New Jersey § 30:7b-3

§ 30:7b-3.

ARTICLE III (a) Whenever a person physically present in any party State shall be in need of institutionalization

by reason of mental illness or mental deficiency, he shall be eligible for care and

treatment in an institution in that State irrespective of his residence, settlement

or citizenship qualifications. (b) The provisions of paragraph (a) of this article to the contrary notwithstanding,

any patient may be transferred to an institution in another State whenever there are

factors based upon clinical determinations indicating that the care and treatment

of said patient would be facilitated or improved thereby. Any such institutionalization may be for the entire period of care and treatment

or for any portion or portions thereof. The factors referred to in this paragraph shall include the patient's full record

with due regard for the location of the patient's family, character of the illness

and probable duration thereof, and such other factors as shall be considered appropriate. (c) No State shall be obliged to receive any patient pursuant to the provisions of

paragraph (b) of this article unless the sending State has given advance notice of

its intention to send the patient; furnished all available medical and other pertinent

records concerning the patient; given the qualified medical or other appropriate

clinical authorities of the receiving State an opportunity to examine the patient

if said authorities so wish; and unless the receiving State shall agree to accept

the patient. (d) In the event that the laws of the receiving State establish a system of priorities

for the admission of patients, an interstate patient under this compact shall receive

the same priority as a local patient and shall be taken in the same order and at the

same time that he would be taken if he were a local patient. (e) Pursuant to this compact, the determination as to the suitable place of institutionalization

for a patient may be reviewed at any time and such further transfer of the patient

may be made as seems likely to be in the best interest of the patient.