Bill Text: NJ S2784 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Permits alternate members of county planning boards to vote in place of any absent public member.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-20 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee [S2784 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2012-S2784-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator BOB SMITH
District 17 (Middlesex and Somerset)
Senator CHRISTOPHER "KIP" BATEMAN
District 16 (Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and Somerset)
SYNOPSIS
Permits alternate members of county planning boards to vote in place of any absent public member.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning alternate members of county planning boards and amending P.L.1975, c.186.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 1 of P.L.1975, c.186 (C.40:27-1.1) is amended to read as follows:
1. The board of chosen freeholders may, by resolution, provide for the appointment of alternate members to the county planning board in accordance with the following:
a. Where the county planning board consists of six members or less, the director of the board of chosen freeholders, with the approval of a majority of the board of freeholders, may appoint one alternate citizen member;
b. Where the county planning board consists of more than six members, the director of the board of chosen freeholders, with the approval of a majority of the board of freeholders, may appoint two alternate citizen members. These members shall be designated by the director as "Alternate No. 1" and "Alternate No. 2" and shall participate in the planning board's decision in rotation during the absence or disqualification of any citizen member;
c. Where the county engineer is a member of the planning board, the director of the board of chosen freeholders, with the approval of a majority of the board of freeholders, may appoint the assistant or deputy county engineer to serve as an alternate to the county engineer;
d. The director of the board of chosen freeholders, with the approval of a majority of the board of freeholders, may appoint a member of the board of chosen freeholders to serve as an alternate to the two freeholder members.
Alternate members shall be appointed for terms to expire at the same time as the terms of the regular members for whom they are alternates. An alternate member shall be entitled to sit with and participate as a member in any hearing before the board. Any alternate member who has attended the full hearing or hearings may participate in the board's decision during the absence or disqualification of any regular public member [for whom he is an alternate].
(cf: P.L.1975, c.186, s.1)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill would permit an alternate member of a county planning board who has attended the full hearing or hearings on a matter before the county planning board to participate in the board's decision during the absence or disqualification of any regular public member.
Under current law, such an alternate member who has attended the full hearing or hearings on a matter before the county planning board may participate in the board's decision during the absence or disqualification only of any regular member for whom they are an alternate.
