New Jersey § 44:1-124
Full text of New Jersey New Jersey Statutes § 44:1-124, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 44:1-124.
A person who shall send, bring, remove or entice to remove, or cause to be sent, brought
or enticed, a poor person into a municipality or county from any other municipality
or county within this state without first having obtained the consent of the overseer
of the municipality 1 or the superintendent if there is no overseer appointed and qualified therein, or
the county welfare board of the county, as the case may be, or from any other state
into any municipality or county within this state without first having obtained the
consent of the commissioner and furnishing suitable bond, and there leave or attempt
to leave the person without first having obtained that consent, in order that the
support or maintenance of the poor person upon the municipality or county may be avoided,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and the poor person shall not gain a legal settlement
thereby and shall be returned from whence he came in the manner provided by law. 1
Now municipal directors of welfare, see N.J.S.A. § 44:1-73.2.
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