New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 10 - HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 45 - GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES
Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 10:45-1.1 - Authority
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024
(a) The Department of Human Services is directed to provide comprehensive services, specifically including guardianship services, to eligible individuals with a developmental disability, in order that they may be provided with adequate training, care and protection pursuant to 30:4-165.1.
(b) The Department of Human Services is directed to perform such services for adults who are incapacitated, for whom no guardian has been appointed, and which would otherwise be rendered by a guardian of the person pursuant to 30:4-165.5.
(c) The Commissioner of the Department of Human Services is mandated to make all reasonable and necessary provisions to insure the health, safety, welfare and earliest appropriate release of individuals admitted to residential services for the developmentally disabled pursuant to N.J.S.A. 30:4-25.
(d) The Bureau of Guardianship Services has been assigned the responsibility of providing guardianship services by the Commissioner. Guardianship services are limited to guardianship of the person only and not property pursuant to 30:4-165.1 2.