Bill Text: NJ S1064 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Permits appointment of municipal emergency management coordinator from contiguous or adjoining municipality.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-04 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Law and Public Safety Committee [S1064 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2010-S1064-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator JENNIFER BECK
District 12 (Mercer and Monmouth)
Co-Sponsored by:
Senator Kyrillos
SYNOPSIS
Permits appointment of municipal emergency management coordinator from contiguous or adjoining municipality.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning municipal emergency management coordinators and amending P.L.1953, c.438.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 8 of P.L.1953, c.438 (C.App.A:9-40.1) is amended to read as follows:
8. In every municipality of this State the mayor or, in the case of a municipality which has adopted the commission form of government pursuant to the provisions of the "commission form of government law" (R.S.40:70-1 et seq.), the commissioner serving as director of the department to which the responsibility for emergency management has been assigned, shall appoint a municipal emergency management coordinator from among the residents of the municipality or a contiguous or adjoining municipality. The municipal emergency management coordinator, subject to fulfilling the requirements of this section, shall serve for a term of three years. As a condition of his appointment and his right to continue for the full term of his appointment, each municipal emergency management coordinator shall have successfully completed at the time of his appointment or within one year immediately following his appointment or the effective date of this act, whichever is later, the current approved Home Study Course and the basic Emergency Management workshop. The failure of any municipal emergency management coordinator to fulfill such requirement within the period prescribed shall disqualify the coordinator from continuing in the office of coordinator and thereupon a vacancy in said office shall be deemed to have been created.
The provisions of this section shall not bar a municipality from entering into an agreement pursuant to the "Interlocal Services Act," P.L.1973, c.208 (C.40:8A-1 et seq.) to designate (1) a municipal emergency management coordinator to serve two or more municipalities jointly, or (2) the county emergency management coordinator appointed pursuant to section 12 of P.L.1953, c.438 (C.App.A:9-42.1) for the county in which that municipality is located as the municipal emergency management coordinator, subject to approval of the governing body of the county. A municipality entering into such an agreement shall notify the State Emergency Management Coordinator.
(cf: P.L.2003, c.53, s.3)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill expands the qualification criteria for the position of municipal emergency management coordinator. Currently, these coordinators must be residents of the municipality in which they are appointed. Under the provisions of the bill, residents of contiguous or adjoining municipalities would be eligible for appointment to these positions.
According to the sponsors, this change would enable qualified and committed individuals from neighboring municipalities to serve their communities in this capacity.
