 - Appointment and powers of deputy overseers
Section 44:1-84 - Appointment, salaries and removal of deputies, assistants and others
Section 44:1-85 - Helpers to overseers
Section 44:1-86 - Determination by director of relief to be granted
Section 44:1-87 - Inquiry into application for relief
Section 44:1-88 - Granting of relief
Section 44:1-89 - Permanent relief in absence of almshouse or welfare-house
Section 44:1-90 - Contents of relief order or commitment
Section 44:1-91 - Removal of permanent poor to almshouses or welfare-houses
Section 44:1-92 - Length of stay of poor persons in institutions
Section 44:1-93 - Use of all agencies for relief
Section 44:1-94 - Obtaining employment for poor persons and families
Section 44:1-95 - Expenses recoverable, procedure
Section 44:1-96 - Record of receipts and expenditures
Section 44:1-97 - Record as to every applicant for relief
Section 44:1-98 - Filing of record on admission to institution
Section 44:1-99 - Books relative to money received and orders for relief
Section 44:1-100 - Materials, stationery and forms of records
Section 44:1-101 - Annual reports by overseers
Section 44:1-102 - Place of settlement in general
Section 44:1-103 - Married woman and children
Section 44:1-104 - Legitimate minor children
Section 44:1-105 - Illegitimate minor children
Section 44:1-106 - Minor from outside of state
Section 44:1-107 - Persons from outside of United States
Section 44:1-108 - Granting permanent relief where required of county of settlement
Section 44:1-109 - Granting permanent relief in absence of county almshouse, welfare-house or district welfare-house
Section 44:1-110 - County chargeable for permanent relief where settlement is therein
Section 44:1-111 - Permanent relief where settlement is in county having no provision therefor
Section 44:1-112 - Permanent relief in municipality or county other than that of settlement
Section 44:1-113 - Permanent relief forbidden to persons without settlement and otherwise removable
Section 44:1-114 - Procedure where relief required by person having no settlement anywhere
Section 44:1-115 - Procedure where temporary relief required and settlement is elsewhere in state
Section 44:1-116 - Procedure where temporary relief required and settlement is outside of state
Section 44:1-117 - Duties of overseer
Section 44:1-118 - Duties of county adjuster
Section 44:1-119 - Written notice of removal
Section 44:1-120 - Removal in absence of contest
Section 44:1-121 - Contest; how made
Section 44:1-122 - Failure to resist removal, review
Section 44:1-123 - Liability of municipality, recovery
Section 44:1-124 - Bringing poor person into municipality or county unlawfully; misdemeanor
Section 44:1-125 - Suspension of sentence or fine upon certain conditions
Section 44:1-126 - Transportation of nonresident, approval required.
Section 44:1-127 - Enabling nonresident poor to earn funds to return home
Section 44:1-128 - When relief may be provided in home
Section 44:1-129 - Petition for relief
Section 44:1-130 - Summary hearing; order for home relief
Section 44:1-131 - Continuance of relief
Section 44:1-132 - Revocation of order for relief
Section 44:1-133 - Payment of home relief
Section 44:1-134 - Notice to board of children's guardians of commitment of minor to almshouse
Section 44:1-135 - Supervision of minor committed to almshouse
Section 44:1-136 - Temporary commitment of poor minor by overseer to institution or home
Section 44:1-137 - Expense of temporary commitment
Section 44:1-138 - Notice of placement to boards of freeholders and children's guardians
Section 44:1-139 - Obtaining or compelling assistance of relatives
Section 44:1-140 - Relatives chargeable
Section 44:1-141 - Compelling support by relatives
Section 44:1-142 - Contracts between overseers and relatives or others
Section 44:1-143 - Compelling support by husband or wife
Section 44:1-144 - Sequestration of estate
Section 44:1-146 - Recovery of expenses of support
Section 44:1-147 - Willful deserter as disorderly person; punishment
Section 44:1-148 - Complaint by director of welfare
Section 44:1-152 - Visitation of sick poor by official physicians and nurses
