Bill Text: NJ S1141 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits board of fire commissioners to amend fire district budget after adoption to insert special items of revenue.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2011-12-05 - Passed Assembly (Passed Both Houses) (77-0-2) [S1141 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2010-S1141-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 1141

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

214th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 4, 2010

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  JEFF VAN DREW

District 1 (Cape May, Atlantic and Cumberland)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Permits board of fire commissioners to amend fire district budget after adoption to insert special items of revenue.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning fire district budgets and supplementing Title 40A of the New Jersey Statutes.

 

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

 

     1.    A board of fire commissioners may, by vote of a majority of the full membership of the fire commissioners, approve the insertion of any special item of revenue in a fire district budget when such item shall have been made available by any public or private funding source and the amount thereof shall not have been determined at the time of the adoption of the budget, and may approve the insertion of an appropriation item of an amount equal to any such special item of revenue making such item of revenue available for expenditure.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill provides that a board of fire commissioners may, by vote of a majority of the full membership of the fire commissioners, approve the insertion of any special item of revenue in a fire district budget when such item shall have been made available by any public or private funding source and the amount thereof shall not have been determined at the time of the adoption of the budget, and may approve the insertion of an appropriation item of an amount equal to any such special item of revenue making such item of revenue available for expenditure.

     This bill would make the protocol for special items of revenue in fire district budgets parallel to the protocol for budgets of local governing bodies.