Bill Text: NJ A4120 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits retired law enforcement officers to join the New Jersey Detective Association.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-06-16 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee [A4120 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2010-A4120-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 4120

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

214th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED JUNE 16, 2011

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  VINCENT PRIETO

District 32 (Bergen and Hudson)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Permits retired law enforcement officers to join the New Jersey Detective Association.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning the New Jersey Detective Association and amending P.L.1871, c.457.

 

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

 

     1.    Section 6 of P.L.1871, c.457 is amended to read as follows:

     6.    And be it enacted, That the said members of said agency shall have power to increase the number of their members by election in such manner as they may prescribe by their by-laws, to any number not exceeding twenty-five, in addition to any number of law enforcement officers who have retired in good standing from a federal, State, interstate, county or municipal law enforcement agency, a certificate of which election, signed by the president and attested by the secretary, shall be filed together with a bond, as prescribed the second section of this act, with the Secretary of State, and when so filed a commission shall issue to such members elect in the manner prescribed in the third section of this act.

(cf:  P.L.1871, c.457, s.6)

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill would expand the charter of the New Jersey Detective Association to include retired law enforcement officers.  The charter currently limits membership in the association to 25 persons.  This bill removes that limit and allows any law enforcement officer who has retired in good standing from a federal, State, interstate, county or municipal law enforcement agency to be commissioned as a detective under the charter.

     The association, established in 1871, commissions detectives to act in criminal matters and apprehend and arrest person committing breaches of the peace in various municipalities.