New Jersey A 1888: Increases value of Economic Redevelopment and Growth Grant program residential tax credits to $926 million; restricts $103 million of tax credits to certain qualified residential projects and mixed use parking projects.

Bill Text

A1888 

ASSEMBLY, No. 1888 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman CLEOPATRA G. TUCKER

District 28 (Essex and Union)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman Auth

SYNOPSIS

���� Permits certain special law enforcement officers to 
carry firearms at all times when in State.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

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

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An Act concerning certain special law enforcement 
officers and amending P.L.1985, c.439.

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

���� 1.��� Section 7 of P.L.1985, 
c.439 (C.40A:14-146.14) is amended to read as follows:

���� 7.��� a.� Special law 
enforcement officers may be appointed for terms not to exceed one year, and the 
appointments may be revoked by the local unit for cause after adequate hearing, 
unless the appointment is for four months or less, in which event the appointment 
may be revoked without cause or hearing.� Nothing herein shall be construed to 
require reappointment upon the expiration of the term.� The special law 
enforcement officers so appointed shall not be members of the police force of 
the local unit, and their powers and duties as determined pursuant to this act 
shall cease at the expiration of the term for which appointed.

���� b.��� No special law 
enforcement officer may carry a firearm except while engaged in the actual 
performance of the officer's official duties and when specifically authorized 
by the chief of police, or, in the absence of the chief, other chief law 
enforcement officer of the local unit to carry a firearm and provided that the 
officer has satisfactorily completed the basic firearms course required by the 
commission for regular police officers and annual requalification examinations 
as required for permanent, regularly appointed full-time officers in the local 
unit.

���� A special law enforcement 
officer shall be deemed to be on duty only while he is performing the public 
safety functions on behalf of the local unit pursuant to this act and when he 
is receiving compensation, if any, from the local unit at the rates or stipends 
as shall be established by ordinance.� A special law enforcement officer shall 
not be deemed to be on duty for purposes of this act while performing private 
security duties for private employers, which duties are not assigned by the 
chief of police, or, in the absence of the chief, other chief law enforcement 
officer of the local unit, or while receiving compensation for those duties 
from a private employer.� A special law enforcement officer may, however, be 
assigned by the chief of police or, in the absence of the chief, other chief 
law enforcement officer, to perform public safety functions for a private 
entity if the chief of police or other chief law enforcement officer supervises 
the performance of the public safety functions.� If the chief of police or 
other chief law enforcement officer assigns the public safety duties and 
supervises the performance of those duties, then, notwithstanding that the 
local unit is reimbursed for the cost of assigning a special law enforcement 
officer at a private entity, the special law enforcement officer shall be 
deemed to be on duty.

���� The reimbursement for the 
duties of a special law enforcement officer, which is made to a municipality 
with a population in excess of 300,000, according to the 1980 federal decennial 
census, may be by direct payments from the employer to the special law enforcement 
officer, provided that records of the hours worked are forwarded to and 
maintained by the chief of police or other chief law enforcement officer 
responsible for assigning the special law enforcement officer those public 
safety duties.

���� Any firearm utilized by a 
special law enforcement officer shall be returned at the end of the officer's 
workday to the officer in charge of the station house, unless the firearm is 
owned by the special law enforcement officer and was acquired in compliance 
with a condition of employment established by the local unit.� Any special law 
enforcement officer first appointed after the effective date of this act shall 
only use a firearm supplied by the local unit. No such special police officer 
shall carry a revolver or other similar weapon when off duty; but if any such 
special police officer appointed by the governing body of any municipality 
having a population in excess of 300,000, according to the 1980 federal census, 
who [is a resident of the municipality and] is employed as a special police officer at least 35 
hours per week, or less at the discretion of the chief of police and mayor, 
shall, at the direction of the chief of police, have taken and successfully 
completed a firearms training course administered by the Police Training 
Commission, pursuant to P.L.1961, c.56 (C.52:17B-66 et seq.), and has 
successfully completed with