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2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:9-165 - Salaries, wages or compensation of mayor or other chief executive; officers and employees; exceptions; referendum

40A:9-165. Salaries, wages or compensation of mayor or other chief executive; officers and employees; exceptions; referendum
40A:9-165. The governing body of a municipality, by ordinance, unless otherwise provided by law, shall fix and determine the salaries, wages or compensation to be paid to the officers and employees of the municipality, including the members of the governing body and the mayor or other chief executive, who by law are entitled to salaries, wages, or compensation.
Salaries, wages or compensation fixed and determined by ordinance may, from time to time, be increased, decreased or altered by ordinance. No such ordinance shall reduce the salary of, or deny without good cause an increase in salary given to all other municipal officers and employees to, any tax assessor, chief financial officer, tax collector or municipal clerk during the term for which he shall have been appointed. Except with respect to an ordinance or a portion thereof fixing salaries, wages or compensation of elective officials or any managerial, executive or confidential employee as defined in section 3 of the "New Jersey Employer-Employee Relations Act" P.L.1941, c.100 (C.34:13A-3), as amended, the ordinance shall take effect as provided therein. In municipalities wherein the provisions of Title 11 (Civil Service) of the Revised Statutes are in operation, this section shall be subject thereto.
Where any such ordinance shall provide for increases in salaries, wages or compensation of elective officials or any managerial, executive or confidential employee, the ordinance or that portion thereof which provides an increase for such elective or appointive officials shall become operative in 20 days after the publication thereof, after final passage, unless within said 20 days, a petition signed by voters of such municipality, equal in number to at least 5% of the registered voters of the municipality, protesting against the passage of such ordinance, be presented to the governing body, in which case such ordinance shall remain inoperative unless and until a proposition for the ratification thereof shall be adopted at an election by a majority of the voters voting on said proposition. The question shall be submitted at the next general election, occurring not less than 40 days from the date of the certification of the petition. The submission of the question to the voters shall be governed by the provisions of Title 19 (Elections) of the Revised Statutes, as in the case of public questions to be voted upon in a single municipality.
L.1971, c.200, s.1; amended 1975,c.215,s.1; 1976,c.96,s.1; 1979,c.25,s.2; 1981,c.393,s.28; 1981,c.394,s.5; 1985,c.374,s.10; 1991,c.175,s.14.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:9-165.1 - Compensation of members of governing body and chief executive; determination; effective date and procedure for protest

40A:9-165.1. Compensation of members of governing body and chief executive; determination; effective date and procedure for protest
Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, the governing body of each municipality shall determine the salaries, wages or compensation of the members of the governing body and the mayor or other chief executive in accordance with the provisions of N.J.S. 40A:9-165. The time within which an ordinance determining said salaries, wages or compensation shall take effect, and the procedure for protesting against the passage of any ordinance providing for an increase in said salaries, wages or compensation shall be as provided in N.J.S. 40A:9-165.
L.1979, c. 131, s. 1, eff. July 6, 1979.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:9-167 - Referendum on ordinance fixing salaries, wages or compensation

40A:9-167. Referendum on ordinance fixing salaries, wages or compensation
When the governing body of any municipality shall be required by petition to submit to the voters proposed increases in salaries, wages or compensation or if the governing body shall deem it advisable to have a referendum in respect to the salaries of its members, or any other elective official, or any managerial executive or confidential employee, the governing body shall adopt an ordinance definitely fixing such salaries and the operative date. Where any such ordinance provides for salary increases, they may be made to take effect on a specified date or apportioned to be effective on different specified dates during a period not to exceed 3 years. Any such ordinance may be adopted notwithstanding a prior referendum in respect to salaries, wages or compensation.
The clerk of the municipality shall forthwith forward a certified copy of the ordinance to the officer whose duty it is to prepare the ballots for the election, notifying such officer that there is to be a vote on the question.
Such officer, in the manner and form provided by law, shall place the question upon the ballot, to be used at the election in such municipality, in substantially the following form: "Shall the salaries of the (members of the governing body, other elective officials, managerial executives, confidential employees, as designated) of (name of municipality) be fixed as follows, (amount or amounts) per annum?"
If it is proposed to reduce or increase salaries, the following form shall be used: "Shall the salaries of the (members of the governing body, other elective officials, managerial executives, confidential employees, as designated) of (name of municipality) be reduced (or increased) as follows: (members of the governing body, other elective officials, managerial executives, confidential employees, as designated) $ from $ (amount of present salary) to $ (amount of proposed or adopted salary) per annum?"
If a majority of the legal voters of the municipality voting upon such question at the election shall vote "Yes," the salaries so adopted shall be payable to the members of the governing body or other elective officials or managerial executives or confidential employees, as the case may be, on and after the date specified in the ordinance and until again changed in the manner provided by law. The referendum vote shall be binding during the period of 2 years following such vote.
L.1971, c. 200, s. 1, eff. July 1, 1971. Amended by L.1976, c. 96, s. 2, eff. Sept. 21, 1976.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:9-168 - Petition for referendum on salaries, wages or compensation

