Bill Text: NJ A4983 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that public or nonpublic school employee who knowingly damages, disconnects, tampers, or interferes with operation of school emergency warning device is subject to civil penalty.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-06-22 - Received in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee [A4983 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2016-A4983-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman MARLENE CARIDE
District 36 (Bergen and Passaic)
SYNOPSIS
Provides that public or nonpublic school employee who knowingly damages, disconnects, tampers, or interferes with school emergency warning device is subject to civil penalty.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning school warning systems and supplementing chapter 36 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. Any employee of a public or nonpublic school who knowingly damages, disconnects, tampers, or interferes with the operation of a public or nonpublic school loudspeaker, alarm, or other emergency warning device or system shall be liable to a civil penalty of $1,000 for each offense, which shall be collected pursuant to the provisions of the "Penalty Enforcement Law of 1999," P.L.1999, c.274 (C.2A:58-10 et seq.).
b. The provisions of this section shall not:
(1) be applicable to an approved maintenance or repair of a loudspeaker, alarm, or other emergency warning device or system; or
(2) preclude the application of any other civil, administrative, or criminal remedy under any other provision of law.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill provides that an employee of a public or nonpublic school who knowingly damages, disconnects, tampers, or interferes with the operation of a public or nonpublic school loudspeaker, alarm, or other emergency warning device or system will be liable to a civil penalty of $1,000 for each offense. The bill stipulates that its provisions: 1) are not applicable to an approved maintenance or repair of a loudspeaker, alarm, or other emergency warning device or system; and 2) do not preclude the application of any other civil, administrative, or criminal remedy that may be available under any other provision of law.
