New Jersey Statutes Title 44. Poor 44 § 4-71

Where temporary relief is required by a poor person in a municipality in which he is a resident and inhabitant, in which municipality he has not gained a settlement, but shall have gained a settlement in some other municipality in the same county than the one in which relief is sought, the county director of welfare shall temporarily relieve such poor person and proceed to remove him to the place of such settlement in the municipality within the same county where his place of settlement is.