Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 44:1-73.6

  • 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
This act shall not affect the term, tenure or compensation of any overseer of the poor or deputy overseer of the poor, of any municipality, holding such office on the effective date hereof, and such overseer of the poor or deputy overseer of the poor, or both, shall continue to exercise the functions, powers and duties of his office, and maintain the records and property thereof, as required by law, for the balance of the term during which he shall have been appointed, and any term or terms for which he may be reappointed to succeed himself in such office; and at the expiration of such term or terms such functions, powers and duties, records and property, shall be transferred to and vested in, and shall be exercised and used by, the director of welfare of such municipality appointed pursuant to the provisions of chapter one hundred thirty of the laws of one thousand nine hundred and forty.

L.1946, c. 110, p. 342, s. 6.

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