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NJ Rev Stat § 18A:30-8 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:30-8 - Athletic competition on world, Pan American or Olympic level; reimbursement by state

18A:30-8. Athletic competition on world, Pan American or Olympic level; reimbursement by state  Any school district employee who qualifies as a member of the United States team for athletic competition on the world, Pan American or Olympic level, in a sport contested in either Pan American or Olympic competitions, shall be granted a leave of absence with pay and without loss of rights, privileges and benefits and without interruption of membership in any retirement system for the purpose of preparing for and engaging in the competition. The paid leave granted pursuant to this act shall be no more than 90 calendar days in 1 year or the combined days of the official training camp and competition, whichever is less. Any school district which grants employees leaves of absence pursuant to the provisions of this act shall be reimbursed by the State, for the full amount of the actual cost of employing substitutes for said employees. L.1978, c. 99, s. 2, eff. Aug. 14, 1978.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:30-9 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:30-9 - Use of accumulated vacation leave by board of education.

18A:30-9 Use of accumulated vacation leave by board of education.  46. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, an officer or employee of a board of education, or an agency or instrumentality thereof, who does not take vacation leave that accrues on or after the effective date of P.L.2007, c.92 (C.43:15C-1 et al.), or on or after the date on which the person becomes an officer or employee, in a given year because of business demands shall be granted that accrued leave only during the next succeeding year.  However, vacation leave not taken in a given year because of duties directly related to a state of emergency declared by the Governor may accumulate at the discretion of the appointing authority until, pursuant to a plan established by the officer or employee's appointing authority, the leave is used or the employee or officer is compensated for that leave, which shall not be subject to collective negotiation or collective bargaining. A person who (1) is an officer or employee on the effective date of P.L.2007, c.92 (C.43:15C-1 et al.), or (2) becomes an officer or employee after that effective date, and has previously accrued vacation leave shall be eligible and shall be permitted to retain and use that accrued vacation leave.  As used in this section, "officer or employee" means an elected official; or a person appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate, or appointed by the Governor to serve at the pleasure of the Governor only during his or her term of office; or a person appointed by an elected public official or elected governing body of the political subdivision, with the specific consent or approval of the elected governing body of the political subdivision that is substantially similar in nature to the advice and consent of the Senate for appointments by the Governor of the State as that similarity is determined by the elected governing body and set forth in an adopted resolution, pursuant to guidelines or policy that shall be established by the Department of Education, but not including a person who is employed or appointed in the regular or normal course of employment or appointment procedures and consented to or approved in a general or routine manner appropriate for and followed by the political subdivision, or the agency or instrumentality thereof. L.2007, c.92, s.46.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:30-9.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:30-9.1 - Use of accrued vacation leave by board of education employee.

18A:30-9.1 Use of accrued vacation leave by board of education employee.  5. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, an officer or employee of a board of education, or an agency or instrumentality thereof, who does not take vacation leave that accrues in a given year because of business demands shall be granted that accrued leave only during the next succeeding year. However, vacation leave not taken in a given year because of duties directly related to a state of emergency declared by the Governor may accumulate at the discretion of the appointing authority until, pursuant to a plan established by the officer or employee's appointing authority, the leave is used or the employee or officer is compensated for that leave, which shall not be subject to collective negotiation or collective bargaining. This provision shall apply only to officers and employees who commence service with the board of education, or the agency or instrumentality thereof, on or after the effective date of P.L.2010, c.3. This section shall not be construed to affect the terms in any collective negotiations agreement with a relevant provision in force on that effective date. L.2010, c.3, s.5.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:30-10 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:30-10 - Establishment of sick leave bank for employees of board of education.

18A:30-10 Establishment of sick leave bank for employees of board of education.  1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a sick leave bank may be established for employees of a board of education if both the board and the majority representative or majority representatives of the employees who would be eligible to participate consent to the establishment of the sick leave bank. The purpose of the sick leave bank shall be to enable employees of the board who are entitled to sick leave under chapter 30 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes to draw needed days of sick leave in addition to any days to which they are otherwise entitled. The sick leave days available to a board employee from the sick leave bank shall be leave days previously donated to the bank by board employees. Employees may donate sick leave days or any other leave time as agreed upon by the board and the majority representative. Sick leave drawn from the bank shall be treated for all purposes as if it were accrued sick leave time of the employee who receives it. No employee shall be required to participate in the bank.  L.2007, c.223, s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:30-11 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:30-11 - Administration of sick leave bank.

