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NJ Rev Stat § 44:1-80 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 44 - Poor|Section 44:1-80 - Removal of director of welfare from duties in adjoining municipality

44:1-80. Removal of director of welfare from duties in adjoining municipality  44:1-80. A director of welfare acting in contiguous or adjoining municipalities, as provided in section 44:1-79 of this Title, may be removed from his responsibilities and duties in the municipality other than that of his appointment, for cause or by reason of his inability to properly perform his authorized and required functions due to the size or population of the territory in an action by the governing body of either municipality against the other municipality, in the Superior Court. The court may proceed therein in a summary manner.  The court by its judgment may terminate the contract and relieve the director of such duties and responsibilities and the additional salary theretofore agreed to be paid to him. Upon the removal of the director, the municipality may appoint one to act therein for the full term as provided in this chapter.  Amended 1953,c.42,s.3; 1991,c.91,s.423.
NJ Rev Stat § 44:1-81 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 44 - Poor|Section 44:1-81 - Certificate of appointment; filing

44:1-81. Certificate of appointment; filing  An overseer shall forthwith or within ten days after his appointment file with the commissioner a certificate properly authenticated by the clerk of the governing body of the municipality in which the overseer has jurisdiction, showing the date of his appointment and his post-office address.
NJ Rev Stat § 44:1-82 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 44 - Poor|Section 44:1-82 - Lists of overseers

44:1-82. Lists of overseers  The commissioner shall keep a complete list of all overseers of the state and furnish a list thereof from time to time, and upon application, to overseers, superintendents and county adjusters.
NJ Rev Stat § 44:1-83 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 44 - Poor|Section 44:1-83 - Appointment and powers of deputy overseers

44:1-83. Appointment and powers of deputy overseers  In municipalities, other than counties, having not less than five thousand inhabitants, or where the overseer has jurisdiction in more than one municipality, the governing body or bodies may appoint a deputy overseer. A deputy overseer shall have resided in the state for at least one year and shall have other qualifications like those necessary for overseers. He shall be under the direction of the overseer, and be vested on the approval of the overseer with the same power in the distribution of relief and like authority for prosecution or defense in court proceedings.
NJ Rev Stat § 44:1-84 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 44 - Poor|Section 44:1-84 - Appointment, salaries and removal of deputies, assistants and others

44:1-84. Appointment, salaries and removal of deputies, assistants and others  The governing body or bodies may appoint such other assistants, clerks, visitors and nurses as in their judgment may be expedient, and fix their salaries and that of the deputy overseer, which salaries shall be in lieu of all fees. The deputy overseer and the assistants, clerks and nurses shall work under the direction of the overseer, shall hold their office or employment during good behavior, and may be removed by the governing body upon written charges and after a hearing upon due notice for misconduct, neglect or incompetence.
NJ Rev Stat § 44:1-85 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 44 - Poor|Section 44:1-85 - Helpers to overseers

44:1-85. Helpers to overseers  An overseer may appoint resident helpers without pay or fees to aid in the temporary relief of poor persons under his direction, preferably by district, in a municipality, in order that such helpers may observe, ascertain and assist the overseer or deputy in ascertaining the cause or causes of dependency, obtain employment for poor persons when needed, and assist and advise the overseer or deputy in instituting and prosecuting to a determination such proceedings as may be necessary through other agencies of the state, or its political subdivisions, for the relief of the poor, or the admission of them or their lawful dependents to such institution or agency as may be provided for mental or physical disability or otherwise. Disbursements of helpers shall be paid, on the approval of the overseer, by the governing body or district welfare board. Helpers shall be registered on appointment at the office of the overseer, and shall be furnished and supplied with such evidence of their appointment and authority as the overseer, with the approval of the governing body, shall determine.
NJ Rev Stat § 44:1-86 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 44 - Poor|Section 44:1-86 - Determination by director of relief to be granted

44:1-86. Determination by director of relief to be granted  44:1-86. The director of welfare in the municipality shall determine who are to be relieved by him, subject to an application by any person, on at least five days' notice, to the Superior Court, Chancery Division, Family Part, by complaint, in writing, applying for a summary review and determination by the court of the action of the director as to the extent and amount of relief, if any, to be rendered.  Amended 1953,c.42,s.4; 1991,c.91,s.424.
NJ Rev Stat § 44:1-87 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 44 - Poor|Section 44:1-87 - Inquiry into application for relief

