Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 44:1-27

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • 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 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 shall fix the salaries of the superintendent of welfare and the other officers and employees within the limits of the appropriation made therefor by the board of chosen freeholders, and such salaries shall be compensation in full for all services rendered.