Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 26:2H-47.1

  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
In order to facilitate the provision of assistance to certain residents by skilled or intermediate care nursing facilities in obtaining medical assistance or other payment mechanisms for nursing home facility care pursuant to sections 1 and 2 of P.L. 1977, c. 387 (C. 26:2H-47 and 26:2H-48), the fiduciary of any resident, 65 years of age or older, for whom the fiduciary expends funds for the nursing home facility care of the resident shall, at least 90 days before those funds are exhausted, notify in writing the resident, the nursing facility to whom the funds are paid, the resident’s next of kin and any other person or agency interested in the resident’s welfare, of the impending exhaustion of those funds.

L. 1985, c. 18, s. 1, eff. Jan. 25, 1985.