18A:30-11 Administration of sick leave bank.  2. The sick leave bank shall be administered by a committee which shall be comprised of three members selected by the board of education and three members selected by the majority representative or majority representatives of those employees of the board who are eligible to participate in the sick leave bank. The committee may establish standards or procedures that it deems appropriate for the operation of the sick leave bank, which may include a requirement that employees donate leave time to be eligible to draw leave time from the sick leave bank and limitations on the amount of sick leave time which may be drawn or the conditions under which the sick leave time may be drawn. No day of leave which is donated to a sick leave bank by an employee shall be drawn by that employee or any other employee from the sick leave bank unless authorized by the committee in order to provide sick leave. L.2007, c.223, s.2.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:30-12 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:30-12 - Certain policies unaffected.

18A:30-12 Certain policies unaffected.  3. No provision of this act, or regulation promulgated to implement or enforce this act, shall be deemed to justify a board of education in reducing or making less favorable to employees any sick leave, disability pay or other benefits provided by the board or required by a collective bargaining agreement which are more favorable to the employees than those required by this act, nor shall any provision of this act, or any regulation promulgated to implement or enforce this act, be construed to prohibit the negotiation and provision through collective bargaining agreements of sick leave, disability pay or other benefits which are more favorable to the employee than those required by this act, irrespective of the date that a collective bargaining agreement takes effect. L.2007, c.223, s.3.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:30-13 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:30-13 - Construction of act.

18A:30-13 Construction of act.  4. No provision of this act shall be construed as limiting the authority of a board of education to provide an employee with additional days of salary pursuant to N.J.S.18A:30-6 after all sick leave available to the employee, including days provided under this act, has been used. L.2007, c.223, s.4.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:31-1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:31-1 - Teachers' institutes and meetings, when held, etc.

18A:31-1. Teachers' institutes and meetings, when held, etc.  Teachers' institutes, and teachers' meetings called by the commissioner, shall be held pursuant to rules prescribed by the state board. L.1967, c.271.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:31-2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:31-2 - Attendance at conventions of New Jersey Education Association

18A:31-2. Attendance at conventions of New Jersey Education Association  Whenever any full-time teaching staff member of any board of education of any local school district or regional school district or of a county vocational school or any secretary, or office clerk applies to the board of education by which he is employed for permission to attend the annual convention of the New Jersey Education Association, such permission shall be granted for a period of not more than two days in any one year and he shall receive his whole salary for the days of actual attendance upon the sessions of such convention upon filing with the secretary of the board a certificate of such attendance signed by the executive secretary of the association. L.1967, c.271
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:32-1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:32-1 - Appropriation for establishment and maintenance

18A:32-1. Appropriation for establishment and maintenance  Whenever in any county there shall have been raised by subscription a sum of money not less than $100.00 for the establishment of a library of pedagogical books for the use of the teachers of the public schools, the director of the treasury shall, upon the order of the commissioner, draw his warrant on the state treasurer in favor of the county superintendent of the county for the sum of $100.00 for the benefit of such library. Annually thereafter there shall be paid on a like order a sum not less than $50.00 nor more than $100.00 upon condition that there shall have been raised by subscription a like sum for the maintenance of the library for the year.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:32-2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:32-2 - Committee to select books and manage library

18A:32-2. Committee to select books and manage library  The county superintendent and three teachers of public schools in the county appointed by him shall constitute a committee to select and purchase books and apparatus for the library, and to make rules for the management, use, and safekeeping thereof.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:33-1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:33-1 - District to furnish suitable facilities; adoption of courses of study

