Bill Text: NJ S1122 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires chairs of certain ward political party committees to have same rights and responsibilities as chairs of municipal political party committees; specifies certain cities not required to have municipal chairs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-08 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee [S1122 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2016-S1122-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 1122

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

217th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 8, 2016

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  RONALD L. RICE

District 28 (Essex)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires chairs of certain ward political party committees to have same rights and responsibilities as chairs of municipal political party committees; specifies certain cities not required to have municipal chairs.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning certain ward committees of a political party, and supplementing chapter 5 of the Revised Statutes.

 

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

 

     1.    a.  Whenever a city of the first class with a population of 270,000 or more, according to the most recent federal decennial census, is divided into wards pursuant to the "Municipal Ward Law," P.L.1981, c.496 (C.40:44-9 et seq.), the chair of each ward committee of a political party of that city shall have the same rights and responsibilities as the chair of a municipal committee of a political party as provided for in R.S.19:5-2 and section 22 of P.L.1983, c.579 (C.19:5-2.1).  Such a city shall not be required to have a chair for a municipal committee of a political party in that city.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill provides that whenever a city of the first class with a population of 270,000 or more is divided into wards, pursuant to the "Municipal Ward Law," the chair of each ward committee of a political party of that city is to have the same rights and responsibilities as the chair of a municipal committee of a political party as provided for in current law.

     The bill also provides that such a city would not be required to have a chair for a municipal committee of a political party in that city.