New Jersey Statutes 44:1-142. Contracts between overseers and relatives or others
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 44:1-142
- 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
An overseer or his deputies may contract with relatives and others not otherwise chargeable by law who are able and willing to support and maintain or contribute to the support and maintenance of a poor person, whereby such relatives in consideration of the support and maintenance of the poor person may undertake and obligate themselves to that end, or induce such aid and support as may be possible.