The governing body of any county or municipality may appropriate annually to any privately-operated, nonprofit organization, whose services are nonsectarian and interracial, funds for the purpose of defraying the necessary expense incident to the feeding, care, treatment, and training of emotionally maladjusted or physically undernourished children between the ages of 5 and 12 years, who are residents of any county or municipality making such appropriation, at a camp or camps operated for said purpose within the county, including the cost of transporting such children to and from, and their support and maintenance at, such camp.
N.J.S. § 40:23-8.17