Section 44:1-153 - Further medical or other relief
Section 44:1-154 - Hospitalization and other relief where treatment is urgent
Section 44:1-155 - Bond for maintenance from master or commander
Section 44:1-156 - Liability of master or commander for landing persons wrongfully
Section 44:1-157.1 - Rate of payment
Section 44:1-158 - Acquisition of cemetery; issuance of bonds
Section 44:1-159 - Annual appropriations to carry provisions of chapter into effect
Section 44:1-160 - Deficiency appropriations; temporary loan bonds
Section 44:2-1 - Authority to establish and maintain almshouses
Section 44:2-2 - Control; officers
Section 44:2-3 - Establishment and maintenance of joint county almshouse
Section 44:2-4 - Apportioning and raising funds for joint county almshouse
Section 44:2-5 - Maintenance of poor in almshouse
Section 44:2-6 - Maintenance of undesirable poor outside of almshouse
Section 44:2-7 - Employment of inmates
Section 44:2-8 - Purchase of municipal almshouses by county
Section 44:2-9 - Stewards in third-class counties
Section 44:3-1 - Erecting and improving buildings; acquiring land; names for buildings
Section 44:3-2 - Acquisition by city of lands outside its limits
Section 44:3-3 - Superintendents of indoor relief in cities
Section 44:3-4 - Representation of new township in management of almshouse
Section 44:4-1 - Definitions.
Section 44:4-2 - Chapter inoperative until adopted upon referendum
Section 44:4-3 - Construction in general
Section 44:4-4 - Establishment of welfare-house or provision for poor by contract
Section 44:4-5 - Action on resolution to establish welfare-house or to contract
Section 44:4-6 - Acquisition of real estate for welfare-house
Section 44:4-7 - Erection, alteration or repair of buildings
Section 44:4-8 - Necessary money charge upon municipalities of county
Section 44:4-9 - Raising of money for buildings and maintenance
Section 44:4-10 - Bonds for buildings, repairs or fittings
Section 44:4-11 - Maintenance expense charge upon county
Section 44:4-12 - Acceptance of gifts, devises and bequests
Section 44:4-13 - Inspection of welfare-house
Section 44:4-14 - Abolition of almshouses
Section 44:4-15 - Sale of property formerly used for municipal almshouses
Section 44:4-16 - Contract with another county for maintenance of permanent poor
Section 44:4-17 - Contract authorized by resolution
Section 44:4-18 - Terms of contract
Section 44:4-19 - Expense under contract; payment by proper county
Section 44:4-20 - Membership
Section 44:4-21 - Terms of members; vacancies
Section 44:4-22 - Compensation and expenses of members
Section 44:4-23 - Organization of board
Section 44:4-24 - Supervision of relief and settlement of poor; complaints for prevention of cruelty
Section 44:4-25 - Supervision of old age relief
Section 44:4-26 - Board as manager of welfare-house
Section 44:4-27 - Equipment and maintenance of welfare-house
Section 44:4-28 - Meetings of board
Section 44:4-29 - Approval of appropriations
Section 44:4-30 - Certification of bills to board of freeholders
Section 44:4-31 - Working expense fund
Section 44:4-32 - Appointment of director; qualifications
Section 44:4-33 - Director of welfare, classification for civil service; working test period
Section 44:4-34 - Appointment and tenure of other officers and employees
Section 44:4-35 - Salaries
Section 44:4-36 - Regulations governing officers and employees
Section 44:4-37 - Functions and duties of director
Section 44:4-38 - Functions and duties formerly performed by overseers of poor
Section 44:4-39 - Persons receivable in welfare-house
Section 44:4-40 - Determination by director of relief to be granted
Section 44:4-41 - Deputy director of welfare
Section 44:4-42 - Assistant directors for municipalities
Section 44:4-43 - Resident helpers and municipal advisory committees
Section 44:4-44 - Use of all agencies for relief
Section 44:4-45 - Records of proceedings and of relief furnished
Section 44:4-46 - Books showing receipts; record of orders for relief
Section 44:4-47 - Periodical reports to chosen freeholders
Section 44:4-48 - Annual report as to welfare-house
Section 44:4-49 - Director's record of receipts and expenditures
Section 44:4-50 - Director's record of applicants for relief
