{"data":{"id":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-30-4c-27.4","jurisdiction":"us-nj","citation":"N.J. Stat. § 30:4C-27.4","heading":"Findings, declarations relative to resource family care.","body":"2.\tThe Legislature finds and declares that: each child requiring resource family care should reside in a safe home with a nurturing substitute family who can meet the child's individual needs; the most effective way to ensure the health, safety, general well-being and physical, emotional, social and educational needs of a child residing in a resource family home is to require the annual inspection and monitoring of a resource family home and to obligate a person to secure and maintain a license in order to provide resource family care to a child; therefore, it is in the public interest to license resource family parents and regulate resource family homes in order to ensure the safety, health and proper development of children placed in resource family care.\nL.2001,c.419,s.2; amended 2004, c.130, s.71.","path":["TITLE 30 INSTITUTIONS AND AGENCIES"],"source_url":"https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/statutes/STATUTES-TEXT.zip","current_through":"P.L.2025, c.405, and J.R.22","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T17:54:13Z","sha256":"f006da3e648ece2cd533ed1235ddae600958fb87cbef6cfd18a9ec48dcf276e2","source_id":"us-nj","stale":true,"prev":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-30-4c-27.3","next":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-30-4c-27.5"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}