N.J. Stat. § 30:1-12.4
Upon notification of a violation or license suspension of a residential health care facility pursuant to paragraph (3) of subsection b. of section 12 of P.L. 1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-12), a rooming or boarding house pursuant to section 9 of P.L. 1979, c.496 (C.55:13B-9), or an emergency shelter for the homeless pursuant to section 3 of P.L. 1985, c.48 (C.55:13C-3), the Commissioner of Human Services, or the commissioner's designee, and the director of a county board of social services or county welfare agency, as appropriate, shall not place or refer an individual to that residential health care facility, rooming or boarding house, or emergency shelter for the homeless, until such time as the violation has been corrected and any suspension of a license, if applicable, has been lifted.
N.J.S. § 30:1-12.4