New Jersey § 44:1-127
Full text of New Jersey New Jersey Statutes § 44:1-127, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 44:1-127.
When a person not being in the place in which he usually lives, or has his home, shall
apply to an overseer of the poor 1 or superintendent or director of welfare of a municipality, county or district, stating
that he is desirous of returning to his home but is poor and has not the means to
do so, that officer may employ or let out the poor person to labor at some suitable
place to be selected by the officer and at wages which shall seem to him just. When in the opinion of the officer the poor person has earned a sufficient sum, the
officer shall, with the money so earned, and such additions thereto, not exceeding
twenty dollars, from the treasury of the municipality, county or district as he may
think reasonable, cause the person to be returned to his home whether in this state
or elsewhere. 1
Now municipal directors of welfare, see N.J.S.A. § 44:1-73.2.
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