40A:9-168. Petition for referendum on salaries, wages or compensation
If there shall be submitted to the governing body of any municipality a petition signed by not less than 10% of the registered voters of the municipality, requesting the submission to the legal voters of the municipality the question of fixing the salaries, wages or compensation of the members of the governing body or other elective officials, or any managerial executive or confidential employee of said municipality in the amounts stated in the petition, the governing body shall cause the question to be submitted to the legal voters of the municipality at the next general election occurring more than 40 days after the submission of the petition to the governing body.
The result of the vote shall be binding upon the municipality for the following 2 years.
Nothing contained in this section shall be deemed to preclude a referendum vote upon an ordinance increasing salaries, wages or compensation provided by law.
L.1971, c. 200, s. 1, eff. July 1, 1971. Amended by L.1976, c. 96, s. 3, eff. Sept. 21, 1976.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:9-171 - Compensation for services notwithstanding statute declared unconstitutional

40A:9-171. Compensation for services notwithstanding statute declared unconstitutional
Whenever a person shall have performed services for any municipality in an office or position created by or pursuant to a statute declared to be unconstitutional after the creation of the office or position, such person shall be compensated for his services prior to the statute being declared to be unconstitutional.
Where the statute so declared to be unconstitutional did not fix the compensation payable to the officer or employee, his compensation for his said services shall be determined by the governing body at the rate fixed for comparable services.
L.1971, c. 200, s. 1, eff. July 1, 1971.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:9-172 - Judicially determined illegal suspension or dismissal; officer or employee entitled to recover salary; proviso

40A:9-172. Judicially determined illegal suspension or dismissal; officer or employee entitled to recover salary; proviso
Whenever any municipal officer or employee shall be suspended or dismissed from his office, employment or position and such suspension or dismissal shall be judicially determined to be illegal, said officer or employee shall be entitled to recover his salary from the date of such suspension or dismissal, provided a written application therefor shall be filed with the municipal clerk within 30 days after such judicial determination.
L.1971, c. 200, s. 1, eff. July 1, 1971.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:9-173 - Hospital service or medical service group insurance; authorization for deductions from salaries

40A:9-173. Hospital service or medical service group insurance; authorization for deductions from salaries
Municipal officers and employees participating in hospital or medical service group insurance may authorize the governing body of the municipality to deduct from their salaries premiums for such insurance, and pay the amount thereof to the service corporations. The governing body, by resolution, may authorize such deductions and provide for the said payments subject to such rules and regulations as the governing body may prescribe in the resolution.
No such resolution shall be deemed to impose any prospective liability or responsibility upon the municipality as to future deductions or payments.
L.1971, c. 200, s. 1, eff. July 1, 1971.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:9-174 - Compensation for injury or death to member of governing body or other officer in performance of duty

40A:9-174. Compensation for injury or death to member of governing body or other officer in performance of duty
The governing body of any municipality, by resolution, may provide for the payment of a sum not to exceed $1,500.00 to any officer of the municipality including a member of the governing body who shall have been injured in the performance of duty as such officer. In the event of the death of any such officer in the performance of duty, a similar sum may be paid to the widow or dependents.
Any such resolution shall prescribe the manner and method of payment.
L.1971, c. 200, s. 1, eff. July 1, 1971.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:9-175 - Statutes repealed

