New Jersey Statutes 44:1-138. Notice of placement to boards of freeholders and children’s guardians
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 44:1-138
- 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
- Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
- State board: means the State Board of Human Services. See New Jersey Statutes 44:1-1
Within twenty-four hours of such placement the overseer shall give a written notice thereof to the state board of children’s guardians and the board of chosen freeholders of the county wherein the child has a settlement or resides. The notice shall contain a description of the child embracing its name, age, sex, religion, faith of its parents, the names and addresses of all relatives legally liable for its care, date of placement, past and present address or place of abode, the length of time the family has received relief from the municipality or district, and such information as the overseer has been able to ascertain.