New Jersey Statutes 44:1-119. Written notice of removal
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 44:1-119
- County adjuster: means the official of that designation authorized to act in the cases of commitment or admission of persons who have a mental illness to state or county psychiatric hospitals. See New Jersey Statutes 44:1-1
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- 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.
When the removal of a poor person from the place of his domicile or where he is found to the place of his settlement is lawful and necessary, it shall be inaugurated by means of a written notice signed by such official to the officer having jurisdiction in the place to which the person is to be removed, if the removal is to be to a municipality in the county; if otherwise, then the county adjuster shall act for the overseer forthwith on the application of or notice from the overseer, except as otherwise provided by law, that on a day certain not less than ten nor more than twelve days after the date and mailing of the notice an order will be made by the removing overseer, or, if the removal is outside the county, by the county adjuster, that the poor person be removed to the place of his settlement, stating the reasons therefor, the place of his settlement or the place where he became poor prior to his becoming an inhabitant of the municipality from whence he is to be removed.