New Jersey Statutes Title 44. Poor 44 § 12-1

For the purposes of this act “Federal Government” means the United States of America, acting through the Office of Economic Opportunity, established under an act of the Eighty-eighth Congress of the United States entitled “The Economic Opportunity Act of 1964”  1 and any acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, or revisions thereof, or acting through any other Federal agency established by any other act of the Congress of the United States heretofore passed or as may hereafter be passed for like or similar purposes, and “local unit” means all boards, bodies, officers and agencies of the State and of every county, municipality and school district thereof.