Title 52, Title 52: STATE GOVERNMENT, DEPARTMENTS AND OFFICERS

52:9YY-5 Duties of the department. 5. a. The department may: (1) collect and maintain health data from State government agencies or other entities on: (a) the extent, nature and impact of illness and disability on the population of the State; (b) the determinants of health and he…

52:9YY-6 Disclosure of health data, conditions. 6. a. The department shall make no disclosure of any health data which identifies a person's health status or utilization of health care unless the person described in the data has consented to the disclosure. b. A person or entity …

52:9YY-7 Security of health data. 7. The department shall take appropriate measures to protect the security of health data which it obtains, including: a. limiting access to the data to authorized persons; b. designating a person to be responsible for the physical security of the…

52:9YY-8 Additional powers of department. 8. To effectuate the purposes of P.L.2001, c.192 (C.52:9YY-1 et seq.), and in addition to any other powers authorized by law, the department shall have the authority, in accordance with State law, to: a. make and enter into contracts to p…

52:9YY-9 Penalties for unauthorized disclosures; liability of department. 9. a. A person or entity whom the department determines has violated the provisions of section 6 of P.L.2001, c.192 (C.52:9YY-6), regarding the disclosure of health data shall be subject, in addition to any…

52:9Z-1. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission established There is established in the Department of State the Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission. The commission shall consist of 45 members: a. a representative of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change to be…

52:9Z-2. Appointment of co-chairpersons The Governor shall select two public members to serve as co-chairpersons. L.1989,c.188,s.2.

52:9Z-3. Members; terms, filling of vacancies, reimbursement Legislative members shall serve during the two-year legislative term in which the appointment is made. Public members shall serve for a term of two years and until their respective successors are appointed and qualified…

52:9Z-4. Duties of the commission The commission shall: a. develop, coordinate, and advise the Governor and Legislature of Statewide activities in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday; b. establish programs designed to educate the citizens of New Jersey about Martin Luther…

52:9Z-5. Rights of the commission The commission is entitled to call to its assistance and avail itself of the services of the employees of any State, county or municipal department, board, bureau, commission or agency which it may require and which may be available to it for the…

52:9ZZ-1 New Jersey Commission on Higher Education and Business Partnerships. 1. The New Jersey Commission on Higher Education and Business Partnerships is created and established in the Executive Branch of the State Government. For the purposes of complying with the provisions o…

52:9ZZ-2 Membership of the commission. 2. The commission shall consist of 19 members as follows: a. the Commissioner of the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, or a designee, who shall serve ex officio; b. the Secretary of Higher Education, or a designee, who shall ser…

52:9ZZ-3 Terms; vacancies; designation of chairperson. 3. a. The terms of the appointed members of the commission shall be for five years, except that of the appointments first made to the commission, six shall serve for terms of three years, five shall serve for terms of four ye…

52:9ZZ-4 Duties of the commission. 4. The commission shall: a. Explore how to best foster innovation in the State through public-private partnerships in higher education; b. Stimulate academic-industrial collaboration through such mechanisms as business incubation facilities and …

52:9ZZ-5 Authority of the commission. 5. The commission is authorized to: a. Adopt rules and regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), concerning the operation of the commission, the functions and responsibilities of its off…

52:9ZZ-6 Higher Education-Business Partnership Ombudsman. 6. In addition to any other duties and responsibilities that the commission may assign to the executive director, the executive director shall serve as the Higher Education-Business Partnership Ombudsman. A business that s…

52:10A-1 Salaries of legislators. 1. a. Members of the Senate and General Assembly shall receive annually, during the term for which they shall have been elected and while they shall hold their office, compensation in the sum of $49,000 beginning with the 2002 legislative year an…

52:10A-2. Person elected to fill vacancy Any person elected at the general election in any year to fill a vacancy in the membership of the Senate or General Assembly occurring for any cause other than expiration of term, shall, upon qualifying into office, receive for the remaind…

52:11-1. President of senate to exercise powers of vice president of council The powers, privileges, duties and remunerations granted to or imposed by law upon the vice president of the council at and immediately prior to the time of the taking effect of the present constitution,…

52:11-2. Officers and employees of senate and their compensation The officers and employees of the senate, other than the presiding officer, shall be those named herein, and no others, who shall severally receive the annual compensation specified herein, which compensation shall …

52:11-2.1. Sergeant-at-arms; tenure Any person holding or who shall hold the office, position or employment of sergeant-at-arms of the Senate of this State and who has served or shall have served for 20 years or more either consecutively or in the aggregate, shall continue to hol…

52:11-2.2. Journal clerk; tenure Any person holding or who shall hold the office, position or employment of journal clerk to the Senate of this State and who has served or shall have served for 20 consecutive years or more, shall continue to hold such office, position or employme…

52:11-20.4. Repeals 13. The following acts or parts thereof are repealed: (a) Chapter 171, P.L.1950; (b) Chapter 11, P.L.1952; (c) Chapter 305, P.L.1953; and (d) Section 22 of chapter 254, P.L.1954. L.1964, c. 20, s. 13, supplementing Laws 1954, Chapter 254.

