Title 30, Title 30: INSTITUTIONS AND AGENCIES

30:4-3.27 Drug testing required for certain State employees at psychiatric hospitals, developmental centers. 1. a. As a condition of employment as a direct care staff member at a State psychiatric hospital or developmental center listed in R.S.30:1-7, an applicant for employment …

30:4-3.3. Qualified residents; insufficient number If the appointing authority of such a State correctional institution determines, after ample advertising, that an insufficient number of qualified residents exists for available positions, the appointing authority shall take such…

30:4-3.4. Definitions As used in this act: a. "Employee" means any individual 18 years of age or older who is employed at a facility and works at the facility for the equivalent of at least one seven hour day per week. Employee includes but is not limited to the facility's direct…

30:4-3.5 Criminal history record checks. 2. a. A facility shall not employ any individual unless the Commissioner of Human Services has first determined, consistent with the requirements and standards of this act, that no criminal history record information exists on file in the …

30:4-3.6. Fingerprinting An applicant for employment or a current employee shall submit to the Commissioner of Human Services his name, address and fingerprints taken on standard fingerprint cards by a State or municipal law enforcement agency. The commissioner is authorized to e…

30:4-3.7. Written notice; hearing 4. a. Upon receipt of an applicant or employee's criminal history record information from the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the Division of State Police, as applicable, the commissioner shall notify the applicant or employee, in writing, of …

30:4-3.8. Report The Commissioner of Human Services shall report to the Governor and the Legislature no later than three years from the effective date of this act on the effectiveness of the criminal history record background checks in screening out prospective or current employe…

30:4-3.9. Rules, regulations In accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L. 1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.), the Commissioner of Human Services shall adopt rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this act. P.L. 1988, c. 45, s. 6.

30:4-31. Commitment of nonresidents A nonresident of this State may be committed to a mental hospital in this State in the same manner as residents may be admitted and committed. Amended by L.1953, c. 29, p. 511, s. 11; L.1965, c. 59, s. 26.

30:4-34 County adjuster for commitment of persons with mental illness. 30:4-34. In each county where county counsel, county solicitor, county clerk, county physician or county probation officer, or any of their assistants is in charge and supervision of the preparation of papers …

30:4-34.1. Tenure after 5 years of service A person who holds the position of county adjuster by virtue of holding one of the offices under R.S. 30:4-34 and who has held the position of county adjuster continuously for 5 years or more shall continue to hold the position of county…

30:4-35. County adjuster to file certificate of appointment with commissioner Every county adjuster shall forthwith or within ten days after his appointment file with the commissioner a certificate showing date of his appointment and postoffice address properly authenticated by t…

30:4-4. Management and authority vested in chief executive officers Subject to the supervision of the commissioner, the management of the several institutions and noninstitutional agencies shall be vested in the chief executive officer thereof who shall be responsible to the comm…

30:4-4.1. Requirements for internship in public hospital No hospital licensed by this State or operated by the State, a county or a municipality and which receives funds pursuant to the "New Jersey Medical Assistance and Health Services Act," P.L.1968, c. 413 (C. 30:4D-1 et seq.)…

30:4-49. Legal settlement in county; aliens 30:4-49. Except as hereinafter provided, legal settlement in a county within the meaning of this article shall be continuous residence in such county for a period of not less than five years immediately preceding the date of application…

30:4-49.1. Settlement of married woman The settlement of a married woman shall be that of her husband except as otherwise herein provided: (a) If her husband at the time of her marriage does not have settlement in any State, she shall retain her own settlement until her husband a…

30:4-49.2. Settlement of minor born in wedlock The settlement of a minor born in wedlock shall be that of his parents or surviving parent or in case of divorce or separation, of the parent having his custody. In the case of the death of the parent having custody, the settlement s…

30:4-49.3. Settlement of minor born out of wedlock The settlement of a minor born out of wedlock shall be that of his mother; but such minor may acquire a separate settlement in the same manner as minors born in wedlock, as hereinafter provided. L.1965, c. 59, s. 39.

30:4-49.4. Minors; capability of separate settlement A minor shall be deemed capable under the provisions of this act of acquiring a separate settlement, in the same manner as persons of full age, from the time he or she has complied with either of the following provisions: (a) I…

30:4-49.5. Settlement of child of widow, divorced woman or unmarried mother who gains new settlement by marriage When a widow, divorced woman or unmarried mother gains a new settlement by marriage, if, at the time of such marriage her child is not in her custody and is receiving …

30:4-49.6. Loss of settlement Every person who has or shall have a separate legal settlement, not derived from that of another person, pursuant to the provisions of this act shall continue to have such legal settlement until he shall remove from this State and remain therefrom co…

30:4-4a. Reference to board of managers as reference to chief executive officer Whenever in any law, rule, regulation, contract, document, judicial or administrative proceeding or otherwise, reference is made to the board of managers of any institution, the same shall mean and re…

30:4-5. Responsibility of executive officer The chief executive officer of each institution or agency shall be its executive and administrative officer and subject to the rules and regulations adopted by the board of managers shall be responsible to the board for the proper condu…

