The State Department of Health shall administer the distribution and expenditure of moneys appropriated for the purposes described in section 6 of this act in such manner and in such amounts as the State Commissioner of Health with the approval of the Director, Division of Budget and Accounting in the Department of the Treasury shall determine to be most feasible, practicable and beneficial for the recipients thereof and in accordance with the formula of participation determined upon by the State Commissioner of Health but the money shall not be paid to any physician as salary or fee for treatments administered to the chronic sick except where such treatments may be administered for research purposes approved by the State Commissioner of Health, nor shall direct assistance in cash or merchandise for the general support of needy persons be paid therefrom.

L. 1952, c. 102, p. 442, s. 11. Amended by L. 1986, c. 88, s. 2, eff. Aug. 14, 1986.