Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 44:5-8

  • assessor: when used in relation to the assessment of taxes or water rents or other public assessments, includes all officers, boards or commissions charged with the duty of making such assessments, unless a particular officer, board or commission is specified. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
A city which prior to February first, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two, adopted the provisions of sections 44:5-4 to 44:5-7 of this title, and which has made and entered into the contract or contracts contemplated in said sections, may pay to the hospital or hospitals during the remainder of the term of the contract or contracts and all renewals thereof a sum not exceeding one mill on every dollar of assessable property returned by the assessor of the city for the purpose of supporting, maintaining and caring for such indigent patients as may be sent to the hospital by order of any city physician, overseer of the poor or other proper authority of the city, and may annually appropriate and raise by taxation in the manner in which other city taxes are assessed, levied and collected in the city during the existence of the contract or contracts or renewals thereof a sum not exceeding one mill on every dollar of assessable property returned by the assessor of the city for the purpose of taxation therein.