Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 44:1-128

  • 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
  • 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
  • Superintendent: means the employee of a welfare board of a county or district authorized to act for it and under its direction and to act for overseers where there are none. See New Jersey Statutes 44:1-1
  • 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
When adult poor persons own the property in whole or in part where they reside, or are receiving shelter in some other suitable home or habitation, and it is possible to maintain them in such homes more adequately and profitably within the intent of this chapter, the overseer, or superintendent when acting in place of the overseer may, as provided in section 44:1-129 of this title, apply for such relief in lieu of committing or placing them in an almshouse or welfare-house.
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