Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 30:9A-9

  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Human Services. See New Jersey Statutes 30:1-1
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • population: when used in any statute, shall be taken to mean the population as shown by the latest Federal census effective within this State, and shall be construed as synonymous with "inhabitants. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
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.