Bill Text: NJ A3969 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits naming of public spaces after living public official.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-12 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee [A3969 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2022-A3969-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman BETH SAWYER
District 3 (Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem)
SYNOPSIS
Prohibits naming of public spaces after living public official.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning the naming of public spaces and supplementing Title 52 of the Revised Statues.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. No public building, facility, complex, park, bridge, street, highway, or parkway owned by the State or any political subdivision thereof shall be named in honor of any living public official. If a public building, facility, complex, park, bridge, street, highway, or parkway owned by the State or any political subdivision thereof is named in honor of a living public official prior to the effective date of this act, P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill), the name of that public building, facility, complex, park, bridge, street, highway, or parkway may remain.
As used is this act, a "public official" means a person who holds or has held a public office position, elective or appointive, in this State, including any person elected or appointed in the State to a federal public office.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill prohibits naming a public building, facility, complex, bridge, street, highway, or parkway owned by the State or any political subdivision thereof in honor of any living public official. The bill provides that if a public building, facility, complex, park, bridge, street, highway, or parkway owned by the State or any political subdivision thereof is named in honor of a living public official prior to the effective date of the bill, the name of that public building, facility, complex, bridge, street, highway, or parkway may remain.
Under the bill, a "public official" means a person who holds or has held a public office position, elective or appointive, in this State, including any person elected or appointed in the State to a federal public office.
