Title 30, Title 30: INSTITUTIONS AND AGENCIES

30:1B-6.4 Notification to inmate of outstanding fines, assessments, warrants, detainers. 5. At the time of release from a State correctional facility, every inmate shall be notified in writing of all outstanding fines, assessments, and restitution charges ordered as part of that …

30:1B-6.5 Short title. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Dignity for Incarcerated Primary Caretaker Parents Act." L.2019, c.288, s.1.

30:1B-6.6 Findings, declarations relative to incarcerated primary caretaker parents. 2. The Legislature finds and declares: a. A growing segment of the prison population typically is excluded from the criminal justice reform conversation and does not get the attention it deserves…

30:1B-6.7 Definitions relative to incarcerated primary caretaker parents. 3. As used in this act: "Department" means the Department of Corrections. "Isolated confinement" means the confinement of an inmate in a correctional facility, pursuant to disciplinary, administrative, prot…

30:1B-6.8 Duties of Commissioner. 4. The Commissioner of Corrections shall: a. place an inmate who has a minor child in a State correctional facility as close as possible to that child's place of residence at the request of the inmate and prior to sentencing; b. establish policie…

30:1B-6.9 Responsibilities of chief executive officer, warden. 5. The chief executive officer or warden of each county correctional facility shall: a. establish policies that encourage and promote visitation, particularly for inmates who are primary caretaker parents, including, …

30:1B-7. Personal contact with institutions and noninstitutional agencies The commissioner shall arrange for personal contact with each of the institutions and the work of the noninstitutional agencies by visitations and by such other means as he may determine to be necessary and…

30:1B-8 Transfer to Department of Corrections. 8. The following correctional institutions of this State are hereby transferred from the Department of Institutions and Agencies to the Department of Corrections established hereunder: New Jersey State Prison, East Jersey State Priso…

30:1B-8.1. Name changes Whenever in any law, rule, regulation, contract, document, judicial or administrative proceeding or otherwise, reference is made to Trenton State Prison, the same shall mean and refer to New Jersey State Prison. Whenever in any law, rule, regulation, contr…

30:1B-8.2. Prohibits use of local governmental unit name Any State correctional institution or satellite facility hereafter constructed or established shall not include as part of its name or title the name of any local governmental unit. L. 1987, c. 304, s. 4.

30:1B-8.3. Definitions 3. As used in sections 3 and 4 of P.L.1996, c.150 (C.30:1B-8.3 and 30:1B-8.4): "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Corrections. "Facility" means a State correctional institution or facility listed in section 8 of P.L.1976, c.98 (C.30:1B-8). L.1996,c.15…

30:1B-8.4. Conditions of closing facilities, privatizing services 4. a. Except in the case of an emergency condition, the commissioner shall not implement a decision to close an existing facility or to privatize any services, functions or units of an existing facility, if the com…

30:1B-9. Transfer of functions, powers and duties of division of correction and parole, and department and commissioner of institutions and agencies with respect to matters on correctional institutions All functions, powers and duties of the existing Division of Correction and Pa…

30:2-1. Appropriations All appropriations of money from the State treasury for the uses and purposes of the several institutions and noninstitutional agencies included within the provisions of section 30:1-7 of this Title, and for all expenses incidental thereto or connected ther…

30:2-2. Appropriation must not be exceeded All expenditures for or on account of the department or any of its institutions or noninstitutional agencies shall be paid out of the funds appropriated by the legislature and all earnings or income shall be duly accounted for and paid i…

30:3-10. Award of contracts; proposals; advertising After plans and specifications have been approved, as provided in section 30:3-7 of this title, all advertising incidental to awarding building or construction contracts shall be placed by the commissioner and paid for by the co…

30:3-11. Preparation of plans and award of contracts before appropriations available; expense; construction expenses Whenever and after any appropriation is made for constructing, reconstructing, developing, extending or equipping any state institution or its appurtenances within…

30:3-4. State institutional construction fund; bond issue L.1930, c. 227, p. 1015, entitled "An act authorizing the creation of a debt of the state of New Jersey by the issuance of bonds of the state in the sum of ten million dollars for state institutions; providing for the ways…

30:3-5. Order of precedence in expenditures L.1930, c. 202, s.s. 2, 6, 7, pp. 959, 961, 962, entitled "An act to provide for the taxation of real and personal property in this state for the purpose of paying the cost of constructing, reconstructing, development, extending and equ…

30:3-6. Expenditures; further appropriation L.1933, c. 377, p. 1061, entitled "An act making appropriations for construction purposes," approved September fifth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three, saved from repeal. [This act for the purpose of further carrying into effe…

30:3-7. Powers of state board as to building operations; architectural treatment; plans and specifications The state board, except as hereinafter provided, shall exercise all the powers and perform all of the duties heretofore vested in or imposed upon the state architect or the …

30:3-8. Drawings, specifications and building contracts; technical disputes; technical advisers, architects, engineers, etc. Subject to the supervision and ultimate authority of the state board, the commissioner shall cause to be prepared all drawings, specifications and building…

