New Jersey Revised Statutes Title 34 - Labor And Workmen's Compensation

• Section 34:1-1 - Definitions
  As used in this title: "Commissioner" means the commissioner of labor. "Deputy commissioner" means the several deputy commissioners of labor except in chapter 15...
• Section 34:1-2 - Department Continued; Organization
  The department of labor, hereinafter in this title referred to as the "department" , organized by an act entitled "An act to reorganize the...
• Section 34:1-3 - Principal Office
  The department shall have its principal office in Trenton.
• Section 34:1-4 - Commissioner; Appointment, Term And Salary
  The commissioner shall be a citizen and resident of this state, appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the...
• Section 34:1-5 - Duties Of Commissioner; Assignment Of Duties To Bureaus; Supervision Over Deputies And Inspectors
  The commissioner shall be the executive and administrative head of the department. All powers and duties vested in and devolved upon the commissioner or...
• Section 34:1-5.1 - Annual Determination Of Resort Municipalities.
  2.The Department of Labor shall annually determine which municipalities qualify as resort municipalities and determine and certify the annual mean population of resort municipalities....
• Section 34:1-5.2 - Annual Mean Population Of Resort Municipalities.
  3.As used in this act: "Annual mean population" means for each resort municipality the following: 12P + 3SP AMP =................. 12 where AMP equals...
• Section 34:1-5.3 - Estimated Seasonal Population Of Resort Municipalities.
  4. a. The seasonal population of each resort municipality shall be estimated by the Department of Labor by taking into account such factors as...
• Section 34:1-5.4 - Rules, Regulations.
  5.The Commissioner of Labor may adopt and promulgate, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), such rules and regulations to...
• Section 34:1-6 - Inspections; Enforcement Districts
  The commissioner shall enforce the provisions of this title and exercise supervision and control over the deputy commissioners, bureau chiefs and all inspectors, and...
• Section 34:1-7 - Inspectors Graded
  Inspectors shall be classified into four grades which shall be designated respectively first grade, second grade, third grade and fourth grade. Inspectors of each...
• Section 34:1-8 - Inspectors; Duties
  Inspectors shall perform such duties as the commissioner shall direct.
• Section 34:1-9 - Personnel; Employment; Assignment And Transfers; Salaries
  The commissioner shall be the appointing authority of the department and shall in accordance with the civil service laws employ such inspectors, clerks, stenographers...
• Section 34:1-10 - Additional Personnel
  The commissioner may employ additional inspectors, expert investigators or advisers for such period as he shall consider necessary and at such compensation as shall...
• Section 34:1-11 - Expenses Allowed
  Deputy commissioners, bureau heads and inspectors of the department shall, in addition to the annual salaries received by them, receive the necessary expenses incurred...
• Section 34:1-12 - Badges And Certificates Of Authority
  The deputy commissioners, chief inspectors and inspectors shall be provided with certificates of authority by the secretary of state, which shall be exhibited on...
• Section 34:1-13 - Oaths And Affidavits; Authority To Administer
  The commissioner, deputy commissioners and inspectors may administer oaths and take affidavits in matters relating to the enforcement of the provisions of this title.
• Section 34:1-14 - Inspectors Not To Engage In Other Business; Hours Of Labor
  No inspector shall engage in any business, occupation or employment during his term of office that will in any way interfere with or prevent...
• Section 34:1-15 - Inspections And Reports
  The commissioner, deputy commissioners and inspectors shall have the right at all reasonable hours to enter and inspect all places and establishments regulated or...
• Section 34:1-16 - Obstructing Or Impersonating Officers; Penalty
  No person shall obstruct, hinder or delay, or interfere with, by force or otherwise, the performance of any duty under the provisions of this...
• Section 34:1-17 - Minors; Reports To School Officers
  Each inspector shall note in writing the names of minors discharged from any employment and within twenty-four hours thereafter shall send or deliver a...
• Section 34:1-18 - Prosecutions For Violations
  The commissioner shall prosecute violations of the provisions of this title in any court of competent jurisdiction.
• Section 34:1-19 - Report To Governor
  The commissioner shall, on or before October thirty-first in each year, make report to the governor of the work of the department.
• Section 34:1-20 - Rules, Regulations And Orders
  The commissioner may make and publish rules and regulations not inconsistent with law as he shall deem necessary to enforce the provisions of this...
• Section 34:1-23 - Fees For Approval Of Plans, Specifications, Buildings, Or New Work; Computation; Disposition
  The commissioner may charge a fee of not less than $15.00 nor more than $1,000.00 for issuing a certificate of approval of any plans...
• Section 34:1-24 - Fees For Blue Prints And Publications
  The commissioner may charge a reasonable fee for blue prints, literature and publications issued by the department.
• Section 34:1-25 - Moneys Paid To State Treasurer
  Fees and moneys collected by the commissioner under the provisions of this title shall be paid by him to the state treasurer.
• Section 34:1-38.1 - Mechanical Inspection Bureau; Composition; Examining Board; Appointment; Qualifications Of Members; Duties Of Bureau
  There shall be within the Division of Labor, Department of Labor and Industry, a mechanical inspection bureau which shall administer engineers' and firemen's licensing...
• Section 34:1-38.2 - Powers And Duties Of Examining Board
  The examining board of the mechanical inspection bureau shall administer the licensing of engineers and firemen and the inspection of boilers, pressure vessels and...
• Section 34:1-40 - Prescription Of Duties And Adoption Of Rules And Regulations By Commissioner; Conduct Of Examinations; Issuance Of Licenses
  The commissioner shall prescribe the duties of and adopt all necessary rules, regulations and by-laws for the operation of the mechanical inspection bureau not...
• Section 34:1-41 - Expenses Of Members Of Mechanical Inspection Bureau
  Each member of the mechanical inspection bureau shall be paid his necessary expenses incurred in the performance of duty. Amended by L.1960, c. 134,...
• Section 34:1-44 - Inspectors; Eligibility And Qualifications; Certificate
  Any citizen of the State having had at least 5 years' experience as engineer in the maintenance and operation of steam boilers, or as...
• Section 34:1-45 - Examinations
  The commissioner shall from time to time direct the examining board of the mechanical inspection bureau to hold examinations for inspectors and shall prescribe...
• Section 34:1-47 - Board Of Boiler, Pressure Vessel And Refrigeration Rules; Composition; Rules And Regulations
  The Governor shall appoint 6 citizens of this State, 2 of whom shall be professional engineers licensed by this State, and who shall represent...
• Section 34:1-48 - Chief Of Bureau Of Statistics And Records; Appointment
  The bureau of statistics and records shall be under the direction of a chief of bureau who shall be appointed by the commissioner.
• Section 34:1-49 - Duties Of Bureau In General
  The bureau of statistics and records shall collect, classify and report to the legislature, on or before the last day of October in each...
• Section 34:1-50 - Commercial Statistics And Information
  The annual report of the bureau shall include statistics showing the number of private firms and corporations engaged in the several industries in this...
• Section 34:1-51 - Names Of Informants Not To Be Divulged
  The information secured shall be presented in the annual report by figures only; the names of persons, firms or corporations shall in no case...
• Section 34:1-52 - Returns By Employers
  It shall be the duty of every owner, operator, lessee, manager or superintendent of every factory, mill, workshop, mine or other establishment or industry...
• Section 34:1-53 - Penalty For Failure To Report
  Any owner, operator, lessee, manager or superintendent of an establishment or industry in which labor is employed within this state, who willfully neglects or...
• Section 34:1-54 - Power Of Chief Of Bureau To Examine Witnesses
  The chief of the bureau of statistics and records shall have power to examine witnesses under oath.
• Section 34:1-55 - Bulletins And Pamphlets
  The bureau of industrial statistics and records shall publish and issue from time to time bulletins and pamphlets pertaining to its work and shall...
• Section 34:1-56 - Industrial Directory
  The bureau of statistics and records shall continue the compilation and publication every third year, or oftener if in the judgment of the commissioner...
• Section 34:1-57 - Workmen's Compensation Bureau; Director; Compensation
  The workmen's compensation bureau shall consist of the commissioner who shall act as chairman, a director, deputy commissioners of compensation appointed by the commissioner;...
• Section 34:1-57.2 - First Director
  The first director of the workmen's compensation bureau to be designated under this act shall be the deputy commissioner of compensation serving upon the...
• Section 34:1-58 - Deputy Commissioner; Compensation Board
  Any referee, who is a counselor at law duly admitted to practice by the supreme court, and who has served as a referee in...
• Section 34:1-59 - Bureau Of Employment
  The bureau of employment shall consist of a chief of bureau appointed by the commissioner and such clerks and employees as may be necessary....
• Section 34:1-60 - Subdivisions Of Employment Bureau
  The department is authorized to establish such subdivisions of the bureau of employment as he may deem advisable for the following purposes: To bring...
• Section 34:1-61 - Co-operation; Advisory Assistants
  The commissioner is authorized to co-operate with other public employment bureaus, whether operated by voluntary, charitable or eleemosynary organizations, or by municipalities in this...
• Section 34:1-62 - Federal Employment Service; Planned Co-operation; Custody And Disbursement Of Funds
  The bureau of employment of the New Jersey department of labor is hereby designated as the state agency which shall co-operate with the employment...
• Section 34:1-63 - Information As To Employment
  The commissioner shall collect and disseminate all data as to unemployment and places offering employment in the manner most likely to enable the unemployed...
• Section 34:1-64 - Publication Of Information
  The commissioner in his discretion may issue such bulletins, notices, circulars or other printed matter as may be necessary in furtherance of the purposes...
• Section 34:1-65 - Records Of Strikes
  The bureau of employment and bureaus co-operating in carrying out the provisions of sections 34:1-59 to 34:1-64, 34:1-66 to 34:1-69 of this title, shall...
• Section 34:1-66 - Migrant Laborers
  The bureau of employment shall assist migrant laborers in securing suitable employment, investigate their living and working conditions, and counsel them in matters of...
• Section 34:1-67 - Veterans Aided
  The bureau of employment shall investigate unemployment conditions affecting soldiers and sailors of the United States after their discharge from service, collect and compile...
• Section 34:1-68 - Lists Of Sources Of Employment
  Each office of the bureau of employment shall in co-operation with the chief executive officers of the several municipalities within its district prepare and...
• Section 34:1-69 - No Fees Permitted
  No compensation shall be charged or received, directly or indirectly, for any service performed pursuant to sections 34:1-59 to 34:1-68 of this title from...
• Section 34:1-69.1 - Division Of The Deaf
  There is hereby created in the Department of Labor and Industry a division to be devoted to the interests of the deaf. L.1941, c....
• Section 34:1-69.1a - Advisory Council On The Deaf And Hard Of Hearing; Membership; Terms; Compensation; Vacancies
  8. a. There shall be within the Division of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing an Advisory Council on the Deaf and Hard of...
• Section 34:1-69.2 - Director Of The Division Of The Deaf
  The Commissioner of Labor and Industry shall appoint a competent person to have charge of such Division of the Deaf, who shall be fully...
• Section 34:1-69.3 - Duties Of Director
  The director of such division shall collect and tabulate statistics pertaining to the deaf, their employment and welfare; shall ascertain primarily by annual review...
• Section 34:1-69.3a - Annual Report
  The Director of the Division of the Deaf shall report annually to the Legislature. Such report shall include, but not be limited to, a...
• Section 34:1-69.4 - Assistants; Qualifications; Compensation
  The Commissioner of Labor and Industry shall employ additional assistants who are competent and experienced in working and communicating with the deaf at such...
• Section 34:1-69.5 - Compensation And Expenses Of Director
  The Director of the Division of the Deaf shall receive such compensation as shall be determined by the Commissioner of Labor and Industry and...
• Section 34:1-69.6 - "Deaf" Defined
  The term "deaf" , for purposes of the Division of the Deaf and as used in this act, means those persons in whom the...
• Section 34:1-69.7 - Legislative Findings And Declarations
  The Legislature finds and declares that it shall be the policy of this State to secure the rights of hearing impaired persons who, because...
• Section 34:1-69.8 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Appointing authority" means the presiding judge or justice of any court, the chairman of any board, commission, or...
• Section 34:1-69.9 - Intermediary Interpreter To Assist Qualified Interpreter
  If a qualified interpreter or the hearing impaired client states that the interpretation is not satisfactory and that an intermediary interpreter will improve the...
• Section 34:1-69.10 - Qualified Interpreter For Hearing Impaired Persons' Appointment; Prohibition Of Retention In Custody Pending Arrival
  The appointing authority shall appoint a qualified interpreter to assist a hearing impaired person throughout the proceedings and in preparation with counsel as follows:...
• Section 34:1-69.11 - Positioning Of Interpreter
  In any action or proceeding in which an interpreter is required to be appointed, the court or administrative authority may not commence proceedings until...
• Section 34:1-69.12 - List Of Qualified Interpreters; Request; Substitution For Appointed Interpreter
  Whenever an appointing authority is required to appoint an interpreter, the appointing authority shall request a list of qualified interpreters from either the State...
• Section 34:1-69.13 - List Of Qualified Interpreters; Maintenance
  a. The State Division of the Deaf in the Department of Labor, created pursuant to P.L.1941, c. 197 (C. 34:1-69.1 et seq.) shall maintain...
• Section 34:1-69.14 - Oath
  Every appointed interpreter before entering upon his duties, shall take an oath that he will make a true interpretation in an understandable manner to...
• Section 34:1-69.15 - Fees And Expenses
  a. An appointed interpreter shall receive a reasonable fee for his services, together with his actual expenses for travel and waiting time. b. The...
• Section 34:1-69.16 - Waiver Of Right To Interpreter
  The right of a hearing impaired person to an interpreter shall not be waived unless the hearing impaired person requests a waiver in writing....
• Section 34:1-69.17 - Information To Remain Confidential And Privileged
  Any information that the interpreter gathers from the hearing impaired person pertaining to any proceeding then pending shall at all times remain confidential and...
• Section 34:1-70 - Recovery Of Penalties, Procedure
  34:1-70. Except as otherwise in this Title specifically provided, a proceeding for the recovery of a penalty for the violation of any provision of...
• Section 34:1a-1 - Department Of Labor And Industry Established; "Department" Defined
  There is hereby established in the Executive Branch of the State Government a principal department which shall be known as the Department of Labor...
• Section 34:1a-1.1 - Change Of Name Of Department Of Labor And Industry To Department Of Labor
  On the effective date of this act the Department of Labor and Industry established pursuant to P.L.1948, c. 446 (C. 34:1A-1 et seq.) shall...
• Section 34:1a-1.2 - Department Of Labor And Workforce Development; Reference.
  1.On and after the effective date of this 2004 amendatory and supplementary act, the Department of Labor shall be entitled and known as the...
• Section 34:1a-1.3 - Transfer Of Workforce Development Programs From Dhs.
  2. a. To the extent not inconsistent with any federal law, and notwithstanding any other State law, all employment-directed and workforce development programs and...
• Section 34:1a-1.4 - New Jersey Youth Corps Transferred.
  3.The New Jersey Youth Corps, established pursuant to P.L.1984, c.198 (C.9:25-1 et seq.), is hereby transferred to the Department of Labor and Workforce Development....
• Section 34:1a-1.5 - Certain Powers, Functions, Duties Of Doe Transferred.
  4. a. Notwithstanding any other State law, all powers, functions and duties of the Department of Education with respect to the following employment-directed and...
• Section 34:1a-1.6 - Construction Of Act Relative To Civil Service Tenure, Rights, Protection.
  5. a. Nothing in this 2004 amendatory and supplementary act and no transfer carried out pursuant to this act shall be construed or permitted...
• Section 34:1a-1.7 - Short Title.
  1. This act shall be known as "The Domestic Violence and Workforce Development Initiative Act." L.2005,c.309,s.1.
• Section 34:1a-1.8 - Requirements For Job Training Counselors For Victims Of Domestic Violence.
  2.Each counselor who provides counseling pursuant to section 4 of P.L.1992, c.48 (C.34:15B-38), section 7 of P.L.1992, c.43 (C.34:15D-7), or section 3 of P.L.1992,...
• Section 34:1a-1.9 - Rules, Regulations.
  3.The Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development shall, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L. 1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.), and in...
• Section 34:1a-1.10 - Credentials Review Board Established.
  25.There is established, in the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, the Credentials Review Board, for the purpose of directing the technical credentialing process...
• Section 34:1a-1.11 - Definitions Relative To Suspension, Revocation Of Certain Employer Licenses.
  1.As used in this act: "Agency" means any agency, department, board or commission of this State, or of any political subdivision of this State,...
• Section 34:1a-1.12 - Commissioner's Actions Relative To Employer Violations.
  2. a. If the commissioner determines that an employer has failed, for one or more of its employees, to maintain and report every record...
• Section 34:1a-1.13 - Presumption Of Successor Firm.
  3.A rebuttable presumption that an employer has established a successor firm shall arise if the two parties share two or more of the following...
• Section 34:1a-1.14 - Notification Of Employer Responsibility Relative To Record Maintenance.
  4. a. Each employer which is required to maintain and report records regarding wages, benefits, taxes and other contributions and assessments pursuant to State...
• Section 34:1a-1.15 - Provision Of Information Relative To Certain Employee Leave And Benefit Rights.
  1. a. The Department of Labor and Workforce Development shall maintain on its Internet website a webpage developed by the department, in consultation with...
• Section 34:1a-2 - Commissioner Of Labor And Industry; Head Of Department; Appointment; Term; Salary
  The administrator and head of the department shall be a commissioner, who shall be known as the Commissioner of Labor and Industry, and who...
• Section 34:1a-3 - Duties Of Commissioner
  The commissioner, as head of the department, shall: (a) Administer the work of the department; (b) Appoint and remove officers and other personnel employed...
• Section 34:1a-4 - Delegation Of Powers By Commissioner
  The commissioner may delegate to subordinate officers or employees in the department such of his powers as he may deem desirable, to be exercised...
• Section 34:1a-5 - Divisions In Department
  There is hereby established in the Department of Labor and Industry a Division of Labor, a Division of Workmen's Compensation, and a Division of...
• Section 34:1a-5.1 - Reference To Division Of Workmen's Compensation To Mean And Refer To Division Of Workers' Compensation
  Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the division heretofore referred to as the Division of Workmen's Compensation in the Department of Labor and...
• Section 34:1a-6 - Powers And Duties Of Existing Department Of Labor, Of Commissioner Of Labor And Of Unemployment Compensation Commission Transferred
  All of the functions, powers and duties of the existing Department of Labor, of the Commissioner of Labor, and of the respective bureaus and...
• Section 34:1a-7 - Division Of Labor To Perform Duties Transferred Exclusive Of Those Administered Through Workmen's Compensation Bureau And Those Performed Under Chapter Fifteen Of Title 34
  All of the functions, powers and duties of the existing Department of Labor and of the respective bureaus and divisions therein and of the...
• Section 34:1a-7.1 - Orientation Program To Educate Employers About Wage And Hour Laws, Etc.
  27. The Division of Workplace Standards shall conduct an extensive orientation program to educate new and existing employers about wage and hour laws and,...
• Section 34:1a-8 - Director Of Division Of Labor
  The Division of Labor shall be under the immediate supervision of a director, who shall be a person qualified by training and experience to...
• Section 34:1a-9 - Bureau Of Migrant Labor; Transfer Of Functions, Powers And Duties To
  There shall be within the Division of Labor, a Bureau of Migrant Labor. The division of migrant labor of the existing Department of Labor...
• Section 34:1a-10 - Organization Of Existing Department Of Labor Continued; Divisions Constituted Bureaus; Deputy Directors
  Except as otherwise provided herein or as may be changed pursuant to authorization contained herein or in any other law, the organization of the...
• Section 34:1a-11 - Division Of Workmen's Compensation; Powers And Duties
  All of the functions, powers and duties of the workmen's compensation bureau of the existing Department of Labor, and those exercised or performed by...
• Section 34:1a-12 - Division Of Workmen's Compensation; Officials And Employees In Division; Director; Powers And Duties
  The Division of Workmen's Compensation shall consist of the Commissioner of Labor and Industry who shall act as chairman, a director who shall be...
• Section 34:1a-12.1 - Director And Each Judge Of Compensation To Be Attorneys
  The Director of the Division of Workmen's Compensation and each judge of compensation shall be an attorney-at-law of the State of New Jersey. L.1952,...
• Section 34:1a-12.2 - Referee, Qualifications Of
  Any person hereafter appointed as a "referee," "referee, formal hearings," "supervising referee," or "supervising referee, formal hearings" shall be an attorney-at-law of the State...
• Section 34:1a-12.3 - Continuation Of Deputy Directors As Judges Of Compensation
  All persons heretofore appointed and serving as deputy directors of compensation shall continue in such appointments, as heretofore, with the title of judge of...
• Section 34:1a-12.4 - Director Of Division Of Worker's Compensation; Duties
  4. The Director of the Division of Worker's Compensation shall: a. cause copies of the voter registration forms furnished under subsection f. of section...
• Section 34:1a-13 - Organization Of Existing Workmen's Compensation Bureau Continued
  Except as otherwise provided herein or as may be changed pursuant to authorization contained herein or in any other law, the organization of the...
• Section 34:1a-14 - Powers And Duties Of The Unemployment Compensation Commission Assigned To Division Of Employment Security
  All of the functions, powers and duties of the Unemployment Compensation Commission, of the respective bureaus and divisions therein, and of the executive director...
• Section 34:1a-15 - Director Of Division Of Employment Security
  The division of Employment Security shall be under the immediate supervision of a director who shall be a person qualified by training and experience...
• Section 34:1a-15.1 - Director Of Division Of Employment Services; Duties
  5. The Director of the Division of Employment Services shall: a. cause copies of the voter registration forms furnished under subsection f. of section...
• Section 34:1a-15.2 - Director Of The Division Of Unemployment And Temporary Disability Insurance; Duties
  6. The Director of the Division of Unemployment and Temporary Disability Insurance shall: a. cause copies of the voter registration forms furnished under subsection...
• Section 34:1a-17 - Powers And Duties Of Employment Security Council
  The Employment Security Council shall: (a) Consult and advise with the Commissioner of Labor or his designated representative with respect to the administration and...
• Section 34:1a-18 - Advisory Council On Disability Benefits In Division Of Employment Security; Powers
  There shall also be within the Division of Employment Security the Advisory Council on Disability Benefits, as established by and constituted under the Temporary...
• Section 34:1a-19 - Board Of Review In Division Of Employment Security
  There shall be within the Division of Employment Security a Board of Review consisting of three members, who shall act as a final appeals...
• Section 34:1a-20 - Appeal Tribunals; Membership; Compensation; Disqualification For Interest; Alternates; Disputed Benefit Claims
  To hear and decide disputed benefit claims, including appeals from determinations with respect to demands by the deputy for refunds of benefits under section...
• Section 34:1a-21 - Organization Of Existing Unemployment Compensation Commission Continued; Divisions Constituted Bureaus
  Except as otherwise provided herein or as may be changed pursuant to authorization contained herein or in any other law, the organization of the...
• Section 34:1a-23 - New Jersey State Board Of Mediation Transferred To Department Of Labor And Industry; Removal Of Members
  The New Jersey State Board of Mediation of the existing Department of Labor and all of its functions, powers and duties are hereby transferred...
• Section 34:1a-24 - Directors Of Divisions; Unclassified Service Of Civil Service; Removal; Vacancies
  The director of each division in the Department of Labor and Industry shall be in the unclassified service of the civil service of the...
• Section 34:1a-25 - Appropriations Transferred
  All appropriations and other moneys available to become available to any department, commission, board, office or other agency, the functions, powers and duties of...
• Section 34:1a-26 - Employees; Transfer
  Such employees of any department, commission, board, office or other agency, the functions, powers and duties of which have been herein assigned or transferred...
• Section 34:1a-27 - Civil Service, Pension And Retirement Rights Not Affected
  Nothing in this act shall be construed to deprive any person holding any office or position not abolished pursuant to the provisions of this...
• Section 34:1a-28 - Files, Books, Records And Property Transferred
  All files, books, papers, records, equipment and other property of any department, commission, board, office or other agency, the functions, powers and duties of...
