N.J. Stat. § 44:1-122
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Failure to resist removal, review
Official statutory text
44:1-122. On failure to resist the removal the receiving director of welfare may not decline to receive the poor person but shall receive him and provide such relief as is lawful; except that for good cause shown for the failure to contest the removal the receiving director may, within thirty days after the receipt of the poor person in the municipality, apply to the Superior Court in the county from whence the person was removed to review the proceeding and make such revised order and disposition for the care and relief of the poor person and his removal, if lawful, as may be proper and necessary. Amended 1953,c.42,s.7; 1991,c.91,s.427.
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