44:1-87. Inquiry into application for relief  When a person shall apply for relief for himself or another to an overseer or deputy, the overseer shall inquire into the facts, conditions and circumstances of the case, and also into the matter of the person's settlement if it shall appear that the person is unable to earn a livelihood by his own labor and is a poor person and requires temporary or permanent relief. The overseer shall also ascertain the direct or indirect causes of poverty, and whether or not the person requiring permanent relief is without adequate home or without children, grandchildren, parents, grandparents, or husband who are by law required and able to maintain him and other persons who are willing to do so.
NJ Rev Stat § 44:1-88 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 44 - Poor|Section 44:1-88 - Granting of relief

44:1-88. Granting of relief  Upon inquiry as provided in section 44:1-87 of this title the overseer shall by a written order render such aid and material relief as he may in his discretion deem necessary to the end that the person may not suffer unnecessarily from cold or hunger, or be deprived of shelter. If the poor person requires permanent relief and support and is without adequate home, he shall, subject to various other provisions of this chapter, be committed and removed to the proper almshouse or welfare-house in the municipality, county or district.
NJ Rev Stat § 44:1-89 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 44 - Poor|Section 44:1-89 - Permanent relief in absence of almshouse or welfare-house

44:1-89. Permanent relief in absence of almshouse or welfare-house  The overseer in any municipality in which there is no almshouse may provide for the permanent relief and support of poor persons as in his discretion the circumstances may require, or contract, with the approval of his governing body, for the support of such persons in the almshouse of another municipality of the same county, if there shall not be a county almshouse or county or district welfare-house.
NJ Rev Stat § 44:1-90 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 44 - Poor|Section 44:1-90 - Contents of relief order or commitment

44:1-90. Contents of relief order or commitment  Where a person is removed to the almshouse or welfare-house or receives permanent relief by the order of the overseer or his deputy, the order and commitment shall state the name, age, sex, nativity, place of settlement, names of children, grandchildren, parents, grandparents or other relatives, and their places of residence, and the causes making such removal or relief necessary or advisable.
NJ Rev Stat § 44:1-91 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 44 - Poor|Section 44:1-91 - Removal of permanent poor to almshouses or welfare-houses

44:1-91. Removal of permanent poor to almshouses or welfare-houses  Overseers shall from time to time as persons who are poor persons within the meaning of this chapter become permanent charges upon their municipalities as paupers, have such persons removed to the proper almshouse or welfare-house.
NJ Rev Stat § 44:1-92 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 44 - Poor|Section 44:1-92 - Length of stay of poor persons in institutions

44:1-92. Length of stay of poor persons in institutions  A poor person or child who is committed or removed to an almshouse or welfare-house by an overseer shall be received by the supervisor or superintendent, and be supported and relieved therein until in the case of a person not a minor it shall appear that the person is no longer a poor person within the meaning of this chapter, when in the discretion of the supervisor or superintendent the person so removed may be discharged, and immediately thereafter a written notice of such removal or discharge shall be sent to the overseer or superintendent on whose order the person was received into the almshouse or welfare-house, stating the reason for such removal or discharge and the name of the person, society or board, if any, into whose care or custody the person has been discharged.
NJ Rev Stat § 44:1-93 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 44 - Poor|Section 44:1-93 - Use of all agencies for relief

44:1-93. Use of all agencies for relief  All agencies for relief, such as widows' pensions as provided by law, aid under the authority of the rehabilitation commission and public employment service, or other aids to relief, support or assistance, public or private, shall be made use of by overseers and their subordinates and helpers to the end that causes of dependency on the part of persons or their families and the need for such public relief in whole or in part may be eliminated, and such subordinates and helpers are authorized under direction of the overseer or deputy to take such legal steps, either as prosecutors or petitioners in legal proceedings in aid of such persons or their families as may be necessary to such end.
NJ Rev Stat § 44:1-94 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 44 - Poor|Section 44:1-94 - Obtaining employment for poor persons and families

44:1-94. Obtaining employment for poor persons and families  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.
NJ Rev Stat § 44:1-95 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 44 - Poor|Section 44:1-95 - Expenses recoverable, procedure