52:11-3. Officers and employees of house of assembly and their compensation The officers and employees of the house of assembly, except the presiding officer, shall be those named herein, and no others, who shall severally receive the annual compensation specified herein, which c…

52:11-4. Record of attendance; deduction from compensation for absences The sergeant at arms of each house of the legislature shall keep a record of the attendance at each session of either house of all of its officers and employees whose compensation is fixed by sections 52:11-2…

52:11-42. Effective date This act shall take effect July 1, 1955. L.1954, c. 267, p. 983, s. 11.

52:11-5. One-half compensation payable in advance of session; balance at close of session The officers and employees of the senate and house of assembly, whose compensation is fixed by sections 52:11-2 and 52:11-3 of this title, may draw from the treasury, at the opening of the r…

52:11-5.1 Legislator's district office, prohibition against employment of relatives. 1. No member of the Legislature shall gainfully employ his or her relative in any position in the legislative office that the member maintains in his or her legislative district. If members of th…

52:11-5.2 Legislators, enrollment in health care benefits, election, limitations. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, a member of the Legislature who elects health benefits coverage based on service in the Legislature shall not enroll as the primar…

52:11-5.3 Annual salary for certain executive directors. 3. a. The annual salary of the executive director of each full time legislative staff operating under the direction of the Senate President, the Speaker of the General Assembly, and the Minority Leaders of each House of the…

52:11-54. Short title This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Legislative Services Law of 1978." L.1979, c. 8, s. 1.

52:11-55. Legislative Services Commission, Office of Legislative Services There is established in the Legislative Branch of the State Government, to aid and assist the Legislature in performing its functions, an agency of the Legislature, to be known as the "Office of Legislative…

52:11-56. Organization and meetings of the commission Organization and meetings of the commission. a. The commission shall meet for the purpose of organization in the month of January of each even-numbered year and shall elect a chairman and vice-chairman from among its members, …

52:11-57. Duties of the commission Duties of the commission. a. It is the duty and responsibility of the commission: (1) To carry on the work of continuous revision of the general and permanent statute law of the State, by causing to be conducted a continuous examination thereof …

52:11-57.1 Preparation of racial and ethnic impact statement for certain proposed legislation. 2. a. The Legislative Services Commission shall direct the Office of Legislative Services to prepare a racial and ethnic community criminal justice and public safety impact statement fo…

52:11-58. Organization of the Office of Legislative Services Organization of the Office of Legislative Services. a. The Office of Legislative Services shall be governed by the commission and shall consist of such subordinate units as the commission shall direct and such officers,…

52:11-59. Executive Director Executive Director. The commission shall appoint an Executive Director to serve as the secretary of the commission and as the chief executive officer of the commission and the Office of Legislative Services, who shall be qualified by training and expe…

52:11-5a Findings, declarations relative to plaques honoring Senator Hutchins F. Inge and Assemblyman Walter Gilbert Alexander. 1. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. In 1966, Dr. Hutchins F. Inge of Newark became the first African-American to serve in the New Jersey Stat…

52:11-5b Display of plaques. 2. Plaques to honor Senator Hutchins F. Inge, New Jersey's first African-American State Senator, and Assemblyman Walter Gilbert Alexander, New Jersey's first African-American Assemblyman, shall be displayed in the State House at Trenton. L.2007, c.64,…

52:11-60. Legislative Counsel Legislative Counsel. The commission shall appoint a Legislative Counsel, who shall be an attorney-at-law of New Jersey experienced in legislative law, drafting legislation, revision of statutes and parliamentary law and procedure. He shall be the chi…

52:11-61 Duties of Legislative Counsel. 8. It shall be the duty of the Legislative Counsel: a. To provide general standards for the office to draft, aid in drafting and redrafting bills, resolutions and amendments thereof, and reviewing the same when drafted elsewhere, proposed f…

52:11-62. State Auditor State Auditor. The office of the State Auditor, as created by the Constitution, is assigned to the Office of Legislative Services. The State Auditor shall continue to be appointed, subject to the statutory qualifications prescribed by R.S. 52:24-2, and sha…

52:11-63. Studies, reports by State Auditor In addition to the duties imposed upon the State Auditor by the Constitution and R.S. 52:24-4 the State Auditor, when requested or directed by the Legislature or the Legislative Services Commission, shall make, or cause to be made by co…

52:11-64. Award of contracts by Office of Legislative Services a. Contracts for consultants' services. The provisions of any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, every contract or agreement for consultants' services to be paid from funds appropriated or otherwise made avail…

52:11-65. Director of Public Information The commission shall appoint a Director of Public Information, who shall by training and experience be well-versed in public information services and legislative and governmental processes. He shall serve at the pleasure of the commission …

52:11-66. Duties of Director of Public Information 13. It shall be the duty of the Director of Public Information to: a. Provide, as requested, information and other related services for the Legislature, its officers, committees, commissions and individual members. b. Operate a n…