40A:9-175. Statutes repealed
The following sections, acts and parts of acts, together with all amendments and supplements thereto, are hereby repealed.
Revised Statutes sections:
40:46-1;
40:46-3, 40:46-4;
40:46-5 amended 1938, c. 149; 1948, c. 46; 1955, c. 131; 1967, c. 236;
40:46-6 amended 1953, c. 37;
40:46-6.1 amended 1945, c. 138;
40:46-7 to 40:46-12 both inclusive;
40:46-16;
40:46-17, 40;46-18;
40:46-23 amended 1947, c. 166; 1948, c. 282; 1958, c. 145; 1962, c. 144; 1965, c. 227;
40:46-25;
40:46-26 amended 1942, c. 53; 1944, c. 99; 1947, c. 33; 1947, c. 166; 1948, c. 282; 1949, c. 271; 1952, c. 281; 1955, c. 175; 1962, c. 144;
40:46-27 amended 1941, c. 144; 1954, c. 271; 1955, c. 186; 1958, c. 145;
40:46-28;
40:46-29;
40:46-32;
40:46-33;
40:46-34 amended 1948, c. 163; 1948, c. 395;
40:46-35, 40:46-36;
40:72-20;
40:73-7;
40:87-61;
40:145-19 to 40:145-22 both inclusive;
40:171-19 amended 1970, c. 99;
40:171-20 to 40:171-24 both inclusive;
40:171-48, 40:171-49;
40:171-93, 40:171-94;
40:171-96, 40:171-97;
Pamphlet Laws:
Laws of 1938, c. 386 (C. 40:46-6.2, C. 40:46-6.3);
Laws of 1939, c. 286 (C. 40:46-34.1);
Laws of 1941, c. 133 (C. 40:46-37, C. 40:46-38);
Laws of 1944, c. 90 (C. 40:171-24.1);
Laws of 1947, c. 192 (C. 40:46-6.13);
Laws of 1947, c. 331 (C. 40:145-14.1 to C. 40:145-14.4 both inclusive);
Laws of 1947, c. 350 (C. 40:46-6.14 to C. 40:46-6.22 both inclusive);
Schedule of Amendments of Laws of 1947, c. 350;
Section 1 amended by P.L.1951, c. 173;
Section 4 amended by P.L.1953, c. 37;
Laws of 1947, c. 362 (C. 48:83-8, C. 40:83-9);
Laws of 1951, c. 339, c. 1 (C. 40:46-27.1 amended by P.L.1962, c. 151; 1967, c. 299;
Laws of 1952, c. 325 (C. 40:145-14.5, C. 40:145-14.6);
Laws of 1953, c. 322 (C. 40:46-2.1);
Laws of 1960, c. 81 (C. 40:46-6.23 to C. 40:46-6.25 both inclusive);
Laws of 1964, c. 2 (C. 40:46-16.1 to C. 40:46-16.5 both inclusive);
Laws of 1965, c. 243 (C. 40:46-6.22a);
Laws of 1968, c. 35 (C. 40:46-6.2a, C. 40:46-6.2b);
Laws of 1968, c. 239 (C. 40:46-32.1);
Laws of 1968, c. 367 (C. 40:46-2.2 to C. 40:46-2.4 both inclusive);
Schedule of Amendment of Laws of 1968, c. 367;
Section 1 amended by P.L.1970, c. 146;
Laws of 1969, c. 241 (C. 40:41-50 to C. 40:41-53 both inclusive);
Laws of 1969, c. 287 (C. 40:46-32.2).
L.1971, c. 200, s. 1, eff. July 1, 1971. Amended by L.1979, c. 86, s. 15, eff. May 15, 1979.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:9-176 - Municipality not to issue badge to elected official which may be mistaken for law enforcement badge.

40A:9-176 Municipality not to issue badge to elected official which may be mistaken for law enforcement badge.
4. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a municipality shall not issue a law enforcement badge or a badge that may be mistaken as a law enforcement badge to any municipal elected official.
L.2019, c.221, s.4.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:10-1 - Power to insure

40A:10-1. Power to insure
A local unit may insure with any insurance company authorized to do business in this State or by the insurance fund provided by Article 3 of this chapter:
a. Its property, motor vehicles, equipment or apparatus, or any property, motor vehicles, equipment or apparatus owned or under the control of any of its departments, boards, agencies or commissions against loss or damage however caused;
b. Any motor vehicles, equipment or apparatus owned by it or under its control, or owned by or under the control of any of its departments, boards, agencies or commissions, against all liability arising from the ownership, use or operation thereof;
c. Against liability for its negligence and that of its officers, employees or servants, whether or not compensated or part-time, who are authorized to perform any act or services, but not including an independent contractor within the limitations of the "New Jersey Tort Claims Act" (N.J.S. 59:1-1 et seq.).
L.1979, c. 230, s. 1, eff. Oct. 15, 1979.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:10-1.1 - "Local unit" for purposes of Article 1, chapter 10 of Title 40A

40A:10-1.1. "Local unit" for purposes of Article 1, chapter 10 of Title 40A
8. For the purposes of Article 1 of chapter 10 of Title 40A of the New Jersey Statutes, "local unit" shall be deemed to include boards of education which join together with municipalities pursuant to P.L.1992, c.51 (C.40A:10-52 et al.).
L.1992,c.51,s.8.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:10-2 - Providing insurance for certain volunteer organizations

40A:10-2. Providing insurance for certain volunteer organizations
A municipality maintaining a volunteer fire department, or in which there are one or more incorporated volunteer fire companies affording fire protection in the municipality, or in which there exist one or more incorporated volunteer first aid, emergency, rescue or ambulance squads rendering services generally throughout the municipality, may effect and maintain insurance with any insurance company authorized to do business in this State, which the governing body of the municipality deems necessary or desirable for the protection, safety and welfare of the municipality, the volunteer fire department, incorporated volunteer fire companies or incorporated volunteer first aid, emergency, rescue or ambulance squad:
a. Covering their motor vehicles, equipment and apparatus against loss or damage however caused;
b. Against all liability arising from the ownership, use or operation of their motor vehicles, equipment and apparatus; or,
c. Both.
The governing body of the municipality may, in its discretion, pay the entire costs of such insurance or such portion thereof as it may consider to be advisable.
L.1979, c. 230, s. 1, eff. Oct. 15, 1979.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:10-3 - Insurance for operators

