2023 New Jersey Statutes 30:4-63. Commitment of person with mental illness, payment
b. The Department of Human Services may admit a person found eligible for functional services from the Division of Developmental Disabilities to a residential functional services placement irrespective of the person’s legal settlement if provision is made for the payment of the full cost of the person’s care and maintenance, in an amount approved by the department. The person may remain as a full paying person in the residential functional services placement, or in another residential functional services placement deemed appropriate by the department, as long as the full per capita amount for the placement is regularly paid from the person’s income, benefits, assets, resources, or estate, or by the person chargeable by law or under contract with the person’s care and maintenance.
amended 1953, c.29, s.30; 1965, c.59, s.51; 1995, c.155, s.17; 2005, c.55, s.5; 2013, c.253, s.13.