N.J. Stat. tit. 44, ch. 6

in effect

N.J. Stat. § 44:6-1 § 44:6-1

The board or body having control of the finances of a municipality may appropriate annually such sum as it may deem advisable to be used and applied only for the maintenance and equipment of a dental clinic or clinics in the municipality for the free treatment of indigent persons of school age.

N.J. Stat. § 44:6-2 § 44:6-2

The board of education of a municipality or county may maintain and conduct therein dental clinics for the treatment and relief of indigent children. The operator in the clinic must be registered to practice dentistry in this state. For the maintenance and equipment of the clinics there may be appropriated annually in a municipality or county, in the manner in which money for other school purposes is appropriated, such sum not exceeding five thousand dollars as may be deemed advisable.

N.J. Stat. § 44:6-3 Appropriations by first-class cities to dental associations conducting clinics for indigent children

Whenever a dental association regularly incorporated under the laws of this state shall maintain and conduct in a city of the first class a dental clinic or clinics where indigent children may receive treatment and relief without charge or fee, the board or body having control of the finances of the city may appropriate and pay to that association each year such sum or sums, not exceeding twenty thousand dollars in all, as it shall deem advisable, to be used and applied by that association only for the support, maintenance and equipment in the city of a dental clinic or clinics for the free treatment of indigent children not over the age of sixteen years who are residents of the city. The officers of the dental association shall annually at the beginning of each fiscal year furnish to the board or body having control of the finances of the city a report of the number and kind of cases treated by the clinic together with a detailed statement of all expenditures made from any money appropriated by the city for the clinic.

N.J. Stat. § 44:6-4 Appropriations by certain cities to dental associations conducting clinics for indigent persons

Whenever a dental association regularly incorporated under the laws of this state shall maintain and conduct in a city, other than a city of the first class, a dental clinic or clinics where indigent persons resident in the city may receive treatment and relief without charge or fee, the board or body having control of the finances of the city may appropriate and pay to that association, each year, such sum or sums, not exceeding five thousand dollars in all, as it shall deem advisable, to be used and applied by that association only for the support, maintenance and equipment in the city of a dental clinic or clinics for the free treatment of indigent persons resident in the city. The officers of the clinic shall annually at the beginning of each fiscal year furnish to the board or body having control of the finances of the city a report of the number and kind of cases treated by the clinic together with a detailed statement of all expenditures made from any money appropriated by the city for the clinic.

N.J. Stat. § 44:6-5 Appropriations for dental clinics

The board of chosen freeholders of any county wherein there is in use a permanently located dental clinic, or a trailer or mobile dental clinic may raise, appropriate and use annually such sum of money as it may deem advisable in the furtherance of or for the maintenance and equipment of such dental clinic or clinics in the county for the treatment of indigent persons of school age. L.1944, c. 224, p. 763, s. 1. Amended by L.1950, c. 137, p. 271, s. 1, eff. May 25, 1950.

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