Title 18A, Title 18A: EDUCATION

18A:13-47.4 Application review; feasibility study reimbursement. 4. a. The division shall review all applications submitted pursuant to section 3 of P.L.2021, c.402 (C.18A:13-47.3) and shall only approve applications that meet the eligibility criteria set forth in subsection b. o…

18A:13-47.5 Regional district formation, conditions. 5. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 2 of P.L.1995, c.294 (C.18A:6-31.4) or of any other law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, whenever a regional district is formed following the approval of an application pursu…

18A:13-47.6 Reimbursement, election costs; criteria. 6. The Department of Education shall reimburse participating districts for any costs incurred to hold an election to establish or enlarge a limited purpose or all purpose regional district provided that the decision to establis…

18A:13-47.7 Receipt of grant award application, notice. 7. The Division of Local Government Services in the Department of Community Affairs shall provide notice to the Senate President, the Speaker of the General Assembly, the Minority Leader of the Senate, and the Minority Leade…

18A:13-47.8 Grant program implementation report, content. 8. The Division of Local Government Services in the Department of Community Affairs, in consultation with the Department of Education, shall submit a report on the implementation of the grant program established pursuant t…

18A:13-47.9 Expiring employment salary guide and terms and conditions. 9. Notwithstanding any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, whenever the salary guide and terms and conditions of employment of one or more school districts seeking to join a newly formed or existing limi…

18A:13-48. Dissolution of local districts; original boards to function until taking over of schools Whenever any local district has joined or shall join in a. Creating or enlarging an all purpose regional district, or b. The formation of a limited purpose regional district and th…

18A:13-49. Principals, teachers and employees transferred All principals, teachers and employees in the employ of any dissolving local district shall be transferred to and continue in their respective employments in the employ of the regional school district and their rights to t…

18A:13-5. Conduct of regional district elections, votes required 18A:13-5. Elections in regional districts shall be conducted as in other local districts except that in any such elections, unless otherwise provided by this Title, the total vote of the entire regional district, wi…

18A:13-50 Transfers; funds; personal property, books, etc., obligations of indebtedness. 18A:13-50. Upon the dissolution of any local district the officer having custody of the funds of such district shall deliver all of the funds of the dissolved district in his possession to th…

18A:13-51. Investigation as to advisability of withdrawal, dissolution; application; procedures 1. The board of education of any local school district constituting part of a limited purpose regional school district or the governing body of the municipality constituting a constitu…

18A:13-52 Report; feasibility study. 2. The executive county superintendent shall, within 60 days after such request, file with the governing bodies of the municipalities constituting the regional district and the boards of education of all of the constituent school districts and…

18A:13-53. Calculation of amount of indebtedness to be assumed 3. The county superintendent shall calculate the amount of indebtedness relating to buildings, grounds, furnishings, equipment and additions thereto so to be assumed on the basis of the proportion which the replacemen…

18A:13-54. Petition for permission to submit to voters for approval of withdrawal, dissolution; proof of service 4. The municipal governing body or the board of education of the withdrawing district or the municipal governing body and the board of education of each constituent di…

18A:13-55. Answer; filing; contents The governing body of any municipality constituting a constituent district or the board of education of any such constituent district and the board of education of the regional district shall, within 15 days after service of a copy of the petit…

18A:13-56 Review of petition; hearing; actions by commissioner. 6. The Commissioner of Education shall review the petition and answers for a determination as to whether or not the petition should be granted, and if so, the amount of indebtedness, if any, to be assumed by the rema…

18A:13-57. Fixing date of election 7. If the application be granted, the county superintendent shall, after conferring with the boards of education of the constituent districts, fix a day and a time on said day for holding a special school election, at which time the question whe…

18A:13-58. Statement of indebtedness to be assumed in notices and advertisements; conduct of election; certification of results 8. The amount of indebtedness to be assumed by the withdrawing district or by each of the constituent districts in the event of a dissolution and the ef…

18A:13-59. Effective date of withdrawal, dissolution; votes for adoption 9. If the question is adopted at said elections, the withdrawal of the district or the dissolution of the regional district shall become effective upon a date to be determined by the Commissioner of Educatio…

18A:13-6. Body corporate and corporate title Each board of education of a regional district shall be a body corporate and shall be known as "the board of education of the regional school district including the school districts of (herein insert the names of the constituent distri…

18A:13-60. Continuance in office of board members until withdrawal, dissolution; reapportionment of vacancies 10. The members of the board of education of the regional district shall continue in office until the withdrawal of the district or the dissolution of the regional distri…

18A:13-61 Taking title to and control of grounds, buildings and furnishings by districts; assumption of indebtedness. 11. The withdrawing district and the remaining districts, or each constituent district in the event of a dissolution, shall take title to and control of all schoo…

18A:13-61.1. Withdrawal from certain limited purpose regional school district 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, a district which receives approval to withdraw from a limited purpose regional school district that has grades 7 through…