• Section 34:1a-29 - Orders, Rules And Regulations Continued
  This act shall not affect the orders, rules and regulations heretofore made or promulgated by any department, commission, board, officer or other agency, the...
• Section 34:1a-30 - Pending Actions Or Proceedings; Orders Or Recommendations Not Affected
  This act shall not affect actions or proceedings, civil or criminal, brought by or against any department, commission, board, officer or other agency, the...
• Section 34:1a-31 - Commissions And Offices Abolished
  The Unemployment Compensation Commission, the office of executive director of the Unemployment Compensation Commission, the office of director of the New Jersey State Employment...
• Section 34:1a-32 - Definition Of Terms Referred To In Laws, Contracts Or Documents
  Subject to the provisions of this act: Whenever the term "Commissioner of Labor" occurs or any reference is made thereto in any law, contract...
• Section 34:1a-33 - Repeal
  All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with any of the provisions of this act are, to the extent of such inconsistency, hereby repealed....
• Section 34:1a-34 - Short Title
  This act shall be known as, and may be cited as the "Department of Labor and Industry Act of 1948." L.1948, c. 446, p....
• Section 34:1a-35 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect on the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine, except that any appointment, and any confirmation...
• Section 34:1a-36 - State Apprenticeship Council
  The Governor shall appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, a State Apprenticeship Council in the Division of Labor in the Department...
• Section 34:1a-37 - Personnel
  The Commissioner of Labor and Industry shall appoint a person to be in charge of apprentice training in the Division of Labor in the...
• Section 34:1a-38 - Related And Supplemental Instruction
  Related and supplemental instruction for apprentices, co-ordination of instruction with job experience, and the selection of teachers and co-ordinators for such instruction shall be...
• Section 34:1a-39 - Local, Regional And State Joint Apprenticeship Committees
  Local and State joint apprenticeship committees may be approved, in any trade or group of trades, in trade areas or regions of the State...
• Section 34:1a-40 - Standards For Apprenticeship Agreements
  Standards for apprenticeship agreements may be as follows: (1) A statement of the trade or craft to be taught and the required hours for...
• Section 34:1a-41 - Apprenticeship Agreements
  For the purposes of this act an apprenticeship agreement shall be deemed to be: (1) An individual written agreement between an employer and an...
• Section 34:1a-42 - Limitation
  The provisions of this act shall apply to a person, firm, corporation or craft only after such person, firm, corporation or craft has voluntarily...
• Section 34:1a-43 - Separability
  If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances, is held invalid, the remainder of the act, and...
• Section 34:1a-44 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect July first, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-three. L.1953, c. 198, p. 1505, s. 9.
• Section 34:1a-45 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Division of Travel and Tourism Act." L.1977, c. 225, s. 1.
• Section 34:1a-46 - Legislative Findings And Declarations.
  2.The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: a.Increased revenues for this State and more employment opportunities for its citizens will result from the proper...
• Section 34:1a-47 - Definitions.
  3.As used in this act, unless a different meaning appears from the context: "Council" means the New Jersey Tourism Policy Council. "Department" means the...
• Section 34:1a-48 - Division Of Travel And Tourism; Establishment; Director; Appointment.
  4.There is hereby established in the Department of State the Division of Travel and Tourism. The division shall be under the supervision of a...
• Section 34:1a-48.1 - Division Of Travel And Tourism Transferred To The Department Of State.
  4. a. All the functions, powers, and duties of the Division of Travel and Tourism in the New Jersey Commerce, Economic Growth and Tourism...
• Section 34:1a-49 - Transfer Of Functions, Power And Duties Of Office Of Tourism And Promotion To Division Of Travel And Tourism
  All the functions, powers, and duties of the Office of Tourism and Promotion in the Division of Economic Development in the Department of Labor...
• Section 34:1a-50 - Transfer Made In Accordance With State Agency Transfer Act
  The transfer directed by this act shall be made in accordance with the "State Agency Transfer Act," P.L.1971, c. 375 (C. 52:14D-1 et seq.)....
• Section 34:1a-51 - New Jersey Tourism Policy Council.
  7. a. There is created in the division the New Jersey Tourism Policy Council which shall consist of 23 members: (1)Two members of the...
• Section 34:1a-52 - Master Plan; Contents
  The director, upon consultation with the council, shall develop a 10-year master plan for the growth of tourism for presentation to the Governor and...
• Section 34:1a-52.1 - New Jersey Governor's Cup Hydrofest Series; Designated.
  1.The Sunset Lake Hydrofest in Wildwood Crest, New Jersey, is designated as the New Jersey Governor's Cup Hydrofest Series. L.2009, JR4, s.1.
• Section 34:1a-52.2 - Designation Of Trophy, Commendation.
  2.An appropriate perpetual trophy or commendation, to be provided by the governing body of the event, shall be designated as the New Jersey Governor's...
• Section 34:1a-52.3 - Annual Award.
  3.Every year, the Governor, or the designee thereof, shall award the New Jersey Governor's Cup to the winner of the Sunset Lake Hydrofest. L.2009,...
• Section 34:1a-53 - Powers And Duties Of Division.
  9.In the pursuance and promotion of a State policy on tourism, the division, at the direction of the Secretary of State, shall: a.Provide and...
• Section 34:1a-53.1 - Reports Required From Division.
  8.In addition to the powers and duties of the division as provided in section 9 of P.L.1977, c.225 (C.34:1A-53), the division shall submit a...
• Section 34:1a-54 - Duties Of Council.
  10.The council shall: a.Aid the division in the formulation and updating of the 10-year master plan developed pursuant to section 8 of P.L.1977, c.225...
• Section 34:1a-55 - Severability
  If any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence or other part of this act is adjudged unconstitutional or invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or...
• Section 34:1a-56 - Repealer
  All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are, to the extent of such inconsistency, superseded and repealed. L.1977, c. 225, s.
• Section 34:1a-69.1 - Immunity From Liability For Injury Caused By Product Or Invention Fostered Or Advanced By L.1977, C. 429
  The State, its offices, departments, divisions, bureaus, boards, commissions and agencies, including the Office for Promoting Technical Innovation, as well as the employees thereof,...
• Section 34:1a-69.2 - Nonliability For Debts, Claims, Obligations Or Judgments Incurred By Or Asserted Against Party To Agreements Under L.1977, C. 429
  The State, its offices, departments, divisions, bureaus, boards, commissions, and agencies, including the Office for Promoting Technical Innovation, as well as the employees thereof,...
• Section 34:1a-69.3 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New Products, New Jobs Act of 1980." L.1981, c. 53, s. 5, eff....
• Section 34:1a-70 - Legislative Findings And Declarations
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that it is not in the public interest for any citizens of this State to be unemployed solely...
• Section 34:1a-71 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Jobs Transportation Demonstration Act of 1978." L.1978, c. 41, s. 2.
• Section 34:1a-72 - Demonstration Projects To Transport Persons To Job Sites, Interviews And Training; Funding
  The Commissioner of the Department of Labor and Industry is hereby authorized to develop and administer a program to provide funds for demonstration projects...
• Section 34:1a-73 - Standards For Allocation Of Funds
  The commissioner shall establish standards for the allocation of funds pursuant to this act which standards shall: a. Be responsive to areas of high...
• Section 34:1a-74 - Authorized Intra-state Services
  Demonstration projects funded under this act shall be limited to three basic intra-State services as follows: a. Transporting persons from employment service centers, or...
• Section 34:1a-75 - Rules And Regulations
  The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations deemed necessary and proper to administer the act. L.1978, c. 41, s. 6.
• Section 34:1a-85 - Definitions Relative To State's Workforce Investment System.
  26.As used in sections 26 through 29 of P.L.2005, c.354 (C.34:1A-85 through C.34:1A-88): "Career cluster" means any of the career clusters and related educational...
• Section 34:1a-86 - Center For Occupational Employment Information.
  27.There is established in the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, the Center for Occupational Employment Information, which shall: a.Serve as the entity designated...
• Section 34:1a-87 - Steering Committee To Manage Center.
  28.The center shall be managed by a Steering Committee comprised of the Commissioners of Community Affairs, Education, Health and Senior Services, Human Services, and...
• Section 34:1a-88 - Authority To Access Files, Records.
  29. a. The Center for Occupational Employment Information and the State Employment and Training Commission are authorized to access the files and records of...
• Section 34:1b-1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as "The New Jersey Economic Development Authority Act." L.1974, c. 80, s. 1, eff. Aug....
• Section 34:1b-2 - Legislative Findings, Determinations.
  2.The Legislature hereby finds and determines that: a.Department of Labor and Workforce Development statistics of recent years indicate a continuing decline in manufacturing employment...
• Section 34:1b-3 - Definitions.
  3.As used in the provisions of P.L.1974, c.80 (C.34:1B-1 et seq.), P.L.1979, c.303 (C.34:1B-5.1 et seq.), sections 50 through 54 of P.L.2000, c.72 (C.34:1B-5.5...
• Section 34:1b-4 - "New Jersey Economic Development Authority."
  4. a. There is hereby established in, but not of, the Department of the Treasury a public body corporate and politic, with corporate succession,...
• Section 34:1b-4.1 - Contracts To Secure Bonds, Other Obligations.
  6. a. The New Jersey Economic Development Authority and the State Treasurer are hereby authorized to enter into one or more contracts to secure,...
• Section 34:1b-5 - Powers.
  5.The authority shall have the following powers: a.To adopt bylaws for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct of its business; b.To adopt...
• Section 34:1b-5.1 - Rules And Regulations Relative To Payment Of Prevailing Wage Rate; "Authority Financial Assistance" Defined.
  1.The New Jersey Economic Development Authority shall adopt rules and regulations requiring that not less than the prevailing wage rate be paid to workers...
• Section 34:1b-5.2 - Administration And Enforcement Of Rules And Regulations
  2.The rules and regulations adopted under section 1 of this act shall provide for the proper and appropriate administration and enforcement of such regulations....
• Section 34:1b-5.3 - Violation Of Rules And Regulations
  A violation of the rules and regulations adopted pursuant to section 1 of this act shall be deemed to be a violation of P.L.1963,...
• Section 34:1b-5.4 - Rules, Regulations Relative To Establishment Of Affirmative Action Program.
  4. a. The New Jersey Economic Development Authority shall adopt rules and regulations to establish an affirmative action program for the hiring of minority...
• Section 34:1b-5.5 - Limitation Of Claims, Damages, Losses, Liabilities, Costs For School Facilities Projects.
  50.In the exercise of powers granted by P.L.2000, c.72 (C.18A:7G-1 et al.) and P.L.2007, c.137 (C.52:18A-235 et al.) in connection with any school facilities...
• Section 34:1b-5.9 - Bonds Deemed Fully Negotiable.
  54.Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary, any bonds issued pursuant to P.L.2000, c.72 (C.18A:7G-1 et al.) or P.L.2007, c.137 (C.52:18A-235 et...
• Section 34:1b-6 - Determinations Prior To Commitment For Assistance.
  6.Prior to making any commitment for assistance, the authority shall, by resolution duly adopted, find and determine, on the basis of all information reasonably...
• Section 34:1b-7 - Economic Development Fund
  a. The authority shall establish and maintain a special fund called the "economic development fund" into which shall be deposited such moneys (1) as...
• Section 34:1b-7.1 - Legislative Findings And Declarations
  The Legislature finds that there continue to exist in the State's urban communities high unemployment, low levels of new capital investment, depressed living and...
• Section 34:1b-7.2 - Fund For Community Development Purposes
  2. The economic development fund established in the New Jersey Economic Development Authority under section 7 of P.L.1974, c.80 (C.34:1B-7) shall be a fund...
• Section 34:1b-7.3 - Appropriations To Economic Development Fund; Use
  Amounts appropriated to the economic development fund from the "Community Development Bond Fund" shall be used for the purpose of paying or financing the...
• Section 34:1b-7.4 - Financing Of Projects; Economic Feasibility And Recovery Of Costs
  Financing of projects pursuant to this act shall be in such form, amount and on such terms as the authority shall believe necessary in...
• Section 34:1b-7.5 - Projects; Factors For Consideration For Financial Assistance
  With respect to projects for which costs are to be financed by the authority pursuant to this act, the authority shall in determining those...
• Section 34:1b-7.6 - Annual Report
  The authority shall annually report to the Governor and the Legislature concerning the financing of projects undertaken, and concerning projects planned to be undertaken,...
• Section 34:1b-7.7 - Repayment By Economic Development Authority
  The New Jersey Economic Development Authority, as successor to the New Jersey State Area Redevelopment Authority through the Executive Reorganization Plan filed February 27,...
• Section 34:1b-7.8 - Funds Transferred
  All sums appropriated or transferred to the New Jersey Area Redevelopment Authority, except those referred to in section 1 of this act, or to...
• Section 34:1b-7.9 - Prepayment At Discount
  The New Jersey Economic Development Authority, as successor to the New Jersey State Area Redevelopment Authority, may, after negotiation and agreement with the State...
• Section 34:1b-7.10 - Short Title
  1. Sections one through ten of this act shall be known and may be cited as the "Economic Recovery Fund Act." L.1992,c.16,s.1.
• Section 34:1b-7.11 - Findings, Determinations
  2. The Legislature finds and determines that limitations on the availability of loan funds from financial institutions has seriously impeded the development and completion...
• Section 34:1b-7.12 - "Economic Recovery Fund" Established
  3. a. The New Jersey Economic Development Authority shall establish and maintain a special nonlapsing fund to be known as the "Economic Recovery Fund,"...
• Section 34:1b-7.13 - Use Of Moneys In Fund.
  4.The authority may use the moneys in the fund to pay principal of, premium, if any, and interest on bonds or notes, which shall...
• Section 34:1b-7.14 - Determination Of Projects To Be Financed
  5. With respect to projects to be financed by the authority pursuant to this act and undertaken with moneys from the Economic Recovery Fund,...
• Section 34:1b-7.15 - Payments To Economic Recovery Fund
  6. Commencing with fiscal year 1992, the State Treasurer shall in each fiscal year pay from the General Fund to the Economic Recovery Fund,...
• Section 34:1b-7.16 - Contracts For Implementation Of Payment Arrangement
  7. The State Treasurer and the authority are authorized to enter into one or more contracts to implement the payment arrangement that is provided...
• Section 34:1b-7.17 - Report To Governor, Legislature
  8. The authority shall report six months after the effective date of this section, and annually thereafter not later than September 15, to the...
• Section 34:1b-7.18 - Legislative Approval Of Certain Transactions
  9. Notice of loans, guarantees, grants or other forms of financing for projects from such funds as may be made available under subsections a....
• Section 34:1b-7.19 - Definitions; Program Authorized
  10. a. The following words or terms as used in this section shall have the following meaning unless a different meaning clearly appears from...
• Section 34:1b-7.20 - Short Title
  1. Sections 1 through 10 of this 1993 amendatory and supplementary act shall be known and may be cited as the "Public School Capital...
• Section 34:1b-7.21 - Findings, Declarations
  2. The Legislature finds and declares that the northeastern region of the country and New Jersey, in particular, continues to be seriously affected by...
• Section 34:1b-7.22 - Definitions
  3. As used in this act: "Authority" means the New Jersey Economic Development Authority established by section 4 of P.L.1974, c.80 (C.34:1B-4); "Commissioner" means...
• Section 34:1b-7.23 - "Public School Facilities Code Compliance Loan Fund"
  4. a. The authority shall establish and maintain a special nonlapsing revolving fund to be known as the "Public School Facilities Code Compliance Loan...
• Section 34:1b-7.24 - "Public School Facilities Loan Assistance Fund"
  5. a. The authority shall establish and maintain a special nonlapsing revolving fund to be known as the "Public School Facilities Loan Assistance Fund,"...
• Section 34:1b-7.25 - Issuance Of Bonds; "Public Schools Small Projects Loan Assistance Fund"
  7. a. The New Jersey Economic Development Authority is authorized to issue bonds, in an aggregate amount not exceeding $100,000,000, the proceeds from which...
• Section 34:1b-7.26 - Preliminary Approval Of Loan Application
  8. In the case of a school district that has applied for any loan pursuant to this 1993 amendatory and supplementary act, and that...
• Section 34:1b-7.27 - Adoption Of Rules, Taking Administrative Action
  10. The authority is hereby empowered and directed to adopt summarily any rule, and to take any administrative action whatsoever, necessary to effectuate the...
• Section 34:1b-7.28 - Short Title
  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New Jersey Boat Industry Loan Guarantee Fund Act." L.1993,c.358,s.1.
• Section 34:1b-7.29 - Findings, Declarations
  2. The Legislature finds and declares that the regional and national economic downturn which began in late 1989 continues to negatively affect the State,...
• Section 34:1b-7.30 - Definitions
  3. As used in this act: "Authority" means the New Jersey Economic Development Authority established pursuant to section 4 of P.L.1974, c.80 (C.34:1B-4). "Boat"...
• Section 34:1b-7.31 - "New Jersey Boat Industry Loan Guarantee Program" Established
  4. The New Jersey Economic Development Authority shall establish a "New Jersey Boat Industry Loan Guarantee Program" to provide loan guarantees for boat manufacturers...
• Section 34:1b-7.32 - "New Jersey Boat Industry Loan Guarantee Fund"
  5. a. To implement the program, the authority shall establish and maintain a special revolving fund to be known as the "New Jersey Boat...
• Section 34:1b-7.33 - Establishment Of Reserves
  6. The authority shall establish sufficient reserves and liquid reserves to provide a sufficient and actuarially sound basis for its pledges contained in any...
• Section 34:1b-7.34 - Agreements
  7. The authority shall enter into agreements with participating banks and boat manufacturers or distributors qualified pursuant to subsection d. of section 5 of...
• Section 34:1b-7.35 - Report To Governor, Legislature
  8. Within fifteen months following the effective date of this act, and on or before February 15 of each succeeding year in which a...
• Section 34:1b-7.36 - Rules, Regulations
  9. The authority shall adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), any rules and regulations necessary to effectuate the...
• Section 34:1b-7.37 - Short Title
  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New Jersey Emerging Technology and Biotechnology Financial Assistance Act." L.1995,c.137,s.1.
• Section 34:1b-7.38 - Findings, Declarations
  2. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. Biotechnology is an emerging technology that holds great promise for designing living organisms that can be...
• Section 34:1b-7.39 - Definitions Relative To Emerging Technology, Biotechnology.
  3. As used in this act: "Authority" means the New Jersey Economic Development Authority established pursuant to section 4 of P.L.1974, c.80 (C.34:1B-4); "Biotechnology"...
• Section 34:1b-7.40 - "New Jersey Emerging Technology And Biotechnology Financial Assistance Program" Established
  4. The authority shall establish a "New Jersey Emerging Technology and Biotechnology Financial Assistance Program" to stimulate increased financing to help fund the costs...
• Section 34:1b-7.41 - "New Jersey Emerging Technology And Biotechnology Financial Assistance Fund"
  5. a. To implement the program, the authority shall establish and maintain a special account to be known as the "New Jersey Emerging Technology...
• Section 34:1b-7.42 - Applications For Money From Fund; Criteria; Agreements.
  6. a. Applications for money from the assistance fund established under this act shall be submitted by emerging technology or biotechnology companies in a...
• Section 34:1b-7.42a - Corporation Business Tax Benefit Certificate Transfer Program.
  1. a. The New Jersey Economic Development Authority shall establish within the New Jersey Emerging Technology and Biotechnology Financial Assistance Program established pursuant to...
• Section 34:1b-7.42b - Definitions Relative To Certain Corporation Tax Benefit Program.
  1.As used in P.L.1997, c.334 (C.34:1B-7.42a et al.): "Authority" means the New Jersey Economic Development Authority established pursuant to section 4 of P.L.1974, c.80...
• Section 34:1b-7.42c - Authorization To Approve Certain Transfers Of Tax Benefits.
  1.Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection b. of section 1 of P.L.1997, c.334 (C.34:1B-7.42a) or the provisions of any other law, rule, or regulation to...
• Section 34:1b-7.43 - Report
  7. Not later than one year following the effective date of this act, and for each succeeding year in which a financial assistance agreement...
• Section 34:1b-7.44 - Rules, Regulations
  8. The authority shall adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), any rules and regulations necessary to effectuate the...
• Section 34:1b-7.45 - Short Title
  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Pension Bond Financing Act of 1997." L.1997,c.114,s.1.
• Section 34:1b-7.46 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Issuance Of Bonds, Notes, Other Obligations To Fund Accrued Pension Liability
  2. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. The State currently makes contributions on an annual basis to fund the State's obligations under its...
• Section 34:1b-7.47 - Definitions Relative To Issuance Of Bonds, Notes, Other Obligations To Fund Accrued Pension Liability
  3. As used in this act: a. "Bonds" means bonds, notes or other obligations issued by the authority pursuant to this act. b. "New...
• Section 34:1b-7.48 - Powers Of Authority Concerning Bonds
  4. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, rule, regulation or order to the contrary: a. The authority shall have the power, pursuant to the...
• Section 34:1b-7.49 - Payments Of Debt Service To Authority; Schedule
  5. a. The State Treasurer shall, in each State fiscal year, pay from the General Fund to the authority, in accordance with a contract...
• Section 34:1b-7.50 - State, Authority Contracts Authorized; Terms, Conditions
  6. The State Treasurer and the authority are authorized to enter into one or more contracts to implement the payment arrangement that is provided...
• Section 34:1b-7.51 - Annual Report, Contents
  7. The State Treasurer shall, on or before April 1 of each year, issue a report on the financing provided for in this act...
• Section 34:1b-7.52 - Supersedure By Act
  8. It is the intent of the Legislature that in the event of any conflict or inconsistency between the provisions of this act and...
• Section 34:1b-7.53 - Severability Of Act
  9. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this act shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid,...
• Section 34:1b-8 - Public Utility Facilities; Definition; Powers
  The authority shall also have power to make reasonable regulations for the installation, construction, maintenance, repair, renewal, relocation, and removal of tracks, pipes, mains,...
• Section 34:1b-9 - Power To Authorize Issuance Of Bonds.
  9.For the purpose of providing funds (a) to pay all or any part of the cost of any project or projects, (b) to make...
• Section 34:1b-10 - Powers Of Authority By Resolution.
  10.By resolution, the authority shall have power to incur indebtedness, borrow money and issue its bonds for the purposes stated in section 9 of...
• Section 34:1b-11 - Bonds; Negotiability
  Any provision of any law to the contrary notwithstanding, any bond or other obligation issued pursuant to this act shall be fully negotiable within...
• Section 34:1b-12 - Covenants With Bondholders
  In order to secure the payment of such bonds and in addition to its other powers, the authority shall have power by resolution to...
• Section 34:1b-13 - Pledge Of Revenues; Lien
  Any pledge of revenues or other moneys made by the authority shall be valid and binding from the time when the pledge is made;...
• Section 34:1b-14 - Nonliability Of Members Of Authority, Or Of State Or Political Subdivision
  Neither the members of the authority nor any person executing bonds issued pursuant to this act shall be liable personally on the bonds by...
• Section 34:1b-15 - Powers Constitute Essential Governmental Function; Tax Exempt Status.
  15.The exercise of the powers granted by this act, P.L.2000, c.72 (C.18A:7G-1 et al.), and P.L.2007, c.137 (C.52:18A-235 et al.) shall constitute the performance...
• Section 34:1b-15.1 - Contiguous Municipalities With Project; Agreements To Share Revenues; Reciprocal Ordinances
  The governing bodies of any two contiguous municipalities within which is located or is to be located a New Jersey Economic Development Authority project...
• Section 34:1b-15.2 - Agreement; Apportionment Of Costs Of Services And Services To Be Supplied
  Any agreement entered into pursuant to section 1 of this act for the sharing of payments and revenues derived from a project shall also...
• Section 34:1b-16 - Legal Investments
  Notwithstanding any restriction contained in any other law, the State and all political subdivisions of this State, their officers, boards, commissioners, departments or other...
• Section 34:1b-17 - Sureties Or Collateral For Deposits Of Authority
  All banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks, investment companies and other persons carrying on a banking business are hereby authorized to give to the...
• Section 34:1b-18 - Inapplicability Of Other Laws
  The foregoing sections of this act shall be deemed to provide a complete method for the doing of things authorized thereby and shall be...
