[Passed Both Houses]

SENATE, No. 2273

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

INTRODUCED NOVEMBER 17, 1997

By Senators CONNORS, CIESLA, Singer, Assemblymen Moran, Connors, Holzapfel, Wolfe, Cottrell and Malone

An Act appropriating funds from the "Correctional Facilities Construction Fund of 1982" for county assistance to Ocean County.

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

    1. There is appropriated to the Department of Corrections from the amounts previously appropriated but not expended from the "Correctional Facilities Construction Fund of 1982" created pursuant to the "Correctional Facilities Construction Bond Act of 1982," P.L. 1982, c.120, the sum of $540,685 for the following purpose:

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    County Assistance Program

            Ocean County Facility Renovation.......$540,685

                        Total Appropriation.........................$540,685

    2. There is also appropriated from "Correctional Facilities Construction Fund of 1982" such items as may be necessary to meet any expense incurred by the issuing officials under P.L.1982, c.120 for advertising, engraving, printing, clerical, legal or other services necessary to carry out the duties imposed upon them by the provisions of that act.

    3. In order to provide flexibility in administering the provisions of this act, the Commissioner of Corrections may apply to the Director of the Division of budget and Accounting in the Department of the Treasury for permission to transfer a part of any item to any other item within the respective department accounts in the Correctional Facilities Construction Fund. The transfers shall be made in a manner consistent with Section 27 of P.L.1982, c.120.

    4. This act shall take effect immediately.

STATEMENT

    This bill appropriates $540,685 from the "Correctional Facilities Construction Fund of 1982" to the Department of Corrections to fund the department's share of renovations made to the Ocean County Correctional Facility.

Appropriates $540,685 to DOC from the 1982 Bond Act for renovations to the Ocean County Correctional Facility.