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

52:11-71. Forbids lobbying No officer or employee of the office, other than a member of the commission, shall urge or oppose the adoption of any legislation or give any legal opinion to any private individual or corporation or to any public officer, department, instrumentality or…

52:11-72. Reports The commission shall report to the Legislature once each year and at such other times as it may deem advisable and may accompany its report with proposed bills or changes in the Rules of the Senate and General Assembly designed to carry out any of its recommenda…

52:11-73. Personnel transferred; rules continued All of the officers and employees of the Legislative Services Agency and the Office of Fiscal Affairs together with all their functions, powers and duties are transferred to the Office of Legislative Services and the officers and e…

52:11-74. Property transferred All property and equipment, books, files and documents of, or in the custody of the Legislative Services Agency or the Office of Fiscal Affairs are transferred to the Office of Legislative Services. Laws 1979, c. 8, s. 21.

52:11-75. Appropriations transferred All appropriations, grants and other moneys available and to become available to the Legislative Services Agency and the Office of Fiscal Affairs are transferred to the Office of Legislative Services. Laws 1979, c. 8, s. 22.

52:11-76. Powers and duties of Legislative Budget Officer under Appropriations Act Except as otherwise in this act provided all powers and duties imposed upon the Executive Director, Office of Fiscal Affairs, by any other law are transferred to and shall be exercised by the Legis…

52:11-77. Initial members and officers of commission; terms of office The members of the Law Revision and Legislative Services Commission and its chairman and vice chairman in office on the effective date of this act shall constitute the first members and officers of the commissi…

52:11-78 Legislative information available to public, maintained in electronic form. 1. a. The Office of Legislative Services shall make available to the public and maintain in electronic form the following information: (1) the most current available compilation of the official t…

52:11-79 Findings, declarations relative to Henry J. Raimondo New Jersey Legislative Fellows Program. 1. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. graduate students in this State who have an interest in government, law, politics and public policy should have an opportunity to l…

52:11-80 Henry J. Raimondo New Jersey Legislative Fellows Program. 2. There is established the Henry J. Raimondo New Jersey Legislative Fellows Program at the Eagleton Institute of Politics of Rutgers, The State University. Students enrolled in graduate programs of Rutgers Univer…

52:11-81 Selection, assignment of fellows; stipend. 3. Eight fellows shall be selected each year pursuant to section 5 of this act, and shall be assigned to work with the New Jersey Legislature as follows: four Fellows shall be assigned to work in the Office of Legislative Servic…

52:11-82 Henry J. Raimondo New Jersey Legislative Fellows Program Advisory Committee. 4. There is established a Henry J. Raimondo New Jersey Legislative Fellows Program Advisory Committee, consisting of the following members: the Executive Director of the Office of Legislative Se…

52:11-83 Appointment of director. 5. The Director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics of Rutgers University shall appoint the director of the Henry J. Raimondo New Jersey Legislative Fellows Program, who shall administer the program and, with the aid of the advisory committee, …

52:11-84 Tuition, fee support; matching appropriations. 6. Rutgers University shall provide tuition and fee support for the fellows for the academic year. The State shall appropriate funds in each fiscal year to finance the stipends provided to fellows pursuant to section 3 of th…

52:11-85 Adoption, maintenance of policy by the Legislature regarding sexual harassment. 1. a. Each House of the Legislature and the Office of Legislative Services shall adopt and maintain a policy that: prohibits sexual harassment by members, officers, and employees of the Legis…

52:12-1. Official handbook of legislature; printing; binding The "Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey" shall be the official handbook and manual of the Legislature of this State. Each volume of the manual shall contain not less than 200 pages, shall be printed on good paper a…

52:12-2. Contents 52:12-2. The legislative manual shall include in the contents of each volume the following: a. The Constitution of the State of New Jersey; b. The rules of the Senate, the rules of the General Assembly, and the joint rules and orders of the Senate and General As…

52:13-1. Attendance of witnesses; production of books and papers; legal and clerical assistance Any joint committee of the legislature, any standing committee of either house, or any special committee directed by resolution to enter upon any investigation or inquiry, the pursuit …

52:13-10. Sentence; order of commitment. 52:13-10. Any person found to be guilty of a contempt of the legislature by a concurrent resolution of the two houses thereof, as hereinbefore provided, may be sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison or in the common jail of any coun…

52:13-11. Continuing validity of commitment. Any commitment issued in accordance with section 52:13-10 of this title shall remain valid and effective until the imprisonment therein set forth shall have been served, notwithstanding the legislature which directed the issue of the c…

52:13-12. Bail of contemner. Any judge of the Superior Court may let to bail any person apprehended for hearing on a charge of contempt under a warrant issued by direction of a concurrent resolution as provided in section 52:13-6 of this Title, in such amount and with such surety…

52:13-13. Powers given additional to other powers The powers given by this article shall be in addition to the powers given by article 1 of this chapter (s. 52:13-1 et seq.).

