New Jersey S 2106: Requires State agencies to review operations and to implement use of Internet to conduct public business when cost savings may be realized, with certain exceptions.

Bill Text

S2106 

SENATE, No. 2106 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Senator PAUL D. MORIARTY

District 4 (Atlantic, Camden and Gloucester)

Senator� RAJ MUKHERJI

District 32 (Hudson)

Co-Sponsored by:

Senator Henry

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires private detectives to register their foreign 
employers with State Police.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

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

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An Act concerning licensed private detectives, amending 
P.L.1939, c.369, and supplementing Title 53 of the Revised Statutes.

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

���� 1.��� Section 5 of P.L.1939, 
c.369 (C.45:19-12) is amended to read as follows:

���� 5.��� The superintendent, when 
satisfied from the examination of any application and such further inquiry and 
investigations as he shall deem proper as to the good character, competency, 
and integrity of the applicant and the persons named in the application, shall 
issue and deliver to the applicant a license to conduct such business.� [Such] 

�� A 
licensee shall notify the State Police when employed by a foreign government or 
foreign national.� This notification is in addition to any requirement under 
federal law regarding an individual operating at the direction of a foreign 
government.� Upon issuance of a license, or a license renewal, the 
superintendent shall notify the licensee that the licensee is required to notify the State Police when employed by a 
foreign government or foreign national.� 

���� The licensee shall be 
permitted to own, conduct, and maintain one or more bureaus, agencies, 
subagencies, offices, or branch offices for the conduct of such business 
at the locations stated in said application, upon the payment by the applicant 
to the superintendent of a license fee for each location so licensed which in 
the case of an individual shall be $250[.00],� and in the 
case of a firm, association, or corporation shall be $300[.00].� Any license 
or renewal thereof shall be further conditioned upon the applicant� executing 
and delivering to the superintendent a bond with a surety company� authorized 
to be surety in the State of New Jersey, as surety, and approved as� to form, 
manner of execution, and sufficiency by the superintendent of the State 
Police, running to the State of New Jersey and which shall be for the benefit� 
of any person injured by willful, malicious, or wrongful act of the 
applicant (with a sufficient surety bond), which in the case of an individual 
shall be� $3,000[.00], and in the case 
of a firm, association, or corporation $5,000[.00], which said bond shall be 
conditioned for the faithful and honest conduct of such business by the 
applicant.� The license so granted by the superintendent shall be valid for a 
period of [2] two 
years, and upon renewal thereof said applicant shall pay to the superintendent 
in the case of an individual a license fee of� $200[.00] and in the case of a firm, 
association, or corporation $250[.00] for each 
location for which such a license is renewed.� The license shall be revocable 
by the superintendent after hearing for cause.� In case of revocation or 
surrender of any license, no refund shall be made of any license fee paid under 
the provisions hereof.� The license shall be in a form to be prescribed by the 
superintendent and shall set forth the full name of the applicant, the location 
of the principal office or place of business, and the location of each bureau, 
agency, subagency, office, or branch office for which the license is 
issued, date on which it is issued, the date on which it will expire, and the 
name or� names of the persons named in the application, and their respective 
addresses.�� In the event of any change in the membership of the firm or in the 
officers or� directors of any association or corporation or any change in the 
address of any� office or location of such business the superintendent shall be 
notified in writing of such change within [5] five 
days thereafter, and failure to give such notification shall be sufficient 
cause for revocation of such license.

���� No license shall be issued to 
a person under the age of 25 years, nor to any person, firm, association, 
or corporation unless such person or at least one member of the firm and one 
officer or director of the association or corporation has had at least [5] five 
years' experience as an investigator or as a police officer with an organized 
police department of the State or a county or municipality thereof, or with an 
investigative agency of the United States of America or any State, county, 
or municipality thereof.

���� The superintendent and all 
members of the State Police shall hold as confidential all information obtained 
as a result of any investigation of any applicant or officer, assistant, or 
employee of any holder of any license issued under