18A:33-1. District to furnish suitable facilities; adoption of courses of study  Each school district shall provide, for all children who reside in the district and are required to attend the public schools therein and those who reside therein or elsewhere and are entitled or permitted to attend the schools of the district pursuant to law, suitable educational facilities including proper school buildings and furniture and equipment, convenience of access thereto, and courses of study suited to the ages and attainments of all pupils between the ages of five and 20 years, either in schools within the district convenient of access to the pupils, or as provided by article 2 of chapter 38 of this title, but no course of study shall be adopted or altered except by the recorded roll call majority vote of the full membership of the board of education of the district. L.1967, c.271.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:33-1.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:33-1.1 - Substandard facility; approval; inspection; abandonment

18A:33-1.1. Substandard facility; approval; inspection; abandonment  No substandard facility shall be approved for more than two consecutive years unless it is inspected by the Bureau of Facility Planning Services in the Division of Finance to insure that the buildings meet health, safety and educational standards for temporary facilities and that utilization of the facilities is of a temporary and limited nature. Any facility which is determined to be inadequate shall be ordered abandoned pursuant to N.J.S. 18A:20-36. L.1983, c. 373, s. 1, eff. Oct. 28, 1983.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:33-1.2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:33-1.2 - Rules and regulations

18A:33-1.2. Rules and regulations  The State Board of Education shall develop rules and regulations for the approval of substandard emergency building facilities for the accommodation of school pupils which regulations shall insure that the buildings meet health, safety and educational standards and that the utilization of the facilities are of a temporary and limited nature. L.1983, c. 373, s. 2, eff. Oct. 28, 1983.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:33-2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:33-2 - Penalty for failure to provide proper facilities.

18A:33-2 Penalty for failure to provide proper facilities.  18A:33-2. When any school district shall fail to provide such facilities and courses of study, the county superintendent shall, by order in writing, approved in writing by the commissioner and transmitted to the board secretary or treasurer of school moneys, as appropriate, of the district, direct the secretary or treasurer to withhold further payments, for the account of the district, of any moneys theretofore and thereafter received from State aid until such suitable facilities and courses of study shall be provided, which order shall be effective upon the date stated by the commissioner in his approval thereof. The county superintendent shall notify the board of education of the district of his action with the reasons therefor forthwith. amended 2010, c.39, s.25.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:33-2.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:33-2.1 - Closing high school; contracting with another district; referendum

18A:33-2.1. Closing high school; contracting with another district; referendum  No board of education of a school district providing high school education in its own high school shall propose to close its high school and to contract with another district or districts to provide high school education for pupils of the district, unless and until a public question as to whether or not the board may enter into such a contract or contracts shall be submitted to and approved by a majority of the voters of the district voting thereon at an annual or special school election. L.1967, c.271.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:33-3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:33-3 - Food service bidding exemption

18A:33-3. Food service bidding exemption  A board of education of any district may, itself or under contract, install, equip, supply and operate cafeterias or other agencies for dispensing food to public school pupils without profit to the district and may purchase food services and supplies therefor subject to the provisions of N.J.S. 18A:18A-6 and pursuant to rules and regulations of the State board, without advertisement for bids.  L.1967, c.271; amended by L. 1985, c. 527, s. 2, eff. Jan. 21, 1986.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:33-3.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:33-3.1 - Establishment of prepaid school lunch program.

18A:33-3.1 Establishment of prepaid school lunch program.  1. A board of education may establish a program through which the parent or guardian of a student may prepay for lunches served to the student in the school cafeteria. L.2006,c.14.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:33-4 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:33-4 - School lunch; availability to all children

18A:33-4. School lunch; availability to all children  Each school district shall make school lunch available to all children enrolled in the district within 1 year from the effective date of this act. Such lunches shall meet minimum nutritional standards established by the Department of Education. Free and reduced price lunches shall be offered to all children qualifying under Statewide eligibility criteria. L.1974, c. 53, s. 1, eff. July 1, 1974.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:33-5 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:33-5 - Exemptions

18A:33-5. Exemptions  Any school in which less than 5% of pupils enrolled meet the eligibility requirements for a free or reduced price lunch shall be exempt from the provisions of this act. L.1974, c. 53, s. 2, eff. July 1, 1974.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:33-6 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:33-6 - Display of poster illustrating choke prevention techniques

18A:33-6. Display of poster illustrating choke prevention techniques  Each local board of education shall: a. Ensure that posters illustrating choke prevention techniques such as the "Heimlich Maneuver" are prominently displayed in all school cafeterias, faculty dining rooms and all other public school locations designated as places where food is consumed;  b. Have pamphlets illustrating choke prevention techniques available in every school for free distribution to students; and c. Utilize, for the purposes of this section, instructional posters and pamphlets prepared by the Department of Health pursuant to P.L.1983, c.488 (C.26:3E-1 et seq.). L.1989, c.302, s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:33-7 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:33-7 - Posting of drinking water test reports by public schools.