40A:10-3. Insurance for operators
Every local unit, other than one providing insurance coverage under Article 3 of this chapter, shall provide insurance coverage under this article for the operators of all motor vehicles, equipment and apparatus owned by or under its control, or owned by or under the control of any of its departments, boards, agencies or commissions, against liability for damages to property, in any one accident, in an amount of not less than $5,000.00, and against liability for injuries or death of one person, in any one accident, in an amount of not less than $50,000.00, and against liability for injuries or death or more than one person, in any one accident, in an amount of not less than $100,000.00.
L.1979, c. 230, s. 1, eff. Oct. 15, 1979.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:10-4 - Liability for failure to insure

40A:10-4. Liability for failure to insure
Any local unit, other than one providing insurance coverage under Article 3 of this chapter, failing to provide the insurance coverage as provided in N.J.S. 40A:10-3 shall be liable for payment of any judgment recovered in a court of competent jurisdiction against any operator of a motor vehicle, equipment or apparatus within the limits of the amount required for insurance coverage under N.J.S. 40A:10-3 for damages resulting in personal injury or death or damage to property caused by the authorized operation or use of such motor vehicles, equipment or apparatus.
L.1979, c. 230, s. 1, eff. Oct. 15, 1979.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:10-5 - Operator to give prompt notice of claim or demand

40A:10-5. Operator to give prompt notice of claim or demand
The operator against whom a claim or demand is made or an action instituted, arising out of the operation or use of any motor vehicle, equipment or apparatus to which this article relates, shall promptly give written notice thereof to the governing body of the local unit. If an action is instituted against him he shall also move promptly as a third party plaintiff to name the local unit as third party defendant in that action. If the operator fails to so notify the local unit or name the local unit as a third party defendant in any such action, the local unit shall not be liable for any judgment recovered against him even though it failed to secure the insurance required by this article.
L.1979, c. 230, s. 1, eff. Oct. 15, 1979.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:10-6 - Establishment of insurance fund; purposes; appropriations.

40A:10-6 Establishment of insurance fund; purposes; appropriations.
40A:10-6. The governing body of any local unit may establish an insurance fund for the following purposes:
a. To insure against any loss or damage however caused to any property, motor vehicles, equipment or apparatus owned by it, or owned by or under the control of any of its departments, boards, agencies or commissions;
b. To insure against liability resulting from the use or operation of motor vehicles, equipment or apparatus owned by or controlled by it, or owned by or under the control of any of its departments, boards, agencies or commissions;
c. To insure against liability for its negligence and that of its officers, employees and servants, whether or not compensated or part-time, who are authorized to perform any act or services, but not including an independent contractor within the limitations of the "New Jersey Tort Claims Act" (N.J.S.59:1-1 et seq.);
d. To insure against any loss or damage from liability as established by chapter 15 of Title 34 of the Revised Statutes;
e. To provide contributory or noncontributory self-funded, or partially self-funded, health benefits to employees or their dependents, or both, in accordance with rules and regulations of the Director of the Division of Local Government Services in the Department of Community Affairs. The establishment and operation of a fund to provide health benefits by a local unit prior to the effective date of P.L.2000, c.126 (C.52:13H-21 et al.) is hereby validated; however, any such health benefits fund shall comply with all rules and regulations promulgated by the director pursuant to this subsection.
The governing body may appropriate the moneys necessary for the purposes of this section.
L.1979, c.230, s.1; amended 1999, c.434, s.1; 2000, c.126, s.24; 2007, c.18, s.1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:10-6.1 - "Local unit" for purposes of Article 3, chapter 10 of Title 40A

40A:10-6.1. "Local unit" for purposes of Article 3, chapter 10 of Title 40A
9. For the purposes of Article 3 of chapter 10 of Title 40A of the New Jersey Statutes, "local unit" shall be deemed to include boards of education which join together with municipalities pursuant to P.L.1992, c.51 (C.40A:10-52 et al.).
L.1992,c.51,s.9.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:10-7 - Maximum and minimum amount of fund

40A:10-7. Maximum and minimum amount of fund
The governing body of a local unit may designate the maximum or minimum amount of the fund, and from time to time provide for the disposition of any excess over and above the maximum amount fixed, or of the interest or profits arising therefrom when the fund shall have reached the maximum limit.
L.1979, c. 230, s. 1, eff. Oct. 15, 1979.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:10-8 - Insurance fund commissioners; secretary; appointment; term; compensation; vacancies

