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Bill Text

A826 

ASSEMBLY, No. 826 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman GERRY SCHARFENBERGER

District 13 (Monmouth)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblymen Simonsen, McClellan and Assemblywoman Flynn

SYNOPSIS

���� Permits police departments to donate unclaimed 
bicycles to nonprofit organizations.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative 
Counsel.

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An Act concerning the donation of bicycles to nonprofit 
organizations and amending N.J.S.40A:14-157.

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

���� 1.��� N.J.S.40A:14-157 is 
amended to read as follows:

���� 40A:14-157.� a.� Where 
tangible personal property comes into the possession of the police department 
or force of a municipality, by finding and recovery, by a member of the police 
force acting in the line of duty, and if the owner or his whereabouts is unknown 
and cannot be ascertained, or if said owner shall refuse to receive such 
property, then the said property shall not be disposed of for six months, 
except in cases of motor vehicles, which shall be disposed of according to 
P.L.1964, c.81 (C. 39:10A-1 et seq.).� In any such case the governing body of 
said municipality, by resolution, may then provide for the sale, in whole or in 
part of any such property, at public auction, after notice of a designated time 
and place therefor, not less than 10 days prior thereto, published in a 
newspaper circulating within the municipality. Perishable items may be sold 
without reference to the said periods of time. Moneys received from the sale of 
any such property shall be paid into the general municipal treasury. 

���� All unclaimed moneys coming 
into the possession of any municipal police department or force shall be turned 
over within 48 hours to the municipal treasurer for retention in a trust 
account and, after six months, if unclaimed by any person entitled thereto, be 
paid into the general municipal treasury. 

���� b.��� Whenever any money or 
tangible personal property other than a motor vehicle has been or shall be 
found or discovered by any person other than by a member of a municipal police 
force acting in the line of duty and the finder shall have given or shall give 
custody of the found money or tangible personal property to the municipal 
police department or force for the purpose of assisting the police to find the 
owner thereof, the police department or police force shall retain custody of 
said money or tangible personal property for a period of six months.� If the 
money or tangible personal property is unclaimed during said six-month period 
by the person entitled thereto, the money or personal property shall be 
returned by the municipal police department or police force to the finder, who 
shall be deemed the sole owner thereof. 

���� c.���� This act shall apply to 
all money or tangible personal property which now is in, or which hereafter may 
come into, the possession or custody of any municipal police department, police 
force or municipal treasury in the manner herein described.

���� d.��� Notwithstanding the 
provisions of subsection a. of this section, the governing body of a 
municipality may, by annual resolution, authorize the donation of bicycles to 
nonprofit organizations that are exempt from federal taxation, pursuant to paragraph 
(3) of subsection (c) of section 501 of the federal Internal Revenue Code (26 
U.S.C. s.501), when the police department or force of the municipality comes 
into possession of a bicycle, by finding and recovery by a member of the police 
force acting in the line of duty, and if the owner or his whereabouts is 
unknown and cannot be ascertained, or if said owner shall refuse to receive the 
bicycle. The resolution shall list the qualifying nonprofit organization or 
organizations for the year, which are eligible to receive bicycle donations 
pursuant to this subsection.� A police department or force shall not make a 
donation, pursuant to this subsection, unless six months has elapsed since the 
date the police department or force came into possession of the bicycle.

(cf: P.L.1986, c.173, s.2)

���� 2.��� This act shall take 
effect immediately.

STATEMENT

���� This bill would permit the 
governing body of a municipality to authorize, by annual resolution, the police 
department of the municipality to donate bicycles to nonprofit organizations.� 
To receive a donation under this bill, the nonprofit organization would need to 
be exempt from federal taxation, pursuant to paragraph (3) of subsection (c) of 
section 501 of the federal Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. s.501).� Under this 
bill, the municipal police department could donate a bicycle found and recovered 
by a member of the department, acting in the line of duty, if the department 
cannot ascertain the identity of the owner, or his whereabouts, or if the owner 
refus