Bill Text: NJ S1536 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Permits mayors to appoint municipal emergency management coordinators from among residents of municipalities subject to a shared services agreement.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-05-09 - Approved P.L.2013, c.57. [S1536 Detail]
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An Act concerning municipal emergency management coordinators and amending P.L.1953, c.438.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 8 of P.L.1953, c.438 (C.App.A:9-40.1) is amended to read as follows:
8. In every municipality of this State the mayor or, in the case of a municipality which has adopted the commission form of government pursuant to the provisions of the "commission form of government law" (R.S.40:70-1 et seq.), the commissioner serving as director of the department to which the responsibility for emergency management has been assigned, shall appoint a municipal emergency management coordinator from among the residents of the municipality. The municipal emergency management coordinator, subject to fulfilling the requirements of this section, shall serve for a term of three years. As a condition of his appointment and his right to continue for the full term of his appointment, each municipal emergency management coordinator shall have successfully completed at the time of his appointment or within one year immediately following his appointment or the effective date of this act, whichever is later, the current approved Home Study Course and the basic Emergency Management workshop. The failure of any municipal emergency management coordinator to fulfill such requirement within the period prescribed shall disqualify the coordinator from continuing in the office of coordinator and thereupon a vacancy in said office shall be deemed to have been created.
The provisions of this section shall not bar a
municipality from entering into an agreement pursuant to the ["Interlocal Services
Act," P.L.1973, c.208 (C.40:8A-1 et seq.)]
"Uniform Shared Services and Consolidation Act," sections 1 through 35 of
P.L.2007, c.63 (C.40A:65-1 through C.40A:65-35) to designate (1) a
municipal emergency management coordinator to serve two or more municipalities
jointly, or (2) the county emergency management coordinator appointed pursuant
to section 12 of P.L.1953, c.438 (C.App.A:9-42.1) for the county in which that
municipality is located as the municipal emergency management coordinator,
subject to approval of the governing body of the county. A municipality
entering into such an agreement shall notify
the State Emergency Management Coordinator.
(cf: P.L.2003, c.53, s.3)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
The bill permits a mayor or commissioner, as appropriate, to appoint a municipal emergency management coordinator from among the residents of the contiguous municipalities that are subject to a shared services agreement pursuant to the "Uniform Shared Services and Consolidation Act."
Under current law, emergency management coordinators must be appointed from among the residents of the municipality. Prior to 2007, emergency management coordinators could have been appointed to serve two or more municipalities under an interlocal services agreement; however, in 2007, the "Interlocal Services Act," P.L.1973, c.208 (C.40:8A-1 et seq.), was repealed pursuant to section 35 of P.L.2007, c.63 (C.40A:65-35).
Permits mayors to appoint municipal emergency management coordinators from among residents of municipalities subject to a shared services agreement.