40A:10-8. Insurance fund commissioners; secretary; appointment; term; compensation; vacancies
Upon establishment of an insurance fund, the officer or body of the local unit having the power to make appointments shall appoint three officials of the local unit, who may be members of the governing body, to serve as insurance fund commissioners and shall appoint a person to serve as secretary to the insurance fund commission. The commissioners shall hold office for 2 years or for the remainder of their term of office as officials, whichever shall be less, and until their successors shall have been duly appointed and qualified. The secretary shall serve at the pleasure of the commission. The commissioners shall serve without compensation. The salary of the secretary shall be set by ordinance or resolution, as appropriate, as authorized by the governing body.
Vacancies in the office of insurance fund commissioners caused by any reason other than expiration of term as an official shall be filled for the unexpired term. Vacancies in the position of secretary shall be filled in the manner of the original appointment.
L.1979, c. 230, s. 1, eff. Oct. 15, 1979. Amended by L.1982, c. 25, s. 1, eff. April 29, 1982.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:10-9 - Organization of commissioners

40A:10-9. Organization of commissioners
The commissioners shall, forthwith after their appointment, organize for the ensuing year by election from their membership of a chairman, who shall serve for the year.
L.1979, c. 230, s. 1, eff. Oct. 15, 1979. Amended by L.1982, c. 25, s. 2, eff. April 29, 1982.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:10-10 - Powers and authority of the commissioners

40A:10-10. Powers and authority of the commissioners
40A:10-10. Powers and authority of the commissioners. The commissioners shall have the following powers and authority:
a. Employ necessary clerical assistants, whose compensation shall be fixed and paid by the governing body of the local unit in the same manner as is that of other employees of the local unit;
b. Invest the fund and all additions and accretions thereto in such securities as they shall deem best suited for the purposes of this article;
c. Adopt rules and regulations for the control and investment of the fund;
d. Keep on hand at all times sufficient money, or have the same invested in such securities as can be immediately sold for cash, for the payment of losses to any buildings or property of the local unit or of a county college which participates in the fund pursuant to P.L. 1988, c. 144 (C. 18A:64A-25.40 et al.) or of a county vocational school which participates in the fund pursuant to P.L. 1988, c. 143 (C. 18A:18B-8 et al.), or liability resulting from the operation of publicly owned motor vehicles, equipment or apparatus;
e. Fix reasonable rates of premium for all insurance carried by the insurance fund, and shall effect all insurance in the insurance fund or with any insurance company or companies authorized to do business in this State;
f. Premiums for insurance, whether carried in the insurance fund or placed with insurance companies, shall be paid to the commissioners by the board, commission, department, committee or officer having charge or control of the property insured;
g. All insurance upon property owned or controlled by a local unit or any of its departments, boards, agencies or commissions, or by a board of education of a participating county vocational school or by a board of trustees of a participating county college shall be placed and effected by the commissioners;
h. If provided by the rules and regulations of the commission, the secretary to the insurance fund commission shall be entrusted with the daily operation of the insurance fund and shall submit a report to the commissioners at least once a month.
L.1979, c.230, s.1; amended 1982,c.25,s.3; 1988,c.143,s.5; 1988,c.144,s.5.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:10-11 - Sinking fund commissioners may act as insurance fund commissioners

40A:10-11. Sinking fund commissioners may act as insurance fund commissioners
In any local unit in which sinking fund commissioners have been appointed, the management and investment of the insurance fund may be entrusted to them in lieu of the appointment of insurance fund commissioners, and they shall have the same powers and authority as if appointed for that purpose.
L.1979, c. 230, s. 1, eff. Oct. 15, 1979.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:10-12 - Payment of workers' compensation

40A:10-12. Payment of workers' compensation
A local unit may provide for the payment of workers' compensation under the provisions of chapter 15 of Title 34 of the Revised Statutes (Labor and Workmen's Compensation, R.S. 34:15-1, et seq.) by:
a. The creation of a workers' compensation fund as hereinafter provided; or
b. The placing of workers' compensation insurance with any insurance company authorized to do business in New Jersey; or
c. Paying workers' compensation in the same manner as provided by law.
L.1979, c. 230, s. 1, eff. Oct. 15, 1979.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:10-12.1 - "Local unit" for purposes of Article 4, chapter 10 of Title 40A

40A:10-12.1. "Local unit" for purposes of Article 4, chapter 10 of Title 40A
10. For the purposes of Article 4 of chapter 10 of Title 40A of the New Jersey Statutes (N.J.S.40A:10-12 et seq.), "local unit" shall be deemed to include boards of education which join together with municipalities pursuant to P.L.1992, c.51 (C.40A:10-52 et al.).
L.1992,c.51,s.10.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:10-13 - Workers' compensation insurance fund

