Bill Text: NJ S2115 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes counties to establish mosquito control reserve fund.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)

Status: (Passed) 2015-03-16 - Approved P.L.2015, c.22. [S2115 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2014-S2115-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 2115

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

216th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MAY 19, 2014

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  JEFF VAN DREW

District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Authorizes counties to establish mosquito control reserve fund.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act authorizing counties to establish a mosquito control reserve fund and supplementing chapter 4 of Title 40A of the New Jersey Statutes.

 

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

 

     1.    a.  A county board of chosen freeholders may, by resolution, establish a mosquito control reserve fund.  Unexpended balances budgeted annually for mosquito control may be lapsed into the reserve.  Upon passage of a resolution of the board of chosen freeholders, funds in the reserve may be used for any purpose related to mosquito population control by the county after current budget appropriations for that purpose, if any exist, have been expended.

     b.    The Local Finance Board is authorized to adopt rules and regulations, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), in order to effectuate the purposes of this section.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill authorizes a county board of chosen freeholders to establish a mosquito reserve fund.  The funds in the reserve may be used for the purposes of mosquito population control after all budget appropriations for that purpose have been expended.  Pursuant to current law, local budgeting is finalized prior to the time when mosquito activity surveys are completed each year. This makes it very difficult for a local unit to accurately predict and allocate the appropriate amount of funds that may be necessary to control the mosquito population in a given year. 

     This bill also requires that the establishment of the reserve and any use of the funds in the reserve must each be authorized by a resolution of the county board of chosen freeholders.