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USA Statutes : new_jersey
Title : TITLE 44 POOR
Chapter : 44:5-19.
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44:5-19. Annual appropriations by fourth and sixth-class counties for maintenance of patients
The board of chosen freeholders of a county of the fourth or sixth class, which has no hospital located therein maintained by the county, other than the hospital or sick ward of the county almshouse, a county tuberculosis hospital or sanatorium, a county hospital or sanatorium for the insane, or a hospital for contagious and infectious diseases, may appropriate not more than $15,000.00 annually, to any one hospital, in the manner in which appropriations for other county purposes are made, which sum 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 be applied to the purpose of supporting and maintaining such patients as may be sent to any hospital or hospitals whether privately owned and maintained or supported by private charity.
The sum so appropriated shall be used and applied for the benefit, comfort and maintenance of such patients, inmates of such hospital, as are residents of the county at the time of being sent to that hospital.
Amended by L.1969, c. 188, s. 6, eff. Nov. 7, 1969.
44:5-19.1. Liens for medical care and hospitalization; priority
The board of chosen freeholders of any county, which furnishes medical care and hospitalization to resident indigent patients who cannot be maintained by private means, in a hospital or hospitals supported by private charity, on a per diem per patient basis, shall have a lien against the property of any person receiving such service in an amount equal to the cost to the county of the maintenance of such person in such hospital, which lien shall have priority over all unrecorded encumbrances.
L.1957, c. 139, p. 530, s. 1, eff. July 12, 1957.
44:5-19.2. Form
The lien shall state the name of the patient, the date of his admission, the rate at which payment is made by the county for such patient@s medical care and hospitalization, the name of the institution in which such service was rendered and the amount due to the county for such service at the date of the filing of the lien and the rate of accumulation, if any shall occur, thereafter and shall be signed by the director of the board of chosen freeholders of the county or such person as shall be authorized so to do by resolution of said board.
L.1957, c. 139, p. 530, s. 2.
44:5-19.3. Time of filing
Any such lien may be filed at any time during the period of hospitalization and within 2 years after the date of discharge from such hospitalization.
L.1957, c. 139, p. 530, s. 3.
44:5-19.4. Place of filing; effective date of lien
The lien shall be filed with the clerk or register of deeds and mortgages of the county, as the case may be, or with the Clerk of the Superior Court, and shall immediately attach to and become binding upon all real property in the ownership of the patient in the county, if it is filed in the county, or wherever situate in the State, if it is filed in the Superior Court, and it shall have the force and effect of a judgment at law.
L.1957, c. 139, p. 530, s. 4.
44:5-19.5. Clerk or register of deeds; duties; fees
The clerk or register of deeds and mortgages of the county or the Clerk of the Superior Court, as the case may be, shall provide suitable books in which all liens and other papers incidental thereto shall be received and recorded without payment of any fee, which books shall be properly indexed in the name of the person against whom the lien is claimed.
L.1957, c. 139, p. 531, s. 5.
44:5-19.6. Property concerned
The lien shall become binding upon any goods, rights, credits, chattels, moneys or effects which are held, for the present or subsequent use, of the person against whom the lien is filed, by any person, firm or corporation, after notice of the existence of the lien forwarded by certified mail to said person, firm or corporation, who or which shall thereafter be precluded from disposing of said property rights until said lien is satisfied or the county consents thereto and any person, firm or corporation disposing of such properties or moneys after receipt of such notice of lien shall be liable to the county for the value of such properties or moneys so disposed of, except that when the notice of the lien is served upon a banking institution the lien shall be effective against such banking institution only in the amount of the accumulated delinquent maintenance stated therein.
L.1957, c. 139, p. 531, s. 6.
44:5-19.7. Settlement of lien
The board of chosen freeholders of the county is authorized to compromise and make settlement of any claim for which any lien is filed under the provisions of this act and such resolution shall be sufficient authorization for the discharge thereof.
L.1957, c. 139, p. 531, s. 7.
44:5-19.8. Discharge
Any lien so filed may be discharged by filing in the office in which it is entered a certificate setting forth that the same is discharged of record, signed and acknowledged by the director of the board of chosen freeholders of the county.
L.1957, c. 139, p. 531, s. 8.
44:5-19.9. Support by relatives
Upon application for medical care and hospitalization by any person, or upon the furnishing of the same by the county to any person, in the manner provided in section 1 of this act, the County Adjuster of the county shall ascertain, if possible, the relatives chargeable by law for the support of such person and shall proceed to obtain their assistance or compel them to render assistance in providing medical care and hospitalization in the manner provided in this act or in paying the cost thereof.
L.1957, c. 139, p. 532, s. 9.
44:5-19.10. Court action to force responsible relative to pay
10. Should any relative responsible for the support of such applicant or person receiving such service fail to obey the order or direction with regard to the providing of service and paying therefor, the Superior Court may, upon complaint of the County Adjuster, summon the persons chargeable before it as in other actions and summon witnesses and may order the able relatives responsible for the support of such applicant to pay such sums as the circumstances may require in the discretion of the court for such applicant and violation of any such order of the court shall be contempt of the court and the person so violating the same shall be subject to the penalties which by law may be imposed for other contempts of said court.
L.1957,c.139,s.10; amended 1991,c.91,s.442.
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