New Jersey Statutes 44:1-94. Obtaining employment for poor persons and families
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 44:1-94
- 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.
- 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
- 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
When an application for relief is made to the overseer or deputy of a municipality or superintendent acting when there is no overseer, in behalf of a person who claims to be poor and in distress, and when the person or a member of his family appears to be in good health and capable of earning a livelihood sufficient for the total or partial support of the poor person, the overseer or superintendent shall make every possible effort to secure employment for the person and any or all other members of the same family and shall use to that end the services of such helpers as may be appointed in his jurisdiction to aid in accomplishing that purpose and in maintaining supervision over the poor person and in having contact with his employers for the purpose not only of obtaining employment but of continuing it if possible, and the factors if any interfering in the obtaining or continuation of such or any employment shall be ascertained and remedied if possible.
To this end all public employment agencies or rehabilitation bureaus, or any other agencies, public, private or charitable, may be made use of, and the expense thereof, not properly an expense of any such agency shall in the discretion of the overseer or superintendent be chargeable in whole or in part to the municipality, county or joint district.
Persons for whom proper employment is found who shall willfully neglect to work or labor and become, or continue, chargeable to a municipality, county or part thereof or district, by reason of such neglect, and persons chargeable by law for the support of a poor person who shall neglect to perform reasonable work or labor, shall be proceeded against by the overseer or superintendent.