30:3-9. Architects selected by competition; jury on designs The commissioner may with the approval of the state board, at a time to be fixed by it, select by competition from among the architects legally registered in the state, an architect to design any specific building or str…

30:4-1 Boards of trustees; appointment; terms; vacancies; removal; compensation; organization. 30:4-1. The State board, with the approval of the Governor, shall appoint, from residents of the State without respect to political affiliation or belief, a board of trustees for each S…

30:4-1.1. Boards of trustees; powers and duties It shall be the duty of the local boards of trustees to advance long-range planning for the medical care, correctional and training programs at their respective institutions; and maintain general oversight of the institution. The bo…

30:4-10. Maintenance of personnel An officer or employee required by law to reside at an institution of this state shall, in addition to his salary, be entitled to maintenance for himself and family except when otherwise determined in each case by resolution of the governing body…

30:4-100. Cash operating fund; settlements; monthly statement; delivery; disposition of receipts; examination of accounts; transfer of moneys; annual statement The Legislature shall annually appropriate to the department a sum for a cash operating fund, which may be allotted by t…

30:4-101 Couples not to be maintained in separate quarters, exceptions. 30:4-101. Married, domestic partnership, or civil union couples who are residents of a public institution maintained in whole or in part by the State, or a county, municipality, or subdivision thereof, shall …

30:4-102. Female patients to be accompanied No female patient shall be taken to a charitable, hospital, relief or training institution unless accompanied by her husband, father, brother, son, family physician or some female of reputable character and mature age. Each chief execut…

30:4-103. County physician to certify cause of death in institution The body of a person dying in an institution maintained in whole or in part by state funds shall before removal therefrom be examined by the county physician, or acting county physician, of the county in which th…

30:4-104. Post-mortem examinations The medical director of an institution may with the approval of the board of managers subject the body of an indigent patient to physical examination after death to determine the cause of mental ailment and the cause of death. Such examination m…

30:4-105. Certificate of death or discharge; record Upon the death or discharge of any person committed to any institution in this state under article 3 of this chapter (s. 30:4-23 et seq.), the chief executive officer of the institution shall forward a certificate to the county …

30:4-107.1 Release of person; provision of functional services. 75. Whenever a minor with a developmental disability or adult with a mental deficiency is receiving functional services without court order, and is resident at a State school, or private residential institution, or a…

30:4-107.2. Continuation of functional services after attainment by minor of majority An individual admitted as a minor under Class F, Class G or Class H may continue to receive uninterrupted functional services on and after becoming 21 years of age if: (1) he has been adjudicate…

30:4-107.3 Discharge of persons receiving functional services without court order. 77. Discharge of individuals admitted to and continuing to receive functional services without an order of the court shall be effected under the following circumstances: (1) upon written applicatio…

30:4-107.4. Discharge of persons admitted to and receiving functional services as result of court order Discharge of individuals admitted to and continuing to receive functional services as a result of an order of court for commitment to custody shall be effected under the follow…

30:4-107.5. Discharge of persons admitted under Class I Discharge of individuals admitted under Class I shall be accomplished in accordance with the provisions of sections 2A:163-2 and 2A:163-3 of New Jersey Statutes, if applicable, or on order of the commissioner with 30 days pr…

30:4-11. Offices may be changed or abolished Each board of managers shall have power, subject to the approval of the state board, to abolish any office or employment which they may find to be unnecessary, to combine and consolidate the functions of any office or employments as th…

30:4-114. Payment on parole or discharge; return of personal property The State Board, subject to appropriations made for such purpose, shall have power to prescribe with reference to each institution within its jurisdiction the sum of money in each case, which shall be paid by t…

30:4-116. Retaking persons leaving without discharge The chief executive officer of any state institution, or any subordinate officer or employee of the institution appointed by him in writing as a special officer, shall have power to arrest without warrant any inmate committed t…

30:4-116.1. Notification of escape Any superintendent, or his designee, of any facility under the control of the Department of Corrections or warden or keeper, or his designee, of a county penal institution from which a prisoner escapes from confinement shall notify the local pol…

30:4-117. Retaking of patients of county mental hospital The medical superintendent or chief executive officer of a county mental hospital may, without warrant arrest and return to the institution an inmate duly committed by court order who leaves without first obtaining a parole…

30:4-118. Warrant for arrest A warrant for the arrest of any institutional inmate who shall have left the institution without parole or discharge or whose parole has been revoked, may be served by the chief executive officer, or his special officer or the regularly appointed paro…

30:4-119. Assist return to institution 30:4-119. Every police officer shall assist in the location and return to institutional custody of any institutional inmate who has left the institution without parole or discharge. amended 2023, c.250, s.32.

30:4-12. Bond may be required Each board of managers may in its discretion require any official or employee to give bond for the faithful performance of his duties and fix the amount of such bond. In event that a surety company bond shall be given, the amount of the premium requi…

30:4-121. Expenses of parole The expenses incident to the operation of the parole system in each institution shall be paid from its maintenance account.