44:7-1 Definitions.

44:7-1. As used in this chapter:

"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Human Services.

"State board" means the State Board of Human Services.

"State division" means the bureau of assistance as set up within the Department of Human Services.

"Director of old age assistance" means the chief of the State bureau of assistance.

"Director of welfare" means the director of the county welfare board.

"County welfare board" means the boards established within the several counties for the purposes of administering welfare to the needy, whether set up under the authority of this chapter or pursuant to any other laws of this State.

"Assistance" means money payments to or on behalf of eligible persons.

"Old age assistance" means assistance to aged needy persons as provided by this chapter, and, unless otherwise indicated, includes all programs of assistance for other specified classes of persons authorized to be administered by or through the county welfare boards.

"County adjuster" means the official of that designation authorized to act in cases of commitment or admission of persons who have a mental illness to State or county hospitals for the insane.

"Federal aid" means grants-in-aid to the State as provided for in the Federal Social Security Act, approved August 14, 1935, as amended.

"Institution" means any establishment, whether in single or multiple dwellings, whether public or private, whether incorporated or unincorporated, whether for profit or nonprofit, operated at the direction of or under the management of an individual or individuals, corporation, partnership, society, or association, which furnishes food and shelter for 4 or more persons unrelated to the proprietor and which provides medical or nursing service or any other personal care or service beyond food, shelter, and laundry, to any 1 or more of such persons.

amended 1953, c.213, s.1; 1962, c.222, s.9; 2013, c.103, s.119.