Bill Text: NJ A2304 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Permits municipal police officers to make arrests for any disorderly persons or petty disorderly persons offense outside the territorial limits of their municipality.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-01 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee [A2304 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2018-A2304-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman JON M. BRAMNICK
District 21 (Morris, Somerset and Union)
SYNOPSIS
Permits municipal police officers to make arrests for any disorderly persons or petty disorderly persons offense outside the territorial limits of their municipality.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning the power of municipal police officers to arrest certain offenders outside the territorial limits of their municipality and amending P.L.1977, c.437.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 1 of P.L.1977, c.437 (C.40A:14-152.1) is amended to read as follows:
1. Notwithstanding the provisions of N.J.S.40A:14-152 or any other law to the contrary, any full-time, permanently appointed municipal police officer shall have full power of arrest for any crime, disorderly persons or petty disorderly persons offense, or breach of the peace committed in said officer's presence and committed anywhere within the territorial limits of the State of New Jersey.
(cf: P.L.1977, c.436, s.1)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill would permit municipal police officers to make arrests for any disorderly persons or petty disorderly persons offense outside the territorial limits of their municipality. Currently, such officers are only expressly authorized to make arrests for these types of offenses within the territorial limits of their municipality. See N.J.S.A.40A:14-152.