Section 44:4-51 - Filing of record on admission to institution
Section 44:4-52 - Annual report of director to chosen freeholders
Section 44:4-53 - Material, stationery and forms of records
Section 44:4-54 - Inspection of records and reports
Section 44:4-55 - Book kept in every institution; required entries
Section 44:4-56 - Penalty for failure to keep book
Section 44:4-57 - Place of settlement in general
Section 44:4-58 - Married woman and children
Section 44:4-59 - Legitimate minor children
Section 44:4-60 - Illegitimate minor children
Section 44:4-61 - Minors from outside of state
Section 44:4-62 - Persons from outside of United States
Section 44:4-63 - Permanent relief in place of settlement
Section 44:4-64 - Permanent relief in county other than that of settlement
Section 44:4-65 - Temporary provision for persons having no settlement in county
Section 44:4-66 - Procedure where relief sought by person having no settlement anywhere
Section 44:4-67 - Temporary relief in county other than that of settlement
Section 44:4-68 - Temporary relief by person having settlement outside of state
Section 44:4-69 - County chargeable with relief of all persons having settlement
Section 44:4-70 - Settlement; determination; effect of temporary removal
Section 44:4-71 - Temporary relief for person having legal settlement elsewhere
Section 44:4-72 - Removal of poor person to place of legal settlement; procedure
Section 44:4-73 - Duties of director of welfare and county adjuster
Section 44:4-74 - Written notice of removal
Section 44:4-75 - Removal in absence of contest
Section 44:4-76 - Contest; how made
Section 44:4-77 - Failure to resist removal; review when failure explained
Section 44:4-78 - Liability of county or municipality failing to receive or remove poor person
Section 44:4-79 - Bringing poor person into county unlawfully; misdemeanor
Section 44:4-80 - Suspension of sentence or fine upon certain conditions
Section 44:4-81 - Furnishing transportation to nonresidents.
Section 44:4-82 - Inquiry into case by director
Section 44:4-83 - Rendition of aid
Section 44:4-84 - Temporary relief in suitable home
Section 44:4-85 - Relief order and commitment; contents
Section 44:4-86 - Investigation and supervision by welfare board
Section 44:4-87 - Obtaining employment for poor persons and families
Section 44:4-88 - Length of stay of poor person in welfare-house
Section 44:4-89 - Classification and care of inmates of welfare-houses
Section 44:4-90 - Separation of sexes; exception
Section 44:4-91 - Expenses recoverable from poor person or estate; insurance
Section 44:4-91.1 - Pledge of property as guaranty for reimbursement; agreement to reimburse
Section 44:4-91.2 - Filing certificate of costs of care furnished; legal claim, enforcement
Section 44:4-91.3 - Record of welfare house and outdoor liens
Section 44:4-92 - When relief may be provided in home
Section 44:4-93 - Permanent relief; amount to be adequate; payable monthly
Section 44:4-94 - Semiannual report relative to continuance of relief
Section 44:4-95 - Notice to board of children's guardians of commitment of minors to welfare-house
Section 44:4-96 - Supervision of minors committed to welfare-house
Section 44:4-97 - Temporary commitment of poor minor by director to institution or home
Section 44:4-98 - Notice of placement to boards of freeholders and children's guardians
Section 44:4-99 - Transfer of children from welfare-house to charitable society; maintenance
Section 44:4-100 - Ascertaining and obtaining or compelling assistance of relatives
Section 44:4-101 - Relatives chargeable
Section 44:4-102 - Compelling support by relatives
Section 44:4-103 - Contracts between welfare board and relatives or others
Section 44:4-104 - Compelling support by husband or wife
Section 44:4-105 - Sequestration of estate
Section 44:4-107 - Recovery of expenses of support
Section 44:4-108 - Willful deserter as disorderly person; punishment
Section 44:4-109 - Complaint by director of welfare
Section 44:4-112 - Visitation of sick poor by official physicians and nurses
Section 44:4-113 - Contract for visiting nursing care
Section 44:4-114 - Further medical or other relief
