ASSEMBLY, No. 1224

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 1996 SESSION

By Assemblymen AUGUSTINE and ARNONE

An Act concerning the severence benefit paid to municipal administrators and amending N.J.S.40A:9-138.

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

    1. N.J.S.40A:9-138 is amended to read as follows:

    40A:9-138. The municipal administrator may be removed by a 2/3 vote of the governing body. The resolution of removal shall become effective 3 months after its adoption by the governing body. The governing body may provide that the resolution shall have immediate effect; provided, however, that the governing body shall cause to be paid to the administrator forthwith any unpaid balance of his salary and his salary for a minimum of the next 3 calendar months following adoption of the resolution.

(cf: N.J.S.40A:9-138)

    2. This act shall take effect immediately.

STATEMENT

    This bill would permit a governing body to set the amount of severence pay for a municipal administrator at a level greater than the three months' pay currently permitted. This amendment would provide governing bodies with additional flexibility when recruiting new administrators and renegotiating with appointed administrators.

Permits more than three months' severence pay to municipal administrator.