Sponsored by:
Assemblyman VINCENT MAZZEO
District 2 (Atlantic)
Assemblyman BOB ANDRZEJCZAK
District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)
Assemblyman JOSEPH A. LAGANA
District 38 (Bergen and Passaic)
Assemblyman HERB CONAWAY, JR.
District 7 (Burlington)
Assemblyman RAJ MUKHERJI
District 33 (Hudson)
SYNOPSIS
Permits Governor to notify local governments to fly United States and State flags at half-staff upon death of member of Armed Forces of United States or National Guard who was State resident.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning flying the United States and State flags at half-staff and supplementing chapter 3 of Title 52 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. The Governor may, upon notification and verification of the death of an active service member of the Armed Forces of the United States of America or of the National Guard who was a resident of New Jersey, notify all county and municipal governing bodies of the death of the service member, and may direct that the United States flag and the State flag, located within or outside of the public building where the governing body regularly convenes, be flown at half-staff. When notifying the county and municipal bodies, the Governor shall specify the day on which the flags shall be flown at half-staff upon an existing flagstaff or flagstaffs.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill permits the Governor, upon notification and verification of the death of an active service member of the Armed Forces of the United States of America or of the National Guard who was a resident of New Jersey, to notify all county and municipal governing bodies of the death of the member, and direct that the United States flag and the State flag be flown at half-staff, within or outside of the public building where the governing body regularly convenes, on the day specified by the Governor.