New Jersey Statutes 44:1-15. Supervision of relief and settlement of poor
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 44:1-15
- 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.
- 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 board: means the board of one or more counties authorized to have charge, supervision, and control of a welfare-house and to supervise through a superintendent such work for or in relation to the poor as directed or authorized. See New Jersey Statutes 44:1-1
The county welfare board as the county bureau of relief shall have charge and supervision of the relief and settlement of the poor in its jurisdiction, subject to the provisions of this chapter.