Section 44:4-115 - Hospitalization and other relief where treatment is urgent
Section 44:4-116 - Bond for maintenance from master or commander
Section 44:4-117 - Liability of master or commander for landing persons wrongfully
Section 44:4-118 - Burial of poor
Section 44:4-119 - Acquisition of cemetery by county; issuance of bonds
Section 44:4-120 - Appropriations for year following adoption of chapter
Section 44:4-121 - Estimates for ensuing calendar or fiscal years
Section 44:4-122 - Appropriation by freeholders for relief of permanent or indoor poor
Section 44:4-123 - Additional county appropriation when original appropriation inadequate
Section 44:4-124 - Raising or borrowing of additional sums
Section 44:4-125 - Appropriations by municipalities for temporary or outdoor poor
Section 44:4-126 - Additional municipal appropriations
Section 44:4-127 - Emergency county appropriation when municipality fails to appropriate additional sum
Section 44:4-128 - Unexpended balances of municipal appropriations
Section 44:4-129 - Proposal by resolution to adopt chapter
Section 44:4-130 - Time for final action on resolution
Section 44:4-131 - Notice of time and place of final action; adjournment
Section 44:4-132 - Submission of question to voters of county; notice
Section 44:4-133 - Ballot; form and content
Section 44:4-134 - Voting
Section 44:4-135 - Canvass and return of votes; when chapter becomes operative
Section 44:5-1 - Health of indigent and recreation of needy children
Section 44:5-2 - Annual appropriation in municipalities to maintain indigent patients and assist health care facilities
Section 44:5-2a - Health care facility defined
Section 44:5-2.1 - Effective date
Section 44:5-3 - Contracts by cities for care of persons at public expense
Section 44:5-4 - Contracts by cities for care of indigent patients; referendum
Section 44:5-5 - Referendum; ballot, form
Section 44:5-6 - Making of contract
Section 44:5-7 - Annual appropriation by city during existence of contract
Section 44:5-8 - Authorization of increased annual appropriations in certain cities
Section 44:5-9 - Contracts by cities for care of diseased patients
Section 44:5-10 - Annual appropriations in certain municipalities to maintain patients or assist hospitals
Section 44:5-10.1 - Annual appropriations in certain municipalities for contributions to hospitals
Section 44:5-10.2 - Construction or enlargement of private health care facility; municipal appropriations
Section 44:5-12 - Distribution of appropriation among nonprofit hospitals or clinics in county
Section 44:5-13 - Annual reports to freeholders by hospitals participating in appropriation
Section 44:5-14 - Appropriations by counties for constructing or enlarging private charitable hospitals
Section 44:5-15 - Bond issues by counties for construction or alteration of charitable hospitals
Section 44:5-16 - Annual appropriations for maintenance of charitable hospitals and for care and treatment of poor
Section 44:5-17 - Provision by counties over 850,000 for maintenance of patients in hospitals
Section 44:5-18 - Annual appropriations for purposes of section 44:5-17
Section 44:5-18.1 - Psychiatric diagnosis and treatment of indigent residents; appropriation for
Section 44:5-19.1 - Liens for medical care and hospitalization; priority
Section 44:5-19.2 - Form
Section 44:5-19.3 - Time of filing
Section 44:5-19.4 - Place of filing; effective date of lien
Section 44:5-19.5 - Clerk or register of deeds; duties; fees
Section 44:5-19.6 - Property concerned
Section 44:5-19.7 - Settlement of lien
Section 44:5-19.8 - Discharge
Section 44:5-19.9 - Support by relatives
Section 44:5-19.10 - Court action to force responsible relative to pay
Section 44:6-1 - Maintenance by municipalities of clinics for indigent children
Section 44:6-2 - Maintenance by boards of education of clinics for indigent children
Section 44:6-3 - Appropriations by first-class cities to dental associations conducting clinics for indigent children
Section 44:6-4 - Appropriations by certain cities to dental associations conducting clinics for indigent persons
Section 44:6-5 - Appropriations for dental clinics
Section 44:7-1 - Definitions.
