Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 44:5-12

  • 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
Money appropriated by a governing body and distributed and paid to any hospital by virtue of section 44:5-11 of this Title, shall, if there is more than one such hospital, be distributed among and paid to them upon the basis of the free ward day’s treatment furnished by each of them for the benefit, comfort and maintenance of such patients, inmates therein, or in the case of clinics, by the number of individual treatments of patients, as are residents of the county at the time of being sent to that hospital, and not otherwise.

“Free ward day’s treatment,” as used in this section, means not less than 24 hours’ medical and nursing attention of a hospital patient who occupies a listed hospital bed in the public ward for at least 24 hours continuously and for which nothing is paid. Free ward day’s treatment shall not include treatment given to a person who would not commonly be admitted to or maintained in the public or contagious wards of general hospitals.

Amended by L.1969, c. 188, s. 2, eff. Nov. 7, 1969; L.1979, c. 14, s. 2, eff. Feb. 8, 1979.

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