40A:10-13. Workers' compensation insurance fund
The governing body of a local unit may create and appropriate money for a fund to be designated and known as "The Workers' Compensation Insurance Fund." The money so appropriated shall be deposited in the name of the local unit in a National or State bank or trust company and remain there as a trust fund for the purpose of paying obligations of the local unit under the provisions of chapter 15 of Title 34 of the Revised Statutes (Labor and Workmen's Compensation, R.S. 34:15-1, et seq.).
L.1979, c. 230, s. 1, eff. Oct. 15, 1979.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:10-14 - Annual appropriation to fund

40A:10-14. Annual appropriation to fund
The governing body of a local unit may annually appropriate to the fund such money as it may determine to be necessary for the purpose set forth in the preceding section.
L.1979, c. 230, s. 1, eff. Oct. 15, 1979.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:10-15 - Discontinuance of fund

40A:10-15. Discontinuance of fund
The governing body of a local unit may determine to discontinue the fund, in which case the balance thereof shall become part of the surplus revenue of the local unit.
L.1979, c. 230, s. 1, eff. Oct. 15, 1979.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:10-16 - Definitions.

40A:10-16 Definitions.
40A:10-16. As used in this subarticle:
a. "Dependents" means an employee's spouse and the employee's unmarried children, including stepchildren, legally adopted children, and, at the option of the employer and the carrier, children placed by the Division of Youth and Family Services, under the age of 19 who live with the employee in a regular parent-child relationship, and may also include, at the option of the employer and the carrier, other unmarried children of the employee under the age of 23 who are dependent upon the employee for support and maintenance, but shall not include a spouse or child while serving in the military service. At the option of the employer, "dependent" may include an employee's domestic partner as defined in section 3 of P.L.2003, c.246 (C.26:8A-3);
b. "Employees" may, at the option of the employer, include elected officials, but shall not include persons employed on a short-term, seasonal, intermittent or emergency basis, persons compensated on a fee basis, or persons whose compensation from the employer is limited to reimbursement of necessary expenses actually incurred in the discharge of their duties;
c. "Federal Medicare Program" means the coverage provided under Title XVIII of the Social Security Act as amended in 1965, or its successor plan or plans.
L.1979, c.230, s.1; amended 2004, c.130, s.114; 2005, c.334, s.2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:10-17 - Contracts for group insurance, individual retirement annuity programs or individual retirement accounts

40A:10-17. Contracts for group insurance, individual retirement annuity programs or individual retirement accounts
Any local unit or agency thereof, herein referred to as employers, may:
a. Enter into contracts of group life, accidental death and dismemberment, hospitalization, dental, medical, surgical, major medical expense, or health and accident insurance with any insurance company or companies authorized to do business in this State, or may contract with a nonprofit hospital service or medical service or dental service corporation with respect to the benefits which they are authorized to provide respectively. The contract or contracts shall provide any one or more of such coverages for the employees of such employer and may include their dependents;
b. Enter into a contract or contracts to provide drug prescription and other health care benefits, or enter into a contract or contracts to provide drug prescription and other health care benefits as may be required to implement a duly executed collective negotiation agreement, or as may be required to implement a determination by a local unit to provide such benefit or benefits to employees not included in collective negotiations units;
c. Enter into a contract with an insurance company authorized to do business in this State to provide to its employees on a group or individual basis, individual retirement annuities, as defined by section 408(b) of the Federal Internal Revenue Code of 1954 as amended (26 U.S.C. s. 408(b)). The contract shall provide for coverage under these annuities of any employee of the employer and may provide for the establishment of annuities on behalf of the spouse of the employee.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize coverage of dependents of an employee under a group life insurance policy or to allow the issuance of a group life insurance policy under which the entire premium is to be derived from funds contributed by the insured employees.
L.1979, c. 230, s. 1, eff. Oct. 15, 1979. Amended by L.1980, c. 145, s. 1, eff. Nov. 12, 1980; L.1983, c. 445, s. 2, eff. Jan. 9, 1984.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:10-17.1 - County, municipal, contracting unit employee permitted to waive healthcare coverage.

