Bill Text: NJ A1674 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Requires halfway houses to permit attorneys and certain representatives of attorneys to visit incarcerated clients.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-03-23 - Approved P.L.2015, c.25. [A1674 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2014-A1674-Chaptered.html

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§§1,2 -

C.30:4-91.22 &

30:4-91.23

 

P.L.2015, CHAPTER 25, approved March 23, 2015

Assembly, No. 1674

 

 

An Act concerning residential community release programs and supplementing Title 30 of the Revised Statutes.

 

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

 

     1.    a.  Attorneys who are licensed in any jurisdiction shall be permitted to have contact visits with clients who are incarcerated in a residential community release program.  At the request of the attorney, representatives of the attorney shall also be permitted to have contact visits.  Such representatives shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

     (1)   investigators;

     (2)   investigative aides;

     (3)   expert witnesses;

     (4)   paralegals; and

     (5)   law students.

     b.    The visits shall take place in the residential community release program facilities upon request of the attorney.

 

     2.    The Commissioner of Corrections, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall adopt rules and regulations necessary to effectuate the provisions of this act.

 

     3.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

                                

 

     Requires halfway houses to permit attorneys and certain representatives of attorneys to visit incarcerated clients.