Section 44:7-2 - Construction
Section 44:7-3 - Persons entitled to old age assistance; applications
Section 44:7-4 - Recipient of assistance not deemed pauper
Section 44:7-5 - Eligibility of applicants; details
Section 44:7-6 - Division of old age assistance continued; director; powers and duties; rules and regulations subject to approval of Civil Service Commission
Section 44:7-6.1 - Wages and terms and conditions of employment; collective negotiation with authorized employee organization
Section 44:7-6.2 - Negotiated agreement not in compliance with federal law and endangers receipt of federal funds; notice; hearing; determination; authority of commissioner
Section 44:7-6.3 - Action or notice of action to be taken on wages or terms and conditions of employment by federal government; consultation on position by commissioner
Section 44:7-7 - County welfare boards; creation; organization; membership; terms; vacancies; expenses
Section 44:7-8 - Powers of county welfare boards; funds provided by freeholders
Section 44:7-9 - County welfare board; election of officers; director not to be member; officers and employees; civil service classification; permanent status
Section 44:7-10 - Duties of secretary-treasurer; bond
Section 44:7-11 - Director of welfare; working test period; duties; qualifications; deputy director; civil service classification of director and deputy
Section 44:7-12 - Relief granted by county welfare boards; amount and nature; treatment other than medical treatment
Section 44:7-13 - Burial of old-age assistance recipient
Section 44:7-14 - Recipient to pledge property
Section 44:7-15 - Certificate of amount of assistance; filing; effect; proceedings for collection and satisfaction; levy; disposition of proceeds; voluntary conveyance
Section 44:7-16 - Record of reimbursement agreements; satisfaction
Section 44:7-17 - Application for assistance
Section 44:7-18 - Investigation of and notice to applicant; review of determination
Section 44:7-19 - Assistance by relatives; enforcement
Section 44:7-20 - Director's power to issue subpoenas; contempt; false testimony
Section 44:7-21 - Report when application granted; change of amount of assistance; cancellation, revocation or suspension
Section 44:7-22 - Reconsideration of grant; revised grant
Section 44:7-23 - Reports by county welfare board to state division
Section 44:7-24 - Ascertainment and appropriation of county's share of cost; temporary rates; payments
Section 44:7-25 - State's share; additional payment
Section 44:7-26 - Claims for state's share filed monthly; approval and payment
Section 44:7-27 - Allotment of federal funds; payment
Section 44:7-28 - Governor to include state's share in budget; annual appropriation
Section 44:7-29 - State treasurer to receive federal funds; adjustment between contributing agencies
Section 44:7-30 - County and state settlement; liability of respective counties
Section 44:7-31 - Complaint filed when assistance improperly granted; investigation; payments suspended or canceled
Section 44:7-32 - Obtaining assistance falsely a misdemeanor; future grants denied
Section 44:7-33 - Violation of chapter; penalty
Section 44:7-34 - Recipient of assistance not to receive other public aid
Section 44:7-35 - Assistance exempt from taxation levy and process; bankruptcy
Section 44:7-36 - 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
Section 44:7-37 - Appropriation for year in which act is adopted; borrowing funds
Section 44:7-38 - Permanent and total disability; assistance from county welfare board; residence
Section 44:7-39 - Laws governing assistance for permanent and total disability
Section 44:7-40 - Payments by State to each county welfare board
Section 44:7-41 - Application for assistance for permanent and total disability
Section 44:7-42 - Rules and regulations and administrative orders
Section 44:7-43 - Needy blind persons; assistance from county welfare board
Section 44:7-44 - Law governing assistance for the blind
Section 44:7-45 - Rules, regulations and administrative orders
Section 44:7-46 - Payments by state to each county welfare board
Section 44:7-47 - Transfer of functions, powers and duties
Section 44:7-48 - Supplementary provisions
Section 44:7-49 - Repeals
Section 44:7-50 - Repeals
Section 44:7-76 - Persons authorized to receive assistance
Section 44:7-77 - "Medical assistance for the aged" defined
Section 44:7-78 - Included costs
Section 44:7-79 - Administration of medical assistance
Section 44:7-80 - Application for assistance; investigation; scope of payments
Section 44:7-81 - Duties of commissioner of institutions and agencies
Section 44:7-82 - Funds by state for medical assistance for the aged
Section 44:7-84 - Effective date
Section 44:7-85 - Definitions
Section 44:7-86 - Eligibility; determination of amount
Section 44:7-87 - Duties of the commissioner
Section 44:7-88 - Duties and responsibilities of welfare boards
Section 44:7-89 - Nonliability of recipient of supplementary payments or his legally liable relative for repayment; enforcement of lien arising prior to January 1, 1974
Section 44:7-90 - Eligibility for medical assistance under New Jersey Medical Assistance and Health Services Act
Section 44:7-91 - Supersedure of inconsistent laws
Section 44:7-92 - Severability
Section 44:7-93 - Services provided to eligible residents by county welfare board.
