A patient who shall have acquired a legal settlement in any county shall retain his settlement until he shall have acquired a legal settlement in some other county; but such settlement shall be deemed to have been abandoned by residence without the state for a period of one year or more.
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 30:4-50
Continuance of settlement; abandonment
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