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Code · New Jersey · Title 44 — Liens · Chapter 5

44:5-9. Contracts by cities for care of diseased patients

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The board or body having charge of the finances of a city which at the time does not maintain and operate a municipal hospital for contagious or infectious diseases exclusively, may make a contract or contracts, not exceeding the term of five years at a time and without advertising for bids, with any corporation or person properly equipped for the purpose, for the care and treatment of such patients suffering from contagious, infectious or other disease as that board or body may consider and determine should be so cared for and treated at public expense.
Such board or body shall annually during the continuance of the contract or contracts cause the sum needed to meet such expenditures for that year to be raised by taxation.
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