Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 40:48-9.4a

  • Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
  • 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
1. The governing body of any municipality may appropriate annually to any approved, privately operated, nonprofit organization whose services are nonsectarian, funds for the purpose of defraying the necessary expense incident to the diagnosis, treatment, training, and rehabilitation of persons with intellectual disabilities, persons with a brain injury, persons with mental illness, or persons with other mental or physical disabilities who are residents of the municipality, at suitable homes, schools, hospitals, day-care centers, residential treatment centers, rehabilitation centers, or sheltered workshops anywhere in the State supported by public funds or private charity, including the cost of transporting such persons to and from, and their support and maintenance at, such homes, schools, hospitals, day-care centers, residential treatment centers, rehabilitation centers, or sheltered workshops for the purpose of diagnosis or while undergoing treatment, training, and rehabilitation, or for the purpose of maintaining an extended employment program.

L.1975, c.141, s.1; amended 2010, c.50, s.67; 2017, c.131, s.171.

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