Title 40A, Title 40A: MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES

40A:14-78.3. Amendments; hearing; notice The fire commissioners may amend the budget during or after the public hearing. All amendments shall be read in full. No amendment shall be effective until the taxpayers of the district and all persons having an interest therein shall have…

40A:14-78.4 Adoption of budget; time; advertisement. 8. The fire district budget shall be adopted, by a vote of a majority of the full membership of the fire commissioners, not later than 25 days prior to the third Saturday in February. The adopted budget shall be advertised afte…

40A:14-78.5 Adoption of budget amendments. 9. a. If at an election held on the third Saturday in February pursuant to N.J.S.40A:14-72 the question of either (1) pursuant to subsection e. of N.J.S.40A:14-72,determining the amount of money to be raised for the ensuing year and, if …

40A:14-78.6 Fire district budget to provide separate sections. 10. The fire district budget shall provide for separate sections for: a. Operating appropriations: (1) Current operating expenses; (2) Amounts necessary to fund any deficit from the preceding budget year; and (3) Leng…

40A:14-78.7. Separate items in operating appropriations section The operating appropriations section of the fire district budget shall set forth separate items for administration, operation and maintenance of each office or agency of the fire district. Each paid position establis…

40A:14-78.8. Separate items in fire district budget The fire district budget shall provide for separate items for: a. Surplus, which shall not exceed the amount of surplus held in cash or quick assets at the beginning of the budget year; b. Miscellaneous revenues, which shall be …

40A:14-78.9 Transfer of appropriations between items. 5. a. Whenever it shall become necessary during the last two months of the fiscal year to expend amounts in excess of those appropriations specified in the various line items of the operating appropriations section of the annu…

40A:14-79 Tax assessment; tax due. 40A:14-79. Upon proper certification pursuant to section 9 of P.L.1979, c.453 (C.40A:14-78.5), the assessor of the municipality in which the fire district is situate shall assess the amount to be raised by taxation to support the district budget…

40A:14-80. Borrowing money in anticipation of revenue The commissioners of any fire district, by resolution, may borrow after March 1 and before December 31 following, a sum not to exceed the amount appropriated at the preceding annual election held in the district, for current e…

40A:14-81. Board of fire commissioners; general powers The commissioners of a fire district shall have the powers, duties and functions within said district to the same extent as in the case of municipalities, relating to the prevention and extinguishment of fires and the regulat…

40A:14-81.1. Fire districts; paid positions; establishment; resolution; procedure for passage; publication a. The commissioners of any fire district may, by resolution, establish paid positions within the fire department, or for the fire district, as such position shall be determ…

40A:14-81.2 Qualifications for appointment to paid position. 2. Except as otherwise provided by law, no person shall be appointed to a paid position authorized pursuant to section 1 of P.L.1979, c.453 (C.40A:14-81.1) unless that person: a. Is a citizen of the United States; b. Is…

40A:14-81.3. Supervisory authority Supervisory authority over personnel of a fire district may be exercised by the commissioners of the fire district or delegated, by resolution, to any commissioner or any employee or employees thereof. L.1979, c. 453, s. 3.

40A:14-81.4. Employees and volunteer firemen; reimbursement for expenses and losses Any employees of a fire district and any volunteer firemen having membership in a volunteer fire company within the fire district may be reimbursed within the limitations of amounts appropriated t…

40A:14-81.5. Travel expenses; advances The governing body of any fire district may, by resolution, provide for and authorize payment of advances to officers and employees of the fire district toward their expenses for authorized official travel and expenses incident thereto. The …

40A:14-82. Limitation of average hours of duty for uniformed members of fire district fire departments The board of commissioners of a fire district having a uniformed paid or part-paid fire department, by resolution, may adopt a schedule of hours of actual duty for the members o…

40A:14-83. Leasing space in building of fire district The board of fire commissioners of a fire district may lease at a nominal rental space in any of its buildings to the municipality in which the district is located. L.1971, c. 197, s. 1, eff. July 1, 1971.

40A:14-84 Revenue for the district, purposes, limitations; meetings. 40A:14-84. a. For a fire district that holds its annual election at a time other than at the time of the general election, the legal voters, at a regular meeting or at a special meeting called by the commissione…

40A:14-85 Acquisition of property, equipment by fire district. 40A:14-85. The board of commissioners of a fire district may purchase a firehouse, fire engines, apparatus, or other appliances for the extinguishment of fires and acquire lands or buildings or erect buildings for the…

40A:14-85.1. Appropriations by fire districts Any fire district may appropriate such sums as it may deem necessary for the purchase of first aid, ambulance, rescue or other emergency vehicles, equipment, supplies and materials for use by duly incorporated first aid, emergency or …

40A:14-86. Voting on bond issue of fire district; issuance and sale The legal voters, at any election held for the purpose of raising money by issuance of bonds, shall vote by ballot on the question. The election shall be conducted in the same manner as other fire district electi…

40A:14-86.1. Fire district bonds; bond anticipation notes The board of commissioners of a fire district, following the authorization by voters of the issuance of bonds pursuant to N.J.S. 40A:14-86, may by resolution borrow money and issue negotiable notes in anticipation of the b…

