Bill Text: NJ S955 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes counties to reduce greenhead fly populations; appropriates $50,000.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-06-09 - Received in the Assembly, Referred to Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee [S955 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2020-S955-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

SENATE, No. 955

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

219th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED JANUARY 27, 2020

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  CHRISTOPHER J. CONNORS

District 9 (Atlantic, Burlington and Ocean)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Authorizes counties to reduce greenhead fly populations; appropriates $50,000.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee on February 9, 2021, with amendments.

  

An Act concerning pest control and supplementing chapter 9 of Title 26 of the Revised Statutes and making an appropriation.

 

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

 

     1.    The board of ¹[chosen freeholders] county commissioners¹ of any county in which the population of greenhead flies has become a local nuisance or pest problem may authorize, designate, and employ the county mosquito extermination commission to conduct a program for the reduction of the greenhead fly population in affected areas of the county which shall consist of the manufacture, placement, and maintenance of greenhead fly box traps developed by Rutgers, the State University.

 

     2.    There is appropriated to the Department of Environmental Protection $50,000 from the General Fund, to be distributed as grants to affected counties for the purpose of funding a greenhead fly extermination program pursuant to the provisions of this act.

 

     3.    This act shall take effect immediately.