18A:13-61.2. "Equity interest" defined; calculation 2. a. As used in section 1 of this act,"equity interest" means the excess in value between the assets to be acquired by the withdrawing district pursuant to section 3 of P.L.1975, c.360 (C.18A:13-53) and the proportionate contri…

18A:13-62. Division of assets and liabilities in event of withdrawal, dissolution 12. The county superintendent in a written report filed by him at the end of the school year preceding that in which the withdrawal or dissolution becomes effective shall make a division of the asse…

18A:13-63. Dissolution of limited purpose regional school district; withdrawal of local districts; separate local school district 13. If in the event of a withdrawal from the regional district as a result of the foregoing procedures a limited purpose regional school district shal…

18A:13-64. Positions, rights and benefits of regional, constituent district employees continued 14. All employees of the regional district shall continue in their respective positions in the withdrawing district, or in each of the constituent districts in the event of a dissoluti…

18A:13-65. Inapplicability of act to rights of bondholders Nothing contained herein shall in any way affect the rights of holders of any bonds issued by any school district or municipality effected pursuant to this act. L.1975, c. 360, s. 15, eff. March 3, 1976.

18A:13-66. Investigation of advisability of withdrawal The governing body of any municipality constituting a part of an all purpose regional district may, by resolution, apply to the county superintendent of schools to investigate the advisability of the withdrawal of the municip…

18A:13-67. Report on assets, operating expenses The county superintendent shall, within 60 days after the request, file with the governing bodies of the municipalities constituting the all purpose regional district and the board of education of the all purpose regional school dis…

18A:13-68. Amount indebtedness bears to replacement cost The county superintendent shall calculate the amount of indebtedness to be assumed on the basis of the proportion which the replacement cost of the buildings, grounds, furnishings, equipment, and additions thereto of the al…

18A:13-69. Petition The governing body of the withdrawing municipality may, within 30 days after the filing of the report by the county superintendent, petition the commissioner for permission to submit to the legal voters of the withdrawing municipality and the remaining municip…

18A:13-7. Regional board members A member of a regional board of education shall be for at least one year a resident of the constituent district of the regional district, to be represented by the member, in the regional board of education. L.1967, c.271; amended by L. 1986, c. 98…

18A:13-70. Answer to petition The governing body of any constituent municipality of the all purpose regional district and the board of education of the all purpose regional district shall, within 15 days after service of a copy of the petition upon it, file an answer to the petit…

18A:13-71 Review of petition; granting, denial. 6. The Commissioner of Education shall review the petition and answers for a determination as to whether or not the petition should be granted, and if so, the amount of indebtedness, if any, to be assumed by the withdrawing municipa…

18A:13-72. Special school election If the application is granted, the county superintendent shall, after conferring with the governing bodies of the constituent municipalities of the regional district, fix a day and a time for holding a special school election, at which time the …

18A:13-73. Amount, effect of indebtedness to be stated The amount of indebtedness to be assumed by the withdrawing municipality and the effect of the indebtedness upon the borrowing margin of the municipality and the remaining municipalities within the all purpose regional distri…

18A:13-74. Withdrawal of municipality If the question is adopted at the special school election, the withdrawal of the municipality initiating the proceeding shall become effective and the municipality shall be constituted a separate district upon a date to be decided by the Comm…

18A:13-75. Board of education The members of the board of education of the all purpose regional district shall continue in office until the withdrawal of the municipality becomes effective. When the withdrawal takes effect, the terms of those members of the regional board who res…

18A:13-76. First board of education The members of the regional board who reside in the withdrawing municipality shall be members of the first board of education of the new district. They shall continue to serve as members of the board of education of the new district until the e…

18A:13-77 Title to school grounds, etc.; assumption of indebtedness. 12. The new district and the all purpose regional district shall take title to and control of all school grounds and buildings, and the furnishings and equipment therein, other than those which had been rotated …

18A:13-78. Division of assets, liabilities The county superintendent in a written report filed by him at the end of the school year preceding that in which the withdrawal becomes effective shall make a division of the assets and liabilities between the new district and the remain…

18A:13-79. Dissolution of all purpose regional district If as a result of the foregoing procedures an all purpose regional district is left with only one constituent municipality, the all purpose regional district shall be dissolved upon the effective date of the withdrawal of th…

18A:13-8 Boards of education of regional districts. 18A:13-8. The board of education of a regional district shall consist of nine members unless it consists of more than nine constituent districts, in which case the membership shall be the same as the number of constituent distri…

18A:13-80. Employees continued; benefits preserved All employees of the all purpose regional district shall continue in their respective positions in the new district and all of their rights of tenure, seniority, pension, leave of absence and other similar benefits shall be recog…

18A:13-81. Bondholders unaffected Nothing contained herein shall in any way affect the rights of holders of any bonds issued by any district or municipality affected by this act. L.1989,c.90,s.16.