• Section 34:1b-19 - Severability
  If any section, part, phrase, or provision of this act of the application thereof to any person, project or circumstances, be adjudged invalid by...
• Section 34:1b-20 - Counties; Contracts With Authority; Resolution; Powers For Financial Aid
  a. Any county, by resolution of its governing body, shall have power to enter into contracts with the authority relating to any project or...
• Section 34:1b-21 - Property Of Authority; Exemption From Execution Or Other Judicial Process
  All property of an authority shall be exempt from levy and sale by virtue of an execution and no execution or other judicial process...
• Section 34:1b-21.1 - Short Title
  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Good Driver Protection Act of 1994." L.1994,c.57,s.1.
• Section 34:1b-21.2 - Findings, Declarations
  2. The Legislature hereby finds and declares: a. The Market Transition Facility, created pursuant to section 88 of P.L.1990, c.8 (C.17:33B-11) to serve as...
• Section 34:1b-21.3 - Definitions
  3. For the purposes of sections 1 through 15 of this act: "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Insurance. "Division of Motor Vehicles Surcharge Fund"...
• Section 34:1b-21.4 - Issuance Of Market Transition Facility, Motor Vehicle Commission Bonds, Notes.
  4. a. The authority shall have the power to issue Market Transition Facility bonds or notes in an amount not to exceed $ 750...
• Section 34:1b-21.5 - Powers Of Authority.
  5. a. For the purpose of providing funds for payment of current and anticipated liabilities and expenses of the facility, the authority shall have...
• Section 34:1b-21.5a - Applicability Of P. L.2004, C.83 To Prior Bond Proceeds.
  3. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, the provisions of section 4 of P.L.1994, c.57 (C.34:1B-21.4) and section 5 of P.L.1994,...
• Section 34:1b-21.6 - Payment Of Redemption Of Bonds, Notes.
  6.The authority may, in any resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds or notes, pledge the Facility Revenue Fund or a portion thereof for...
• Section 34:1b-21.7 - "Market Transition Facility Revenue Fund."
  7.There is created within the authority a special nonlapsing fund, to be known as the "Market Transition Facility Revenue Fund." The Facility Revenue Fund...
• Section 34:1b-21.8 - Use Of Monies, Agreements, Exemption From Taxation.
  8. a. The authority may use the monies in the Market Transition Facility Revenue Fund to pay the principal and interest and premium, if...
• Section 34:1b-21.9 - Bonds, Notes As Special, Limited Obligations.
  9.Market Transition Facility bonds and notes issued by the authority shall be special and limited obligations which are payable only from monies on deposit...
• Section 34:1b-21.10 - State Pledge Regarding Bonds, Notes, Other Obligations.
  10.The State hereby pledges and covenants with the holders of any Market Transition Facility bonds, notes or other obligations and New Jersey Motor Vehicle...
• Section 34:1b-21.11 - Statement From Department Of The Treasury, Authority
  11. No later than four months following the issuance of any Market Transition Facility bonds or notes, the Department of the Treasury, in conjunction...
• Section 34:1b-21.12 - "Division Of Motor Vehicles Surcharge Fund."
  12.There is created within the Department of the Treasury a special nonlapsing fund to be known as the "Division of Motor Vehicles Surcharge Fund,"...
• Section 34:1b-21.13 - Agreements Between Eda And State; Eda And Motor Vehicle Commission.
  13. a. The State Treasurer and the authority may enter into any agreements as may be necessary to effectuate the provisions of this act,...
• Section 34:1b-21.14 - Transfer Of Monies To Facility Revenue Fund
  14. The State Treasurer shall, as soon as practicable after the effective date of this act, and upon appropriation by the Legislature, transfer to...
• Section 34:1b-21.15 - Semi-annual Reports
  15. a. The commissioner shall prepare a semi-annual report for the Governor, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the General Assembly...
• Section 34:1b-21.16 - Short Title.
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Cigarette Tax Securitization Act of 2004." L.2004,c.68,s.1.
• Section 34:1b-21.17 - Definitions Relative To Issuance Of Cigarette Tax Securitization Bonds.
  2.The following words or terms as used in this act shall have the following meanings unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:...
• Section 34:1b-21.18 - "Cigarette Tax Securitization Proceeds Fund."
  3. a. The authority shall establish and maintain a special nonlapsing fund to be known as the "Cigarette Tax Securitization Proceeds Fund" into which...
• Section 34:1b-21.19 - Powers Of Authority.
  4.Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, rule, regulation or order to the contrary: a.The authority shall have the power, pursuant to and in accordance...
• Section 34:1b-21.20 - "Dedicated Cigarette Tax Revenue Fund."
  5. a. There is hereby created and established in the Department of the Treasury a separate nonlapsing fund to be known as the "Dedicated...
• Section 34:1b-21.21 - Contracts To Implement Payment Arrangement.
  6.The State Treasurer and the authority are authorized to enter into one or more contracts to implement the payment arrangement that is provided for...
• Section 34:1b-21.22 - "Cigarette Tax Securitization Fund."
  7.There is hereby created and established in the Department of the Treasury a separate non-lapsing fund to be known as the "Cigarette Tax Securitization...
• Section 34:1b-21.23 - Short Title.
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Motor Vehicle Surcharges Securitization Act of 2004." L.2004,c.70,s.1.
• Section 34:1b-21.24 - Definitions Relative To Motor Vehicle Surcharges Securitization Bonds.
  2.The following words or terms as used in this act shall have the following meanings unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:...
• Section 34:1b-21.25 - "Motor Vehicle Surcharges Securitization Proceeds Fund."
  3. a. The authority shall establish and maintain a special nonlapsing fund to be known as the "Motor Vehicle Surcharges Securitization Proceeds Fund" into...
• Section 34:1b-21.25a - Findings, Declarations Relative To Special Needs Housing; Trust Fund, Established; Use.
  1. a. The Legislature finds and declares that: (1)The State of New Jersey has the responsibility of providing for and assuring the continued operation...
• Section 34:1b-21.26 - Powers Of Authority.
  4.Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, rule, regulation or order to the contrary: a.The authority shall have the power, pursuant to and in accordance...
• Section 34:1b-21.27 - "Unsafe Driving Surcharges Fund."
  5.There is hereby established in the Department of the Treasury a special nonlapsing fund to be known as the "Unsafe Driving Surcharges Fund" which,...
• Section 34:1b-21.28 - "Motor Vehicle Surcharges Revenue Fund."
  6. a. There is created within the authority a special nonlapsing fund, to be known as the "Motor Vehicle Surcharges Revenue Fund." The Motor...
• Section 34:1b-21.29 - Contracts To Implement Payment Arrangement.
  7.The State Treasurer and the authority are authorized to enter into one or more contracts to implement the payment arrangement that is provided for...
• Section 34:1b-21.30 - Motor Vehicle Surcharges Securitization Fund.
  11.There is hereby created in the Department of the Treasury a separate nonlapsing fund to be known as the Motor Vehicle Surcharges Securitization Fund....
• Section 34:1b-21.31 - Definitions Relative To Financing Of Certain Stem Cell, Life Sciences, And Biomedical Research Facilities.
  1.As used in this act, the following words or terms shall have the following meanings unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:...
• Section 34:1b-21.32 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Certain Stem Cell, Life Sciences, And Biomedical Research.
  2.The Legislature finds and declares that: Millions of people suffer from currently incurable diseases and injuries, and recent medical science, including the use of...
• Section 34:1b-21.33 - Powers Of Authority.
  3.Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, rule, regulation or order to the contrary: a.The authority shall have the power, pursuant to the provisions of...
• Section 34:1b-21.34 - Appropriations For Payment Of Obligations Incurred.
  4.In each State fiscal year during which the authority has outstanding bonds or refunding bonds which have been issued pursuant to this act, or...
• Section 34:1b-21.35 - Contracts To Implement Payment Arrangement.
  5.The State Treasurer and the authority are authorized to enter into one or more contracts to implement the payment arrangement that is provided for...
• Section 34:1b-21.36 - Amounts Provided By Authority; Projects, Amounts, Certain.
  6.From the proceeds of the bonds issued pursuant to section 3 of P.L.2006, c.102 (C.34:1B-21.33) for State capital construction projects, the following amounts shall...
• Section 34:1b-22 - Short Title
  This act shall be known as the "Motion Picture and Television Development Act" . L.1977, c. 44, s. 1, eff. March 22, 1977.
• Section 34:1b-23 - Legislative Findings And Determinations
  The Legislature finds and determines that the economy of the State of New Jersey has suffered considerably in recent years because of the inflation...
• Section 34:1b-24 - Motion Picture And Television Development Commission.
  3. a. There is hereby established in but not of the Division of Business Assistance, Marketing, and International Trade in the New Jersey Economic...
• Section 34:1b-25 - Organization; Vote Required; Executive Director And Other Employees
  The Motion Picture and Television Development Commission shall organize itself in such manner as it deems desirable and necessary, but no action shall be...
• Section 34:1b-26 - Annual Report
  On or before December 31 of each year, the Motion Picture and Television Development Commission shall make an annual report of its activities for...
• Section 34:1b-27 - Powers.
  6.The Motion Picture and Television Development Commission shall have the following powers: a.To adopt such rules and regulations as it deems advisable with respect...
• Section 34:1b-28 - Programs To Promote Motion Picture And Television Industry
  The Motion Picture and Television Development Commission shall prepare and implement programs to promote a motion picture and television industry within the State. Such...
• Section 34:1b-29 - Severability
  If any section, part, phrase, or provision of this act or the application thereof to any person, project or circumstances, be adjudged invalid by...
• Section 34:1b-30 - Legislative Findings
  The Legislature finds: a. During the past decade, a number of industrial plants and other facilities located in this State have permanently terminated operations...
• Section 34:1b-31 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Worker Owned Corporation Study Act" . L.1981, c. 82, s. 2, eff. March...
• Section 34:1b-32 - Study Of Best Means To Encourage Employee Stock Ownership Plans
  The Department of Labor and Industry is directed to undertake a study as to the best means of providing encouragement and assistance to the...
• Section 34:1b-33 - Conduct Of Study; Considerations, Consultations And Investigations
  In conducting its study, the department shall: a. consider Federal and State law relating directly or indirectly to these plans, and to the organization...
• Section 34:1b-34 - Development Of Plan
  Pursuant to the findings and conclusions of the study conducted as provided in sections 3. and 4. of this act, the Department of Labor...
• Section 34:1b-35 - Annual Reports To Legislature
  The Commissioner of the Department of Labor and Industry shall within 1 year of the effective date of this act report the findings and...
• Section 34:1b-36 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New Jersey Local Development Financing Fund Act." L.1983, c. 190, s. 1, eff....
• Section 34:1b-37 - Legislative Findings And Declaration
  The Legislature finds that there continue to exist in the State areas of high unemployment, low levels of new capital investment, depressed living and...
• Section 34:1b-38 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Fund" means the New Jersey Local Development Financing Fund established in section 4 of this act. b. "Commissioner"...
• Section 34:1b-39 - Establishment Of Fund; Source Of Deposits; Use Of Funds
  There is established the New Jersey Local Development Financing Fund, a special depository fund into which shall be deposited moneys for carrying out the...
• Section 34:1b-40 - Form, Amount And Terms Of Financial Assistance; Repayment
  Financial assistance provided from the fund shall include, but not be limited to, loans, loan guarantees, grants, secondary mortgages and equity participation. The form,...
• Section 34:1b-41 - Criteria For Evaluating And Ranking Applications For Financial Assistance
  The commissioner shall evaluate and rank each application for financial assistance for a project in accordance with the following criteria: a. Primary criterion: (1)...
• Section 34:1b-42 - Schedule Of Application Periods; Ranking Of Applications; Finding Of Feasibility
  The commissioner shall annually establish a schedule of discrete application periods for the next year, provided that no period shall be less than one...
• Section 34:1b-43 - Project Plan; Contents; Determinations Prior To Final Approval
  a. Prior to final approval of financial assistance under this act, the project sponsor shall file with the commissioner a project plan which shall...
• Section 34:1b-44 - Approval Or Disapproval Of Application; Notice
  Upon receipt of any revised project plan prepared as a result of any recommendations made pursuant to the provisions of section 7 of this...
• Section 34:1b-45 - Arrangement For Financial Assistance; Repayment
  Upon receipt of a copy of the notice of approval of a project as an eligible project and accompanying statement of the terms of...
• Section 34:1b-46 - Report
  The commissioner shall require each sponsor of an eligible project receiving assistance from the New Jersey Local Development Financing Fund pursuant to the provisions...
• Section 34:1b-47 - Findings, Declarations
  The Legislature finds and declares: a. That entrepreneurship is a vital component of the national heritage that fosters the health and dynamism of the...
• Section 34:1b-48 - Definitions
  For the purposes of this act: a. "Authority" means the New Jersey Development Authority for Small Businesses, Minorities and Women's Enterprises established pursuant to...
• Section 34:1b-49 - Development Authority For Small Businesses, Minorities And Women's Enterprises
  a. There is established in but not of the Department of Commerce and Economic Development the New Jersey Development Authority for Small Businesses, Minorities'...
• Section 34:1b-50 - Powers Of Authority
  The authority shall have the power: a. To adopt bylaws for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct of its business, which shall...
• Section 34:1b-51 - Loans, Other Extensions Of Credit
  a. The authority may make long-term or short-term loans or other extensions of credit to eligible businesses under terms and conditions established by the...
• Section 34:1b-52 - Waiver Of Bonding Requirements
  a. The authority shall establish requirements as may be necessary and practical for the use of minority or women's businesses on projects financed in...
• Section 34:1b-53 - Issuance Of Bonds
  The authority shall, by resolution of the board, have the power to incur indebtedness, borrow money and issue bonds to provide long-term and short-term...
• Section 34:1b-54 - No State Liability
  Bonds and notes of the authority issued under the provisions of this act shall not be in any way a debt or liability of...
• Section 34:1b-55 - Bonds Fully Negotiable
  Any bond or other obligation issued by the authority pursuant to this act shall be fully negotiable, within the meaning and for the purposes...
• Section 34:1b-56 - Power To Covenant
  In order to secure the payment of its bonds and in addition to its other powers, the authority shall have power by resolution to...
• Section 34:1b-57 - Casino Authority Investments
  On obligations purchased or monies otherwise invested by the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority as required by section 33 of P.L. 1984, c. 218 (C....
• Section 34:1b-58 - Contracts Binding
  All provisions of the resolution and all covenants and agreements shall constitute valid and legally-binding contracts between the authority and the several holders of...
• Section 34:1b-59 - No Personal Interest
  No member of the board, officer, employee or agent of the authority shall have an interest, either directly or indirectly, in any project, transaction...
• Section 34:1b-60 - Expenses From Revenues
  All expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of this act shall be payable solely from revenues or funds provided or to be provided...
• Section 34:1b-61 - Authorized Investment
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, the State, its political subdivisions, agencies and instrumentalities, their officers, boards, commissioners, departments, any...
• Section 34:1b-62 - Short Title
  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New Jersey Global Export Network Act." L.1993,c.197,s.1.
• Section 34:1b-63 - Findings, Determinations
  2. The Legislature finds and determines that: a. The rapid change in global political and economic events and the effects thereof on the economy...
• Section 34:1b-64 - Definitions
  3. As used in this act: "Authority" means the New Jersey Economic Development Authority established pursuant to section 4 of P.L.1974, c.80 (C.34:1B-4). "Eligible...
• Section 34:1b-65 - "New Jersey Global Export Network Program"
  4. The New Jersey Economic Development Authority shall, in consultation with the Division of International Trade and the Division of Economic Development in the...
• Section 34:1b-66 - "Global Export Network Assistance Fund"
  5. a. In order to effectuate the purposes of the program, the authority shall establish and maintain a special non-lapsing revolving fund to be...
• Section 34:1b-67 - Establishment Of Reserves, Liquid Reserves
  6. The authority shall establish sufficient reserves and liquid reserves, aside from those moneys required to provide a sufficient and actuarially sound basis for...
• Section 34:1b-68 - Agreements With Participating Banks
  7. The authority shall enter into agreements with participating banks to use the moneys from the network assistance fund to provide up to 25%...
• Section 34:1b-69 - Rules, Regulations
  8. The authority shall, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), adopt rules and regulations governing the making of loans,...
• Section 34:1b-70 - Short Title
  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Micro-Business Development and Assistance Act." L.1995,c.206,s.1.
• Section 34:1b-71 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Microlending
  2. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. Approximately 98% of New Jersey's employers are small business operators and more than 1.5 million employees...
• Section 34:1b-72 - Definitions
  3. As used in this act: "Certified micro-business development corporation" means a micro-business development corporation certified pursuant to section 7 of this act; "Commissioner"...
• Section 34:1b-73 - New Jersey Micro-business Assistance Program
  4. a. There is created, in the New Jersey Economic Development Authority , a "New Jersey Micro-Business Assistance Program," hereinafter, "the program." The program...
• Section 34:1b-74 - "New Jersey Micro-business Assistance Fund"
  5. a. To implement the program, the authority shall establish and maintain a special revolving fund to be known as the "New Jersey Micro-Business...
• Section 34:1b-75 - Development Loans To Micro-business Development Corporations
  6. a. The authority shall use the moneys in the assistance fund established pursuant to section 5 of this act to make development loans...
• Section 34:1b-76 - Certification Of Micro-business Development Corporation
  7. The authority may certify a micro-business development corporation when it determines that the corporation: a. has developed a viable plan for providing training,...
• Section 34:1b-77 - Additional Powers Of Authority
  8. a. The authority shall have, in addition to the powers enumerated in section 5 of P.L.1974, c.80 (C.34:1B-5), the power to enter into...
• Section 34:1b-78 - Additional Duties Of Authority
  9. In addition to the duties of the authority required under section 7 of P.L.1974, c.80 (C.34:1B-7), the authority shall, in conjunction with certified...
• Section 34:1b-79 - Rules, Regulations
  10. The authority and the department shall jointly adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), rules and regulations as...
• Section 34:1b-80 - Short Title
  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New Jersey Industry Sector Network Development Act." L.1995,c.207,s.1.
• Section 34:1b-81 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Strategies Promoting Businesses
  2. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. The Department of Commerce and Economic Development admirably provides generic services and technical assistance to businesses...
• Section 34:1b-82 - Definitions
  3. As used in this act: "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Commerce and Economic Development; "Department" means the Department of Commerce and Economic Development;...
• Section 34:1b-83 - Assistance To Key Industries
  4. The commissioner may undertake to act through the Division of Economic Development, or through a nonprofit entity which may include a nonprofit corporation...
• Section 34:1b-84 - Coordination, Cooperation With Programs, Organizations
  5. In implementing the goals of section 4 of this act, the commissioner shall encourage the division or a designated nonprofit entity, as the...
• Section 34:1b-85 - Private Industry Membership Fees For Sector Networks
  6. To the extent that the commissioner acts pursuant to section 4 of this act, the commissioner shall encourage industry sector networks to support...
• Section 34:1b-86 - Allocation Of Matching Funds
  7. The commissioner may allocate matching funds to help an industry sector network with network start-up costs and activities in order to stimulate private...
• Section 34:1b-87 - Rules, Regulations
  8. The commissioner shall, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), adopt any rule and regulation necessary to effectuate the...
• Section 34:1b-88 - Short Title
  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New Jersey Business Relocation Mission Private Partnership Act." L.1995,c.208,s.1.
• Section 34:1b-89 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Business Relocations
  2. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. A 1993 survey of business relocations reveals that business relocations to New Jersey came from 12...
• Section 34:1b-90 - Establishment Of State Relocation Missions, Terms Defined
  3. The Department of Commerce and Economic Development, hereinafter "the department," acting through the Division of Economic Development, or through a nonprofit entity designated...
• Section 34:1b-91 - Establishment Of Foreign Relocation Missions
  4. The department, acting through the Division of International Trade, or through a nonprofit entity designated by the department which may include a nonprofit...
• Section 34:1b-92 - Report To Governor, Legislature
  5. The department shall, within 18 months following the effective date of this act, submit a report to the Governor and the Legislature describing...
• Section 34:1b-93 - Short Title
  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Export Financing Opportunities Act." L.1995,c.209,s.1.
• Section 34:1b-94 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Export Financing.
  2.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.Currently, despite the existence of banks with active international export departments, small and medium-sized businesses in New Jersey...
• Section 34:1b-95 - Definitions.
  3.As used in this act: "Authority" means the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, established pursuant to section 4 of P.L.1974, c.80 (C.34:1B-4). "Commissioner" means...
• Section 34:1b-96 - Investment Of Moneys In Export Financing Company.
  4.The authority is authorized, notwithstanding any law to the contrary, to invest such moneys from the "Economic Recovery Fund," established pursuant to section 3...
• Section 34:1b-97 - Qualification As Export Financing Company.
  5.In order to qualify as an export financing company eligible to be the subject of an investment by the authority and by the other...
• Section 34:1b-98 - Purpose Of Company
  6. a. The company shall have as its purpose the making of loans and loan guarantees to small or medium-sized businesses to assist in...
• Section 34:1b-99 - Export Finance Company Advisory Council.
  7. a. There is established an Export Finance Company Advisory Council in, but not of, the Department of Commerce and Economic Development. The council...
• Section 34:1b-100 - Regional And Contractual Arrangements Encouraged
  8. Nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent the council from developing regional partnerships and contractual arrangements with other states which may...
• Section 34:1b-101 - Short Title
  1. This amendatory and supplementary act shall be known and may be cited as the "New Jersey Purchase First Program Act." L.1995,c.210,s.1.
• Section 34:1b-102 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Business Directories, Public-private Cooperation
  2. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. Hearings held by the General Assembly Task Force on Business Retention, Expansion and Export Opportunities revealed...
• Section 34:1b-103 - New Jersey Purchase First Program
  3. There is established, within the Department of Commerce and Economic Development, hereinafter "the department," the New Jersey Purchase First Program, hereinafter "the program."...
• Section 34:1b-104 - Development, Distribution Of Directories; "Industry Sector Network" Defined
  4. a. In order to implement the purpose of the program, the department shall, within one year of the effective date of this amendatory...
• Section 34:1b-105 - Report To Governor, Legislature
  6. Within 24 months of the effective date of this amendatory and supplementary act, the commissioner shall report to the Governor and the Legislature...
• Section 34:1b-106 - Rules, Regulations
  7. The department may adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), rules and regulations as may be necessary to...
• Section 34:1b-112 - Short Title.
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Business Retention and Relocation Assistance Act." L.1996,c.25,s.1; amended 2004, c.65, s.1.
• Section 34:1b-113 - Definitions Relative To Business Retention And Relocation Assistance.
  2.As used in this act: "Affiliate" means an entity that directly or indirectly controls, is under common control with, or is controlled by the...
• Section 34:1b-114 - Business Retention And Relocation Assistance Grant Program.
  3. a. The Business Retention and Relocation Assistance Grant Program is hereby established as a program under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey Economic...
• Section 34:1b-115 - Grant Of Tax Credits; Qualifications.
  4. a. To qualify for a grant of tax credits, a business shall enter into an agreement to undertake a project to: (1)relocate or...
• Section 34:1b-115.1 - Bonus Awards To Certain Businesses.
  5. a. In addition to any grant of tax credits determined pursuant to section 7 of P.L.2004, c.65 (C.34:1B-115.3), a bonus award equivalent to...
• Section 34:1b-115.2 - Qualification For Grant Of Tax Credits.
  6.To qualify for a grant of tax credits pursuant to P.L.1996, c.25 (C.34:1B-112 et seq.), a business shall demonstrate that the receipt of assistance...
• Section 34:1b-115.3 - Limit On Total Value Of Grants Of Tax Credits; Approval Schedule.
  7. a. The total value of the grants of tax credits, approved by the authority pursuant to P.L.1996, c.25 (C.34:1B-112 et seq.), that may...
• Section 34:1b-116 - Grant Application.
  5.Each business seeking a grant of tax credits for a project shall submit an application for approval of the project to the authority in...
• Section 34:1b-118 - Grant Limitations.
  7. a. A business that is receiving a business employment incentive grant pursuant to the provisions of P.L.1996, c.26 (C.34:1B-124 et al.) shall not...
• Section 34:1b-118.1 - Award, Amount Of Grant; Factors.
