18A:47-5. Children who are dependent and delinquent, or who are habitually truant or incorrigible, or who shall be found by the court to require special instruction, and who reside in a school district in which there is no such special school of instruction may be committed to such a special school of instruction maintained in another district. The board of education of the receiving district shall be entitled to collect and receive from the board of education of the sending district such sum for the tuition and maintenance of such children as the boards shall agree to, but not in excess of the actual cost per pupil as determined according to rules of the commissioner approved by the State board. The board of education of the sending district shall issue an order, payable from any funds available for current expenses, for such sum in favor of the secretary or treasurer of school moneys, as appropriate, of the school district maintaining the school to which the child shall have been committed.

L.1967, c.271, amended L.2010, c.39.