Bill Text: NJ A3549 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Eliminates requiring certain joint officials be from adjacent municipalities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-05 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee [A3549 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-A3549-Introduced.html

ASSEMBLY, No. 3549

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 5, 2024

 


 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  TENNILLE R. MCCOY

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Eliminates requiring certain joint officials be from adjacent municipalities.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  


An Act eliminating local board of health requirement that certain joint officials be from adjacent municipalities and amending R.S.26:3-22.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    R.S.26:3-22 is amended to read as follows:

     26:3-22.  Local boards of health of two or more [adjacent] municipalities may join in employing a health officer and one or more registered environmental health specialists and other personnel.  In such case, the local boards of such municipalities or a regional health commission formed by them, as the case may be, shall fix the salary to be paid to these persons, arrange the duties of such persons and in the case of regional health commissions apportion the sums to be paid by each of the municipalities, which sums shall be paid from moneys appropriated to the local boards of such municipalities.

(cf: P.L.1997, c.416, s.13)

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     The bill eliminates the local board of health requirement that certain joint officials be from adjacent municipalities. Specifically, under the bill, local boards of health of two or more municipalities may join in employing a health officer, one or more registered environmental health specialists, and other personnel without the municipalities being adjacent with one another.  Under current law, the municipalities must be adjacent.

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