  11.In considering the award and the amount of any grant of tax credits made pursuant to P.L.1996, c.25 (C.34:1B-112 et seq.), the authority may...
• Section 34:1b-119 - Rules, Regulations Relative To Program.
  8.The authority shall, after consultation with the Director of the Division of Taxation, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.),...
• Section 34:1b-120 - Certificate Of Compliance Indicating Amount Of Tax Credits.
  9.As determined by the authority, a business which is awarded a grant of tax credits under P.L.1996, c.25 (C.34:1B-112 et seq.) shall submit annually,...
• Section 34:1b-120.1 - Rules For Recapture Of Tax Credits.
  14.The authority is authorized to pursue, and shall adopt rules for, the recapture of all, or a portion of, the grant of tax credits,...
• Section 34:1b-120.2 - Corporation Business Tax, Insurance Premiums Tax Credits.
  17. a. The authority shall establish a corporation business tax credit and insurance premiums tax credit certificate transfer program to allow businesses in this...
• Section 34:1b-121 - Annual Report On Program.
  10. The authority shall prepare and transmit to the Governor and the Legislature, pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1991, c.164 (C.52:14-19.1), on or before...
• Section 34:1b-123 - Appropriation Capped By Retained Tax Revenue.
  12. There is appropriated to the New Jersey Commerce and Economic Growth Commission from the General Fund such sums as may be necessary, as...
• Section 34:1b-124 - Short Title
  1. Sections 1 through 17 of this act shall be known and may be cited as the "Business Employment Incentive Program Act." L.1996,c.26,s.1.
• Section 34:1b-125 - Definitions Relative To Business Employment Incentives.
  2.As used in sections 1 through 17 of P.L.1996, c.26 (C.34:1B-124 et seq.) and in sections 9 through 11 of P.L.2003, c.166 (C.34:1B-139.1 through...
• Section 34:1b-126 - Business Employment Incentive Program Established
  3. There is established the Business Employment Incentive Program to be administered by the New Jersey Economic Development Authority. In order to foster job...
• Section 34:1b-127 - Project Requirements.
  4. a. A business may apply to the authority for a grant for any project which: (1)Will create at least 25 eligible positions in...
• Section 34:1b-128 - Grant Application.
  5.A business shall apply to the authority for a grant on a form prescribed by the authority which shall include: a.The name of the...
• Section 34:1b-129 - Employment Incentive Grant Criteria; Tax Credit Transfer Certificate.
  6. a. The amount of the employment incentive awarded as a grant by the authority shall either be awarded in cash or as a...
• Section 34:1b-130 - Incentive Agreement
  7. The business employment incentive agreement shall include, but shall not be limited to, the following: a. A detailed description of the proposed project...
• Section 34:1b-131 - Submission Of Nj Tax Return, Other Information; Audit.
  8. a. No later than March 1 of each year, for the preceding grant year, every business which is awarded a grant under this...
• Section 34:1b-132 - Failure Of Business To Comply, Circumstances
  9.a. If the business receiving a grant fails to meet or comply with any condition or requirement set forth in a grant agreement or...
• Section 34:1b-133 - Disbursement Conditions.
  10.No amount shall be disbursed to a recipient business as a grant under this act in any year until the State Treasurer has certified...
• Section 34:1b-134 - Grant Limitations.
  11. a. A business that is receiving a business relocation grant pursuant to the provisions of P.L.1996, c. 25 (C.34:1B-112 et seq.) shall not...
• Section 34:1b-135 - Implementation, Study.
  12. The department shall conduct a study to determine the minimum funding level required to implement the Business Employment Incentive Program successfully. Major consideration...
• Section 34:1b-136 - Fees
  13. The authority shall establish an application fee for a grant application and service fees payable by each business which is a grant recipient...
• Section 34:1b-137 - Rules.
  14. The New Jersey Economic Development Authority, after consultation with the department and the Division of Taxation, shall in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure...
• Section 34:1b-137.1 - Rules, Regulations.
  4.Notwithstanding any provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), to the contrary, the Executive Director of the New Jersey Economic...
• Section 34:1b-138 - Annual Report.
  15.The authority shall submit a report on the Business Employment Incentive Program to the Governor and, pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1991, c.164 (C.52:14-19.1),...
• Section 34:1b-139 - Appropriation Capped By New Revenues
  17. There is appropriated to the New Jersey Economic Development Authority from the General Fund such sums as may be necessary to fund the...
• Section 34:1b-139.1 - Powers Of Authority Relative To Bonds.
  9.Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, rule, regulation or order to the contrary: a.The authority shall have the power, pursuant to the provisions of...
• Section 34:1b-139.2 - Contract Payments To Authority For Debt Service.
  10. The State Treasurer shall, in each State fiscal year, pay from the General Fund to the authority, in accordance with a contract or...
• Section 34:1b-139.3 - Contracts Between State Treasurer And Authority Authorized.
  11. The State Treasurer and the authority are authorized to enter into one or more contracts to implement the payment arrangement that is provided...
• Section 34:1b-141 - Project Application Procedure; Priority List; Appropriations
  7. a. The Department of Commerce and Economic Development shall establish a process under which applicants may apply for monies made available from the...
• Section 34:1b-142 - Eligibility For Economic Development Site Funds
  8. a. To be eligible to receive monies from the "1996 Economic Development Site Fund," established pursuant to section 20 of P.L.1996, c.70, an...
• Section 34:1b-143 - Appropriation From Fund
  9. The Legislature shall, from time to time, appropriate monies from the "1996 Economic Development Site Fund," established pursuant to section 20 of P.L.1996,...
• Section 34:1b-144 - Short Title
  1. Sections 2 through 19 of this act shall be known and may be cited as the "Port Unification and Financing Act." L.1997,c.150,s.1.
• Section 34:1b-145 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Unification Of Ports
  2. The Legislature finds and declares: a. The Legislature of the State of New Jersey approved legislation in 1992, concurred in by the Commonwealth...
• Section 34:1b-146 - Definitions Relative To Unification Of Ports
  3. As used in this act: "Authority" or "New Jersey Economic Development Authority" means the New Jersey Economic Development Authority created pursuant to section...
• Section 34:1b-147 - Powers Of Authority
  4. a. For the purpose of providing funds for the financing of the establishment, acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, improvement and ownership of port facilities, the...
• Section 34:1b-148 - Payment Of, Redemption Of Bonds, Notes
  5. The authority may, in any resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds or notes pursuant to this act, pledge the Port Facility Revenue Fund...
• Section 34:1b-149 - "Port Facility Revenue Fund"
  6. There is created within the authority a special nonlapsing fund, to be known as the "Port Facility Revenue Fund." This fund shall consist...
• Section 34:1b-150 - Use Of Moneys In Port Facility Revenue Fund
  7. a. The authority may use moneys in the Port Facility Revenue Fund to pay the principal and interest and premium, if any, on...
• Section 34:1b-151 - Bonds, Notes Considered Special, Limited Obligations
  8. Bonds and notes issued by the authority pursuant to the provisions of this act shall be special and limited obligations which are payable...
• Section 34:1b-152 - Pledges, Covenants With Holders Of Bonds, Notes, Obligations
  9. The State hereby pledges and covenants with holders of any bonds, notes or other obligations issued pursuant to this act that it will...
• Section 34:1b-153 - Immunity For Authority, Members, Employees
  10. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, the State shall indemnify and save harmless the authority, its members or employees...
• Section 34:1b-154 - Immunity For South Jersey Port Corporation, Members, Employees
  11. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, the State Treasurer is authorized to enter into an agreement with the South...
• Section 34:1b-155 - Limited Immunity For Delaware River Port Authority
  12. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the State Treasurer is authorized to enter into an agreement with the Delaware River...
• Section 34:1b-156 - Agreements Authorized
  13. The State Treasurer and the authority may enter into any agreements as may be necessary to effectuate the provisions of this act, which...
• Section 34:1b-157 - Cooperation Of South Jersey Port Corporation With Authority To Effect Transfer
  14. a. The South Jersey Port Corporation shall cooperate with the authority in the defeasing, refunding or refinancing of the outstanding obligations of the...
• Section 34:1b-158 - Authority Not To Acquire Certain Port Facilities
  15. Notwithstanding the provisions of this act to the contrary, the authority shall not acquire from the South Jersey Port Corporation the former port...
• Section 34:1b-159 - Additional Powers Of Authority To Form Subsidiary
  16. a. To effectuate any of its authorized purposes either directly or indirectly, the authority, in addition to any powers granted to it elsewhere...
• Section 34:1b-160 - Joint Ventures
  17. The authority, or any subsidiary, may enter into agreements with any individual, partnership, trust, association or corporation, or any public agency, under which...
• Section 34:1b-161 - Written Summary Of Developments In Camden
  18. When undertaking any construction, reconstruction, or other improvement of property which is part of the marine facilities or redevelopment facilities located in the...
• Section 34:1b-162 - Authority's Activities, Tax Exempt; In Lieu Of Taxes On Commercial Activities
  19. a. The exercise of the powers granted by this act shall constitute the performance of an essential governmental function and the authority shall...
• Section 34:1b-163 - Eligibility Of Employees For State Health Benefits Program
  27. A subsidiary corporation or other corporation established by the Delaware River Port Authority which has employees eligible to participate in the State Health...
• Section 34:1b-164 - Concurrent Resolution Expressing Disapproval Of Legislature
  28. At any time, the Legislature may express its disapproval of a decision, action or procedure of the subsidiary corporation established by the Delaware...
• Section 34:1b-165 - Short Title.
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Local-State Business Incentive Promotion Act." L.1998,c.94,s.1.
• Section 34:1b-166 - Definitions Relative To Local-state Business Incentive Promotion.
  2.As used in this act: "Act" means the "Local-State Business Incentive Promotion Act." "Applicant" means any business within a county or municipality applying for...
• Section 34:1b-167 - "Local-state Business Incentive Promotion Program" Created.
  3. a. There is created, in the authority, a "Local-State Business Incentive Promotion Program." The program shall be established by the authority. The program...
• Section 34:1b-168 - Use Of Moneys; Sources.
  4. a. To implement this act, the authority shall establish and maintain the program with moneys to be used by the authority for the...
• Section 34:1b-169 - Loan Criteria.
  5. a. The authority shall use the moneys from the program to provide loans to applicants determined to be qualified by the authority to...
• Section 34:1b-170 - Investment Of Moneys.
  6.The authority shall have, in addition to the powers set forth in section 5 of P.L.1974, c.80 (C.34:1B-5), the power to enter into written...
• Section 34:1b-171 - Coordination Of Efforts, Activities.
  7. a. The authority shall seek to coordinate its efforts and activities, to the greatest extent feasible, with the county or municipality, in order...
• Section 34:1b-172 - Report, Contents.
  8.In addition to the duties of the authority required under section 4 of P.L.1974, c.80 (C.34:1B-4), the authority shall prepare a report within two...
• Section 34:1b-173 - Agreement, Cancelled, Rescinded.
  9.If a project fails to meet or comply with a condition or requirement set forth in a loan agreement with the authority or in...
• Section 34:1b-174 - Rules, Regulations.
  10. The authority may adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), rules and regulations as may be necessary to...
• Section 34:1b-175 - Findings, Determinations Relative To Informational Sessions For Veterans
  1.The Legislature finds and determines that: a.In order to encourage and assist veterans to avail themselves of the State's business assistance programs, it is...
• Section 34:1b-176 - Development Of Informational Sessions By Eda
  2. a. The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (hereinafter referred to as "the authority"), established pursuant to section 4 of P.L.1974, c.80 (C.34:1B-4), shall,...
• Section 34:1b-177 - Preparation Of Report To Governor, Legislature
  3.The authority shall prepare a report within two years following the effective date of this act, and not less than every third year thereafter,...
• Section 34:1b-178 - Short Title
  1.Sections 1 through 7 of this act shall be known and may be cited as the "New Jersey Film Production Assistance Act." L.2003,c.182,s.1.
• Section 34:1b-179 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Film Production Assistance
  2.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.The film industry spent over $69 million in this State in the year 2000 on a record 664...
• Section 34:1b-180 - Definitions Relative To Film Production Assistance
  3.As used in this act: "Above-the-line expenses" means the major expenses committed to a film project before production begins and may include storywriting, salaries...
• Section 34:1b-181 - New Jersey Film Production Assistance Program
  4. a. There is created in the authority the New Jersey Film Production Assistance Program. The purpose of the program shall be to attract...
• Section 34:1b-182 - Establishment, Maintenance Of Program; Funding; Use
  5. a. To implement this act, the authority shall establish and maintain the program with moneys to be used by the authority for the...
• Section 34:1b-183 - Report To Governor, Legislature
  6.Within two years of the effective date of P.L.2003, c.182 (C.34:1B-178 et al.), the authority shall submit a written report to the Governor and...
• Section 34:1b-184 - Rules, Regulations
  7.The authority shall adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), any rules and regulations necessary to effectuate the purposes...
• Section 34:1b-185 - Definitions Relative To Sales Tax Exemption Program.
  19.As used in sections 19 through 22 of P.L.2004, c.65 (C.34:1B-185 through C.34:1B-188) the following terms shall have the following meanings: "Eligible property" means...
• Section 34:1b-186 - Program To Approve Issuance Of Certificates To Qualifying Businesses.
  20.The New Jersey Commerce Commission shall establish and administer a program to approve the issuance of sales and use tax exemption certificates to qualifying...
• Section 34:1b-187 - Submission Of Project Application; Eligibility.
  21. a. A business seeking to participate in the sales and use tax exemption certificate program established pursuant to sections 19 through 22 of...
• Section 34:1b-188 - Rules, Regulations.
  22.The New Jersey Commerce Commission shall, after consultation with the Director of the Division of Taxation in the Department of the Treasury, adopt rules...
• Section 34:1b-189 - Low-interest Loans For Medical Offices In Health Enterprise Zones, Definitions.
  3. a. In consultation with the Commissioner of Health and Senior Services, the Executive Director of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority shall establish...
• Section 34:1b-190 - Short Title.
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Sports and Entertainment District Urban Revitalization Act." L.2007, c.30,s.1.
• Section 34:1b-191 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Sports And Entertainment Districts.
  2.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.The blighted condition of the land and buildings in certain areas of the State discourages serious private investment,...
• Section 34:1b-192 - Definitions Relative To Sports And Entertainment Districts
  3.As used in this act: "Authority" means the New Jersey Economic Development Authority established pursuant to P.L.1974, c.80 (C.34:1B-1 et seq.). "Developer" means any...
• Section 34:1b-193 - Establishment Of A Sports And Entertainment District.
  4.The governing body of any eligible municipality may, by ordinance, establish a sports and entertainment district in order to encourage and promote the development...
• Section 34:1b-194 - Tax Revenues Dedicated To Sports And Entertainment District; Imposition Of Taxes.
  5.The governing body of a municipality that establishes a sports and entertainment district may, as part of the ordinance establishing the district: impose one...
• Section 34:1b-195 - Provisions Of Ordinance Imposing Tax.
  6.An ordinance imposing a tax pursuant to subsection a. of section 5 of P.L.2007, c.30 (C.34:1B-194) shall contain the following provisions: a.All taxes imposed...
• Section 34:1b-196 - Collection Of Tax.
  7. a. A tax imposed pursuant to a municipal ordinance adopted under the provisions of subsection a. of section 5 of P.L.2007, c.30 (C.34:1B-194)...
• Section 34:1b-197 - Forwarding Of Tax Collected To Director Of Taxation.
  8. a. A person required to collect a tax imposed pursuant to the provisions of subsection a. of section 5 of P.L.2007, c.30 (C.34:1B-194)...
• Section 34:1b-198 - Submission Of Ordinance As Application To State Treasurer; Criteria For Approval.
  9.When an ordinance establishing or amending a district has passed first reading, it shall be submitted to the State Treasurer as an application, together...
• Section 34:1b-199 - Treasurer's Recommendations; Approval; Adoption Of Ordinance.
  10. a. The treasurer may make written recommendations as to any aspect of the ordinance and the plan and any related fiscal matters which...
• Section 34:1b-200 - Amending Ordinance Required For Changing District Boundaries, Pledged Revenues.
  11. After adoption of the ordinance establishing a district, there shall be no expansion or contraction of the boundaries of the district or the...
• Section 34:1b-201 - Preparation Of Final Financial Plan By Developer.
  12. Before any tax revenues are made available to the developer for the purposes of undertaking the sports and entertainment facility, the developer shall...
• Section 34:1b-202 - Submission Of Final Financial Plan To Municipality, Approval By Treasurer.
  13.The final financial plan prepared pursuant to section 12 of P.L.2007, c.30 (C.34:1B-201) shall be submitted to the governing body of the municipality for...
• Section 34:1b-203 - Treasurer's Recommendations Relative To Final Financial Plan.
  14. a. The treasurer may make written recommendations as to any aspect of the final financial plan and any related fiscal matters which, in...
• Section 34:1b-204 - Collection, Administration Of Tax.
  15. a. The Director of the Division of Taxation shall collect and administer any tax imposed pursuant to the provisions of subsection a. of...
• Section 34:1b-205 - Use Of Revenues; Fund, Uses.
  16. a. Revenues collected pursuant to the taxes imposed pursuant to section 5 of P.L.2007, c.30 (C.34:1B-194) shall be used to finance project costs...
• Section 34:1b-206 - Bonds Not Considered Debt, Liability Of State.
  17. Bonds issued by the New Jersey Economic Development Authority or other State entity for the purposes as provided in section 16 of P.L.2007,...
• Section 34:1b-207 - Short Title.
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit Act." L.2007, c.346, s.1.
• Section 34:1b-208 - Definitions Relative To The "Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit Act."
  2.As used in this act: "Affiliate" means an entity that directly or indirectly controls, is under common control with, or is controlled by the...
• Section 34:1b-209 - Credit For Qualified Business Facilities, Conditions For Eligibility; Allowance.
  3. a. (1) A business, upon application to and approval from the authority, shall be allowed a credit of 100 percent of its capital...
• Section 34:1b-209.1 - Application For Tax Credit Transfer Certificate.
  33.A business may apply to the Director of the Division of Taxation in the Department of the Treasury and the executive director of the...
• Section 34:1b-209.2 - Definitions.
  34.As used in sections 34 and 35 of P.L.2009, c.90 (C.34:1B-209.2 and C.34:1B-209.3), the terms "affiliate," "authority," "capital investment," "eligible municipality," "partnership," "residential unit,"...
• Section 34:1b-209.3 - Developer Allowed Certain Tax Credits.
  35. a. (1) A developer, upon application to and approval from the authority, shall be allowed a credit of up to 35 percent of...
• Section 34:1b-209.4 - Credit To Business For Wind Energy Facility; Eligibility.
  6. a. (1) A business, upon application to and approval from the authority, shall be allowed a credit of 100 percent of its capital...
• Section 34:1b-210 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Abolishing The New Jersey Commerce Commission.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.It is the policy of the State of New Jersey to stimulate economic growth and development by efforts...
• Section 34:1b-211 - Definitions Relative To C.34:1b-210 et Seq.
  2.For purposes of sections 1 through 26 of P.L.2008, c.27 (C.34:1B-210 et seq.), the following terms shall have the meaning indicated: "Authority" means the...
• Section 34:1b-212 - New Jersey Commerce Commission Abolished.
  3. a. The New Jersey Commerce Commission created by P.L.1998, c.44 (C.52:27C-61 et al.) as a body corporate and politic and allocated in, but...
• Section 34:1b-213 - Disposition Of Executive Director, Employees Of New Jersey Commerce Commission.
  4.With respect to the Executive Director and employees of the New Jersey Commerce Commission: a.Notwithstanding the "State Agency Transfer Act," P.L.1971, c.375 (C.52:14D-1 et...
• Section 34:1b-214 - Regulations Continued.
  5.Except as otherwise provided in this act, regulations of the New Jersey Commerce Commission shall continue in effect until amended or repealed pursuant to...
• Section 34:1b-215 - Division Of Business Assistance, Marketing, And International Trade Established.
  6. a. In order to improve efficiency, achieve savings, and enhance the productivity of the State's interaction with the private sector, there is hereby...
• Section 34:1b-216 - Transfer Of Functions, Powers, Duties Of Executive Director.
  7. a. The functions, powers, and duties of the Executive Director of the New Jersey Commerce Commission, established pursuant to section 31 of P.L.2007,...
• Section 34:1b-217 - Transfer Of Functions, Powers, Duties Of Office Of Marketing And Communications.
  8. a. The functions, powers, and duties of the Office of Marketing and Communications in the New Jersey Commerce Commission are continued and are...
• Section 34:1b-218 - Transfer Of Functions, Powers, Duties Of Office Of Business Advocacy.
  9. a. The functions, powers, and duties of the Office of Business Advocacy in the New Jersey Commerce Commission are continued and are transferred...
• Section 34:1b-219 - Transfer Of Certain Functions, Powers, Duties Of New Jersey Commerce Commission.
  10. a. The functions, powers, and duties of the New Jersey Commerce Commission regarding those business retention and relocation assistance programs that include the...
• Section 34:1b-220 - Transfer Of Energy Sales Tax Exemption Program For Certain Counties.
  11. a. The functions, powers, and duties of the New Jersey Commerce Commission for the Energy Sales Tax Exemption Program for Certain Counties, established...
• Section 34:1b-221 - Transfer Of Brownfields Reimbursement Program.
  12. a. The functions, powers, and duties of the New Jersey Commerce Commission for the Brownfields Reimbursement Program, established by sections 34 through 39...
• Section 34:1b-222 - Transfer Of Municipal Landfill Closure And Remediation Reimbursement Program.
  13. a. The functions, powers, and duties of the New Jersey Commerce Commission for the Municipal Landfill Closure and Remediation Reimbursement Program established by...
• Section 34:1b-223 - Transfer Of New Jersey Economic Development Site Program.
  14. a. The functions, powers, and duties of the New Jersey Commerce Commission for the New Jersey Economic Development Site Program, established by P.L.1996,...
• Section 34:1b-224 - Transfer Of Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit Program.
  15. a. The functions, powers, and duties of the New Jersey Commerce Commission relating to the Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit Program established by...
• Section 34:1b-225 - Transfer Of New Jersey Urban Enterprise Zone Authority, Office Of Urban Enterprise Zone Authority.
  16. a. The New Jersey Urban Enterprise Zone Authority in the New Jersey Commerce Commission, transferred to the Department of the Treasury pursuant to...
• Section 34:1b-226 - Transfer Of Division Of International Trade And Protocol.
  17. a. The functions, powers, and duties of the New Jersey Commerce Commission relating to the international trade functions of the Division of International...
• Section 34:1b-227 - Transfer Of Division Of Development For Small Businesses And Women's And Minority Businesses.
  18. a. The functions, powers, and duties of the Division of Development for Small Businesses and Women's and Minority Businesses, presently known as the...
• Section 34:1b-228 - Transfer Of Authority To Appoint Certain Executive Directors.
  19. a. The functions, powers, and duties of the New Jersey Commerce Commission to appoint executive directors of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority,...
• Section 34:1b-229 - Transfer Of Tourism-related Functions To Department Of State.
  20. a. The functions, powers, and duties of the New Jersey Commerce Commission, pursuant to P.L.1992, c.165 (C.40:54D-1 et seq.), with respect to a...
• Section 34:1b-232 - Export Finance Company Advisory Council Abolished.
  23. a. The Export Finance Company Advisory Council, established pursuant to section 7 of P.L.1995, c.209 (C.34:1B-99) in, but not of, the Department of...
• Section 34:1b-233 - Transfer Of Motion Picture And Television Development Commission.
  24. a. The Motion Picture and Television Development Commission, established pursuant to section 3 of P.L.1977, c.44 (C.34:1B-24), is transferred in, but not of,...
• Section 34:1b-234 - New Jersey Development Authority For Small Businesses, Minorities And Women's Enterprises Abolished.
  25. a. The New Jersey Development Authority for Small Businesses, Minorities and Women's Enterprises created by section 3 of P.L.1985, c.386 (C.34:1B-49), in but...
• Section 34:1b-236 - Authorization, Procedure For Transfers.
