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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 44:1-81

  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Human Services. See New Jersey Statutes 44:1-1
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Overseer: means a person who is charged with the superintendence and relief or removal of the poor within the overseer's jurisdiction or found in the overseer's municipality, and means superintendent in all cases where a superintendent as defined in this section is authorized to act when there is no overseer. See New Jersey Statutes 44:1-1
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.