40A:14-87. Payments of interest and principal; inclusion in budget; borrowing to pay Whenever bonds have been duly issued the board of fire commissioners shall annually include in the budget of the fire district under the section for capital appropriations, the amount required to…

40A:14-88. Compensation for members of boards of fire commissioners The secretary and treasurer shall be members of the board and their appointments shall be for terms of one year. Each member of the board of fire commissioners shall receive as compensation such amounts as the bo…

40A:14-89. Fire district treasurer, custodian of money; bond; annual audit The treasurer of the fire district shall be the custodian and disbursing officer of the moneys of the said district. Moneys shall be disbursed by warrants signed by a majority of the board. The treasurer s…

40A:14-9 General qualifications of members; temporary appointments; absences from duty. 40A:14-9. Except as otherwise provided by law, no person shall be appointed as a member of the paid or as a paid member of a part-paid fire department and force, unless he: (1) is a citizen of…

40A:14-9.1. Requirement of residency in municipality; prohibition No municipality shall pass any ordinance, resolution, rule, regulation, order or directive, making residency therein a condition of employment for the purpose of original appointment, continued employment, promotio…

40A:14-9.2. Municipalities wherein civil service operative; residency requirements In any municipality wherein Title 11 (Civil Service) of the Revised Statutes is operative, applicants for appointment to the paid fire department and force or as paid members of the part-paid fire …

40A:14-9.4. Promotions; preference to resident In any municipality wherein Title 11 (Civil Service) of the Revised Statutes is operative, promotions to positions on the paid or part-paid fire department and force shall be based upon merit as determined by suitable promotion tests…

40A:14-9.6. Municipalities without civil service; promotions; preference to resident In any municipality wherein Title 11 (Civil Service) of the Revised Statutes is not in operation but wherein promotions to positions on the paid or part-paid fire department and force are based u…

40A:14-9.7. Continuance in service; persons appointed under repealed acts; non-observance of residency requirements Any person serving as a member of a paid fire department and force or paid member of a part-paid fire department and force pursuant to the provisions of any act rep…

40A:14-9.8. Residency in state; requirement for employment Every member of a paid fire department and force and every paid member of a part-paid fire department and force shall be a resident of the State of New Jersey while serving in such position. Members appointed after the ef…

40A:14-9.9 Appointments to municipal fire department, force of certain firefighters. 2. a. The provisions of any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, the appointing authority of a municipality which, pursuant to N.J.S.40A:14-7, has established and maintains a paid or part-p…

40A:14-90 Enlargement of fire district. 40A:14-90. Except as provided in a consolidation plan prepared in accordance with P.L.2015, c.279 (C.40A:14-90.1 et al.) the governing body of a municipality having a fire district therein, by ordinance, may enlarge such fire district by ex…

40A:14-90.1 Consolidation of fire districts by two or more municipalities. 2. a. The governing bodies of two or more municipalities may consider consolidating fire districts operating within each municipality upon receipt of parallel resolutions adopted by the commissioners of ea…

40A:14-90.2 Consolidation of fire districts within municipality. 3. a. A municipal governing body may consider the consolidation of two or more fire districts within that municipality, upon receipt of parallel resolutions adopted by the commissioners of those fire districts conse…

40A:14-91. Dissolution of fire district Upon a written application therefor, of at least 5% of the registered voters or 20 legal voters whichever is the greater the governing body of the municipality, wherein the fire district is located, shall consider the dissolution of the fir…

40A:14-92. Cancellation of taxes or refunds on dissolution of fire district In any municipality wherein a fire district is dissolved the governing body of the municipality may cancel unpaid tax levies for the fire district or refund fully or proportionately without interest any m…

40A:14-93. Illegally created fire district; abatements or refunds Upon a written application therefor, of at least 20 legal voters residing in a fire district, alleging that the fire district was not created in accordance with law, and upon a determination by the governing body t…

40A:14-94. Formation of new municipalities; abolition of fire district; apportionment of assets and liabilities A fire district shall be deemed abolished when the municipality in which it is located shall be divided and formed into or become part of 2 or more new municipalities. …

40A:14-95 Establishment of Junior Firefighters' Auxiliary. 40A:14-95. In any municipality, fire district, regional authority, or county in this State maintaining a fire department, or where there shall exist one or more incorporated fire companies affording fire protection to the…

40A:14-96 Membership requirements for Junior Firefighters' Auxiliary. 40A:14-96. a. A person who is not less than 14 or more than 18 years of age shall be eligible for membership in the Junior Firefighters' Auxiliary. b. Prior to being accepted for membership in the Junior Firefi…

40A:14-97 Insurance coverage for members. 40A:14-97. A municipality, fire district, regional authority, or county shall provide members of a Junior Firefighters' Auxiliary established as an auxiliary to a volunteer fire department or to an incorporated volunteer fire company with…

40A:14-98 Rules, regulations governing the Junior Firefighters' Auxiliary. 40A:14-98. a. (1) The Commissioner of Community Affairs shall adopt rules to govern the training of Junior Firefighters' Auxiliary members and to establish the duties that auxiliary members may perform at …