  30.All transfers directed by this act shall take place in accordance with the "State Agency Transfer Act," P.L.1971, c.375 (C.52:14D-1 et seq.), except as...
• Section 34:1b-237 - Short Title.
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "InvestNJ Business Grant Program Act." L.2008, c.112, s.1.
• Section 34:1b-238 - Definitions Relative To The "Investnj Business Grant Program Act."
  2.As used in this act: "Authority" means the New Jersey Economic Development Authority established by section 4 of P.L.1974, c.80 (C.34:1B-4). "Business" means any...
• Section 34:1b-239 - Invest In New Jersey Business Grant Program.
  3. a. There is established the Invest in New Jersey Business Grant Program to be administered by the New Jersey Economic Development Authority. The...
• Section 34:1b-240 - Employment Grant Component For Eligible Businesses.
  4. a. There is also established under the Invest in New Jersey Business Grant Program to be administered by the New Jersey Economic Development...
• Section 34:1b-241 - Rules, Regulations.
  5.The authority may promulgate rules and regulations necessary for the effective implementation of P.L.2008, c.112 (C.34:1B-237 et seq.). Notwithstanding any provision of the "Administrative...
• Section 34:1b-241.1 - Definitions Relative To A Small Business Loan Program.
  1.As used in this act: "Authority" means the New Jersey Economic Development Authority established by section 4 of P.L.1974, c.80 (C.34:1B-4). "Eligible small business"...
• Section 34:1b-241.2 - Maintenance, Administration Of Small Business Loan Program.
  2. a. The authority shall maintain and administer a small business loan program for the purpose of providing small business loans to eligible small...
• Section 34:1b-241.3 - Rules, Regulations.
  3.The authority may adopt such rules and regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) as may be necessary to...
• Section 34:1b-242 - Short Title.
  1.Sections 1 through 9 of this act shall be known and may be cited as the "Grow New Jersey Assistance Act." L.2011, c.149, s.1.
• Section 34:1b-243 - Definitions Relative To The "Grow New Jersey Assistance Act."
  2.As used in P.L.2011, c.149 (C.34:1B-242 et seq.): "Affiliate" means an entity that directly or indirectly controls, is under common control with, or is...
• Section 34:1b-244 - Grow New Jersey Assistance Program.
  3. a.The Grow New Jersey Assistance Program is hereby established as a program under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority and...
• Section 34:1b-245 - Incentive Agreement Required Prior To Issuance Of Tax Credits.
  4.The authority shall require an eligible business to enter into an incentive agreement prior to the issuance of tax credits. The incentive agreement shall...
• Section 34:1b-246 - Total Amount Of Tax Credit For Eligible Business.
  5. a. The total amount of tax credit for an eligible business for each new or retained full-time job shall be as set forth...
• Section 34:1b-247 - Limit On Combined Value Of Approved Credits.
  6. a. (1) The combined value of all credits approved by the authority pursuant to P.L.2007, c.346 (C.34:1B-207 et seq.) and P.L.2011, c.149 (C.34:1B-242...
• Section 34:1b-248 - Application For Tax Credit Transfer Certificate.
  7.A business may apply to the Director of the Division of Taxation in the Department of the Treasury and the chief executive officer of...
• Section 34:1b-249 - Rules, Regulations Adopted By Chief Executive Officer, Authority.
  8. a. The chief executive officer of the authority, in consultation with the Director of the Division of Taxation in the Department of the...
• Section 34:1b-250 - Certain Sales, Conveyances Authorized.
  9. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of P.L.1962, c. 220 (C.52:31-1.1 et seq.), P.L. 2011, c.85, or any other law or regulation to the contrary,...
• Section 34:1b-251 - Definitions Relative To Certain Economic Development Projects.
  10. a. For the purposes of this section: "Authority" means the New Jersey Economic Development Authority established pursuant to section 4 of P.L.1974, c.80...
• Section 34:2-1 - Definitions
  As used in this chapter: "Bakery" includes all buildings, rooms or places where biscuits, pies, bread, crackers, cakes and confectionery are made or manufactured...
• Section 34:2-21.1 - Definitions
  (a) "Employment certificate" means a certificate granted by the issuing officer authorizing the employment of a child as permitted under this act. (b) "Age...
• Section 34:2-21.2 - Minors Under 16 Not To Be Employed; Exceptions; Nonresidents
  No minor under 16 years of age shall be employed, permitted, or suffered to work in, about, or in connection with any gainful occupation...
• Section 34:2-21.3 - Limitations On Minors' Working Hours
  3.Except as provided in section 15 of P.L.1940, c.153 (C.34:2-21.15) and except for domestic service or messengers employed by communications companies subject to the...
• Section 34:2-21.4 - Lunch Period For Minors Under 18
  No minor under eighteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work for more than five hours continuously without an interval of...
• Section 34:2-21.5 - Posting Of Law, List Of Prohibited Occupations And Schedule Of Hours Of Labor; Permitting Minors To Begin Later Or Stop Earlier Than Time Stated In Schedule
  Every employer shall post and keep conspicuously posted in the establishment wherein any minor under 18 is employed, permitted, or suffered to work a...
• Section 34:2-21.6 - Record Of Employment Of Minors Under 19
  Every employer shall keep a record, in a form approved by the Department of Labor, which shall state the name, date of birth and...
• Section 34:2-21.7 - Employment Certificates For Minors
  (a) Except as permitted under section 15 of this act, no minor under 18 years of age shall be employed, permitted, or suffered to...
• Section 34:2-21.8 - Issuance Of Certificates; Prerequisites
  8.The issuing officer shall issue such certificates only upon the application in person of the minor desiring employment, and after having approved and filed...
• Section 34:2-21.9 - Age Certificates To Persons Between 18 And 21; Contents; Retention By Employer During Employment
  Upon request, it shall be the duty of the issuing officer to issue to any young person between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one...
• Section 34:2-21.10 - Employment Certificate; Contents
  An employment certificate shall state the name, sex, color, date and place of birth, residence, color of hair and eyes, height, weight, any distinguishing...
• Section 34:2-21.11 - Certificate Or Permit As Conclusive Evidence Of Age
  An employment or age certificate or special permit issued in accordance with this act shall be conclusive evidence of the age of the minor...
• Section 34:2-21.12 - Filing Of Duplicate Certificates Or Permits; Cancellation; Return Of Original Papers; Destruction Of Certificates And Permits When Minors Become 21
  Every issuing officer issuing an employment or an age certificate or special permit, shall send immediately to the Department of Labor at Trenton, a...
• Section 34:2-21.13 - Employment Of Children Who Are Nonresidents Of School District; Duplicate Of Certificate
  If a child within the ages for compulsory school attendance is employed in a school district other than that in which he lives, the...
• Section 34:2-21.14 - Return Of Certificate After Employment Terminates; New Certificates; Certificate Valid Only For One Employer And One Occupation; Employer To Keep Certificate Accessible; Prima Facie Evidence
  Every employer receiving an employment certificate shall within two days after termination of the employment return said certificate to the person issuing it. A...
• Section 34:2-21.15 - Street Trade; Agricultural Pursuits; Ages When Permitted; Special Permits; Newspaper Carriers
  Except as hereinafter provided as to newspaper carriers, no minor under 14 years of age may engage in any street trade, which term, for...
• Section 34:2-21.16 - Fees Or Expenses Not To Be Paid By Child, Parent Or Guardian
  No fees or expenses incurred in obtaining any certificates under this act shall be charged to or paid by any child, parent, guardian or...
• Section 34:2-21.17 - Prohibited Employment
  17. No minor under 16 years of age shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in, about, or in connection with power-driven machinery....
• Section 34:2-21.17a - Inapplicability Of S. 34:2-21.17 To Participants In Junior Achievement Program
  Section 17 to P.L. 1940, c. 153 (C. 34:2-21.17) shall not apply to minors under the age of 18 years who participate or work...
• Section 34:2-21.17b - Provisions For Minors As Volunteers At Recycling Centers
  Concurrent with all other provisions of P.L. 1940, c. 153 (C. 34:2-21.1 et seq.), minors who are 12 through 17 years of age shall...
• Section 34:2-21.17c - Not Considered Employee.
  A minor working voluntarily at a recycling center shall not be deemed an employee under R.S. 34:15-36. A municipality or community service organization which...
• Section 34:2-21.17d - Employment Of Minors As Volunteers For Certain Nonprofit Organizations
  1. Concurrent with all other provisions of P.L.1940, c.153 (C.34:2-21.1 et seq.), minors who are 14 through 17 years of age shall be permitted...
• Section 34:2-21.17e - Minor Working Voluntarily Not Deemed Employee
  2. A minor working voluntarily in the construction of affordable housing pursuant to section 1 of this act shall not be deemed an employee...
• Section 34:2-21.17f - Inapplicability Of C.34:2-21.17 Under Certain Circumstances; "Educational Program In Science" Defined.
  1.Section 17 of P.L.1940, c.153 (C.34:2-21.17) shall not apply to minors under the age of 18 who have successfully reached the ninth or higher...
• Section 34:2-21.17g - Rules, Regulations.
  2.The Commissioner of Labor, in consultation with the Commissioner of Education, shall, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), adopt...
• Section 34:2-21.18 - Enforcement Of Act; Inspection Of Places And Certificates
  It shall be the duty of the Department of Labor and its inspectors and agents, acting under the Commissioner of Labor, to enforce the...
• Section 34:2-21.19 - Penalty, Child Labor Law Enforcement Trust Fund, Advisory Board; Annual Report.
  19. a. Whoever employs or permits or suffers any minor to be employed or to work in violation of this act, or of any...
• Section 34:2-21.20 - Partial Invalidity
  If any provisions of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act and...
• Section 34:2-21.21 - Repeals
  The provisions of article two, chapter two, of Title 34, Revised Statutes [s.s. 34:2-2 to 34:2-21], and of sections 18:14-15 to 18:14-33, inclusive, of...
• Section 34:2-21.22 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect September first, one thousand nine hundred and forty. L.1940, c. 153, p. 346, s. 22.
• Section 34:2-21.22a - Newspaperboys; Effect Of Act Upon Rights Under Workmen's Compensation Act
  Nothing in this act shall be construed to affect adversely any right or rights of newspaperboys under the provisions of chapter 15 of Title...
• Section 34:2-21.57 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Professional employment" means employment for pay as an actor or performer in a theatrical production. b. "Theatrical production"...
• Section 34:2-21.58 - Theatrical Productions; Employment Of Minors Under 16
  Notwithstanding any provision of the child labor laws of this State, the professional employment of minors under the age of 16 years in theatrical...
• Section 34:2-21.59 - Permit; Grounds For Issuance
  a. Upon application of an employer, bearing the endorsed approval of a parent or guardian of the minor a permit authorizing employment of the...
• Section 34:2-21.60 - Refusal To Grant Permit Or Certificate; Grounds; Record
  The issuing officer or the Commissioner of Labor, pursuant to section 3b. of P.L.1962, c. 91 (C. 34:2-21.59), may refuse to grant a permit...
• Section 34:2-21.61 - Renewal Of Permits; Inspection
  Permits may be renewed upon application. A separate permit shall be required for each employee. The employer shall have the permit available for inspection...
• Section 34:2-21.62 - Delivery Of Application To Department Of Labor
  The Department of Education shall deliver a copy of each application to the Department of Labor. L.1962, c. 91, s. 6. Amended by L.1981,...
• Section 34:2-21.63a - Employment Of Minor Under 16 To Perform Indecent Or Immoral Exhibition; High Misdemeanor
  Any person who obtains a permit under this act and employs a minor under the age of 16 to perform an indecent or immoral...
• Section 34:2-21.63b - Violations; Penalty
  Whoever obtains any permit under this act (P.L.1962, c. 91; C. 34:2-21.57 et seq.) upon any false statement made in applying therefor, or employs...
• Section 34:2-21.64 - Forms And Regulations; Safeguards Governing Working Conditions, Supervision And Education
  The Department of Education and the Department of Labor shall prescribe forms and regulations concerning applications for and issuance of permits and certificates and...
• Section 34:2-29 - Seats To Be Provided
  Every employer of one or more employees in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment or in the services and operations incident to any commercial...
• Section 34:2-30 - Inspections
  The commissioner shall see that the provisions of R.S. 34:2-29 of this title are carried out in all mercantile establishments, and shall, at reasonable...
• Section 34:2-30.1 - Penalty; Notice To Offender
  Any individual, firm or corporation owning or managing an establishment of the kind mentioned in section 34:2-29 of this title, who shall fail to...
• Section 34:2-31 - Protection Of Openings In Floor
  The openings of all hoistways, hatchways, elevators and wellholes on every floor of any mercantile establishment shall be protected by good and sufficient trapdoors...
• Section 34:2-32 - Ventilation
  Every mercantile establishment shall be provided with proper and sufficient means of ventilation. Any owner, agent, lessee or employer failing to provide suitable ventilation...
• Section 34:2-33 - Toilet Facilities
  Every mercantile establishment shall maintain sufficient, suitable, clean, convenient and separate water-closets for each sex which shall be properly screened and ventilated. The water-closets...
• Section 34:2-34 - Abstract Of Law; Posting
  An abstract of this article shall be prepared and furnished upon request by the commissioner to every employer affected thereby, and every employer to...
• Section 34:2-35 - Orders For Enforcement Of Article; Penalty
  The commissioner, to carry into effect the provisions of sections 34:2-31, 34:2-33 and 34:2-34 of this title shall have authority to make such orders...
• Section 34:3a-4 - Findings, Declarations
  The Legislature finds and declares that: a. Because of the fire hazards directly associated with dispensing fuel, it is in the public interest that...
• Section 34:3a-5 - Definitions
  As used in this act: "Attendant" means a retail dealer or employee of a retail dealer. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Labor. "Fuel" means...
• Section 34:3a-6 - Dispensing Of Fuel; Regulations
  It shall be unlawful for any attendant to: a. Dispense fuel into the tank of a motor vehicle while the vehicle's engine is in...
• Section 34:3a-7 - Training, Supervision Of Attendants
  No person shall dispense fuel at a gasoline station, unless the person is an attendant who has received instructions regarding the dispensing of fuel,...
• Section 34:3a-8 - Certification Of Attendants
  There shall be available at each station for inspection by the commissioner a certificate for each person who dispenses fuel at the station certifying...
• Section 34:3a-9 - Pump Shutoff Switch; Required
  Each gasoline station shall be equipped, at a location remote from the dispensing pumps, with a clearly identified and easily accessible switch or circuit...
• Section 34:3a-10 - Penalties For Violations; Retail Gasoline Dispensing Safety Account; Established
  A violator of any provision of this act shall be liable for a penalty of not less than $50.00 and not more than $250.00...
• Section 34:3a-11 - Rules, Regulations
  The commissioner shall, in accordance with the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), adopt rules and regulations as are...
• Section 34:4-1 - Device To Prevent Moving Until Door Closed
  Every elevator moving in a vertical shaft, used for carrying passengers, shall have some interlocking device that will automatically prevent the elevator car from...
• Section 34:4-2 - Approval Of Device
  Every device, before being used or installed as required by section 34:4-1 of this title in any building within the jurisdiction of the department...
• Section 34:4-3 - Enforcement; Penalty For Noncompliance
  The commissioner or the building inspector, as the case may be, shall enforce the provisions of this chapter by order in writing served upon...
• Section 34:4-4 - Who Shall Sue For Penalties
  All penalties under this chapter arising in municipalities having a building inspector as mentioned in sections 34:4-2 and 34:4-3 of this title shall be...
• Section 34:4-5 - Action For Penalty; Jurisdiction
  34:4-5. All proceedings brought under the provisions of this chapter shall be by a civil action in the name of the commissioner or building...
• Section 34:4-6 - Service, On Whom Made
  Service shall be made on the owner or owners, person or persons or any of them, owning the place or operating the business wherein...
• Section 34:4-9 - Existing Regulations Not Nullified
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to nullify any ordinance, rule or regulation not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, which may...
• Section 34:4a-1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Ski Lift Safety Act." L.1975, c. 226, s. 1, eff. Oct. 15, 1975.
• Section 34:4a-2 - Public Policy
  It shall be the policy of the State of New Jersey to protect its citizens and visitors from unnecessary mechanical hazards in the operation...
• Section 34:4a-3 - Definitions
  As used in this act, except where otherwise clearly required by the context, a. "Passenger tramway" means a device used to transport passengers uphill,...
• Section 34:4a-4 - Rules, Regulations And Codes; Publication; Furnishing To Registered Operators
  The commissioner may adopt and from time to time supplement, alter or repeal reasonable rules, regulations and codes relating to public safety in the...
• Section 34:4a-5 - Passenger Tramway; Registration; Application; Issuance; Inspections; Supplemental Application; Expiration; Display
  a. A passenger tramway shall not be operated in this State unless it has been registered by the commissioner, in the manner provided in...
• Section 34:4a-6 - Construction Of New Or Alteration Of Passenger Tramway; Submission Of Plans And Specifications
  Before constructing a new or altering an existing passenger tramway the operator or prospective operator shall submit plans and specifications to the commissioner. The...
• Section 34:4a-7 - Inspection By Commissioner Or Certification Of Compliance By Qualified Inspector
  The commissioner may cause to be made such inspection of the construction, operation and maintenance of passenger tramways as he may reasonably require for...
• Section 34:4a-8 - Violation Of Rules, Regulations Or Code; Report; Complaint By Any Person; Forwarding To Operator; Investigation; Order; Service; Emergency Order To Stop Operation
  a. If as a result of an inspection it is found that there exists any violation of the rules, regulations or codes, adopted under...
• Section 34:4a-9 - Operator Aggrieved By Order; Application For Review; Hearing; Decision; Appeal
  a. Any operator who is aggrieved by an order issued pursuant to subsection c. of section 8 of this act may, within 10 days...
• Section 34:4a-10 - Illegal Operation; Penalty
  Any operator who operates a passenger tramway which has not been registered by the commissioner as provided in this act, or after its registration...
• Section 34:4a-11 - Failure Of Operator To Comply With Order; Order For Cessation Of Operation
  If any operator fails to comply with a lawful order issued by the commissioner pursuant to the provisions of this act, the commissioner may...
• Section 34:4a-12 - Injunctions To Compel Compliance
  The commissioner shall have the power to bring injunctive proceedings in any court of competent jurisdiction to compel compliance with any lawful order made...
• Section 34:4a-13 - Discharge Or Discrimination Against Employee Due To Actions To Help Enforce This Act; Penalties
  Any operator who discharges or in any other manner discriminates against any employee because such employee has made any complaint to the commissioner regarding...
• Section 34:4a-14 - Violations; Penalty
  In addition to any other sanctions herein or otherwise provided by law, the commissioner, upon notice and hearing, may impose a penalty not exceeding...
• Section 34:4a-15 - Fees
  The commissioner shall charge operators a reasonable fee for conducting inspections, processing applications, and meeting all other responsibilities under this act. L.1975, c. 226,...
• Section 34:5-166 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Construction Safety Act." L.1962, c. 45, s. 1.
• Section 34:5-167 - Definitions.
  2.The following terms wherever used or referred to in this act shall have the following meanings unless a different meaning clearly appears from the...
• Section 34:5-168 - Construction Safety Act; Compliance By Employers In Construction Industry; Certificate Of Registration; Fees
  Any employer engaging in any activity related to the erection, construction, alteration, demolition, repair or maintenance of buildings, structures, bridges, highways, roadways, dams, tunnels,...
• Section 34:5-169 - Rules And Regulations; Promulgation By Commissioner.
  4.The commissioner shall make and promulgate rules and regulations reasonably necessary to implement the purposes of this act. Such rules and regulations shall go...
• Section 34:5-170 - Enforcement Of Act By Commissioner; Powers And Duties; Violations; Prosecutions
  The commissioner shall enforce the provisions of this act, make complaints against persons violating its provisions and prosecute violations of the same. The commissioner...
• Section 34:5-171 - Exceptions To Rules And Regulations; Authority To Grant
  The commissioner shall have the power and authority to grant exceptions from the literal requirements of rules and regulations promulgated under this act. Such...
• Section 34:5-173 - Construction Safety Section In Bureau Of Engineering And Safety; Functions
  There is hereby created a Construction Safety Section in the Bureau of Engineering and Safety in the Division of Labor, Department of Labor and...
• Section 34:5-174 - Chief Engineer And Safety Inspectors; Appointment; Qualifications
  The commissioner shall appoint a licensed professional engineer of this State who has had 5 years experience in any of the construction activities listed...
• Section 34:5-175 - Report Of Loss Of Life Or Serious Accident
  Whenever loss of life or serious accident shall occur at a place of employment covered by this act, the commissioner may require the person...
• Section 34:5-176 - Privileged Records; Inadmissibility As Evidence; Exception
  The record or determination of any proceeding under this act or any statement or report of any kind whatsoever obtained or received in connection...
• Section 34:5-177 - Burden Of Care
  This act shall not in any way increase the burden of care ordinarily imposed by the common law of the State upon those within...
• Section 34:5-178 - Violations; Penalties; Compromise Of Claims
  Any employer or any officer, agent or employee thereof who violates any of the provisions of this act shall be liable to a penalty...
• Section 34:5-179 - Duties Of Persons Near High Voltage Lines
  This act is not intended to alter in any way the duties of persons to take precautions in the proximity of high voltage lines...
• Section 34:5-180 - Exempt Employers
  This act shall not apply to any employer subject to the provisions of section 34:6-141 of the Revised Statutes, to any employer subject to...
• Section 34:5-181 - Repeals
  Sections 34:3-1 to 34:3-20, inclusive, section 34:3-23, sections 34:5-1 to 34:5-23, inclusive, sections 34:5-33 to 34:5-162, inclusive, sections 34:5-164 and 34:5-165 of the Revised...
• Section 34:5-182 - Dry Cutting, Grinding Of Masonry, Certain Circumstances; Prohibited.
  1.In order to protect the health and safety of employees against the effects of silicosis and other respiratory diseases, the dry cutting of masonry...
• Section 34:5a-1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Worker and Community Right to Know Act." L.1983, c. 315, s. 1, eff....
• Section 34:5a-2 - Legislative Findings And Declarations
  The Legislature finds and declares that the proliferation of hazardous substances in the environment poses a growing threat to the public health, safety, and...
• Section 34:5a-3 - Definitions
  3. As used in this act: a. "Chemical Abstracts Service number" means the unique identification number assigned by the Chemical Abstracts Service to chemicals....
• Section 34:5a-4 - Development Of Environmental Hazardous Substance List
  4. a. The Department of Environmental Protection shall develop an environmental hazardous substance list which shall include the list of substances developed and used...
• Section 34:5a-5 - Workplace Hazardous Substance List; Special Health Hazard Substance List; Workplace Survey; Hazardous Substance Fact Sheet; Spanish Translation
  a. The Department of Health shall develop a workplace hazardous substance list which shall include: (1) Any substance or substance contained in a mixture...
• Section 34:5a-6 - Distribution Of Workplace And Environmental Surveys To Employer
  a. Within five days of the effective date of this act, the Department of Health shall transmit copies of the workplace survey to the...
• Section 34:5a-7 - Completion, Transmittal Of Workplace Survey
  7. a. Except as otherwise provided in section 15 of this act, an employer shall have until October 30, 1985, or within 90 days...
• Section 34:5a-8 - Hazardous Substance Fact Sheets
  a. Upon receipt of a completed workplace survey from an employer, the Department of Health shall transmit to that employer a hazardous substance fact...
• Section 34:5a-9 - Environmental Surveys; File; Clarifying Information; Update; Request For Copy
  a. The Department of Environmental Protection shall maintain a file of all completed environmental surveys received from employers. Each environmental survey received by the...
• Section 34:5a-10 - Retention Of Workplace Surveys
  10. a. The Department of Health shall maintain a file of all completed workplace surveys received from employers. Each workplace survey received shall be...
• Section 34:5a-10.1 - Definitions Relative To Use, Storage Of Hazardous Substances In Schools, Child Care Centers.
  1.As used in this act: "Child care center" means a child care center licensed pursuant to the provisions of P.L.1983, c.492 (C.30:5B-1 et seq.);...
• Section 34:5a-10.2 - Use Of Hazardous Substance Prohibited When Children Are Expected To Be Present; Exceptions.