40A:10-17.1 County, municipal, contracting unit employee permitted to waive healthcare coverage.
37. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, a county, municipality or any contracting unit as defined in section 2 of P.L.1971, c.198 (C.40A:11-2) which enters into a contract providing group health care benefits to its employees pursuant to N.J.S.40A:10-16 et seq., may allow any employee who is eligible for other health care coverage to waive coverage under the county's, municipality's or contracting unit's plan to which the employee is entitled by virtue of employment with the county, municipality or contracting unit. The waiver shall be in such form as the county, municipality or contracting unit shall prescribe and shall be filed with the county, municipality or contracting unit. In consideration of filing such a waiver, a county, municipality or contracting unit may pay to the employee annually an amount, to be established in the sole discretion of the county, municipality or contracting unit, which shall not exceed 50% of the amount saved by the county, municipality or contracting unit because of the employee's waiver of coverage, and, for a waiver filed on or after the effective date of P.L.2010, c.2, which shall not exceed 25%, or $5,000, whichever is less, of the amount saved by the county, municipality or contracting unit because of the employee's waiver of coverage. An employee who waives coverage shall be permitted to resume coverage under the same terms and conditions as apply to initial coverage if the employee ceases to be covered through the employee's spouse for any reason, including, but not limited to, the retirement or death of the spouse or divorce. An employee who resumes coverage shall repay, on a pro rata basis, any amount received which represents an advance payment for a period of time during which coverage is resumed. An employee who wishes to resume coverage shall file a declaration with the county, municipality or contracting unit, in such form as the county, municipality or contracting unit shall prescribe, that the waiver is revoked. The decision of a county, municipality or contracting unit to allow its employees to waive coverage and the amount of consideration to be paid therefor shall not be subject to the collective bargaining process.
L.1995, c.259, s.37; amended 2000, c.126, s.25; 2001, c.342, s.11; 2003. c.3, s.1; 2010, c.2, s.18.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:10-18 - Exclusions from coverage

40A:10-18. Exclusions from coverage
The contract shall exclude from eligibility:
a. Employees and dependents, active or retired, who are otherwise eligible for coverage but who, although they meet the age eligibility requirement of the Federal Medicare Program, are not covered by the complete Federal program;
b. Any class or classes of employees who are eligible for like or similar coverage under another group contract covering the class or classes of employees.
L.1979, c. 230, s. 1, eff. Oct. 15, 1979.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:10-19 - Limitations, exclusions, exceptions to be contained in contract

40A:10-19. Limitations, exclusions, exceptions to be contained in contract
Any contract or contracts permitted under this subarticle shall contain limitations, exclusions or exceptions so as to avoid duplication of benefits or services otherwise available pursuant to accidental death and dismemberment, hospitalization, dental, medical, surgical, major medical expense, or health and accident coverage under any other of this State or the coverage afforded under the laws of the United States, such as the Federal Medicare Program, and at the option of the employer and the carrier, group insurance or any other arrangement of coverage for individuals in a group, whether on an insured or uninsured basis.
Any contract permitted under this subarticle may condition the eligibility of any employee upon satisfying a waiting period stated in the contract.
L.1979, c. 230, s. 1, eff. Oct. 15, 1979. Amended by L.1980, c. 145, s. 2, eff. Nov. 12, 1980.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:10-20 - Discontinuance of coverage; exception

40A:10-20. Discontinuance of coverage; exception
The coverage of any employee, and of his dependents, if any, shall cease upon the discontinuance of his employment or upon cessation of active full-time employment in the classes eligible for coverage subject to such provision as may be made in any contract by his employer for limited continuance of coverage during disability, part-time employment, leave of absence other than leave for military service or layoff, and for continuance of coverage after retirement.
L.1979, c. 230, s. 1, eff. Oct. 15, 1979.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:10-21 - Payment of premiums; deduction of employee contributions.

40A:10-21 Payment of premiums; deduction of employee contributions.
40A:10-21. a. Any employer entering into a contract pursuant to this subarticle is hereby authorized to pay part or all of the premiums or charges for the contracts and may appropriate out of its general funds any money necessary to pay premiums or charges or portions thereof. The contribution required of any employee toward the cost of coverage may be deducted from the pay, salary or other compensation of the employee upon an authorization in writing made to the appropriate disbursing officer.
The employer may reimburse an active employee for his premium charges under Part B of the Federal Medicare Program covering the employee alone.
Nothing herein shall be construed as compelling an employer to pay any portion of the premiums or charges attributable to the contracts.
b. Commencing on the effective date of P.L.2010, c.2 and upon the expiration of any applicable binding collective negotiations agreement in force on that effective date, employees of an employer shall pay 1.5 percent of base salary, through the withholding of the contribution from the pay, salary or other compensation, for health care benefits coverage provided pursuant to N.J.S.40A:10-17, notwithstanding any other amount that may be required additionally pursuant to subsection a. of this section for such coverage. This subsection shall apply also when the health care benefits coverage is provided through an insurance fund or joint insurance fund or in any other manner. This subsection shall apply to any agency, board, commission, authority, or instrumentality of a local unit.
amended 2010, c.2, s.14.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:10-21.2 - Negotiations for next collective agreement.