Section 44:8-107 - Short title, other references
Section 44:8-108 - Definitions
Section 44:8-109 - Public policy
Section 44:8-110 - Administration and distribution of state aid for public assistance
Section 44:8-110.1 - Disbursement of funds for legal services for successful appeals
Section 44:8-110.2 - Reduction of amount of Payments to Municipalities for Cost of General Assistance funds
Section 44:8-110.3 - Rules, regulations
Section 44:8-111 - Commissioner's duties
Section 44:8-111.1 - Centralized registry established; updating of information
Section 44:8-111.2 - Registry information made available; provision for comparison checks
Section 44:8-111.3 - Report
Section 44:8-112 - Powers of commissioner
Section 44:8-113 - Administration as to municipalities or counties
Section 44:8-114 - Administration and funding of public assistance
Section 44:8-115 - Local assistance boards; membership; appointment; compensation
Section 44:8-116 - Terms of members of local assistance boards; vacancies
Section 44:8-117 - Organization of local assistance boards; director of welfare; employees
Section 44:8-117.1 - Municipality authorized to establish staffing level of welfare department
Section 44:8-118 - Duties of welfare director
Section 44:8-119 - Applicant's affidavit
Section 44:8-120 - Immediate assistance
Section 44:8-121 - Inquiry by director
Section 44:8-122 - Aid and assistance after reasonable inquiry
Section 44:8-123 - Order after complete investigation
Section 44:8-124 - Continued assistance, manner of; extent
Section 44:8-125 - Deductions from public assistance
Section 44:8-126 - Exploitation of recipients
Section 44:8-127 - Revocation of order for continued assistance
Section 44:8-128 - Determination annually of "preceding year's ratables" and public assistance loads of municipalities
Section 44:8-129 - Determining amount of State aid
Section 44:8-130 - Advance payments to municipality before determination of "current year's public assistance load"
Section 44:8-131 - Deductions from amount of State aid payable to municipalities
Section 44:8-132 - Counties furnishing hospitalization in maternity hospitals
Section 44:8-133 - Commissioner to administer public assistance in municipality when
Section 44:8-134 - Duties of municipality when public assistance is administered by commissioner
Section 44:8-135 - Election of municipality to administer its own public assistance in following year
Section 44:8-136 - Election of municipality to administer its own public assistance during current year
Section 44:8-137 - Municipality or county to pay cost of administration
Section 44:8-138 - "Public assistance trust fund account"
Section 44:8-139 - Transfer of current budget appropriation for public assistance
Section 44:8-140 - False statements by applicants
Section 44:8-140.1 - Civil, criminal penalties for fraudulent receipt of benefits or payments for general public assistance
Section 44:8-142 - Officers and board members failing to comply
Section 44:8-143 - Repeal
Section 44:8-144 - Laws saved from repeal or modification
Section 44:8-145 - Revision of prior laws, construction as; existing positions not affected
Section 44:8-145.1 - Transfer from municipal to county welfare agency
Section 44:8-145.2 - Appointment of assistant county welfare director
Section 44:8-145.3 - Allocation of functions, powers, and duties
Section 44:8-145.4 - Employees transferred, remuneration, service intact; provision of services to municipal agency permitted
Section 44:8-145.5 - Rules, regulations
Section 44:8-159 - Rebates for pharmaceutical products; requirements.
