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POOR : Chapter 4

• 1 : Definitions
• 2 : Chapter inoperative until adopted upon referendum
• 3 : Construction in general
• 4 : Establishment of welfare-house or provision for poor by contract
• 5 : Action on resolution to establish welfare-house or to contract
• 6 : Acquisition of real estate for welfare-house
• 7 : Erection, alteration or repair of buildings
• 8 : Necessary money charge upon municipalities of county
• 9 : Raising of money for buildings and maintenance
• 10 : Bonds for buildings, repairs or fittings
• 11 : Maintenance expense charge upon county
• 12 : Acceptance of gifts, devises and bequests
• 13 : Inspection of welfare-house
• 14 : Abolition of almshouses
• 15 : Sale of property formerly used for municipal almshouses
• 16 : Contract with another county for maintenance of permanent poor
• 17 : Contract authorized by resolution
• 18 : Terms of contract
• 19 : Expense under contract; payment by proper county
• 20 : Membership
• 21 : Terms of members; vacancies
• 22 : Compensation and expenses of members
• 23 : Organization of board
• 24 : Supervision of relief and settlement of poor; complaints for prevention of cruelty
• 25 : Supervision of old age relief
• 26 : Board as manager of welfare-house
• 27 : Equipment and maintenance of welfare-house
• 28 : Meetings of board
• 29 : Approval of appropriations
• 30 : Certification of bills to board of freeholders
• 31 : Working expense fund
• 32 : Appointment of director; qualifications
• 33 : Director of welfare, classification for civil service; working test period
• 34 : Appointment and tenure of other officers and employees
• 35 : Salaries
• 36 : Regulations governing officers and employees
• 37 : Functions and duties of director
• 38 : Functions and duties formerly performed by overseers of poor
• 39 : Persons receivable in welfare-house
• 40 : Determination by director of relief to be granted
• 41 : Deputy director of welfare
• 42 : Assistant directors for municipalities
• 43 : Resident helpers and municipal advisory committees
• 44 : Use of all agencies for relief
• 45 : Records of proceedings and of relief furnished
• 46 : Books showing receipts; record of orders for relief
• 47 : Periodical reports to chosen freeholders
• 48 : Annual report as to welfare-house
• 49 : Director's record of receipts and expenditures
• 50 : Director's record of applicants for relief
• 51 : Filing of record on admission to institution
• 52 : Annual report of director to chosen freeholders
• 53 : Material, stationery and forms of records
• 54 : Inspection of records and reports
• 55 : Book kept in every institution; required entries
• 56 : Penalty for failure to keep book
• 57 : Place of settlement in general
• 58 : Married woman and children
• 59 : Legitimate minor children
• 60 : Illegitimate minor children
• 61 : Minors from outside of state
• 62 : Persons from outside of United States
• 63 : Permanent relief in place of settlement
• 64 : Permanent relief in county other than that of settlement
• 65 : Temporary provision for persons having no settlement in county
• 66 : Procedure where relief sought by person having no settlement anywhere
• 67 : Temporary relief in county other than that of settlement
• 68 : Temporary relief by person having settlement outside of state
• 69 : County chargeable with relief of all persons having settlement
• 70 : Settlement; determination; effect of temporary removal
• 71 : Temporary relief for person having legal settlement elsewhere
• 72 : Removal of poor person to place of legal settlement; procedure
• 73 : Duties of director of welfare and county adjuster
• 74 : Written notice of removal
• 75 : Removal in absence of contest
• 76 : Contest; how made
• 77 : Failure to resist removal; review when failure explained
• 78 : Liability of county or municipality failing to receive or remove poor person
• 79 : Bringing poor person into county unlawfully; misdemeanor
• 80 : Suspension of sentence or fine upon certain conditions
• 81 : Furnishing transportation to nonresident poor
• 82 : Inquiry into case by director
• 83 : Rendition of aid
• 84 : Temporary relief in suitable home
• 85 : Relief order and commitment; contents
• 86 : Investigation and supervision by welfare board
• 87 : Obtaining employment for poor persons and families
• 88 : Length of stay of poor person in welfare-house
• 89 : Classification and care of inmates of welfare-houses
• 90 : Separation of sexes; exception
• 91 : Expenses recoverable from poor person or estate; insurance
• 91.1 : Pledge of property as guaranty for reimbursement; agreement to reimburse
• 91.2 : Filing certificate of costs of care furnished; legal claim, enforcement
• 91.3 : Record of welfare house and outdoor liens
• 92 : When relief may be provided in home
• 93 : Permanent relief; amount to be adequate; payable monthly
• 94 : Semiannual report relative to continuance of relief
• 95 : Notice to board of children's guardians of commitment of minors to welfare-house
• 96 : Supervision of minors committed to welfare-house
• 97 : Temporary commitment of poor minor by director to institution or home
• 98 : Notice of placement to boards of freeholders and children's guardians
• 99 : Transfer of children from welfare-house to charitable society; maintenance
• 100 : Ascertaining and obtaining or compelling assistance of relatives
• 101 : Relatives chargeable
• 102 : Compelling support by relatives
• 103 : Contracts between welfare board and relatives or others
• 104 : Compelling support by husband or wife
• 105 : Sequestration of estate
• 107 : Recovery of expenses of support
• 108 : Willful deserter as disorderly person; punishment
• 109 : Complaint by director of welfare
• 112 : Visitation of sick poor by official physicians and nurses
• 113 : Contract for visiting nursing care
• 114 : Further medical or other relief
• 115 : Hospitalization and other relief where treatment is urgent
• 116 : Bond for maintenance from master or commander
• 117 : Liability of master or commander for landing persons wrongfully
• 118 : Burial of poor
• 119 : Acquisition of cemetery by county; issuance of bonds
• 120 : Appropriations for year following adoption of chapter
• 121 : Estimates for ensuing calendar or fiscal years
• 122 : Appropriation by freeholders for relief of permanent or indoor poor
• 123 : Additional county appropriation when original appropriation inadequate
• 124 : Raising or borrowing of additional sums
• 125 : Appropriations by municipalities for temporary or outdoor poor
• 126 : Additional municipal appropriations
• 127 : Emergency county appropriation when municipality fails to appropriate additional sum
• 128 : Unexpended balances of municipal appropriations
• 129 : Proposal by resolution to adopt chapter
• 130 : Time for final action on resolution
• 131 : Notice of time and place of final action; adjournment
• 132 : Submission of question to voters of county; notice
• 133 : Ballot; form and content
• 134 : Voting
• 135 : Canvass and return of votes; when chapter becomes operative

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