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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 44:7-13

  • Assistance: means money payments to or on behalf of eligible persons. See New Jersey Statutes 44:7-1
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • County welfare board: means the boards established within the several counties for the purposes of administering welfare to the needy, whether set up under the authority of this chapter or pursuant to any other laws of this State. See New Jersey Statutes 44:7-1
  • Institution: means any establishment, whether in single or multiple dwellings, whether public or private, whether incorporated or unincorporated, whether for profit or nonprofit, operated at the direction of or under the management of an individual or individuals, corporation, partnership, society, or association, which furnishes food and shelter for 4 or more persons unrelated to the proprietor and which provides medical or nursing service or any other personal care or service beyond food, shelter, and laundry, to any 1 or more of such persons. See New Jersey Statutes 44:7-1
  • person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
If, on the death of a person receiving old-age assistance, it shall appear to the satisfaction of the county welfare agency after investigation that there are insufficient funds to pay his burial and funeral expenses, and that there are no relatives or other persons responsible to pay such expenses, or other persons willing to pay them, the county welfare agency may order the payment of such sum as may be necessary pursuant to P.L. 1985, c. 282 to such person as the county welfare agency may direct for the funeral expenses of the deceased aged needy person and an additional sum for the cost of a cemetery plot, the opening or closing of a grave, or other similar burial or interment expenses which sum shall be determined pursuant to P.L. 1985, c. 282, and shall be paid by the county welfare board directly to the cemetery expressly for such purposes. The next of kin or other interested parties may incur additional expenses to be paid by them, but the total cost of such expenses shall be established by regulation of the Department of Human Services pursuant to the “Administrative Procedure Act,” P.L. 1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.) and in accordance with P.L. 1985, c. 282.

Any sum so ordered to be paid for or on account of burial and funeral expenses shall be first paid, so far as possible, from any fund otherwise undistributed received by the county welfare agency from or for the account of the individual recipient, and may thereafter be paid, so far as necessary, from funds appropriated for old-age assistance payments. Any amounts so paid from funds appropriated for old-age assistance payments shall be deemed a part of the assistance granted to the individual recipient for the purpose of claims for reimbursement, and recovery under sections 44:7-14, 44:7-15 and 44:7-19, Revised Statutes, and shall be a proper charge for division of cost between the State and county as referred to in section 44:7-25 of this Title.

Payment of burial and funeral expenses as provided above may be authorized with respect to any person who, while lawfully receiving old-age assistance is committed or admitted to any tax-supported institution other than a penal or correctional institution, and who dies while confined at such institution.

The county welfare agency shall not be liable to pay costs of burial and funeral expenses for a deceased recipient of old-age assistance incurred pursuant to a contract or contracts entered into without the knowledge and consent of the board, but may, at its discretion, pay such costs, or a portion thereof, within the limitations of this section.

Amended by L. 1938, c. 361, p. 908, s. 9, eff. July 1, 1938; L. 1949, c. 247, p. 793, s. 1; L. 1953, c. 213, p. 1616, s. 4; L. 1959, c. 128, p. 567, s. 1, eff. July 1, 1959; L. 1968, c. 212, s. 1, eff. July 19, 1968; L. 1979, c. 324, s. 1, eff. July 1, 1980; L. 1985, c. 282, s. 2.

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