Title 18A, Title 18A: EDUCATION

18A:13-13 Appointment of secretary. 18A:13-13. The board shall appoint a secretary who may or may not be a member of the board, for the term of one year beginning on July 1, or January 15 in the case of a regional district in which the annual school election is in November, follo…

18A:13-14 Treasurer of school moneys; appointment; term; bond. 18A:13-14. The board may appoint a treasurer of school moneys who shall not be a member or employee of the board and it shall fix his salary. His term of office shall expire annually on June 30 of each year, or Januar…

18A:13-15. Acquisition of lands without districts The board of education of any regional school district may from time to time acquire for school purposes, by purchase, condemnation or otherwise, lands or premises not exceeding 45 acres in extent and situated in whole or in part …

18A:13-16. Special police services; contracts with municipalities The board of education of any regional district may contract with the municipality in which any of its regional schools are located for such special police services as may be required for the safety of its students…

18A:13-17 Submission of budget; other questions to voters; adherence to procedures. 18A:13-17. a. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.2023, c.289) b. In the case of a regional district in which the annual school election is in April or November, the regional board of education shall fix a…

18A:13-2. Types of regional districts Regional school districts shall be of two types: a. "all purpose regional districts" organized for all the school purposes of the municipalities included within such regional districts; b. "limited purpose regional districts" organized to pro…

18A:13-23 Apportionment of appropriations. 18A:13-23. The annual or special appropriations for regional districts, including the amounts to be raised for interest upon, and the redemption of, bonds payable by the district, shall be apportioned among the municipalities included wi…

18A:13-23.3. Modification of apportionment of appropriations 5. A regional district may modify the manner in which the amounts to be raised for annual or special appropriations for the district, including the amounts to be raised for interest upon, and the redemption of, bonds pa…

18A:13-24. Appropriations; certification; apportionment; assessment and collection among constituent districts The amounts to be raised for annual or special appropriations and for interest upon, and the redemption of, bonds for regional districts shall be certified by the region…

18A:13-26. Authorization; issuance; maturities, sales and lien of bonds Bonds or notes of a regional school district shall be issued in the corporate name of the district, and shall be authorized and issued, in accordance with the law governing the issuance of bonds by type II di…

18A:13-27. Newly created regional districts; issuance of temporary bonds or notes for current expenses; submission to voters, etc. Whenever the boards of education of all local school districts proposing to create a regional district shall determine by identical resolutions that …

18A:13-28. Authorization of bonds upon formation of regional district The board of education of each local district proposing to create or to join in the creation of the regional district or the board of education of any regional district and of each local district proposing to u…

18A:13-29. Issuance of bonds of constituent district by all purpose regional district If in any consolidated district, or local district comprising two or more municipalities, which is comprised in an all purpose regional district, the issuance of bonds of said consolidated distr…

18A:13-3. Constituent municipalities as constituent districts In every all purpose regional district the constituent municipalities of the regional district shall be construed to be the constituent districts of the regional district after the dissolution pursuant to this chapter …

18A:13-30. Issuance of bonds for acquisition of lands to include buildings, equipment, etc. Every resolution, proposition, question or proposal heretofore or hereafter adopted by the legal voters of: 1. Any regional district then in existence, or 2. Each local district proposing …

18A:13-31. Authority to purchase and sell property of constituent district Whenever at an election held to create or enlarge a regional district and at that or a subsequent election a resolution for the purchase of real or personal property or both from one or more of the constit…

18A:13-32. Application of proceeds of sale of property The board of education of each constituent district from which any purchase of real property is made pursuant to section 18A:13-31 may expend all or any part of the proceeds of any such sale together with any interest thereon…

18A:13-33. Additional purposes; referendum Whenever the board of education of a regional district and the commissioner or his representative, shall, after consultation, study and investigation, determine that it is advisable to add to the purposes for which the regional district …

18A:13-33.1 Proposal to increase purposes of regional district adopted by voters; duties of affected board of education. 15. a. Notwithstanding any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, when a proposal to add to the purposes for which a regional district was created is submit…

18A:13-33.2 Limited purpose to all purpose regional district, vote. 16. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of N.J.S.18A:13-33 or any other law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, if a proposal to add additional purposes will convert a regional district from a limited purpose reg…

18A:13-33.3 Proposal to calculate, apportion board membership; limited purpose to all purpose regional district. 17. a. Notwithstanding any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, when a limited purpose regional district is proposing to add additional purposes that will convert…

18A:13-34 Creation of regional school district, apportionment of appropriations. 18A:13-34. If the boards of education of two or more local districts, or the board of education of a consolidated district, or of a district comprising two or more municipalities, and the commissione…

18A:13-34.2. Impact assessment 6. The Department of Education shall provide to the board of education of a school district proposing to join or create a regional school district and to the board of education of a regional school district proposing to modify its method of apportio…

