Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 44:4-81

  • Director of welfare: means an employee of a county welfare board with authority to act for it and under its direction, and to act for and in lieu of overseers where there are none, and perform the functions of and replace the office of overseer. See New Jersey Statutes 44:4-1
  • 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
44:4-81. No person shall furnish a nonresident who is sick, elderly, injured, or who has a physical disability, with transportation at the cost of the county until the director of welfare of the county has ascertained the legal residence of the person applying. Any transportation furnished to such person shall be to the person’s legal residence unless it shall appear that the person has some valid claim for support or some means of support in some other place to which the person shall ask to be sent.

Amended 2017, c.131, s.179.