Bill Text: NJ A2737 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Permits municipal police officers to make arrests for any disorderly persons or petty disorderly persons offense outside the territorial limits of their municipality.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-13 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee [A2737 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2020-A2737-Introduced.html

ASSEMBLY, No. 2737

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

219th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 13, 2020

 


 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  JON M. BRAMNICK

District 21 (Morris, Somerset and Union)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Permits municipal police officers to make arrests for any disorderly persons or petty disorderly persons offense outside the territorial limits of their municipality.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

 


An Act concerning the power of municipal police officers to arrest certain offenders outside the territorial limits of their municipality and amending P.L.1977, c.436.

 

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

 

     1.    Section 1 of P.L.1977, c.436 (C.40A:14-152.1) is amended to read as follows:

     1.    Notwithstanding the provisions of N.J.S.40A:14-152 or any other law to the contrary, any full-time, permanently appointed municipal police officer shall  have full power of arrest for any crime, disorderly persons or petty disorderly persons offense, or breach of the peace committed in said officer's presence  and committed anywhere within the territorial limits of the State of New Jersey.

(cf:  P.L.1977, c.436, s.1)

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill would permit municipal police officers to make arrests for any disorderly persons or petty disorderly persons offense outside the territorial limits of their municipality.  Currently, such officers are only expressly authorized to make arrests for these types of offenses within the territorial limits of their municipality.  See N.J.S.40A:14-152. 

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