18A:33-7 Posting of drinking water test reports by public schools.  6. a. The principal of every public school who is required to prepare a Consumer Confidence Report pursuant to the "Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996,"42 U.S.C.s.300f et al., or who receives a Consumer Confidence Report from the owner or operator of a public community water system, shall post each Consumer Confidence Report the principal prepares or receives in a conspicuous location near each major entrance to the public school. b. The principal of every public school who is a supplier of water but is not required to prepare a Consumer Confidence Report pursuant to the "Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996," and who is required to conduct tests of its drinking water by the Department of Environmental Protection, shall post a chart setting forth the results of the water tests, including the level of detection and, as appropriate for each contaminant, the maximum contaminant level, highest level allowed, action level, treatment technique, or other expression of an acceptable level, for each contaminant, in a conspicuous location near each major entrance to the public school. The chart also shall include in bold print the statement required to be included in a Consumer Confidence Report pursuant to 40 CFR s.141.154(a). The chart shall not include contaminants that are not detected. c. The provisions of this section shall be enforced by the Department of Education. The Department of Education shall not be required to conduct on-site inspections to determine compliance with this section more frequently than any on-site inspections of public schools are conducted by the department pursuant to any other law. L.1999,c.362,s.6.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:33-8 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:33-8 - Posting of drinking water test reports by nonpublic schools.

18A:33-8 Posting of drinking water test reports by nonpublic schools.  7. a. The chief administrative officer of every nonpublic school required to prepare a Consumer Confidence Report pursuant to the "Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996,"42 U.S.C.s.300f et al., or who receives a Consumer Confidence Report from the owner or operator of a public community water system, shall post each Consumer Confidence Report the chief administrative officer prepares or receives in a conspicuous location near each major entrance to the nonpublic school. b. The chief administrative officer of every nonpublic school which is a supplier of water but is not required to prepare a Consumer Confidence Report pursuant to the "Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996," and who is required to conduct tests of its drinking water by the Department of Environmental Protection, shall post a chart setting forth the results of the water tests, including the level of detection and, as appropriate for each contaminant, the maximum contaminant level, highest level allowed, action level, treatment technique, or other expression of an acceptable level, for each contaminant, in a conspicuous location near each major entrance to the nonpublic school. The chart also shall include in bold print the statement required to be included in a Consumer Confidence Report pursuant to 40 CFR s.141.154(a). The chart shall not include contaminants that are not detected. c. The provisions of this section shall be enforced by the Department of Education. The Department of Education shall not be required to conduct on-site inspections to determine compliance with this section more frequently than any on-site inspections of nonpublic schools are conducted by the department pursuant to any other law. L.1999,c.362,s.7.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:33-9 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:33-9 - Findings, declarations relative to school breakfast programs

18A:33-9. Findings, declarations relative to school breakfast programs  1. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. The School Breakfast Program is a federally assisted meal program operating in public and nonprofit private schools and residential child care institutions nationwide, and supplying to each participating child at least one-fourth of the nutrients needed daily; b. The School Breakfast Program was established by the federal government in 1966 with the purpose of providing a nutritious, well-balanced breakfast to promote sound eating habits, and fostering good health and academic achievement for school-age children; c. New Jersey ranks fiftieth in the nation for participation in the School Breakfast Program by schools offering school lunch, and has seen only modest increases in participation in recent years;  d. Research shows that school breakfast increases attendance and decreases tardiness, improves academic performance both in class and on standardized tests, improves attentiveness, and reduces emotional and behavioral problems among students from all backgrounds; and e. Therefore, it is clearly in the public interest for the State to require that school districts with large populations of students eligible for federally subsidized meals offer the School Breakfast Program and publicize the program in their communities. L.2003,c.4,s.1.