New Jersey Statutes 44:1-67. Bond issues for construction, repair or equipment
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 44:1-67
- Almshouse: means a place where the poor are maintained at the public expense of a municipality or county, which has not established and does not maintain a welfare-house. See New Jersey Statutes 44:1-1
- May: shall be construed to be permissive. See New Jersey Statutes 44:1-1
- Welfare-house: means a place where persons unable to care for and maintain themselves in whole or in part by reason of age, infirmity or poverty may be cared for and maintained in whole or in part at the expense of a county or municipality under the superintendent of a county welfare board in a county or portion thereof or districts composed of more than one county or portions thereof. See New Jersey Statutes 44:1-1
In order to meet the expense:
a. Of erecting additions to or new buildings or accommodations at a county almshouse or welfare-house; or
b. Of making repairs to any such buildings; or
c. Of providing proper furniture for any such buildings, or apparatus for lighting, heating or otherwise fitting them up–
the board of chosen freeholders of a county lawfully authorized to maintain almshouses or welfare-houses, or the boards of freeholders acting for more than one county, may from time to time issue bonds in the manner otherwise provided by law in the corporate name and under the corporate seal of the county, or as provided in this chapter for joint county control.