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Bill Text

A4062 

ASSEMBLY, No. 4062 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 12, 2026

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman� ALEX SAUICKIE

District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)

SYNOPSIS

���� Allows shared services agreement for certain 
warehouse developments specify size and sharing of costs and revenues 
associated with warehouse development.� 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� As introduced.

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An Act concerning municipal shared services agreements 
and warehouse development and amending P.L.2007, c.63.

���� Be It 
Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of 
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� Section 7 of P.L.2007, 
c.63 (C.40A:65-7) is amended to read as follows:

���� 7.��� a.� An agreement made 
pursuant to section 4 of P.L.2007, c.63 (C.40A:65-4) shall specify:

���� (1)�� the specific services to 
be performed by one or more of the parties as agent for any other party or 
parties;

���� (2)�� standards of the level, 
quality, and scope of performance, with assignment and allocation of 
responsibility for meeting those standards between or among the parties;

���� (3)�� the estimated cost of 
the services throughout the duration of the agreement, with allocation of those 
costs to the parties, in dollar amounts or by formula, including a time 
schedule for periodic payment of installments for those allocations, and in the 
case of a shared service agreement between pilot municipalities, an estimate of 
the cost savings anticipated to be achieved by the local units that are the 
parties to the agreement.� The specification may provide for the periodic 
modification of estimates or formulas contained therein in the light of actual 
experience and in accordance with procedures to be specified in the agreement;

���� (4)�� the duration of the 
agreement, which shall be 10 years, unless otherwise agreed upon by the 
parties, but in no case shall the duration of any agreement between pilot 
municipalities be less than two years; [and]

���� (5)�� the procedure for 
payments to be made under the contract ; and

���� (6)�� for an agreement 
related to the development and operation of a warehouse within the shared 
territories of contracting parties entered into or renewed after the effective 
date of P.L.��� , c.��� (pending before the Legislature as this bill), terms 
and conditions to share the costs and revenues resulting from the development 
and operation of the warehouse.� The agreement shall further specify the square 
footage of a warehouse subject to the provisions of this paragraph.

���� b.��� In the case when all of 
the participating local units are municipalities, the agreement may provide 
that it shall not take effect until submitted to the voters of each 
municipality, and approved by a majority of the voters of each municipality 
voting at the referendum.

���� c.���� The agreement may 
provide for binding arbitration or for binding fact-finding procedures to 
settle any disputes or questions which may arise between the parties as to the 
interpretation of the terms of the agreement or the satisfactory performance by 
any of the parties of the services and other responsibilities required by the 
agreement.

���� d.��� For the purposes of 
sections 4 through 13 of P.L.2007, c.63 (C.40A:65-4 through C.40A:65-13), any 
party performing a service under a shared service agreement is the general 
agent of any other party on whose behalf that service is performed pursuant to 
the agreement, and that agent-party has full powers of performance and 
maintenance of the service contracted for, and full powers to undertake any 
ancillary operation reasonably necessary or convenient to carry out its duties, 
obligations and responsibilities under the agreement.� These powers include all 
powers of enforcement and administrative regulation which are, or may be, 
exercised by the party on whose behalf the agent-party acts pursuant to the 
agreement, except as the powers are limited by the terms of the agreement 
itself, and except that no contracting party shall be liable for any part or 
share of the cost of acquiring, constructing, or maintaining any capital 
facility acquired or constructed by an agent-party unless that part or share is 
provided for in the agreement, or in an amendment thereto ratified by the 
contracting parties in the manner provided in sections 1 to 37 of P.L.2007, 
c.63 (C.40A:65-1 et al.) for entering into an agreement.

���� e.���� Except as the terms of 
any agreement may explicitly or by necessary implication provide, any party to 
an agreement entered into pursuant to section 4 of P.L.2007, c.63 (C.40A:65-4) 
may enter into another agreement or agreements with any other eligible parties 
for the performance of any service or services pursuant to sections 1 to 37 of 
P.L.2007, c.63 (C.40A:65-1 et al.). The participation in one agreement shall 
not bar participation with the same or other parties in any other agreement.

���� f.���� Payment for