Section 44:8A-48 - Repeal; sections superseded
Section 44:10-1.1 - Reference to county welfare board to mean reference to county welfare agency
Section 44:10-1.2 - Reference to program of assistance for dependent children to mean program of aid to families with dependent children
Section 44:10-5.6 - Payment cycles
Section 44:10-5.7 - Evaluation, implementation of system
Section 44:10-5.8 - Implementation plan, reports
Section 44:10-5.9 - Work First New Jersey program administrators, duties
Section 44:10-9 - Short title
Section 44:10-10 - Findings, declarations
Section 44:10-11 - Definitions
Section 44:10-12 - REACH program
Section 44:10-13 - Powers, duties of commissioner
Section 44:10-14 - Registration of able-bodied aid recipients
Section 44:10-15 - Individualized service plans
Section 44:10-16 - County planning committees
Section 44:10-17 - Reports
Section 44:10-18 - Independent evaluation
Section 44:10-34 - Definitions relative to welfare reform, work activity
Section 44:10-35 - Evaluation of caregiver's eligibility for benefits
Section 44:10-36 - Eligibility of parent for benefits
Section 44:10-37 - Certain income disregarded in computing benefit.
Section 44:10-38 - Provision of supportive services
Section 44:10-39 - Subsidy for campus-based child care
Section 44:10-40 - Medical assistance allowed, certain
Section 44:10-41 - Report on Work First New Jersey program
Section 44:10-42 - Establishment, updating of standard of need
Section 44:10-43 - Rules, regulations
Section 44:10-44 - Definitions relative to welfare reform, eligibility.
Section 44:10-45 - Determination of eligibility for benefits
Section 44:10-46 - Eligibility for persons with less than one year of State residence
Section 44:10-47 - Disclosure of applicant information
Section 44:10-48 - Eligibility of citizens, eligible aliens.
Section 44:10-49 - Assignment of child support rights by signing application for benefits.
Section 44:10-50 - Absent child, eligibility for benefits
Section 44:10-51 - Provision of emergency assistance.
Section 44:10-51.1 - Emergency assistance payments, repayments.
Section 44:10-51.2 - Rules, regulations.
Section 44:10-52 - Opportunity for hearing
Section 44:10-53 - Waiving compliance with Work First New Jersey program for certain projects
Section 44:10-54 - Rules, regulations
Section 44:10-55 - Short title
Section 44:10-56 - Findings, declarations relative to Work First New Jersey Program.
Section 44:10-57 - Definitions relative to Work First New Jersey program
Section 44:10-58 - Establishment of Work First New Jersey program
Section 44:10-59 - Primary responsibility for support; benefits eligibility
Section 44:10-60 - Requirements for benefits for individuals under 18 with a dependent child
Section 44:10-61 - Benefits not to increase due to birth of child; exceptions
Section 44:10-62 - Adult recipient to seek employment.
Section 44:10-62.1 - Short title.
Section 44:10-62.2 - Findings, declarations relative to "Public Assistance Cost Reduction and Transportation Independence Pilot Program Act."
Section 44:10-62.3 - Establishment of pilot program for transfer of ownership of surplus State motor vehicles to certain nonprofit entities.
Section 44:10-63.1 - Work First New Jersey Program, failure to cooperate, sanctions.
