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
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.