44:1-95. Expenses recoverable, procedure  44:1-95. If it is ascertained at any time that a person who has been assisted by or has received support from a municipality or county has real or personal property over and above that necessary for his maintenance in whole or in part, if such poor person is maintained by the municipality or county at home, or over and above that sufficient for his family, or if any such person shall die, leaving real or personal property, an action may be maintained in the Superior Court by the director of welfare of the municipality who has furnished or provided such assistance or support, or any part thereof, against such person or his estate, to recover the sums of money which have been expended by the municipality or county in the assistance and support of the person during the period for which support was furnished. If a person shall die having received relief or maintenance as a poor person and having insurance upon his life, the proceeds of the insurance after payment of the expense of the last illness and the funeral expenses of the person, if the terms of the policy so permit, shall be first applied to the reimbursement of the county, municipality or district for the cost of the support and maintenance of the person. But no action shall lie, nor shall any appropriation of insurance be made against an estate when it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the court that the proceeds thereof, or the estate, are needed to prevent the widow or minor children of the poor person from becoming dependent upon the public.  Amended 1953,c.42,s.5; 1991,c.91,s.425.
NJ Rev Stat § 44:1-96 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 44 - Poor|Section 44:1-96 - Record of receipts and expenditures

44:1-96. Record of receipts and expenditures  Overseers shall keep a record of all receipts and expenditures on their part or that of their subordinates.
NJ Rev Stat § 44:1-97 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 44 - Poor|Section 44:1-97 - Record as to every applicant for relief

44:1-97. Record as to every applicant for relief  Overseers shall in respect to all applicants for relief keep a record which may be by card index and which shall state: a. The name, age, sex and residence; b. The number and names of children and their ages; c. The time and place of last employment and the family income; d. Whether citizen or alien and the place of nativity; e. The place of abode for the ten years preceding the application for relief; f. The cause direct and indirect which has operated to make relief necessary so far as can be ascertained; g. The relief or aid given, and such relief as may have been or is being provided by all organizations as ascertained; h. The name of the overseer or deputy and helper having particular knowledge and charge of the case, and of witnesses of the fact with their addresses; and i. The name of those responsible by law for the support of the poor person and the name of any relative agreeing or likely to agree to contribute in whole or in part to, or assist in, the support of the poor person.
NJ Rev Stat § 44:1-98 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 44 - Poor|Section 44:1-98 - Filing of record on admission to institution

44:1-98. Filing of record on admission to institution  In case of the commitment or admission of a poor person or a member of his family, through the agency of the overseer, or his assistants, to an almshouse, welfare-house or other institution or family, the overseer shall file a copy of the record provided for in section 44:1-97 of this title, or a record of the admission or commitment, with the commissioner at his office at Trenton, and in the case of an infant, a record thereof shall be, within the same time, filed with the state board of children's guardians at its office. Such filing within the time limited may be by registered mail.
NJ Rev Stat § 44:1-99 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 44 - Poor|Section 44:1-99 - Books relative to money received and orders for relief

44:1-99. Books relative to money received and orders for relief  Overseers and deputies shall keep a book setting forth therein all moneys, goods and materials received by them, when and by whom received, and to whom paid out and delivered and, in addition thereto, a separate book of orders for relief, with stubs attached. The printed order and stubs shall show the name, residence, when issued, the amount and kind of relief expended, and by whom issued and delivered. The order shall be indorsed by the recipient and the person furnishing such relief as made.
NJ Rev Stat § 44:1-100 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 44 - Poor|Section 44:1-100 - Materials, stationery and forms of records

44:1-100. Materials, stationery and forms of records  The governing body or bodies shall furnish to the overseer and his deputies the necessary material, card indexes and other stationery for the purpose of this chapter, at the expense of the municipality. All forms of records for the use of the overseer shall be such as are approved and prescribed by the commissioner.
NJ Rev Stat § 44:1-101 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 44 - Poor|Section 44:1-101 - Annual reports by overseers

44:1-101. Annual reports by overseers  Overseers shall, annually, make to their county, municipal governing bodies, or district board, as the case may be, within thirty days after the first meeting thereof in the year, a report or reports, in writing, which shall be a summary of the entries of the records mentioned and authorized in this chapter.
NJ Rev Stat § 44:1-102 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 44 - Poor|Section 44:1-102 - Place of settlement in general

