Bill Text: NJ S3671 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Allows municipality to determine if newly appointed individual serving as municipal fire department chaplain will hold rank and receive salary and benefits.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-06-20 - Substituted by A5275 (1R) [S3671 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2022-S3671-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

SENATE, No. 3671

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

220th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 28, 2023

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  LINDA R. GREENSTEIN

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Allows municipality to determine if newly appointed individual serving as municipal fire department chaplain will hold rank and receive salary and benefits.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee on June 1, 2023, with amendments.

  

An Act concerning municipal fire department chaplains and amending P.L.1971, c.197.

 

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

 

     1.    Section 1 of P.L.1971, c.197 (C.40A:14-24) is amended to read as follows:

     1.    a.  The governing body of any municipality, by ordinance, may provide for the appointment of one or more chaplains to the paid or part-paid fire department and force of the municipality.  Any person so appointed to qualify shall be an ordained clergyman in good standing in the religious body from which [he] the person is selected.  The chaplains shall become members of the municipal paid or part-paid fire department and force with the rank of battalion chief.  Their salaries shall be fixed by the governing body of the municipality and payable in the same manner as in the case of the other paid members of the fire department and force.

     b.    A municipal fire department and force chaplain employed on the effective date of P.L.    c.    (C.        ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill) shall not be dismissed or reduced in compensation except for ¹[inefficiency] reasons of economy or efficiency¹ , incapacity, or conduct unbecoming such a chaplain or other just cause as determined by the municipal governing body.

     c.     A municipal fire department and force chaplain initially appointed after the effective date of P.L.    , c.    (C.        ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill), shall become a member of the municipal paid or part-paid fire department and force with or without the rank and salary as specified in the ordinance.  A chaplain's rank, salary, and benefits, if any, shall be determined by the governing body of the municipality.

(cf: P.L.1971, c.197, s.1)

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.