30:4-50. Continuance of settlement; abandonment A patient who shall have acquired a legal settlement in any county shall retain his settlement until he shall have acquired a legal settlement in some other county; but such settlement shall be deemed to have been abandoned by resid…

30:4-51. Legal settlement in State 30:4-51. Legal settlement in this State, as distinguished from legal settlement in any political subdivision thereof, shall be continuous residence in the State for a period of at least one year immediately preceding the date of the application …

30:4-52. State to bear costs of nonresident 30:4-52. Any patient not having lived in the State for at least one year prior to the application for admission or commitment to any institution for the care and treatment of the mentally ill or developmentally disabled in this State sh…

30:4-53. Returning patient to proper residence Nothing in this title shall impair the right of the state, or any political subdivision to return a patient to a foreign country or to another state wherein he retains a legal settlement, and in all such cases no legal settlement sha…

30:4-54. Legal settlement of inmates of foreign institutions No person confined in any public institution outside of this state shall acquire a legal settlement in this state or in any county in this state by virtue of the establishment of a residence in this state of the husband…

30:4-55. Bringing inmates of foreign institutions into state; misdemeanor It shall be unlawful for any person, public official, corporation, association or institution to bring or send or cause to be brought or sent into this State an inmate of any public institution outside of t…

30:4-56 Judgment of commitment; expense; filing fee. 30:4-56. The final judgment of commitment shall contain a determination of the legal settlement of the person with mental illness and shall provide for the payment of the expense of the care and treatment of the person. The jud…

30:4-57. If no settlement in any county If the patient shall be found to be mentally ill and to have no legal settlement in any county in this State, the court may commit him to a mental hospital owned by the State. Amended by L.1953, c. 29, p. 518, s. 24; L.1965, c. 59, s. 46.

30:4-6 Duties of chief executive officer. 30:4-6. The principal keeper of the State prison and the chief executive officer of each of the other correctional institutions shall receive from the hands of the sheriff or other proper officer every person sentenced to imprisonment in …

30:4-6.1. Prosecutor notified by institution or parole board of inmate release; process. 3. a. The chief executive officer of the institution in which an inmate is confined shall notify the prosecutor of the release of an inmate, unless the inmate is released on parole, in which …

30:4-6.2 "Prisoner Reentry Commission." 10. a. To assist and advise in issues pertaining to prisoner reentry, there is established in the Department of Corrections an advisory commission to be known as the "Prisoner Reentry Commission." The purpose of the commission shall be to r…

30:4-60 Payments, determination of amount, liability therefor. 30:4-60. a. If the court shall determine that the person has a mental illness and is in need of treatment at a psychiatric facility, it may determine the legal settlement of the person and, consistent with the laws go…

30:4-60.1. Transcript of evidence of indigency furnished institution 30:4-60.1. Upon the making of any order committing a person to a mental hospital supported in whole or in part from county, municipal or State funds, the county adjuster of the county in which the court making t…

30:4-60.2. "Estate," "patient" defined 15. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, whenever the term "estate" appears in any provision of Chapter 4 of Title 30 of the Revised Statutes for the purpose of describing the mechanism for satisfying or contributing t…

30:4-60a Regulations concerning sliding scale fee and patient liability. 10. The Department of Human Services shall adopt regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) concerning the establishment of a sliding scale fee schedule …

30:4-63 Commitment of person with mental illness, payment. 30:4-63. a. The court may, after final hearing, commit any person with mental illness to any State or county psychiatric institution irrespective of the person's legal settlement where provision is made for the person's c…

30:4-65. Guardian of estate, bond, discharge 30:4-65. Where, on final hearing, it appears that the patient is possessed of real or personal property and no arrangements have been made for the payment of his maintenance, and no action has been instituted for the appointment of a g…

30:4-66 Liability for support. 30:4-66. Every person supported in a State or county charitable institution or other residential functional service pursuant to section 13 of P.L.1965, c.59 (C.30:4-25.1) shall be personally liable for his maintenance and for all necessary expenses …

30:4-67. Rate for maintenance of patient The rate of payment for the maintenance of a patient shall be fixed by the State Board of Control or the board of chosen freeholders or committee thereof, and such rate of maintenance established pursuant hereto shall be construed to be a …

30:4-67.1 Deposit, maintenance of funds; use of funds and interest. 1. The chief executive officer of any institution coming within the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections or Human Services is hereby empowered to deposit and maintain the funds of any inmate or person re…

30:4-68. Patients unable to pay cost of hospitalization supported by county of legal settlement In all cases where a patient is found to have a legal settlement in any county in this State, and he and his legally responsible relatives are unable to pay the cost of his hospitaliza…

30:4-68.1. Medicaid and Medicare eligible patients In the case of Medicaid and Medicare eligible patients residing in the State psychiatric facilities, the maintenance costs to be paid by the counties shall be satisfied by federal Medicaid or Medicare Part A payments to the State…

30:4-68.2. Monthly personal needs allowance, $35. 1. A patient admitted to a residential functional service by the Division of Developmental Disabilities or committed to a State or county psychiatric hospital who is not eligible for medical assistance under the "New Jersey Medica…