[First Reprint]

SENATE, No. 1821

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

INTRODUCED JANUARY 27, 1997

By Senator RICE

An Act concerning eligible lists for police officers and supplementing Title 11A of the New Jersey Statutes.

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

    1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law or regulation to the contrary, a person on an eligible list for the position of police officer in a city of the first class with a population exceeding 250,000, according to the 1990 decennial census, who has completed phases of the certification process and is awaiting appointment as a police officer shall, upon expiration of that eligibility list, be granted first priority on any new eligibility list established for that position ¹for one year¹.

    2. This act shall take effect immediately ¹and shall be retroactive to April 1, 1997¹.

Gives priority to certain eligibles on civil service list.