New Jersey Statutes 44:1-30. Persons receivable in welfare-house
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 44:1-30
- 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
- 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
The superintendent of welfare under the general rules and regulations shall receive in the welfare-house such poor persons as by law are properly receivable therein, or as otherwise by law may be provided, and all such persons as would otherwise be receivable in a county or municipal almshouse, and who have settlements therein, except the poor of municipalities which do not participate in the support and maintenance of the welfare-house.