SENATE, No. 1877

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

INTRODUCED MARCH 10, 1997

By Senator MATHEUSSEN

An Act concerning school photographers and supplementing chapter 18A of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.

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

    1. A board of education may enter into a contract with a photographer for the taking of pupil yearbook pictures. The hiring of a photographer shall not prohibit a pupil from engaging a photographer of the pupil's choice nor prevent a picture taken by that photographer from appearing in the yearbook if the picture meets the specifications of the yearbook staff.

    2. This act shall take effect immediately.

STATEMENT

    This bill provides that a board of education may enter into a contract with a photographer for the taking of pupil yearbook pictures. The hiring of a photographer would not prohibit a pupil from engaging a photographer of the pupil's choice nor prevent a picture taken by that photographer from appearing in the yearbook if the picture meets the specifications of the yearbook staff.

Provides that school board may contract with photographer for yearbook and may not prohibit use of pictures made by other photographers.