  2. a. No person shall use or allow the use of any hazardous substance in or on any building or grounds used as a...
• Section 34:5a-10.3 - Posting Of Notice Of Construction, Activity Involving Hazardous Substance
  3. a. The Board of Education or the chief school administrator in the case of any public school, or the person having responsibility for...
• Section 34:5a-10.4 - Responsibility For Enforcement; Violations, Penalties
  4.The local health agency for the jurisdiction in which the public or private school or child care center is located shall enforce the provisions...
• Section 34:5a-10.5 - Regulations.
  401. Section 5 of P.L.1997, c.364 (C.34:5A-10.5) is amended to read as follows: 5.The Department of Health, in consultation with the Departments of Education,...
• Section 34:5a-11 - Request For Spanish Translation
  a. An employer shall, upon request, provide an employee whose native language is Spanish with a Spanish translation of a workplace survey, hazardous substance...
• Section 34:5a-12 - Employer's Central File; Posting Of Notice; Distribution Of Literature On Employee Rights; Employee Access To Information
  Every employer shall establish and maintain a central file at his facility in which he shall retain a workplace survey for the facility, appropriate...
• Section 34:5a-13 - Employee Education, Training Program; Certification Of Instructors
  13. a. Every employer shall have until October 30, 1985 to establish an education and training program for his employees, which shall be designed...
• Section 34:5a-14 - Labeling Of Containers.
  14. a. Every employer shall have until October 30, 1985 to take any action necessary to assure that every container at the employer's facility...
• Section 34:5a-15 - Trade Secret Claim
  a. If an employer believes that disclosing information required by this act will reveal a trade secret, he may file with the appropriate department...
• Section 34:5a-16 - Employee Requests For Information; Refusal To Work; Complaint; Civil Actions; Penalty
  a. Any employee or employee representative may request, in writing, from his employer, a copy of a workplace survey, hazardous substance fact sheet, or,...
• Section 34:5a-17 - Discharge Or Penalizing Of Employee For Exercising Rights; Complaint; Adjudication
  a. No employer shall discharge, cause to be discharged, or otherwise discipline, penalize, or discriminate against any employee because the employee or his employee...
• Section 34:5a-21 - Joint Procedures Concerning Revision Of Workplace Or Environmental Hazardous Substance List.
  21.The Department of Health, the Department of Environmental Protection, and the Department of Labor and Workforce Development shall jointly establish a procedure for annually...
• Section 34:5a-22 - County Health Department File Of Surveys; Public Access
  Each county health department shall maintain a file of workplace surveys and environmental surveys transmitted to it pursuant to the provisions of this act....
• Section 34:5a-23 - Civil Actions For Violations; Jurisdiction; Award
  Any person may bring a civil action in law or equity on his own behalf against any employer for a violation of any provision...
• Section 34:5a-24 - Substances Not Included On Hazardous Substance Lists; Reporting; Liability
  Substances not included on the workplace hazardous substance list or the environmental hazardous substance list shall not be subject to the reporting provisions of...
• Section 34:5a-25 - Local Police Or Fire Departments; Availability Of Surveys To Public; Request For Additional Information; Communications Program With Research And Development Laboratory
  a. No local police department or local fire department receiving workplace surveys or environmental surveys pursuant to the provisions of this act shall make...
• Section 34:5a-26 - "Worker And Community Right To Know Fund."
  26. a. There is established in the Department of the Treasury a nonlapsing, revolving fund to be known as the "Worker and Community Right...
• Section 34:5a-26.1 - Fee Refund
  The Department of Labor shall refund any fee collected pursuant to section 26 of P.L. 1983, c. 315 (C. 34:5A-26) to any employer who...
• Section 34:5a-27 - Legislative Intent
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the program established by this act for the disclosure of information concerning hazardous substances to employees...
• Section 34:5a-28 - Joint Report
  Within two years of the effective date of this act the Department of Health, the Department of Environmental Protection, and the Department of Labor...
• Section 34:5a-29 - Right To Enter Facility To Determine Compliance
  a. The Department of Health shall have the right to enter an employer's facility during the normal operating hours of the facility to determine...
• Section 34:5a-30 - Rules And Regulations
  Except as otherwise provided in this act, the Department of Health, the Department of Environmental Protection, the Department of Labor and the Department of...
• Section 34:5a-31 - Remedies
  33. a. Whenever, on the basis of information available to him, the Commissioner of Environmental Protection finds that an employer is in violation of...
• Section 34:5a-32 - Findings
  1. The Legislature finds that the application, enclosure, removal and encapsulation of asbestos when improperly performed creates unnecessary health and safety hazards which are...
• Section 34:5a-33 - Policy Declaration
  2. The Legislature declares it to be its purpose and policy to reduce asbestos-related hazards by: a. Encouraging contracting parties, citizens and insurance companies...
• Section 34:5a-34 - Definitions
  3. As used in this act: a. "Asbestos" means the asbestiform varieties of chrysotile (serpentine); crocidolite (riebeckite); amosite (cummuningtonitegrunerite); anthophyllite; termolite; and actinolite; b....
• Section 34:5a-35 - Specifications Required
  4. Any private or public agency letting contracts for any activity involving the application, enclosure, repair, removal or encapsulation of asbestos in any structure...
• Section 34:5a-36 - License For Asbestos Work; Exception
  5. No employer shall either directly or indirectly perform any of the functions of application, enclosure, removal, or encapsulation of asbestos in any structure,...
• Section 34:5a-37 - Performance Permit, Exception
  6. Every employee performing functions of application, enclosure, repair, removal, or encapsulation of asbestos, with the exception of employees of an employer subject to...
• Section 34:5a-38 - Issuance Of License, Permits; Certification Of Training Courses; Fees
  7. Beginning not later than one year following the effective date of this act, licenses and permits shall be issued by the Commissioner of...
• Section 34:5a-39 - Standards, Regulations; Hearings
  8. Not later than six months after the effective date of this act, the Commissioners of Labor and Health jointly shall, in consultation with...
• Section 34:5a-40 - Enforcement
  9. This act, and its standards and regulations, shall be enforced by the Commissioners of Labor and Health, who have the right-of-entry to all...
• Section 34:5a-41 - Violations; Penalties.
  10.Any person who knowingly hinders or delays the Commissioners of Labor and Workforce Development or Health or the authorized representative thereof, in the performance...
• Section 34:5a-42 - Discrimination Against Complaining Employee; Penalties
  Any employer who discriminates against or otherwise sanctions an employee who complains or cooperates with the Commissioner of Labor or Health, or the designee...
• Section 34:5a-43 - Adoption Of Standards; Exemptions; Fees
  7. a. The Commissioner of Health shall, by regulation, adopt standards and other requirements for the certification of training programs and for approving examinations...
• Section 34:5a-44 - Petition For Enforcement Action
  12. Any person who believes that a violation of this act has occurred may petition the Commissioner of Health or the Commissioner of Labor...
• Section 34:6-21.1 - Reports Of Fires In Industrial Establishments
  The fire chief of every municipality, or in the absence thereof, the person in responsible charge of fire fighting in such municipalities, shall report...
• Section 34:6-21.2 - Form Of Report
  The report shall be made on forms prescribed and furnished by the commissioner and shall identify the premises by ownership and location, state the...
• Section 34:6-21.3 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect July first, one thousand nine hundred and fifty. L.1950, c. 51, p. 90, s. 3.
• Section 34:6-47.1 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Labor or any of his authorized representatives. b. "High-voltage lines" means electrical conductors...
• Section 34:6-47.2 - Prohibited Activity
  No employer or supervising agent of an employer shall require or permit an employee to participate in the operation, erection, transportation, handling, or storage...
• Section 34:6-47.4 - Warning Sign Required
  The owner, agent, lessee, bailee, user, or employer responsible for the operations of equipment capable of coming in contact with a high-voltage line in...
• Section 34:6-47.5 - Notification To Power Company And Responsibility For Safeguards
  Whenever any activity is to be performed requiring precautionary action under section 2 of this act, the employer, contractor or other person responsible for...
• Section 34:6-47.6 - Enforcement
  The commissioner shall administer and enforce the provisions of this act and he is hereby empowered to prescribe and promulgate rules and regulations consistent...
• Section 34:6-47.7a - Penalty For Violation
  6. Any person violating any of the provisions of P.L.1948, c.249 (C.34:6-47.1 et seq.) shall be liable to a penalty of not less than...
• Section 34:6-47.8 - Exceptions.
  8.This act shall not be construed as applying to, shall not apply to, and is not intended to apply to, the construction, reconstruction, operations,...
• Section 34:6-47.9 - Partial Invalidity
  In case any provision of this act shall be adjudged unconstitutional or void for any reason, such adjudication shall not affect any of the...
• Section 34:6-67.2 - Application Of Chapter
  Whenever, in the chapter to which this act is a supplement, reference is made to a factory, to a workshop, or to a place...
• Section 34:6-98.1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the Mine Safety Act. L.1954, c. 197, p. 730, s. 1.
• Section 34:6-98.2 - Definitions Relative To Mine Safety.
  2.As used in this act: "Approved" means approved by the commissioner. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development or any of his...
• Section 34:6-98.3 - Mine Safety Section, Powers, Duties.
  3. a. There is hereby created within the Department of Labor and Workforce Development a mine safety section. b.The mine safety section shall be...
• Section 34:6-98.4 - Authority And Duties Of The Commissioner.
  4. a. The commissioner shall administer the provisions of this act and may promulgate, make, amend and repeal necessary and reasonable rules and regulations...
• Section 34:6-98.5 - Annual Report To Governor.
  5.The commissioner shall embody in his annual report to the Governor a statistical summary and report of work of the section during the year...
• Section 34:6-98.6 - General Requirements.
  6. a. Every operator shall comply with the provisions of this act and the rules and regulations issued hereunder and every person shall comply...
• Section 34:6-98.7 - Safety.
  7. a. Every mine shall be so constructed, equipped, arranged, operated, maintained and conducted in all respects as to provide reasonable and adequate protection...
• Section 34:6-98.8 - Explosives.
  8. a. When explosives are used in a mine or quarry, the manner of storing, keeping, handling, moving, charging and firing, or in any...
• Section 34:6-98.9 - Complaints; Serious Accidents.
  9. a. Whenever the commissioner receives a complaint in writing signed by 2 or more persons employed in a mine, setting forth that the...
• Section 34:6-98.10 - Limitation Of Municipal Ordinances
  No municipality or other governmental subdivision shall have the power to make any ordinance, by-law or resolution providing for safety to workers in the...
• Section 34:6-98.11 - Hearing Of Aggrieved Persons
  a. Any person aggrieved by an act of the commissioner or the department under this act may, upon application made within 15 days after...
• Section 34:6-98.12 - Appropriation
  There is hereby appropriated to the Department of Labor and Industry the sum of $70,000.00 for the use of the commissioner in administering and...
• Section 34:6-98.13 - Enforcement Of Act
  It shall be the duty of the commissioner to enforce the provisions of this act, to make complaints against persons or firms; companies or...
• Section 34:6-98.14 - Violations, Penalties.
  14.Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be liable to a penalty of not more than $2,500 for the first...
• Section 34:6-98.15 - Provisions Severable
  If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this act is held to be unconstitutional or invalid, such decision shall not affect the...
• Section 34:6-98.16 - Inconsistent Acts Superseded
  All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby superseded. L.1954, c. 197, p. 745, s. 16.
• Section 34:6-98.17 - Repeals
  Article 9 of chapter 6 of Title 34 of the Revised Statutes (sections 34:6-68 to 34:6-98) and sections 34:1-34, 34:1-35, 34:1-36 of the Revised...
• Section 34:6-98.18 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect October 1, 1954, providing however, that sections 3 and 12 of this act shall take effect immediately. L.1954, c....
• Section 34:6-119.1 - Company Defined
  As used in this act, "company" and "companies" include corporations, associations, and any and all other legal entities. L.1966, c. 112, s. 1, eff....
• Section 34:6-119.2 - Facilities For Employees; Rest Rooms, Lunch Rooms, Etc.
  Every railroad company, express company, car-loading and freight-forwarding company and airline company, which is a common carrier of passengers and freight, or either, or...
• Section 34:6-119.3 - Determination Of Adequacy By Commissioner; Rules And Regulations
  The Commissioner of Labor and Industry shall have the authority to determine the adequacy of the said facilities and may order the furnishing and...
• Section 34:6-119.4 - Compliance With Act
  The said companies shall comply with the provisions of this act within 6 months from the effective date of this act, except that in...
• Section 34:6-119.5 - Investigations And Inquiries By Department Of Health
  Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to preclude investigations and inquiries by the State Department of Health pursuant to section 26:2-34 of the Revised...
• Section 34:6-119.6 - Violation Of Act; Penalty
  6. Any company, the officers and agents thereof, and any other person who shall violate any of the provisions of this act or of...
• Section 34:6-120 - Short Title Of Article
  This article may be cited by its short title as "the home work law" .
• Section 34:6-121 - Tenement Defined
  Within the meaning of this article a tenement is any house or building or portion thereof which is rented, leased, let or hired out...
• Section 34:6-122 - License Required
  No dwelling, tenement, or room therein, or building situated immediately in the rear of a tenement or dwelling shall be used for the purpose...
• Section 34:6-123 - Application For License
  Application for such a license shall be made to the commissioner by any family or member thereof, or any person desiring to manufacture, alter,...
• Section 34:6-124 - Investigation Before Granting License
  Before any such license is granted, an inspection of the dwelling, tenement, room, or building sought to be licensed, shall be made by the...
• Section 34:6-125 - Number Of Employees
  Each license shall state the maximum number of persons who may be employed in the dwelling, tenement, room, or building. The number shall be...
• Section 34:6-126 - License To Be Posted; Revocation
  The license must be posted in a conspicuous place in the room or rooms where the work is carried on. The license may be...
• Section 34:6-127 - Diseases To Be Reported
  Any person holding such license shall immediately report to the department any case of infectious or contagious disease occurring in the place covered by...
• Section 34:6-128 - Contracts To Manufacture In Unlicensed Place Unlawful
  It shall be unlawful for any person to contract to manufacture, alter, repair, finish or distribute for such purposes any goods whatsoever in an...
• Section 34:6-129 - Separate Living Quarters; Toilets
  The commissioner may, when he deems it necessary, require that any and all rooms to which this article applies, shall be separate from and...
• Section 34:6-130 - Contract Record
  Any person, by himself or by his agent, contracting for the manufacturing, altering, repairing, finishing or distributing in any place regulated by this article...
• Section 34:6-130.1 - Records Of And Payment For Homework In Hand Knitting Industry
  All homeworkers engaged or employed in the hand knitting industry shall keep a daily record of work done, and all employers in said industry...
• Section 34:6-130.2 - Violations Of Section 34:6-130.1; Penalties
  Any violation of the provisions hereof shall subject the offender to a penalty of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) for the first offense,...
• Section 34:6-131 - Manufacture Of Infants' Clothing, Dolls And Dolls' Clothing Prohibited In Tenement Houses
  The manufacturing, altering, repairing or finishing in whole or in part, or distributing for the purposes thereof, of any dolls, dolls' clothing, articles of...
• Section 34:6-132 - Infants' And Dolls' Clothing And Dolls; Manufacture In Dwelling
  No license to manufacture, alter, repair or finish in whole or in part, or distribute for the purposes thereof, any dolls, dolls' clothing, or...
• Section 34:6-133 - Tailors And Seamstresses Exempted
  Nothing in this article shall be held to prevent the employment of a tailor or seamstress by any person for the purpose of making,...
• Section 34:6-134 - Penalty
  Any corporation, the officers and agents thereof, the members of any firm, the agents thereof, and any other person who shall violate any of...
• Section 34:6-135 - Disorderly House
  Any place where manufacturing, altering, repairing, finishing or distributing for the purposes thereof, of any goods, for hire or reward, is habitually carried on...
• Section 34:6-136 - Recovery Of Penalties; Disposition
  34:6-136. Any penalty for a violation of this article shall be recovered in a civil action brought in the name of the commissioner in...
• Section 34:6-136.1 - Declaration Of Policy
  (a) The Legislature has long recognized, through laws regulating the employment of men, women and children, that working conditions detrimental to health and welfare...
• Section 34:6-136.2 - Definitions
  Whenever used in this act. (a) "Person" means any individual; firm; partnership, or the officers or agents thereof; domestic corporation or foreign corporation, or...
• Section 34:6-136.3 - Prohibited Homework
  Prohibited homework. The manufacture of any of the following by industrial homework shall be unlawful, and no permit or certificate issued under this act...
• Section 34:6-136.4 - Power To Prohibit
  (a) The commissioner shall have the power upon his own initiative, and it shall be his duty upon receipt of a petition of fifty...
• Section 34:6-136.5 - Hearings
  Before making such order the commissioner shall hold a public hearing or hearings at which an opportunity to be heard shall be afforded to...
• Section 34:6-136.6 - Orders
  (a) The commissioner shall determine the effective date of such order, which date shall be not less than ninety days after the date of...
• Section 34:6-136.7 - Permit Required
  (a) Every employer must procure from the commissioner an employer's permit. Application for such permit shall list the names and addresses of home workers...
• Section 34:6-136.8 - Fees
  A fee of $150.00 shall be paid to the Department of Labor and Industry for the original issuance of an employer's permit. For each...
• Section 34:6-136.9 - Revocation Of Permit
  If the commissioner has reason to believe that a person having an employer's permit is not observing the provisions of this act or any...
• Section 34:6-136.10 - Home Worker's Certificate
  (a) Every person desiring to engage in industrial home work within this State must procure from the commissioner a home worker's certificate which shall...
• Section 34:6-136.11 - Records To Be Kept
  Each employer shall keep within this State in such form and manner as the commissioner may by rule, regulation or order prescribe and shall...
• Section 34:6-136.12 - Conditions Of Manufacture
  Industrial home work shall be performed: (1) Only by a person possessing a valid home worker's certificate, and resident in the home in which...
• Section 34:6-136.13 - Labels Required
  No employer shall deliver or cause to be delivered any materials or articles to be manufactured by any home worker unless there has been...
• Section 34:6-136.14 - Unlawfully Manufactured Or Distributed Articles Or Materials
  (a) Any article or material which is being manufactured in a home in violation of any provisions of this act may be removed by...
• Section 34:6-136.15 - Agreements To Contributions By Employees Void
  Any agreement by a home worker to pay any portion of a payment required of any other person by any provision of this act...
• Section 34:6-136.16 - Enforcement; Administration, Oaths, Affidavits, Subpoenas, Witnesses
  16. Enforcement, administration, oaths, affidavits, subpoenas, witnesses. (a) The commissioner shall enforce and administer the provisions of this act and the commissioner is directed...
• Section 34:6-136.17 - Rules And Regulations
  The commissioner shall have the power to make, issue, amend and rescind such rules, regulations and orders as are necessary or appropriate to carry...
• Section 34:6-136.18 - Injunctive Relief Against Violations
  The commissioner shall have the power to institute a civil action in the Superior Court for injunctive relief, and such court shall have the...
• Section 34:6-136.19 - Penalties
  19. Penalties. Any employer or person who: (1) Directly or indirectly in any way, distributes, delivers or causes to be distributed or delivered, or...
• Section 34:6-136.20 - Construction
  If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of the act and...
• Section 34:6-136.21 - Exemptions
  Nothing in this act shall be held to prevent the employment of a tailor or seamstress by any person for the purpose of making,...
• Section 34:6-136.22 - Disorderly House
  Any home or other place where industrial home work is habitually carried on or articles or materials are habitually being distributed for manufacture in...
• Section 34:6-136.23 - Time Of Taking Effect
  This act shall take effect ninety days after its adoption; except sections seven (a), (b) and (c), section eight, and section sixteen (c) which...
• Section 34:6-144 - Findings, Declarations
  1. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. There is growing concern over the increasing number of people working for employers in certain segments...
• Section 34:6-145 - Definitions
  2. As used in this act: a. "Apparel industry" means the making, cutting, sewing, finishing, assembling, pressing or otherwise producing of apparel, designed or...
• Section 34:6-146 - Registration Of Manufacturers, Contractors
  3. a. No manufacturer or contractor shall engage in the apparel industry in this State unless the manufacturer or contractor is registered as a...
• Section 34:6-147 - Special Task Force On The Apparel Industry Reestablished As Apparel Industry Unit
  4. The commissioner shall establish, within 120 days of the effective date of this act, a Special Task Force on the Apparel Industry to...
• Section 34:6-148 - Duties Of Apparel Industry Unit
  5. The apparel industry unit is charged with the following duties: a. To inspect manufacturers and contractors, with respect to their production employees, for...
• Section 34:6-149 - Powers Of Apparel Industry Unit.
  6.The apparel industry unit shall have the following powers: a.To investigate and conduct inspections at locations where an apparel industry manufacturer or contractor is...
• Section 34:6-150 - Violations, Penalties.
  7. a. Any manufacturer or contractor who has failed to comply with the registration requirements of section 3 of this act shall be deemed...
• Section 34:6-151 - Additional Penalties
  1. a. The commissioner may, in addition to seeking civil, administrative, or criminal penalties pursuant to P.L.1987, c.458 (C.34:6-144 et seq.), order the apparel...
• Section 34:6-152 - List Of Violators Made Public
  2. The commissioner or his designee shall make public a list of all manufacturers and contractors which have been found guilty of violations of...
• Section 34:6-153 - Manufacturer, Contractor To Keep Records On Production Employees
  3. Each manufacturer and contractor shall keep accurate records regarding all of its production employees during the preceding three years and make those records...
• Section 34:6-154 - Information Confidential, Use By Apparel Industry Unit
  8. Information obtained or collected by the department pursuant to this act shall be exempt from P.L.1963, c.73 (C.47:1A-1 et seq.), and shall be...
• Section 34:6-155 - Report
  9. Two years after the effective date of this act the special task force shall issue a report on its activities. This report shall...
• Section 34:6-156 - Training For Apparel Industry Unit
  10. The apparel industry unit shall receive training to be provided by the State in each of the areas of the State's labor laws...
• Section 34:6-157 - Appropriation
  11. a. There is appropriated from the General Fund $350,000.00 to the Division of Workplace Standards in the Department of Labor to effectuate the...
• Section 34:6-158 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Procurement Of Apparel.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.A significant portion of the apparel industry has a history of poor conditions for its workers; b.The largest...
• Section 34:6-159 - Definitions Relative To Procurement Of Apparel.
  2.For the purpose of P.L.2009, c.247 (C.34:6-158 et seq.): "Apparel" means any clothing, headwear, linens or fabric. "Apparel contracts" shall include all purchases, rentals...
• Section 34:6-160 - Apparel Production In Compliance With Certain Requirements.
  3.When purchasing or otherwise obtaining apparel from a vendor, including approving a vendor for participation in allowance or voucher programs, a public body shall...
• Section 34:6-161 - Information Provided To Public Body By Bidder For Apparel Contract.
  4.Every bidder for an apparel contract with a public body shall inform the public body in writing of the following information, which shall be...
• Section 34:6-162 - Apparel Procurement Board.
  5. a. The Apparel Procurement Board is established and shall be composed of seven individuals as follows: three individuals selected by the New Jersey...
• Section 34:6a-1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Worker Health and Safety Act." L.1965, c. 154, s. 1, eff. June 19,
• Section 34:6a-2 - Definitions
  The following terms wherever used or referred to in this act shall have the following meaning: (a) "Act" means this act and rules and...
• Section 34:6a-3 - Safe And Healthful Place Of Employment
  Every employer shall furnish a place of employment which shall be reasonably safe and healthful for employees. Every employer shall install, maintain and use...
• Section 34:6a-4 - Structural Adequacy; Fire Prevention; Ventilation And Lighting; Elevators
  The owner of any premises used in whole or in part as a place of employment shall be responsible for its structural adequacy, protection...
• Section 34:6a-5 - Protective Devices Or Safeguards; Rendering Ineffective
  No person shall render ineffective any employee protective devices or safeguards installed or provided in compliance with the provisions of this act for the...
• Section 34:6a-6 - Enforcement Of Act; Entry And Inspection
  The commissioner shall enforce the provisions of this act, make complaints against persons violating its provisions and prosecute violations of the same. The commissioner...