44:1-102. Place of settlement in general  Every person of full age who is a resident of, and domiciled without interruption in, a municipality for five years, or in a county for five years but not in a municipality thereof, excluding in the computation of the period the time if any spent by the person in a charitable or correctional institution, shall be deemed settled respectively in that municipality or county and shall so remain until he has: a. Gained a like settlement in some other municipality or county in this state; b. Gained a legal settlement elsewhere in this state; or c. Removed from this state and remained therefrom continuously for one year, in which case the person shall not retain his settlement in a county or municipality in this state.
NJ Rev Stat § 44:1-103 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 44 - Poor|Section 44:1-103 - Married woman and children

44:1-103. Married woman and children  A married woman and her children shall always follow and have the settlement of her husband and of their father. If he has no such settlement, her settlement shall be as it was at the time of her becoming a resident and a domiciliary of the municipality or county wherein relief is sought, if she has not, in lieu thereof, gained a settlement as is provided in section 44:1-102 of this title.
NJ Rev Stat § 44:1-104 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 44 - Poor|Section 44:1-104 - Legitimate minor children

44:1-104. Legitimate minor children  Legitimate minor children shall, until they have gained a settlement of their own, always follow and have the settlement of their father, if they have one, except that if the father has no settlement they shall follow and have the settlement of their mother.
NJ Rev Stat § 44:1-105 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 44 - Poor|Section 44:1-105 - Illegitimate minor children

44:1-105. Illegitimate minor children  Illegitimate minor children shall follow and have the settlement of their mother, unless the father is legally found or admitted by him to be such at the time and place of their birth, in which case they shall follow and have the father's settlement. If neither parent has a settlement, then it shall be in the municipality or county in which the minor child was born, if the birth occurred in this state. Such minor children born in charitable or correctional institutions, or while the mother is legally an inmate thereof, whether on parole or leave of absence, shall be chargeable to the place of the settlement of the mother or father or from which they were admitted or committed, rather than to the place where that institution is located.
NJ Rev Stat § 44:1-106 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 44 - Poor|Section 44:1-106 - Minor from outside of state

44:1-106. Minor from outside of state  No minor who is brought into a county in this state, or who is placed out in a family therein by a person, society or corporation, public or private, of this or any other state, shall gain a settlement.
NJ Rev Stat § 44:1-107 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 44 - Poor|Section 44:1-107 - Persons from outside of United States

44:1-107. Persons from outside of United States  Nothing in this chapter shall apply to or affect a person from outside the United States of America, or in any way change the rights or liabilities of such persons as conferred or imposed by any law of the United States, nor the right otherwise conferred by law to deport or remove such persons to any other state wherein the person still retains, or may have acquired, a settlement according to the laws of any state or country, and in all such cases no settlement shall be deemed to have been acquired within this state.
NJ Rev Stat § 44:1-108 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 44 - Poor|Section 44:1-108 - Granting permanent relief where required of county of settlement

44:1-108. Granting permanent relief where required of county of settlement  Where permanent relief is required by a poor person in a municipality in which he has gained a residence and is an inhabitant, and of a county in which he has gained a settlement, the overseer shall proceed to commit and remove the person to an almshouse or welfare-house, except as otherwise provided in this chapter for partial relief in a home or otherwise.
NJ Rev Stat § 44:1-109 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 44 - Poor|Section 44:1-109 - Granting permanent relief in absence of county almshouse, welfare-house or district welfare-house

44:1-109. Granting permanent relief in absence of county almshouse, welfare-house or district welfare-house  Where permanent relief is required by a poor person in a municipality in a county in which he has gained a settlement and of a county in which there is no almshouse, welfare-house or district welfare-house, the overseer shall: a. Commit and remove the person to the municipal almshouse; b. Furnish relief at home as provided in this chapter if the circumstances render that course legal and preferable; or c. Commit and remove the person to such other municipal almshouse in the county as may by contract provide such relief.
NJ Rev Stat § 44:1-110 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 44 - Poor|Section 44:1-110 - County chargeable for permanent relief where settlement is therein

44:1-110. County chargeable for permanent relief where settlement is therein  A person who has a settlement in a county but not in a municipality thereof shall be chargeable as to permanent relief to the entire county and be supported, maintained or relieved thereby, and the governing body of the county shall provide for the payment of the expense thereof as other county expenses are paid.