New Jersey § 44:7-24

§ 44:7-24.

Subject to payment of the State's share, each county welfare board shall furnish old

age assistance as provided in this chapter to the persons eligible therefor in its

jurisdiction. The county welfare board, by and with the advice and consent of the State division,

shall annually fix and determine and report to its board of chosen freeholders a sum

sufficient to pay the estimated amount of the county's proportionate share needed

for old age assistance. Each board of chosen freeholders shall appropriate and make available such amount

to the order of the respective county welfare boards, together with a sufficient sum

to defray administrative expenses to be incurred in connection therewith, and shall

include such sums in the taxes to be levied in the territory responsible for such

old age assistance. Should the sum so appropriated, however, be expended or exhausted, during the year

and for the purpose for which it was appropriated, additional sums shall be appropriated

by such boards of chosen freeholders as occasion demands to carry out the provisions

of this chapter, from funds in the county treasury available therefor. Where such county funds are not available or adequate, or should there be no such

county funds, such additional sums shall be raised by temporary loans or notes, certificates

of indebtedness or temporary loan bonds, to be issued as otherwise provided and limited

by law for counties of this State, and the amounts necessary to pay such obligations

shall be placed in the budget for the next ensuing fiscal year. Payments of county funds needed for assistance under this chapter and for the administration

thereof by the county welfare board shall be made monthly by the treasurer of the

county upon the requisition of and to the secretary-treasurer of the county welfare

board.