ASSEMBLY, No. 309

 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

 

Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 1996 SESSION

 

 

By Assemblyman BODINE and Assemblywoman BARK

 

 

An Act concerning the appointment of employees of certain fire districts and amending N.J.S.11A:3-5.

 

    Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

    1. N.J.S.11A:3-5 is amended to read as follows:

    11A:3-5. Political subdivision unclassified service. The political subdivision unclassified service shall not be subject to the provisions of this title unless otherwise specified and shall include the following:

    a. Elected officials;

    b. One secretary and one confidential assistant to each mayor;

    c. Members of boards and commissions authorized by law;

    d. Heads of institutions;

    e. Physicians, surgeons and dentists;

    f. Attorneys of a county, municipality or school district operating under this title;

    g. Teaching staff, as defined in N.J.S.18A:1-1, in the public schools and county superintendents and members and business managers of boards of education;

    h. Principal executive officers;

    i. One secretary, clerk or executive director to each department, board and commission authorized by law to make the appointment;

    j. One secretary or clerk to each county constitutional officer, principal executive officer, and judge;

    k. One deputy or first assistant to a principal executive officer who is authorized by statute to act for and in place of the principal executive officer;

    l. No more than 12 county department heads and the heads of divisions within such departments; provided that the total number of unclassified positions created by the county administrative code pursuant to this subsection shall not exceed 20;

    m. One secretary or confidential assistant to each unclassified department or division head established in subsection l.;

    n. Employees of county park commissions, appointed pursuant to R.S.40:37-96 through R.S.40:37-174, in counties of the second class;

    o. Directors of free public libraries in cities of the first class having a population of more than 300,000;

    p. One secretary to the municipal council in cities of the first class having a population of less than 300,000;

    q. One secretary and one confidential aide for each member of the board of freeholders other than the director, and one secretary and two confidential aides for the freeholder director, of any county of the second class with a population of at least 470,000 which has not adopted the provisions of the "Optional County Charter Law," P.L.1972, c.154 (C.40:41A-1 et seq.) and one secretary or confidential aide for each member of the board of freeholders of any other county which has not adopted the provisions of the "Optional County Charter Law";

    r. In school districts organized pursuant to N.J.S.18A:17-1 et seq., the executive controller, public information officer and the executive directors of board affairs, personnel, budget, purchasing, physical facilities, data processing, financial affairs, and internal audit;

    s. The executive director, assistant executive director, director of staff operations, director of administration, director of redevelopment and the urban initiatives coordinator of a local housing authority;

    t. The sheriff's investigators of any county appointed pursuant to P.L.1987, c.113 (C.40A:9-117a);

    u. Any title as provided by statute or as the board may determine in accordance with criteria established by rule; [and]

    v. One confidential aide for each county clerk, in addition to the titles included under subsection j. of this section; and

    w. In fire districts established pursuant to N.J.S.40A:14-70, the executive director and assistant executive director or the director of administration and assistant director of administration, as the case may be, and one secretary, clerk or confidential assistant to each executive director, assistant executive director, director of administration or assistant director of administration.

(cf: P.L.1991, c.494, s.1)

 

    2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

    This bill provides that in any municipality not having a paid or part-paid fire department and established pursuant to N.J.S.40A:14-70, the executive director and assistant executive director or the director of administration and assistant director of administration, as the case may be, and one secretary, clerk or confidential assistant to each executive director, assistant executive director, director of administration or assistant director of administration shall be in the unclassified service of the civil service.

 

 

 

Assigns employees of certain fire districts to the unclassified service of the civil service.