Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 44:1-109

  • Almshouse: means a place where the poor are maintained at the public expense of a municipality or county, which has not established and does not maintain a welfare-house. See New Jersey Statutes 44:1-1
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • May: shall be construed to be permissive. See New Jersey Statutes 44:1-1
  • Overseer: means a person who is charged with the superintendence and relief or removal of the poor within the overseer's jurisdiction or found in the overseer's municipality, and means superintendent in all cases where a superintendent as defined in this section is authorized to act when there is no overseer. See New Jersey Statutes 44:1-1
  • 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
  • Poor person: means one who is unable to maintain himself or those dependent upon him. See New Jersey Statutes 44:1-1
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Welfare-house: means a place where persons unable to care for and maintain themselves in whole or in part by reason of age, infirmity or poverty may be cared for and maintained in whole or in part at the expense of a county or municipality under the superintendent of a county welfare board in a county or portion thereof or districts composed of more than one county or portions thereof. See New Jersey Statutes 44:1-1
Where permanent relief is required by a poor person in a municipality in a county in which he has gained a settlement and of a county in which there is no almshouse, welfare-house or district welfare-house, the overseer shall:

a. Commit and remove the person to the municipal almshouse;

b. Furnish relief at home as provided in this chapter if the circumstances render that course legal and preferable; or

c. Commit and remove the person to such other municipal almshouse in the county as may by contract provide such relief.

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