New Jersey Statutes 44:4-125. Appropriations by municipalities for temporary or outdoor poor
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 44:4-125
- 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
- County welfare board: means the board of a single county authorized to have charge, supervision and control of a county welfare-house and the administration of the settlement and relief of the poor for such county and to supervise through a director of welfare such work for or in relation to the poor as directed or authorized. See New Jersey Statutes 44:4-1
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Temporary or outdoor poor: means poor persons who can be relieved temporarily at their domicile or without being maintained in an almshouse or welfare-house. See New Jersey Statutes 44:4-1
The expenditures, exclusive of administrative expenses, for relief under the provisions of this chapter of the temporary or outdoor poor residing in the respective municipalities of the county shall be limited except as provided in section 44:4-127 of this title, to amounts appropriated therefor by the respective municipalities of the county and included in their budgets for each ensuing calendar or fiscal year; and the respective municipalities shall include in their budgets appropriations adequate in the judgment of their governing bodies for the purpose.
Such appropriations shall be made available to the order of the county welfare board of the county wherein the municipalities are situated for the sole purpose of providing relief to the temporary or outdoor poor of the respective municipalities, and the county welfare board shall expend within the municipality so making the appropriation so much thereof as is necessary to provide for such relief.