• Section 34:6a-7 - Written Orders As To Violations; Imminent Physical Hazards
  If upon inspection the commissioner discovers a condition which exists in violation of the provisions of this act he shall be authorized to order...
• Section 34:6a-8 - Aggrieved Persons; Hearings
  Any person aggrieved by a ruling, action or order of the commissioner under this act upon application made within 15 days after written notice...
• Section 34:6a-9 - Rules And Regulations
  The commissioner shall make and promulgate rules and regulations reasonably necessary to implement the purposes of this act. Such rules and regulations shall have...
• Section 34:6a-10 - Submission Of Plans And Specifications
  The commissioner shall have the power and authority to require by rules and regulations promulgated hereunder that the owner of any building or structure...
• Section 34:6a-11 - Certificate Of Registration; Duration; Renewal; Display; Fee
  The commissioner shall have the power and authority to require that places of employment be registered with the department; and that a certificate of...
• Section 34:6a-12 - Report Of Accidental Deaths, Fines, Etc.
  Whenever accidental loss of life, or a major fire, major explosion or major structural failure shall occur at a place of employment, the employer...
• Section 34:6a-13 - Service And Assistance To Employers
  The commissioner is authorized to provide service and assistance to employers in carrying out their responsibilities under this act and to suggest to employers...
• Section 34:6a-14 - Bureau Of Engineering And Safety
  There is hereby established within the Division of Labor of the Department a Bureau of Engineering and Safety, the function of which shall be,...
• Section 34:6a-15 - New Jersey State Industrial Safety Committee
  There is hereby established within the department the New Jersey State Industrial Safety Committee. The membership, in a number not to exceed 100, shall...
• Section 34:6a-16 - Industrial Safety Board
  There is hereby established within the department an industrial safety board. The board shall consist of 15 members, all of whom shall be residents...
• Section 34:6a-17 - Existing Rights Or Remedies Unaffected; Burden Of Care
  This act shall not in any way enlarge or diminish any right or remedy otherwise existent pursuant to the Revised Statutes of New Jersey...
• Section 34:6a-18 - Appeals
  Except as otherwise provided herein, relief from any final order, ruling, or action of the commissioner made pursuant to this act may be sought...
• Section 34:6a-19 - Penalties; Compromise Of Claims
  Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be liable to a penalty of not less than $25.00 nor more than...
• Section 34:6a-20 - Repealer; Savings Clause
  Revised Statutes sections 34:1-29 through 34:1-33; 34:1-37; 34:6-1 through 34:6-47; 34:6-48 through 34:6-67.1; 34:6-99 through 34:6-104; and 34:6-137 through 34:6-143 are hereby repealed; provided,...
• Section 34:6a-21 - Severability
  If any section, clause or phrase of this act is held unconstitutional or invalid, such decision shall not affect the remaining portions of this...
• Section 34:6a-22 - Exemptions
  This act is not intended to apply and shall not apply to the following: (a) Places of employment under the exclusive jurisdiction of the...
• Section 34:6a-23 - Exceptions From Literal Requirements Of Rules And Regulations
  The commissioner shall have the power and authority to grant exceptions from the literal requirements of rules and regulations promulgated under this act. Such...
• Section 34:6a-24 - Duties Of Health Department Not Abrogated
  This act is not intended to abrogate the duties of the New Jersey State Department of Health under chapter 177, laws of 1947. L.1965,...
• Section 34:6a-25 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New Jersey Public Employees' Occupational Safety and Health Act." L.1983, c. 516, s....
• Section 34:6a-26 - Legislative Findings
  The Legislature finds that the safety and health of public employees in the workplace is of primary public concern. Personal injuries and illnesses arising...
• Section 34:6a-27 - Definition
  As used in this act: a. "Advisory board" means the Public Employees' Occupational Safety and Health Advisory Board created by section 4 of this...
• Section 34:6a-28 - Advisory Board
  There is created a Public Employees' Occupational Safety and Health Advisory Board to assist the commissioner in establishing standards for the occupational safety and...
• Section 34:6a-29 - Plan For Health And Safety Standards
  5. The commissioner shall, in consultation with the Commissioner of Health, the Commissioner of Community Affairs and the advisory board, promulgate a plan for...
• Section 34:6a-30 - Adoption Of Standards
  6. a. The commissioner shall provide for the adoption of all applicable occupational health and safety standards, amendments or changes adopted or recognized by...
• Section 34:6a-31 - Promotion Of Goals Of The Act
  7. The commissioner, in consultation with the Commissioner of Health and the Commissioner of Community Affairs and with the advice of the advisory board,...
• Section 34:6a-32 - Promulgation Of Regulations.
  8.The commissioner shall, in consultation with the Commissioner of Health and the Commissioner of Community Affairs and with the advice of the advisory board,...
• Section 34:6a-33 - Responsibilities Of Employers
  9. Every employer shall: a. Provide each of his employees with employment and a place of employment which are free from recognized hazards which...
• Section 34:6a-34 - Duty Of Compliance By Public Employees
  Every public employee shall comply with occupational safety and health standards and all regulations promulgated under this act which are applicable to his own...
• Section 34:6a-35 - Inspections; Compliance
  11. a. The commissioner and the Commissioner of Health shall be charged with making inspections in their jurisdictional areas as specified in section 6...
• Section 34:6a-36 - Notice Of Safety Violation
  12. a. Any employee, group of employees or employee representative who believes that a violation of a safety standard exists, or that an imminent...
• Section 34:6a-38 - Notice Of Health Standard Violation
  14. a. Any employee, group of employees or employee representative who believes that a violation of a health standard exists, or that an imminent...
• Section 34:6a-39 - Variances
  15. a. Any employer may apply to the commissioner for a temporary order granting a variance from a standard or any provision thereof promulgated...
• Section 34:6a-40 - Employer Records; Reports
  16. In accordance with the regulations which shall be adopted by the commissioner, each employer shall make, keep, preserve and make available the following...
• Section 34:6a-41 - Compliance Orders; Violations; Penalties
  17. a. If the commissioner determines that an employer has violated a provision of this act, or a safety standard or regulation promulgated under...
• Section 34:6a-42 - Occupational Safety And Health Review Commission
  18. a. There is established an Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission within the Department of Labor to hear appeals regarding orders to comply...
• Section 34:6a-43 - Appeals From Decision Of Review Commission
  Any appeal from a decision of the review commission shall be to the Appellate Division of the Superior Court. L.1983, c. 516, s. 19,...
• Section 34:6a-44 - Restraining Orders
  The Attorney General, at the request of and on behalf of the commissioner, may bring an action in the Superior Court to restrain any...
• Section 34:6a-45 - Retaliatory Discrimination Prohibited
  21. a. No person shall discharge, or otherwise discipline, or in any manner discriminate against any employee because such employee has filed any complaint...
• Section 34:6a-47 - Advisors To Commission Of Capital Budgeting And Planning On Workplace Safety And Health
  The Commissioner of Labor, the Commissioner of Community Affairs and the Commissioner of Health shall serve in an advisory capacity to the New Jersey...
• Section 34:6a-48 - Act Inapplicable To Right To Strike
  Nothing in this act shall be deemed to give public employees the right to strike over occupational safety and health issues. L.1983, c. 516,...
• Section 34:6a-49 - Uniform Codes Not Superseded, Permits Required
  25. Except as provided in section 6 of P.L.1983, c.516 (C.34:6A-30), nothing in this act shall be deemed to conflict with or supersede any...
• Section 34:6a-50 - Annual Report
  16. a. Not later than December 31 of the first full calendar year following the effective date of this 1995 amendatory and supplementary act...
• Section 34:6b-1 - Smoking, Use Of Tobacco Products Shall Not Affect Employment
  1. No employer shall refuse to hire or employ any person or shall discharge from employment or take any adverse action against any employee...
• Section 34:6b-2 - Law, Workplace Policies Not Affected
  2. Nothing contained in this act shall be construed to affect any applicable laws, rules or workplace policies concerning smoking or the use of...
• Section 34:6b-3 - Aggrieved Person May Institute Civil Action
  3. Upon a violation of any provision of this act, an aggrieved person may, in addition to any other available remedy, institute civil action...
• Section 34:6b-4 - Penalties
  4. Any employer who violates any provision of this act shall be subject to a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed $2,000...
• Section 34:6b-5 - Definitions Relative To Disclosure Of Personal Information For Certain Electronic Communications Devices.
  1.For purposes of this act: "Electronic communications device" means any device that uses electronic signals to create, transmit, and receive information, including a computer,...
• Section 34:6b-6 - Prohibited Actions By Employers.
  2.No employer shall require or request a current or prospective employee to provide or disclose any user name or password, or in any way...
• Section 34:6b-7 - Waiver, Limitation Of Protection Prohibited.
  3.No employer shall require an individual to waive or limit any protection granted under this act as a condition of applying for or receiving...
• Section 34:6b-8 - Retaliation, Discrimination Prohibited.
  4.No employer shall retaliate or discriminate against an individual because the individual has done or was about to do any of the following: a.Refuse...
• Section 34:6b-9 - Violations, Penalties.
  5.An employer who violates any provision of this act shall be subject to a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed $1,000 for...
• Section 34:6b-10 - Construction Of Act.
  6. a. Nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent an employer from complying with the requirements of State or federal statutes, rules...
• Section 34:6b-11 - Short Title.
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as "The Opportunity to Compete Act." L.2014, c.32, s.1.
• Section 34:6b-12 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Certain Employment Rights Of Persons With Criminal Records.
  2.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.Removing obstacles to employment for people with criminal records provides economic and social opportunities to a large group...
• Section 34:6b-13 - Definitions Relative To Certain Employment Rights Of Persons With Criminal Records.
  3.As used in this act: "Advertisement" means any circulation, mailing, posting, or any other form of publication, utilizing any media, promoting an employer or...
• Section 34:6b-14 - Prohibited Actions By Employer During Initial Employment Application Process.
  4. a. Except as otherwise provided in section 6 of this act: (1)An employer shall not require an applicant for employment to complete any...
• Section 34:6b-15 - Prohibitions Relative To Employer Advertisements.
  5.Unless otherwise permitted or required by law, an employer shall not knowingly or purposefully publish, or cause to be published, any advertisement that solicits...
• Section 34:6b-16 - Exceptions To Prohibited Actions By Employers.
  6.The provisions of subsection a. of section 4 of this act shall not prohibit an employer from requiring an applicant for employment to complete...
• Section 34:6b-17 - Criminal Histories Relative To Employment With Local Government.
  7. a. The governing body of a county or municipality shall not adopt any ordinance, resolution, law, rule or regulation regarding criminal histories in...
• Section 34:6b-18 - Penalties Sole Remedy; Construction Of Act.
  8.The penalties set forth in section 9 of this act shall be the sole remedy provided for violations of this act. Nothing set forth...
• Section 34:6b-19 - Violations, Penalties.
  9.Any employer who violates this act shall be liable for a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed $1,000 for the first violation,...
• Section 34:7-1 - License Necessary; Emergencies; Exceptions; Administration; Examinations
  No unlicensed person shall operate a steam generator, similar equipment potentially capable of generating steam having relief devices set over 15 psig. and rated...
• Section 34:7-2 - Application
  Application for license shall be made on forms to be provided for that purpose by the mechanical inspection bureau and shall state clearly the...
• Section 34:7-2.1 - Declaration Of Becoming A Citizen
  Every applicant qualifying for a license who is not a citizen of the United States but who officially declared his intention of becoming a...
• Section 34:7-3 - Fees; Revocation Or Suspension Of License.
  34:7-3. Each application for examination and for any license issued by the bureau shall be accompanied by fees as set forth in this section....
• Section 34:7-4 - Form Of License
  The form of license shall be such as the commissioner shall approve.
• Section 34:7-5 - Production Of License And Equipment Inspection Certificates On Demand
  Every engineer and fireman licensed under this chapter shall, while in charge of or operating any equipment described in section 34:7-1, produce all licenses...
• Section 34:7-6 - Penalties.
  34:7-6. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this article shall be liable to a penalty of not less than $500...
• Section 34:7-7 - Jurisdiction
  34:7-7. The Superior Court and municipal court shall have jurisdiction of proceedings for the collection and enforcement of a penalty imposed because of the...
• Section 34:7-8 - Complaint; Process
  All proceedings brought for a violation of this article shall be brought in the name of the commissioner as plaintiff. Process shall be either...
• Section 34:7-9 - Service Of Process
  34:7-9. Any process under the provisions of this article shall be served by the commissioner or a member of the engineers' and firemen's license...
• Section 34:7-12 - Execution; Commitment
  If after issuance of execution against any person convicted of violating this article, sufficient goods and chattels be not found to satisfy the execution,...
• Section 34:7-14 - Inspection Of Boilers.
  34:7-14. a. All steam or hot water boilers or similar equipment potentially capable of generating steam, except steam boilers having adequate relief devices set...
• Section 34:7-15 - Fee For Inspecting And Testing; Inspection Of New Vessels Or Vessels Under Construction.
  34:7-15. a. For each internal and external inspection of vessels specified in subsection a. of R.S.34:7-14, which shall include hydrostatic test if found necessary,...
• Section 34:7-16 - Additional External Inspection; Fee.
  34:7-16. In addition to the annual internal and external inspection, there may be an external inspection if found necessary of each vessel specified in...
• Section 34:7-17 - Commissioner May Order Additional Inspections
  Whenever it shall be deemed necessary by the commissioner, additional inspections may be made of vessels specified in section 34:7-14a. of this Title, which...
• Section 34:7-18 - Rules And Regulations
  The commissioner may make such rules and regulations covering the manner of conducting inspections, the method of collecting fees, the settlement of accounts and...
• Section 34:7-19 - Report By Insurance Company Making Inspection.
  34:7-19. An insurance company making an inspection of any vessel specified in R.S. 34:7-14 shall make a report of such inspection to the commissioner...
• Section 34:7-20 - Report By Owner; Fees
  The owner of any vessel specified in section 34:7-14 of this Title shall within 30 days after service on him of written notice so...
• Section 34:7-21 - Unfit Vessel Not To Be Used
  If after inspection it is found that any vessel specified in section 34:7-14 of this Title is unfit for use the inspector shall order...
• Section 34:7-22 - Reinspection
  The owner or operator of any vessel specified in section 34:7-14 of this Title, dissatisfied with the result of any inspection may appeal to...
• Section 34:7-23 - Conformance To Standards
  34:7-23. No steam boiler, pressure vessel or refrigeration system shall be sold, installed or used in this State unless it conforms to such rules,...
• Section 34:7-24 - Evidence Of Approval
  Upon payment of inspection fees and filing of inspection report, the commissioner shall deliver evidence of approval to the owner or operator of any...
• Section 34:7-25 - Refrigeration Systems; Inspection; Fees; Certificate.
  34:7-25. All refrigeration systems using flammable or toxic refrigerants of over three tons of refrigerating capacity or requiring over six driving horsepower, and all...
• Section 34:7-26 - Penalties; Recovery.
  34:7-26. Any owner, lessee, seller or operator of any steam or hot water boiler or similar equipment specified in R.S.34:7-14, pressure vessel or refrigeration...
• Section 34:8-43 - Definitions
  As used in this act: "Accepting employment" means that a job seeker has entered into an agreement with an employer which includes: (1) The...
• Section 34:8-44 - Disclosure Statement; Hearing After Denial Of Registration, License; Notification Of Change In Disclosure Statement
  In addition to any other procedure, condition or information required by this act: a. Every applicant shall file a disclosure statement with the chief...
• Section 34:8-45 - Applicability Of Act; Licensure Or Registration Required For Court Action
  a. The provisions of this act shall apply to any person engaging in any of the activities regulated by this act including persons whose...
• Section 34:8-45.1 - Consideration As Health Care Service Firm; Terms Defined.
  1. a. Notwithstanding any other law or regulation to the contrary, an employment agency required to be licensed pursuant to P.L.1989, c.331 (C.34:8-43 et...
• Section 34:8-45.1a - Memorandum Of Understanding.
  2.The Director of the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety shall enter into a memorandum of understanding with...
• Section 34:8-45.1b - Report To Governor, Legislature.
  3.No more than three years after the enactment of P.L.2014, c.29, the Director of the Division of Consumer Affairs shall submit a written report...
• Section 34:8-45.1c - Rules, Regulations.
  4.The Director of the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410...
• Section 34:8-45.2 - Rules, Regulations.
  2.The Director of the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety shall, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968,...
• Section 34:8-46 - Cases Where Act Not Applicable
  The provisions of this act shall not apply to: a. A teachers' registry conducted by an association of certified teachers, whose membership is not...
• Section 34:8-47 - Application For Employment Agency License
  a. An application for an employment agency license required by this act shall be made in writing to the chief in the form prescribed...
• Section 34:8-48 - Application For Agent's License; Cancellation Of License; Issuance Of New License; Conditional License
  a. An application for an agent's license shall state the name and address of the applicant and any other name used by the applicant...
• Section 34:8-49 - Posting Of Bond As Surety; Suit On Bond; Revocation Of License
  a. Before an employment agency license is issued, the applicant shall post with the director a bond in the amount of $10,000, with a...
• Section 34:8-50 - Annual Fees
  Any license issued in accordance with this act shall be issued upon an annual basis. The fees therefor shall be nonrefundable and shall be...
• Section 34:8-51 - Requirements
  a. Every employment agency shall: (1) Keep and make available to the chief, or a designee, during regular business hours, records containing information regarding...
• Section 34:8-52 - Violations
  It shall be a violation of the provisions of this act for any person to: a. Open, conduct, or maintain, either directly or indirectly,...
• Section 34:8-53 - Refusal Or Revocation; Suspension; Renewal
  The director may refuse to issue, and may revoke, any license for failure to comply with, or violation of, the provisions of this act...
• Section 34:8-54 - Powers Of Director
  To accomplish the objectives and carry out the duties prescribed by this act, the director may issue subpoenas to any person, administer an oath...
• Section 34:8-55 - Investigation
  Whenever it appears to the director that a person has engaged in, is engaging in, or is about to engage in, any practice declared...
• Section 34:8-56 - Service Of Notice Or Subpoena
  Service by the director of any notice requiring a person to file a statement or report, or of a subpoena upon the person, shall...
• Section 34:8-57 - Order From Superior Court
  If a person fails or refuses to file any statement or report requested by the director, or obey any subpoena issued by the director,...
• Section 34:8-58 - Injunction; Other Court Actions
  a. Whenever it appears to the director that a person has engaged in, is engaging in, or is about to engage in, any practice...
• Section 34:8-59 - Action Authorized After Finding Of Violation
  Whenever it appears to the director that a person has engaged in, is engaging in, or is about to engage in, any practice which...
• Section 34:8-60 - Penalties For Violation Of Cease And Desist Order
  Whenever it appears to the director that a person against whom a cease and desist order has been entered has violated the order, the...
• Section 34:8-61 - Additional Penalties
  In addition to any other penalty provided by law, a person who violates any of the provisions of this act shall be liable for...
• Section 34:8-62 - Director To Recover Attorneys' Fees And Costs
  In any action or proceeding brought under this act the director may recover reasonable attorneys' fees and costs of investigation and suit. L.1989, c.331,
• Section 34:8-63 - Certificate Of Indebtedness To Clerk
  Upon the failure of a person to comply within 10 days after service of any order of the director directing payment of penalties, costs,...
• Section 34:8-64 - Registration Of Consulting Firm; Revocation; Suspension
  a. Every consulting firm operating within this State shall, within 60 days following the effective date of this act and annually thereafter, register in...
• Section 34:8-65 - Registration Of Career Consulting Or Outplacement Organization; Fee; Bond; Explanation Of Product Or Services; Cancellation Of Contract; Complaint
  a. Every career consulting or outplacement organization operating within this State shall, within 60 days following the effective date of this act and annually...
• Section 34:8-66 - Registration Of Prepaid Computer Job Matching Service Or Job Listing Service; Annual Fee; Bond; Contract; Refund Conditions; Violations
  a. Every prepaid computer job matching service or job listing service operating or providing services or products within this State shall, within 60 days...
• Section 34:8-67 - Definitions Relative To Employee Leasing Companies.
  1.For the purposes of this act: "Assurance organization" means an independent and qualified entity approved by the commissioner to certify the qualifications of an...
• Section 34:8-68 - Provisions Of Leasing Agreements.
  2. a. Every employee leasing agreement shall provide that the employee leasing company: (1)Reserves a right of direction and control over each covered employee...
• Section 34:8-68.1 - Responsibilities Of Client Company.
  6. a. Except to the extent otherwise expressly provided by an applicable employee leasing agreement, a client company shall be solely responsible for the...
• Section 34:8-69 - Relationship Between Leasing Company, Client Company.
  3.The employee leasing company and the client company shall not be owned or controlled by the same interests or be a part of a...
• Section 34:8-70 - Registration Of Leasing Company.
  4. a. An employee leasing company shall register with the commissioner and provide a list of its client companies with covered employees in this...
• Section 34:8-71 - Registration, Annual Reporting.
  5. a. (1) Every initial registration and subsequent annual reporting shall be accompanied by a financial statement prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting...
• Section 34:8-72 - Co-employment Of Covered Employees.
  6. a. An employee leasing company registered under this act and the respective client companies with which it has entered into employee leasing agreements...
• Section 34:8-73 - Actions Upon Entry, Dissolution Of Leasing Agreement.
  7. a. Upon entering into the employee leasing agreement: (1)If the employee leasing company acquires the client company's total workforce, the employee leasing company...
• Section 34:8-74 - Calculation Of Unemployment Benefit Experience.
  8.The employee leasing company shall provide to each client company, upon signing of an employee leasing agreement, written disclosure as to the method to...
• Section 34:8-75 - Inapplicability To Temporary Help Service Firms, Unit Operating As Cooperative.
  9. a. The provisions of this act shall not apply to temporary help service firms, as defined in section 1 of P.L.1989, c.331 (C.34:8-43),...
• Section 34:8-76 - Noncompliance, Rescinding Of Registration.
  10. a. If an employee leasing company fails to comply with any of the requirements set forth in this act, the department may rescind...
• Section 34:8-77 - Compliance With C.17:22a-1 et Seq.
  11.Nothing in this act shall exempt an employee leasing company or any employee thereof from compliance with the provisions of P.L.1987, c.293 (C.17:22A-1 et...
• Section 34:8-78 - Rules, Regulations.
  12.The commissioner shall, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), promulgate those rules and regulations necessary to effectuate the purposes...
• Section 34:8-79 - Information Provided To Patients Receiving Home Care Services Regulated By Division Of Consumer Affairs
  2. a. The Director of the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety, in consultation with the Commissioner of...
• Section 34:8a-7 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Crew leader" means any person who transports, recruits, supplies or hires farm or food processing laborers and who,...
• Section 34:8a-8 - Crew Leader; Certificate Of Registration; Necessity; Duration; Nontransferability; Display; Agents; Responsibility Of Registrant
  No person shall act as a crew leader, nor shall any person employ a crew leader unless he possesses a current and valid certificate...
• Section 34:8a-9 - Requirements Of Applicants For Certificate; Rules And Regulations; Grounds For Refusal To Issue
  All applicants for a crew leader certificate of registration shall furnish evidence satisfactory to the commissioner of his good character, knowledge of and experience...
• Section 34:8a-10 - Duties Of Crew Leader
  In addition to any other responsibilities imposed by law upon the crew leader, he shall: a. Keep records of place of work, gross payments,...
• Section 34:8a-10.1 - Retaliatory Action Against Worker For Exercise Of Legal Right; Prohibition; Presumption; Liability
  It shall be unlawful for any crew leader to terminate, suspend, demote, transfer, or take adverse action against any past, present or prospective seasonal...
• Section 34:8a-11 - Refusal To Renew, Revocation Or Suspension Of Certificate; Hearing; Notice; Grounds
  The commissioner may refuse to renew and may revoke or suspend any certificate of registration after a hearing upon reasonable notice if the applicant:...
• Section 34:8a-11.1 - Duties Of Commissioner
  The commissioner or his designated representative shall investigate and gather data with respect to matters which may aid in carrying out the provisions of...
• Section 34:8a-12 - Penalties
  6. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this act or of the rules and regulations promulgated hereunder shall be a disorderly...
