New Jersey Statutes 44:1-133. Payment of home relief
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 44:1-133
- 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.
- 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
The sum ordered to be paid for the maintenance and support of a poor person in the home as provided in this article shall be a charge against the municipality, county or district in which the poor person has a settlement, and shall be payable monthly upon the application of the overseer or the superintendent out of the funds from which other expenses of relief and settlement of the permanent poor are paid. The sum shall be for use only for the care and maintenance of the person for whom such relief has been ordered.