New Jersey Statutes
§ 44:1-124 — Bringing poor person into municipality or county unlawfully; misdemeanor
New Jersey § 44:1-124
JurisdictionNew Jersey
Title 44POOR
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Bluebook
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 44:1-124 (2026).
Text
A person who shall send, bring, remove or entice to remove, or cause to be sent, brought or enticed, a poor person into a municipality or county from any other municipality or county within this state without first having obtained the consent of the overseer of the municipality or the superintendent if there is no overseer appointed and qualified therein, or the county welfare board of the county, as the case may be, or from any other state into any municipality or county within this state without first having obtained the consent of the commissioner and furnishing suitable bond, and there leave or attempt to leave the person without first having obtained that consent, in order that the support or maintenance of the poor person upon the municipality or county may be avoided, shall be guilt
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§ 44:1-1
Definitions.§ 44:1-101
Annual reports by overseers§ 44:1-102
Place of settlement in general§ 44:1-103
Married woman and children§ 44:1-104
Legitimate minor children§ 44:1-105
Illegitimate minor children§ 44:1-106
Minor from outside of state§ 44:1-107
Persons from outside of United States§ 44:1-109
Granting permanent relief in absence of county almshouse, welfare-house or district welfare-house§ 44:1-11
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New Jersey § 44:1-124, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/statute/nj/44/44%3A1-124.