Section 44:10-64 - Satisfaction of sanction, repayment obligation
Section 44:10-65 - Community, alternative work experience not considered employment
Section 44:10-66 - Workers' compensation status of recipient participating in community alternative work experience
Section 44:10-67 - Injury, illness, death arising from community, alternative work experience
Section 44:10-68 - Action against program as tort claim
Section 44:10-69 - Reimbursement to tort claims fund
Section 44:10-70 - Rules, regulations
Section 44:10-71 - Definitions relative to Work First New Jersey program
Section 44:10-72 - Time limit on eligibility for benefits
Section 44:10-73 - Implementation of Work First New Jersey program by municipal or county agency, reimbursement
Section 44:10-74 - Allocation of federal funding
Section 44:10-75 - Implementation of electronic benefit distribution system.
Section 44:10-76 - Social security number used as common identifier of individuals
Section 44:10-77 - Establishment, implementation of technological investments.
Section 44:10-78 - Rules, regulations
Section 44:10-79 - Short title.
Section 44:10-80 - Definitions relative to New Jersey Supplementary Food Stamp Program.
Section 44:10-81 - New Jersey Supplementary Food Stamp Program.
Section 44:10-81.1 - Food stamp application form, ordinary, concise language required.
Section 44:10-82 - Eligibility of noncitizen for program.
Section 44:10-83 - State payment of county administrative costs.
Section 44:10-84 - Noncitizen federal food stamp recipients not eligible.
Section 44:10-85 - Rules, regulations.
Section 44:10-86 - Short title
Section 44:10-87 - Findings, declarations regarding individual development accounts
Section 44:10-88 - Definitions regarding individual development accounts.
Section 44:10-89 - New Jersey Individual Development Account Program.
Section 44:10-90 - Opening an individual development account; conditions.
Section 44:10-91 - Transfer of account on death of holder
Section 44:10-92 - Moneys in, interest on account not considered gross income
Section 44:10-93 - Regulations; consultation with Human Services
Section 44:10-94 - Report to Legislature
Section 44:10-95 - Short title.
Section 44:10-96 - Definitions relative to the "New Jersey SNAP Employment and Training Provider 50/50 Match Project Act."
Section 44:10-97 - Establishment of New Jersey Supplemental Nutrition Assistant Program Employment and Training Provider 50/50 Match Project.
Section 44:10-98 - Proposals to participate in project.
Section 44:10-99 - Collaboration between partnering providers and county welfare agencies.
Section 44:10-100 - Programmatic functions required by partnering provider.
Section 44:10-101 - County welfare agencies, departments to assist partnering providers.
Section 44:10-102 - Submission of revised State Employment and Training Plan.
Section 44:10-103 - Report to Governor, Legislature.
Section 44:10-104 - Certain income excluded in determining eligibility.
Section 44:10-105 - Review of available data by commissioner.
Section 44:10-106 - Report to Governor, Legislature.
Section 44:11-1 - Definitions.
Section 44:11-2 - Appointment of representative payee; contents of complaints.
Section 44:11-3 - Statement that recipient is functionally incapacitated.
Section 44:11-4 - Hearing; evidence; appointment of representative.
Section 44:11-5 - Powers and duties of representative
Section 44:11-6 - Responsibility for payments; statement of account; disposition of balance on death or discharge of representative
Section 44:11-7 - Discharge of representative.
Section 44:11-8 - Liberal construction; costs
Section 44:12-1 - Definitions
Section 44:12-2 - Local units; powers.
Section 44:12-3 - Rules and regulations
Section 44:12-4 - Powers as additional and supplemental to other laws
Section 44:12-5 - Construction of act
Section 44:12-6 - Approval of prior acts and actions
Section 44:14-1 - Short title
Section 44:14-2 - Legislative findings and declarations
Section 44:14-3 - Distribution of funds; determination
Section 44:14-4 - Entitlement; certification
Section 44:14-5 - Semiannual payments by state treasurer
Section 44:14-6 - Anticipation of amount of funds
Section 44:14-7 - Reduction of base upon which limitation on county expenditures is determined
Section 44:15-1 - Findings, declarations relative to elder economic security.
Section 44:15-2 - Utilization of NJ Elder Index by DHS.
Section 44:15-3 - Report by department; referral to NJ Elder Index and related data.
Section 44:15-4 - Compliance subject to appropriation of sufficient funds, funding availability, resources.