Sponsored by:
Senator BRIAN P. STACK
District 33 (Hudson)
SYNOPSIS
Requires annual salaries of certain county officers and employees be fixed by ordinance; ordinance not required for compensation excluded from pensionable salary.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning the fixing of annual salaries of certain county officers and employees by ordinance and amending P.L.1972, c.154.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 100 of P.L.1972, c.154 (C.40:41A-100) is amended to read as follows:
100. a. The board shall promptly after its organization determine and adopt, by resolution, a set of bylaws prescribing its own rules of procedure. [Said] The bylaws shall not be inconsistent with any lawful ordinance or statute[;] .
b. A majority of the whole number of the members of the board shall constitute a quorum[;] .
c. A resolution shall mean any act or regulation of the board required to be reduced to writing, but which may be finally passed at the meeting at which it is introduced. The vote upon every resolution shall be taken by roll call and the yeas and nays shall be entered on the minutes[;] .
d. The [compensation] annual salary of the county executive, supervisor, manager or board president, and of [freeholders] county commissioners and the administrative officer and department heads shall be fixed by the board by ordinance [promptly after its organization]. Adoption of an ordinance shall not be required for compensation that is excluded from an officer’s or employee’s pensionable salary.
(cf: P.L.1975, c.84, s.39)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill amends the “Optional County Charter Law,” P.L. 1972, c.154 (C.40:41A-1 et seq.), to specify that county boards are to establish the annual salary of certain county employees by ordinance. The bill provides that adoption of an ordinance is not to be required for compensation that is excluded from an officer’s or employee’s pensionable salary.