40A:10-21.2 Negotiations for next collective agreement.
79. A public employer and employees who are in negotiations for the next collective negotiation agreement to be executed after the employees in that unit have reached full implementation of the premium share set forth in section 39 of P.L.2011, c.78 (C.52:14-17.28c) shall conduct negotiations concerning contributions for health care benefits as if the full premium share was included in the prior contract. The public employers and public employees shall remain bound by the provisions of sections 39, 42, and 44 of P.L.2011, c.78 (C.52:14-17.28c, C.40A:10-21.1, and C.40A:5A-11.1), notwithstanding the expiration of those sections, until the full amount of the contribution required by section 39 has been implemented in accordance with the schedule set forth in section 42.
Employees subject to any collective negotiations agreement in effect on the effective date of P.L.2011, c.78, that has an expiration date on or after the expiration of sections 39 through 44, inclusive, of P.L.2011, c.78, shall be subject, upon expiration of that collective negotiations agreement, to sections 39, 42, and 44 until the health care contribution schedule set forth in section 42 is fully implemented.
After full implementation, those contribution levels shall become part of the parties' collective negotiations and shall then be subject to collective negotiations in a manner similar to other negotiable items between the parties.
A public employee whose amount of contribution in retirement was determined in accordance with section 42 or 44 shall be required to contribute in retirement the amount so determined pursuant to section 42 or 44 notwithstanding that section 42 or 44 has expired, with the retirement allowance, and any future cost of living adjustment thereto, used to identify the percentage of the cost of coverage.
L.2011, c.78, s.79.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:10-22 - Continuance of coverage after retirement

40A:10-22. Continuance of coverage after retirement
The continuance of coverage after retirement of any employee may be provided at rates and under the conditions as shall be prescribed in the contract subject, however, to the requirements set forth in N.J.S. 40A:10-23. The contribution required of any retired employee toward the cost of coverage may be paid by him to his former employer or in such manner as the employer shall direct.
L.1979, c. 230, s. 1, eff. Oct. 15, 1979.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:10-23.1 - Payments by county of second class for benefits for certain retirees

40A:10-23.1. Payments by county of second class for benefits for certain retirees
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of N.J.S.40A:10-23 or any other law to the contrary, a county of the second class which has entered into contracts of group hospitalization, medical, surgical, major medical or health insurance or contracted with a nonprofit hospital service or medical service corporation pursuant to N.J.S.40A:10-17 shall pay the entire cost of such coverage during retirement for any policeman, as defined in section 1 of P.L.1944, c.255 (C.43:16A-1), who is enrolled in the Police and Firemen's Retirement System of New Jersey and who retires from service with the county after September 30, 1991 and on or before September 30, 1993 and for the employee's dependents, as well as the cost of the employee's coverage under Part B of Medicare, if the employee has a minimum of 25 years of public employment at least 15 years of which were with the county.
Any person who qualifies for the benefit provided pursuant to this section but who retired prior to the effective date of this act shall be reimbursed by the county for the cost of coverage incurred since the date of retirement.
L.1993,c.300,s.2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:10-23.2 - Liability of certain townships for health benefits for certain retirees

40A:10-23.2. Liability of certain townships for health benefits for certain retirees
1. Notwithstanding the provisions of N.J.S.40A:10-23 or any other law to the contrary, a township having a population of at least 90,000 according to the latest federal decennial census and located in a county of the second class having a population of at least 525,000 according to that census which shall have established a health insurance plan covering employees in and retirants from the service of that township, and their dependents, may by ordinance of the governing body assume the liability for the entire cost of continuing to provide that coverage to, and thereupon shall pay all of the premiums for, former employees of the township who, having rendered at least 15 years of service to the township, retired from such employment on or before October 15, 1992 and prior to the attainment of age 62, and including the premiums for coverage of the dependents of those former employees, except that each of those former employees shall be liable for the payment each month of such charges as shall be applicable to that former employee under the schedule of retiree contributions for such coverage in effect on June 30, 1993. In the event that, on or after July 1, 1993 and prior to the effective date of such an ordinance, a former employee entitled to coverage under this section shall have paid any charge with respect to such coverage which is in excess of the amount applicable under that schedule, the township shall, within 30 days of the effective date of the ordinance, reimburse the amount of that excess charge to the former employee.
The provisions of this section shall not apply to a former employee who retired on a disability pension or after 25 years' or more service with the employer, or who retired and reached the age of 62 or older with at least 15 years of service with the employer.
L.1994,c.30.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40A - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40A:10-23.3 - Payment of health benefit premiums for certain local government retirees

40A:10-23.3. Payment of health benefit premiums for certain local government retirees
1. Notwithstanding the provisions of N.J.S.40A:10-23 to the contrary, an employer which pays the premiums for health benefits for retirees pursuant to that section and which has adopted or adopts an early retirement incentive program pursuant to P.L.1993, c.99, P.L.1993, c.138, or P.L.1993, c.181 may, by adoption of a resolution by its governing body and filing a certified copy of the resolution with the Director of the Division of Pensions and Benefits or by inclusion of appropriate language in its resolution adopting the early retirement incentive program, elect to pay the premium for a retiree under that program who retires on the basis of 25 years or more of service credit in a State or locally administered retirement system, including any additional service credit provided under the early retirement incentive program, and a period of service from 0 to 15 years with the employer at the time of retirement, such period to be determined by the employer and included in its resolution.
L.1994,c.34,s.1.