Bill Text: NJ S1847 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Exempts certain municipalities from payment for certain State Police services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-24 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Law and Public Safety Committee [S1847 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2020-S1847-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator MICHAEL J. DOHERTY
District 23 (Hunterdon, Somerset and Warren)
SYNOPSIS
Exempts certain municipalities from payment for certain State Police services.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning the Division of State Police and supplementing Chapter 2 of Title 53 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. A municipality without a full-time police department or force, which receives patrol or general police services from the Division of State Police, shall continue to not be required to pay for these services.
2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be retroactive to July 1, 2001.
STATEMENT
The bill would continue to exempt municipalities without a full-time police department or force, which receive patrol and general police services, from paying for these services. R.S.53:2-1, which defined the powers and duties of the New Jersey State Police upon its founding in 1921, requires that the State Police provide adequate police protection to the inhabitants of rural sections.
Currently, the State Police furnish full-time police protection to 73 municipalities and part-time protection to 24 municipalities. It is the sponsor's view that municipalities should not be required to pay for these services since a primary function of the New Jersey State Police is to provide protection to such municipalities.
