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44:5-11.  Annual appropriations by counties to maintain patients in nonprofit hospitals or clinics
    The governing body of a county which has no hospital located therein maintained by the county other than the hospital or sick ward of the county poor home, a county tuberculosis hospital or sanatorium, a county hospital or sanatorium for the insane, or a hospital for contagious and infectious diseases, may make an appropriation of not more than $800,000.00 in each year in the manner in which appropriations for other county purposes are made, except that in counties having a population of more than 300,000, according to the latest census, the governing body may make such an annual appropriation of not more than $1,500,000.00, which sum so appropriated shall be included in the  annual tax levy of the county, and collected in the same manner and at the same  time as other county taxes, and shall be applied to the purpose of supporting  and maintaining such patients as may be sent to any hospital or hospitals  operated by a nonprofit corporation or to any clinic or clinics maintained by  any such hospital or hospitals.

    The sum so appropriated shall be used and applied for the benefit, comfort,  treatment and maintenance of such patients, inmates of that hospital or of such  outpatients in attendance at clinics maintained by that hospital, as are  residents of the county at the time of being sent to that hospital.

     Amended by L.1948, c. 222, p. 1055, s. 1;  L.1957, c. 210, p. 737, s. 1; L.1962, c. 183, s. 1, eff. Dec. 7, 1962;  L.1969, c. 188, s. 1, eff. Nov. 7, 1969;  L.1979, c. 14, s. 1, eff. Feb. 8, 1979.
 

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Statutes > New-jersey > Title-44 > Section-44-5 > 44-5-11

44:5-11.  Annual appropriations by counties to maintain patients in nonprofit hospitals or clinics
    The governing body of a county which has no hospital located therein maintained by the county other than the hospital or sick ward of the county poor home, a county tuberculosis hospital or sanatorium, a county hospital or sanatorium for the insane, or a hospital for contagious and infectious diseases, may make an appropriation of not more than $800,000.00 in each year in the manner in which appropriations for other county purposes are made, except that in counties having a population of more than 300,000, according to the latest census, the governing body may make such an annual appropriation of not more than $1,500,000.00, which sum so appropriated shall be included in the  annual tax levy of the county, and collected in the same manner and at the same  time as other county taxes, and shall be applied to the purpose of supporting  and maintaining such patients as may be sent to any hospital or hospitals  operated by a nonprofit corporation or to any clinic or clinics maintained by  any such hospital or hospitals.

    The sum so appropriated shall be used and applied for the benefit, comfort,  treatment and maintenance of such patients, inmates of that hospital or of such  outpatients in attendance at clinics maintained by that hospital, as are  residents of the county at the time of being sent to that hospital.

     Amended by L.1948, c. 222, p. 1055, s. 1;  L.1957, c. 210, p. 737, s. 1; L.1962, c. 183, s. 1, eff. Dec. 7, 1962;  L.1969, c. 188, s. 1, eff. Nov. 7, 1969;  L.1979, c. 14, s. 1, eff. Feb. 8, 1979.
 

State Codes and Statutes

State Codes and Statutes

Statutes > New-jersey > Title-44 > Section-44-5 > 44-5-11

44:5-11.  Annual appropriations by counties to maintain patients in nonprofit hospitals or clinics
    The governing body of a county which has no hospital located therein maintained by the county other than the hospital or sick ward of the county poor home, a county tuberculosis hospital or sanatorium, a county hospital or sanatorium for the insane, or a hospital for contagious and infectious diseases, may make an appropriation of not more than $800,000.00 in each year in the manner in which appropriations for other county purposes are made, except that in counties having a population of more than 300,000, according to the latest census, the governing body may make such an annual appropriation of not more than $1,500,000.00, which sum so appropriated shall be included in the  annual tax levy of the county, and collected in the same manner and at the same  time as other county taxes, and shall be applied to the purpose of supporting  and maintaining such patients as may be sent to any hospital or hospitals  operated by a nonprofit corporation or to any clinic or clinics maintained by  any such hospital or hospitals.

    The sum so appropriated shall be used and applied for the benefit, comfort,  treatment and maintenance of such patients, inmates of that hospital or of such  outpatients in attendance at clinics maintained by that hospital, as are  residents of the county at the time of being sent to that hospital.

     Amended by L.1948, c. 222, p. 1055, s. 1;  L.1957, c. 210, p. 737, s. 1; L.1962, c. 183, s. 1, eff. Dec. 7, 1962;  L.1969, c. 188, s. 1, eff. Nov. 7, 1969;  L.1979, c. 14, s. 1, eff. Feb. 8, 1979.