New Jersey § 30:4b-7

§ 30:4b-7.

For the purpose of defraying the costs of administering, during the fiscal year ending

June 30, 1951, the functions herein transferred to the State Department of Human Services

and the Commissioner of Human Services, respectively, pursuant to section five of

this act, 1 the State Department of Human Services may expend, from the appropriation made to

it for relief subsidies in the General Appropriations Law for the fiscal year, an

amount not in excess of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00); and in employing

additional personnel, for the administration of the functions, powers and duties transferred

under this act, 2 the Commissioner of Human Services shall give preference, wherever possible but in

his absolute discretion, to the present employees of the Department of Conservation

and Economic Development and the Division of Budget and Accounting in the Department

of the Treasury, who have been engaged in the administration of any of the functions,

powers and duties in the departments, by transferring them to substantially similar

positions and employments, having in mind the fitness of the employees for the performance

of the duties to be assigned to them, in the Division of Economic Assistance in the

State Department of Human Services and persons so transferred shall hold the positions

and employments with the same civil service status and the same tenure and pension

rights, as they formerly had in the respective departments from which they are so

transferred. 1

N.J.S.A. § 30:4B-5. 2

N.J.S.A. §§ 30:4B-1 to 30:4B-10.