18A:13-34.3 Phase-in payment schedule; transitional methodology. 12. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of N.J.S.18A:13-34 or any other law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, the Commissioner of Education may permit the board of education of a regional district and the board or…

18A:13-34a Board of education for newly created regional district. 1. Notwithstanding any section of law to the contrary, the boards of education proposing to form a newly created regional school district may by resolution frame and adopt a proposal to calculate and apportion the…

18A:13-34b Proposal to calculate, apportion board membership; newly created regional district. 18. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of N.J.S.18A:13-8 or any other law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, the boards of education proposing to form a newly created regional distric…

18A:13-35. Certification and determination of the result of referendum to create regional district The secretary of each local district, so proposed to be included in the proposed regional district, shall certify to the county superintendent of the county, in which such district …

18A:13-35.1 Proposal to form regional district adopted by voters; duties of affected board of education. 13. a. Notwithstanding any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, when a proposal to form a limited purpose or all purpose regional district is submitted to the voters purs…

18A:13-36 Apportionment of membership of board of newly created regional district. 18A:13-36. Except as otherwise provided in section 1 of P.L.2017, c.45 (C.18A:13-34a), the executive county superintendent or executive county superintendents of any county or counties, in which su…

18A:13-37. First board of education; appointment The county superintendent of each county in which there is located any constituent district of a newly created regional district shall appoint from among the citizens of each constituent district in his county, qualified as require…

18A:13-38. Allocation of terms for first elective board The county superintendent or county superintendents appointing the first board of education of a regional district shall allocate the initial elective terms for the first elective members of said board in the following manne…

18A:13-39 Election of first members of board. 18A:13-39. The first elected members of the board of a newly created regional district shall be elected at the annual election to be held in the calendar year first succeeding the year in which the election for the creation of the dis…

18A:13-4. Supervision by county superintendent Each regional school district shall be under the supervision of the county superintendent of the county in which the constituent districts having the greatest amount of ratables are situate. L.1967, c.271.

18A:13-40 General powers and duties of board of newly created regional districts. 18A:13-40. The board of education of a newly created regional district may, prior to taking charge and control of the educational facilities of the regional district, do all other acts and things wh…

18A:13-40.1 Coordination of limited purpose regional school districts with constituent districts. 1. The board of education of a limited purpose regional school district shall meet and work with the constituent school districts of the regional district, on at least an annual basi…

18A:13-41 Taking charge and control of educational facilities of schools in newly created regional districts. 18A:13-41. A regional board of education of a newly created regional district shall take charge and control of the educational facilities of the constituent districts in …

18A:13-42. Pension and tenure rights; certain teachers transferred to regional districts; preserved Whenever a regional district has been created subsequent to April 1, 1951, or shall hereafter be created, for high school or junior high school education, the tenure and pension ri…

18A:13-43 Enlargement of districts; special election. 18A:13-43. If the board of education of a regional district and the board or boards of education of one or more local districts, and the commissioner or his representative, after consultation, study and investigation, shall de…

18A:13-44. Certification of results of election for enlargement of regional district The secretary of the regional district and of each local district, which is included in the proposal to enlarge the regional district, shall certify to the county superintendent of the county in …

18A:13-44.1 Proposal to enlarge regional district adopted by voters; duties of affected board, boards of education. 14. a. Notwithstanding any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, when a proposal to enlarge a limited purpose or all purpose regional district is submitted to t…

18A:13-45. Corporate existence and name; assumption of indebtedness The corporate existence of an enlarged regional district shall be continued without interruption from the date of its original creation notwithstanding its enlargement and its corporate name shall remain unchange…

18A:13-46 Enlargement of regional districts; new board members; reapportionment. 18A:13-46. Except as otherwise provided in section 3 of P.L.2017, c.45 (C.18A:13-46.1), the executive county superintendent of the county in which any new constituent district of an enlarged regional…

18A:13-46.1 Apportionment of membership of enlarged district board of education. 3. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any section of law to the contrary, the board of education of a regional district and the board or boards of education of one or more local districts determine…

18A:13-46.2 Proposal to calculate, apportion board membership; enlarged regional district. 19. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of N.J.S.18A:13-8 or any other law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, the board of education of a regional district and the board or boards of educa…

18A:13-47. Enlarged regional districts; educational facilities; powers of board The regional board of education of an enlarged regional district shall not take charge and control of the educational facilities, being provided for pupils in the classes or grades included in the reg…

18A:13-47.1 Definitions. 1. As used in sections 2 through 8 of P.L.2021, c.402 (C.18A:13-47.2 through C.18A:13-47.8): "Board of education" means and includes the board of education of a local school district, consolidated school district, non-operating school district, and the bo…