§ 44:8-107 Short title, other references
§ 44:8-108 Definitions
§ 44:8-109 Public policy
§ 44:8-110 Administration and distribution of state aid for public assistance
§ 44:8-110.1 Disbursement of funds for legal services for successful appeals
§ 44:8-110.2 Reduction of amount of Payments to Municipalities for Cost of General Assistance funds
§ 44:8-110.3 Rules, regulations
§ 44:8-111 Commissioner’s duties
§ 44:8-111.1 Centralized registry established; updating of information
§ 44:8-111.2 Registry information made available; provision for comparison checks
§ 44:8-111.3 Report
§ 44:8-112 Powers of commissioner
§ 44:8-113 Administration as to municipalities or counties
§ 44:8-114 Administration and funding of public assistance
§ 44:8-115 Local assistance boards; membership; appointment; compensation
§ 44:8-116 Terms of members of local assistance boards; vacancies
§ 44:8-117 Organization of local assistance boards; director of welfare; employees
§ 44:8-117.1 Municipality authorized to establish staffing level of welfare department
§ 44:8-118 Duties of welfare director
§ 44:8-119 Applicant’s affidavit
§ 44:8-120 Immediate assistance
§ 44:8-121 Inquiry by director
§ 44:8-122 Aid and assistance after reasonable inquiry
§ 44:8-123 Order after complete investigation
§ 44:8-124 Continued assistance, manner of; extent
§ 44:8-125 Deductions from public assistance
§ 44:8-126 Exploitation of recipients
§ 44:8-127 Revocation of order for continued assistance
§ 44:8-128 Determination annually of “preceding year’s ratables” and public assistance loads of municipalities
§ 44:8-129 Determining amount of State aid
§ 44:8-130 Advance payments to municipality before determination of “current year’s public assistance load”
§ 44:8-131 Deductions from amount of State aid payable to municipalities
§ 44:8-132 Counties furnishing hospitalization in maternity hospitals
§ 44:8-133 Commissioner to administer public assistance in municipality when
§ 44:8-134 Duties of municipality when public assistance is administered by commissioner
§ 44:8-135 Election of municipality to administer its own public assistance in following year
§ 44:8-136 Election of municipality to administer its own public assistance during current year
§ 44:8-137 Municipality or county to pay cost of administration
§ 44:8-138 “Public assistance trust fund account”
§ 44:8-139 Transfer of current budget appropriation for public assistance
§ 44:8-140 False statements by applicants
§ 44:8-140.1 Civil, criminal penalties for fraudulent receipt of benefits or payments for general public assistance
§ 44:8-142 Officers and board members failing to comply
§ 44:8-143 Repeal
§ 44:8-144 Laws saved from repeal or modification
§ 44:8-145 Revision of prior laws, construction as; existing positions not affected
§ 44:8-145.1 Transfer from municipal to county welfare agency
§ 44:8-145.2 Appointment of assistant county welfare director
§ 44:8-145.3 Allocation of functions, powers, and duties
§ 44:8-145.4 Employees transferred, remuneration, service intact; provision of services to municipal agency permitted
§ 44:8-145.5 Rules, regulations
§ 44:8-159 Rebates for pharmaceutical products; requirements
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes > Title 44 > Chapter 8

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • month: means a calendar month, and the word "year" means a calendar year. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • 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
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • 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: 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