52:13-2. Summons for witnesses; execution If any person upon being summoned in writing by order of any committee mentioned in section 52:13-1 of this title to appear before such committee and testify, fails to obey such summons, the speaker of the house of assembly or the preside…

52:13-3. Compensation of witnesses; swearing witnesses; perjury; immunity; refusal to answer or be sworn Witnesses summoned to appear before any committee authorized by this article or any other law to conduct an investigation or inquiry shall be entitled to receive the same fees…

52:13-4. Expenses of investigations; payment The state treasurer shall, upon the warrant of the state comptroller, pay the fees and mileage of witnesses called, the compensation of legal and clerical assistance employed and the expenses of the sergeant at arms of either house in …

52:13-5. What constitutes contempt; report thereof to legislature Whenever, in any investigation or inquiry by any committee constituted by joint resolution of the legislature to enter upon or make such investigation or inquiry, any witness summoned or subpoenaed to appear before…

52:13-6. Joint session to determine alleged contempt; order for arrest; service. 52:13-6. The senate and general assembly may by concurrent resolution direct that the senate and general assembly meet in joint session at a time and place therein fixed for the purpose of hearing th…

52:13-7. Hearing by joint session. At the time and place fixed as aforesaid, or at any adjournment, the joint session shall sit and summarily hear the evidence and the arguments relating to the alleged contempt. The joint session shall adjourn from time to time until the matter s…

52:13-8. Contemner's rights. Any alleged contemner shall have the right to be heard before the joint session, to be represented by counsel, to call witnesses in his behalf, and to examine and cross-examine witnesses.

52:13-9. Determination of contempt by each house separately; concurrent resolution. After the joint session shall have heard the evidence and such arguments as may be made, the senate and the general assembly shall separately convene and shall separately consider and determine th…

52:13A-1. Expenses of trial of impeachment to be paid by State Treasurer The expenses incurred by the Senate upon any trial of an impeachment, or incurred under the direction of the Senate by any officer thereof, or by the managers appointed by the General Assembly, to conduct th…

52:13A-2. Manner of payment of expenses For the purpose of providing funds for the payment of expenses enumerated in section one of this act, the Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting in the Department of the Treasury shall, upon the order of the President of the Sena…

52:13A-3. Witness fees and mileage Every person summoned to attend the Senate as a witness shall receive, from the party in whose behalf he is summoned, one dollar ($1.00) for each day's attendance and mileage at the rate of six cents ($0.06) for each mile required to be traveled…

52:13A-4. Board and maintenance of indigent persons summoned as witnesses The Senate may order the board and maintenance of any indigent person summoned as a witness on any trial, while in attendance upon the Senate, to be paid by the sergeant at arms or other officer charged wit…

52:13A-5. Bills to be paid on certificate of correctness All bills for the board and maintenance of indigent witnesses, and all payments to witnesses of fees and mileage, except those required to be made in advance, shall be paid only on the certificate of the Secretary of the Se…

52:13A-6. Effective date This act shall take effect January first, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-two. L.1951, First Sp.Sess., c. 353, p. 1468, s. 6.

52:13B-10 Electronic copy of fiscal note, estimate to sponsor, notice of right to object. 5. When the Legislative Budget and Finance Officer has a complete fiscal note or legislative fiscal estimate, the Officer shall transmit an electronic copy of the fiscal note or legislative …

52:13B-11 Approval, objection by sponsor, publishing of fiscal note, estimate. 6. If, after the three-day review period provided in section 5 of P.L.1980, c.67 (C.52:13B-10), the Legislative Budget and Finance Officer has received no objections from the sponsor, the Officer shall…

52:13B-13 Emergency request for fiscal information. 8. Whenever the Legislative Budget and Finance Officer has reason to believe that a fiscal note on any bill will be required more quickly than provided for in this act, the Officer shall submit to the director an emergency reque…

52:13B-14 Sponsor, chair, presiding officer request for fiscal note, permissive. 9. a. In any case in which the Legislative Budget and Finance Officer has not determined, pursuant to this act, that a bill contains fiscal implications, the sponsor of the bill, the chairman of the …

52:13B-6 Review of introduced bill, determination of need and request for fiscal note. 1. Whenever any bill is introduced in either the Senate or General Assembly, and that bill receives first reading pursuant to the rules of the House in which it is introduced, the bill shall be…

52:13B-7 Forwarding of request for fiscal note; preparation, return to Legislative Budget and Finance Officer. 2. a. It shall be the duty of the director, upon receipt of a request for a fiscal note, to forward the request within 5 business days to the State department, commissio…

52:13B-8 Statement of Legislative Budget and Finance Officer appended to fiscal note. 3. Upon receiving a fiscal note from the director, the Legislative Budget and Finance Officer shall, by a date consistent with legislative consideration, append thereto a statement (1) concurrin…

52:13B-9 Nonreceipt of fiscal note, production of legislative fiscal estimate. 4. If the Legislative Budget and Finance Officer has not received a fiscal note from the director by a date consistent with legislative consideration, the Officer shall cause a legislative fiscal estim…

52:13C-18 Declaration of intent. 1. The Legislature affirms that the preservation of responsible government requires that the fullest opportunity be afforded to the people of the State to petition their government for the redress of grievances and to express freely to individual …

52:13C-19 Short title. 2. This act shall be known as the "Legislative and Governmental Process Activities Disclosure Act." L.1971,c.183,s.2; amended 2004, c.27, s.2.