• Section 34:8a-13 - Violation Of Act; Injunction; Parties
  Upon a violation of any of the provisions of this act, any aggrieved seasonal farm worker, the commissioner or the Attorney General are specifically...
• Section 34:8a-14 - Additional Penalties
  8. In addition to any other sanctions herein or otherwise provided by law, the commissioner, upon notice and hearing, may impose a penalty not...
• Section 34:8a-15 - Commissioner Of Department Of Labor And Industry; Enforcement Of Act; Promulgation Of Rules And Regulations
  The Commissioner of the Department of Labor and Industry is specifically authorized to enforce the provisions of this act and to promulgate all rules...
• Section 34:8a-16 - Agreement By Employee To Waive Or Modify Rights; Invalidity
  Any agreement by an employee purporting to waive or to modify his rights hereunder, shall be void as contrary to public policy. L.1975, c....
• Section 34:8a-17 - Severability
  If any provision of this act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstances, shall be held invalid, the remainder of the act...
• Section 34:8b-1 - Provisions Prohibited In Advertisements For Job Vacancies.
• Section 34:8b-2 - Violations, Penalties.
  2. a. Any employer who violates this act shall be subject to a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed $1,000 for the...
• Section 34:9-1 - Employment Of Aliens On Public Works Forbidden; Penalty
  It shall be unlawful for the state or any county, municipality, board, committee, commission or officer thereof, officer, body or organization having charge of...
• Section 34:9-2 - Resident Citizens To Be Preferred In Employment On Public Works
  In the construction of any public work for the state, or any county, city, town, township, or borough, or other municipal corporation or any...
• Section 34:9a-1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known as the Seasonal Farm Labor Act. L.1945, c. 71, p. 350, s. 1. Amended by L.1967, c. 91, s....
• Section 34:9a-2 - Definitions
  As used in this act, unless the context clearly requires a different meaning: (a) " Farm labor camp," or "Migrant labor camp" shall mean...
• Section 34:9a-3 - Bureau Of Migrant Labor; Establishment
  There is hereby established in the Department of Labor and Industry a bureau of migrant labor. L.1945, c. 71, p. 351, s. 3. Amended...
• Section 34:9a-4.1 - Migrant Labor Board; Abolition; Transfer Of Functions, Powers And Duties
  The migrant labor board is hereby abolished and all of its functions, powers and duties are vested in the Commissioner of Labor and Industry....
• Section 34:9a-7 - Deputy Commissioner Of Labor; Appointment
  The Commissioner of Labor and Industry shall have the duties and exercise the powers of the bureau through such deputy commissioner of labor as...
• Section 34:9a-7.1 - Seasonal Worker Defined
  As used in this act "seasonal worker" shall mean any person who is engaged in any seasonal or temporary work. L.1971, c. 194, s....
• Section 34:9a-7.2 - Certified Spanish Language Interpreters; Permanent And Temporary Staff
  The Commissioner of the Department of Labor and Industry shall provide for and establish in the Bureau of Migrant Labor a permanent staff of...
• Section 34:9a-7.3 - Permanent Staff Employment Under Civil Service; Employment And Compensation Of Temporary Staff
  Interpreters and other employees for the permanent staff shall be appointed and employed by the commissioner subject to the provisions of Title 11 of...
• Section 34:9a-7.4 - Rules And Regulations
  The commissioner is authorized to adopt, promulgate and enforce such rules and regulations pertaining to the qualification and certification of interpreters and their duties...
• Section 34:9a-9 - Duties And Powers Of Bureau
  The bureau shall: (a) Enforce the provisions of article 2 of this act either directly or through interdepartmental agreements; (b) Enforce all other applicable...
• Section 34:9a-10 - Inspectional Services
  Each camp shall from time to time be inspected by the bureau. Inspectors shall be trained and authorized to consult with and assist camp...
• Section 34:9a-11 - Preventive And Curative Public Health Services
  The bureau through the Department of Health shall make surveys to determine the adequacy of preventive and curative health services available to occupants of...
• Section 34:9a-12 - Communicable Diseases
  For the purpose of this act the commissioner may through the State Director of Health exercise the powers of a local board or health...
• Section 34:9a-13 - Notice Of Communicable Diseases; Quarantine; Food Poisoning
  It shall be the duty of the person in charge of a camp to report immediately to the local health authority the name and...
• Section 34:9a-14 - Construction And Operation Of Camps; Field Surveys And Censuses
  The bureau in co-operation with the Department of Community Affairs, shall make field surveys and censuses adequate to determine the number, location and character...
• Section 34:9a-15 - Personnel; Appointments
  The commissioner may appoint such professional, technical and clerical assistants and employees as may be necessary for the performance of his functions under this...
• Section 34:9a-16 - Rules And Regulations
  The commissioner may make, modify and repeal rules and regulations for the interpretation and application of the provisions of this act, and, in his...
• Section 34:9a-17 - Civil Penalties
  In addition to any other sanctions herein or otherwise provided by law, the commissioner, upon notice and hearing, may impose a penalty not exceeding...
• Section 34:9a-18 - Entry And Inspection
  The commissioner, his authorized officers and agents may, for the purpose of this act: (a) Enter public or private property to determine whether there...
• Section 34:9a-19 - Prohibition Of Violations
  No person, or any agent or officer thereof, shall construct, establish, maintain, operate, or occupy, or permit the construction, establishment, maintenance, operation, occupancy or...
• Section 34:9a-20 - Certified Labor Camps; Application; Inspections; Erection, Construction Or Alteration
  Each person employing any person to work in or at camps to which this article applies shall apply, not later than 60 days prior...
• Section 34:9a-21 - Use Of Certificate; Revocation
  No person shall display any certificate issued under this article in or about any premises other than the camp for which the certificate was...
• Section 34:9a-22 - Shelter; Sleeping Places, Requirements
  Every camp shall provide sleeping places in reasonably good structural condition, including adequate provision against fire hazards, so as to shelter the occupants against...
• Section 34:9a-23 - Beds Or Bunks
  Each sleeping place shall be equipped with beds or bunks made of steel, canvas, or other sanitary material, so constructed as to afford reasonable...
• Section 34:9a-24 - Air And Privacy
  Every sleeping place erected or constructed subsequent to the effective date of this act shall contain sufficient air space and partitions to insure an...
• Section 34:9a-25 - Food Preparation
  Every camp shall be provided with adequate stoves or similar cooking facilities. Every tent, or structure where food is cooked, prepared or served in...
• Section 34:9a-26 - Water
  (a) The occupants of each camp shall be provided a potable water supply in accordance with the following requirements: (1) Each camp shall be...
• Section 34:9a-27 - Bathing Facilities
  (a) Convenient and suitable bathing facilities of a reasonable nature to suit conditions, kept clean and sanitary, shall be provided for every camp. (b)...
• Section 34:9a-28 - Toilets And Privies
  (a) Each camp to which this article applies shall provide privy or other toilet facilities and a sewage disposal system in accordance with the...
• Section 34:9a-29 - Garbage And Wastes
  All garbage, kitchen wastes, and rubbish in camps shall be deposited in suitable covered receptacles which shall be emptied daily and the contents buried...
• Section 34:9a-30 - Milk, Food And Meals; Sales By Concessionaires
  Wherever milk, food or meals are prepared, served, furnished or offered for sale in a camp by the owner, operator or concessionaire, (a) The...
• Section 34:9a-31 - Responsibility
  Every person, or the agent or officer thereof, employing persons to work in or at camps to which this article applies and the superintendent...
• Section 34:9a-32 - Public Nuisance
  Any camp which does not conform to this article shall be deemed a public nuisance and if not made to conform within five days...
• Section 34:9a-33 - Peace Officers
  For the purpose of securing the enforcement of this article the officers and agents of the commissioner shall have the authority of peace officers...
• Section 34:9a-34 - Penalties
  Any person, or the agent or officer thereof, who violates any provision of this article or of any rule or regulation duly issued under...
• Section 34:9a-35 - Appropriations
  There is hereby appropriated to the division for the remainder of the current fiscal year ending June thirtieth, one thousand nine hundred and forty-five,...
• Section 34:9a-36 - Effective Dates
  Sections one to seventeen, inclusive, and sections twenty, twenty-one, thirty-three and thirty-five of this act shall take effect immediately. The remaining sections of this...
• Section 34:9a-37 - Definitions
  As used in this act: (a) "Farm operator" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, firm, company, or other legal entity, or any officers...
• Section 34:9a-38 - Furnishing Drinking Water And Toilet Facilities In Fields
  At any farm where seasonal farm workers labor in a field that is an unreasonable distance from central facilities, the farm operator shall provide...
• Section 34:9a-39 - Commissioner Of Department Of Labor And Industry; Enforcement Of Act; Promulgation Of Rules And Regulations
  The Commissioner of the Department of Labor and Industry is authorized to enforce this act and to promulgate all reasonable rules and regulations which,...
• Section 34:9a-40 - Violations; Penalties; Collection; Defenses
  4. Any farm operator who violates any of the provisions of this act or the rules and regulations promulgated hereunder shall be subject to...
• Section 34:9a-41 - Violations Of Act; Injunction; Parties
  Upon a violation of this act or of any rules and regulations promulgated hereunder, any aggrieved seasonal farm worker and the Commissioner of the...
• Section 34:10-3 - Twelve Hours Maximum Day
  Twelve hours' labor to be performed within twelve consecutive hours with reasonable time for meals not less than one-half hour for each shall constitute...
• Section 34:10-4 - Penalty
  It shall be a misdemeanor for any officer or agent of any such corporation to exact from any employee more than twelve hours' labor...
• Section 34:10-5 - Intent And Purpose Of Law
  It is the true intent and purpose of this article to limit the usual hours of labor of the employees of such railroad corporations...
• Section 34:11-2 - Weekly Payment Of Wages By Railroad, Express, Car-loading And Car-forwarding Companies; Agreements To Contrary; Action By Employee
  Every railroad, express, car-loading, and car-forwarding company authorized to do business by the laws of this State shall pay once each week to each...
• Section 34:11-3 - Penalty For Violation; Suit; Limitation Of Action; Disposition Of Penalties
  Any railroad company which shall violate the provisions of section 34:11-2 of this title shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty-five dollars for...
• Section 34:11-4.1 - Definitions
  1. As used in this act: a. "Employer" means any individual, partnership, association, joint stock company, trust, corporation, the administrator or executor of the...
• Section 34:11-4.2 - Time And Mode Of Payment; Paydays.
  2.Except as otherwise provided by law, every employer shall pay the full amount of wages due to his employees at least twice during each...
• Section 34:11-4.2a - Payment By Deposit In Financial Institution; Consent By Employee; Cancellation; Notice
  In lieu of paying wages directly to employees as provided by P.L.1965, c. 173, s. 2 (C. 34:11-4.2), an employer may, with the consent...
• Section 34:11-4.3 - Termination Or Suspension Of Employment
  Whenever an employer discharges an employee, or when the work of an employee is suspended as a result of a labor dispute, or when...
• Section 34:11-4.4 - Withholding From Wages.
  4.No employer may withhold or divert any portion of an employee's wages unless: a.The employer is required or empowered to do so by New...
• Section 34:11-4.4a - Contributions Withheld, Diverted; Conditions
  2. In the case of contributions withheld or diverted pursuant to paragraph (8) or (9) of subsection b. of section 4 of P.L.1965, c.173...
• Section 34:11-4.5 - Death Of Employee
  a. In the event of the death of an employee all wages due the deceased employee may, upon proper demand on the employer, be...
• Section 34:11-4.6 - Dissemination Of Information; Records
  Every employer shall: a. Notify his employees at the time of hiring, of the rate of pay, and of the regular payday designated by...
• Section 34:11-4.7 - Agreements By Employer With Employee
  It shall be unlawful for any employer to enter into or make any agreement with any employee for the payment of wages of any...
• Section 34:11-4.8 - Dispute Over Amount Of Wages
  a. In case of a dispute over the amount of wages, the employer shall pay, without condition and within the time set by this...
• Section 34:11-4.9 - Duties Of Commissioner.
  9. a. The commissioner shall enforce and administer the provisions of this act and the commissioner or his authorized representatives are empowered to investigate...
• Section 34:11-4.10 - Penalty
  10. Any employer who knowingly and willfully violates any provision of P.L.1965, c.173 (34:11-4.1 et seq.) shall be guilty of a disorderly persons offense...
• Section 34:11-4.11 - Rules And Regulations
  The commissioner is authorized to propose and issue, from time to time, rules and regulations to implement the provisions of this act. Such proposed...
• Section 34:11-4.12 - Construction Of Act
  Nothing in this act shall be deemed to require any employer to amend, change, revise or suspend any pay practice, procedure, policy or system...
• Section 34:11-4.13 - Repeal
  The following sections of the Revised Statutes are repealed: 34:11-4, 34:11-6, 34:11-7, 34:11-23, 34:11-24 and 34:11-27 to 34:11-30, inclusive. L.1965, c. 173, s. 13.
• Section 34:11-4.14 - Unlawful Diverting Of Wages
  13. a. It shall be unlawful for any person to purchase or have assigned to him, other than by order of court, any salary,...
• Section 34:11-10 - Commitment For Failure To Pay Judgment
  The court shall cause a defendant who refuses or neglects to pay forthwith the amount of a judgment rendered against him and the costs...
• Section 34:11-16 - Enforcement Of Act By Department Of Labor
  The department of labor shall enforce the provisions of this article and for that purpose the commissioner shall designate such of his employees or...
• Section 34:11-17 - Negotiable Orders
  It shall be unlawful for any person or corporation to pay their employees in store goods or merchandise, or to issue for the payment...
• Section 34:11-18 - Forfeiture On Issuing Orders In Payment For Labor; No Offset; Limitations
  Any employer paying its employees in store goods or merchandise or giving or issuing or authorizing to be given or issued in payment for...
• Section 34:11-19 - Punishment For Issuing Orders In Payment For Labor
  Any person giving or issuing in payment of labor, any due bills or orders contrary to law shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and...
• Section 34:11-21 - Attempting To Control Employees In Purchase Of Store Goods Unlawful
  It shall not be lawful for an employer, or his agents, clerks or superintendents, owning or controlling any stores for the sale of general...
• Section 34:11-22 - Penalty For Attempting To Control Employees In Purchase Of Store Goods
  Any person offending against the provisions of section 34:11-21 of this title shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be...
• Section 34:11-24.1 - Medical Examinations Requested By Employers; Imposition Of Cost On Employees Prohibited
  No employer or prospective employer shall deduct from the wages of any employee or from the wages to be paid to a prospective employee...
• Section 34:11-24.2 - Penalty For Violation
  Every person who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars ($100.00), to...
• Section 34:11-24.3 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect July first, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-two. L.1952, c. 147, p. 506, s. 3.
• Section 34:11-31 - Payment Of Wages Condition Precedent To Removal Of Employer's Personal Property On Levy Of Execution Or Other Process
  No personal property, being in this state and belonging to any person, corporation or manufacturer, shall be liable to be removed by virtue of...
• Section 34:11-32 - Procedure Where Personal Property Is Removed Under Process Without Payment Of Wages Of Debtor's Employees
  If an officer shall by virtue of execution, attachment or other process remove any personal property from the possession or premises of any employer...
• Section 34:11-33 - Wages For Services Bestowed On Property Of Manufacturers In Hands Of Receivers
  Whenever personal property of a manufacturer, distiller, brewer or producer of manufactured articles shall come into the possession of a receiver, any employee who...
• Section 34:11-33.1 - Income Or Wage Tax Advantages For New Jersey Residents With Income From Other Jurisdictions; Legislative Findings
  It is hereby found that residents of this State with income taxable in the State of New York heretofore have been allowed only limited...
• Section 34:11-33.2 - Definitions
  In this act, unless the context otherwise indicates, (a) "Tax advantage" refers to income or wage taxes, and means (1) a less inclusive definition...
• Section 34:11-33.3 - Authority To Enter Into Agreement With Other Jurisdiction; Declaration Of Determination
  If the State Treasurer shall determine, as evidenced by a declaration filed in the office of the Secretary of State, that (a) the laws...
• Section 34:11-33.4 - Furnishing Of Required Information To Other Jurisdiction; Powers And Duties Of Division Of Taxation
  If an agreement with a foreign taxing jurisdiction is in force pursuant to section 3 hereof, the Division of Taxation shall ascertain, from any...
• Section 34:11-33.5 - Reimbursement For Expenses Incurred Or Paid By New Jersey; Termination Of Agreement
  An agreement under section 3, hereof, may provide for payment or reimbursement by the foreign taxing jurisdiction, if authorized by the laws of such...
• Section 34:11-33.6 - Withholding Of Tax From Salary Or Wages Of Employees Subject To Tax Of Other Jurisdiction
  Any person, firm, association, partnership or corporation employing 1 or more persons in this State who are residents of a foreign taxing jurisdiction which...
• Section 34:11-56a - Minimum Wage Level; Establishment
  It is declared to be the public policy of this State to establish a minimum wage level for workers in order to safeguard their...
• Section 34:11-56a1 - Definitions.
  2.As used in this act: (a)"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Labor. (b)"Director" means the director in charge of the bureau referred to in section...
• Section 34:11-56a2 - Bureau For Administration Of Act; Director And Assistants
  The commissioner shall maintain a bureau in the department to which the administration of this act, and of any minimum wage orders or regulations...
• Section 34:11-56a3 - Employment At Unreasonable Wage Declared Contrary To Public Policy; Contract Or Agreement Void
  The employment of an employee in any occupation in this State at an oppressive and unreasonable wage is hereby declared to be contrary to...
• Section 34:11-56a4 - Minimum Wage Rate; Exemptions.
  5.Every employer shall pay to each of his employees wages at a rate of not less than $5.05 per hour as of April 1,...
• Section 34:11-56a4.1 - Summer Camps, Conferences And Retreats; Exception
  The provisions of the act to which this act is a supplement in respect to minimum wages and compensation for overtime work shall not...
• Section 34:11-56a4.2 - Application Of Act To Wages Under Wage Orders
  The provisions of this act shall be applicable to wages covered by wage orders issued pursuant to section 17 of P.L.1966, c. 113 (C....
• Section 34:11-56a4.3 - Date Of Application Of Act
  The provisions of this act shall be applicable to wages covered by wage orders issued pursuant to section 17 of P.L.1966, c. 113 (C....
• Section 34:11-56a4.4 - Date Of Application Of L.1976, C. 88
  The provisions of this act shall be applicable to wages covered by wage orders issued pursuant to section 17 of P.L.1966, c. 113 (C....
• Section 34:11-56a4.5 - Application Of L.1979, C. 32
  The provisions of this act shall be applicable to wages covered by wage orders issued pursuant to section 17 of P.L.1966, c. 113 (C....
• Section 34:11-56a4.6 - Application Of L.1980, C. 182
  The provisions of this act shall be applicable to wages covered by wage orders issued pursuant to section 17 of P.L.1966, c. 113 (C....
• Section 34:11-56a4.7 - "New Jersey Minimum Wage Advisory Commission."
  2. a. There is created a commission to be known as the "New Jersey Minimum Wage Advisory Commission," which shall be a permanent, independent...
• Section 34:11-56a4.8 - Annual Evaluation Of Adequacy Of Minimum Wage.
  3. a. The commission shall annually evaluate the adequacy of the minimum wage relative to the following factors: (1)The overall cost of living in...
• Section 34:11-56a5 - Administrative Regulations; Publication; Duration
  For any occupation for which no wage order issued pursuant to section 17 of this act is in effect, the commissioner shall, within 6...
• Section 34:11-56a6 - Authority Of Commissioner And Director
  The commissioner, the director and their authorized representatives shall have the authority to: (a) investigate and ascertain the wages of persons employed in any...
• Section 34:11-56a7 - Investigation Of Occupation
  The commissioner shall have the power, on his own motion, and it shall be his duty upon the petition of 50 or more residents...
• Section 34:11-56a8 - Appointment Of Wage Board; Report Upon Establishment Of Minimum Fair Wage Rates
  If the commissioner is of the opinion that a substantial number of employees in any occupation or occupations are receiving less than a fair...
• Section 34:11-56a9 - Wage Board; Membership; Quorum; Rules And Regulations; Compensation
  A wage board shall be composed of not more than 3 representatives of the employers in any occupation, an equal number of representatives of...
• Section 34:11-56a10 - Powers Of Wage Board
  A wage board shall have power to administer oaths and to require by subpoena the attendance and testimony of witnesses, the production of all...
• Section 34:11-56a11 - Presentation Of Evidence And Information To Wage Board; Witnesses
  The commissioner or the director shall present to a wage board promptly upon its organization all the evidence and information in the possession of...
• Section 34:11-56a12 - Rules Of Evidence And Procedure
  The commissioner and the wage board in establishing a minimum fair wage, shall not be bound by technical rules of evidence or procedure, but...
• Section 34:11-56a13 - Recommendations Of Wage Board
  The report of the wage board shall recommend minimum fair wage rates, on an hourly, daily or weekly basis for the employees in the...
• Section 34:11-56a14 - Submission Of Report Of Wage Board
  Within 60 days of its organization a wage board shall submit to the commissioner a report including its recommendations as to minimum fair wage...
• Section 34:11-56a15 - Acceptance Or Rejection Of Report By Commissioner
  On submission of the report of a wage board the commissioner shall within 10 days confer with the director and accept or reject the...
• Section 34:11-56a16 - Approval Or Disapproval Of Report Following Public Hearing; Effective Date Of Wage Order
  Within 10 days after the hearing the commissioner shall confer with the director and approve or disapprove the report of the wage board. If...
• Section 34:11-56a17 - Special Certificates Or Licenses For Employment At Wages Less Than Minimum
  (a) The commissioner, to the extent necessary in order to prevent curtailment of opportunities for employment, shall by regulation provide for the employment of...
• Section 34:11-56a18 - Modification Of Wage Order
  At any time after a minimum fair wage order has been in effect for 1 year or more, the commissioner may, on his own...
• Section 34:11-56a19 - Additions Or Modifications To Administrative Regulations; Hearing; Notice
  The commissioner may, from time to time after conference with the director and without reference to a wage board, propose such modifications of or...
• Section 34:11-56a20 - Records Of Wages And Hours
  21. Every employer of employees subject to this act shall keep a true and accurate record of the hours worked by each and the...
• Section 34:11-56a21 - Summary Of Act, Orders, And Regulations; Posting
  Every employer subject to any provision of this act or of any regulations or orders issued under this act shall keep a summary of...
• Section 34:11-56a22 - Violations; Penalties
  23. Any employer who willfully hinders or delays the commissioner, the director or their authorized representatives in the performance of his duties in the...
• Section 34:11-56a23 - Payment Of Amounts Due Employees
  24. As an alternative to any other sanctions or in addition thereto, herein or otherwise provided by law for violation of this act or...
• Section 34:11-56a24 - Penalty For Violation
  25. Any employer who discharges or in any other manner discriminates against any employee because such employee has made any complaint to his employer,...
• Section 34:11-56a25 - Civil Action By Employee To Recover Amount Of Minimum Wage Less Amount Paid
  If any employee is paid by an employer less than the minimum fair wage to which such employee is entitled under the provisions of...
• Section 34:11-56a25.1 - Limitations; Commencement Of Action
  No claim for unpaid minimum wages, unpaid overtime compensation, or other damages under this act shall be valid with respect to any such claim...
• Section 34:11-56a25.2 - Defense To Action
  In any action or proceeding commenced prior to or on or after the date of the enactment of this act based on any act...
• Section 34:11-56a26 - Protection Of Right To Collective Bargaining
  Nothing in this act shall be deemed to interfere with, impede, or in any way diminish the right of employees to bargain collectively through...
• Section 34:11-56a27 - Partial Invalidity
  If any provision of this act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the act and...
• Section 34:11-56a28 - Supplementation Of Provisions Of Minimum Wage Standards Act
  This act shall supplement the provisions of article 2 of chapter 11 of Title 34 of the Revised Statutes. Nothing herein shall be deemed...
• Section 34:11-56a29 - Short Title
  This act shall be known as the "New Jersey State Wage and Hour Law." L.1966, c. 113, s. 30.
• Section 34:11-56a30 - Application Of Act To Minors
  Except with respect to the minimum wage rates established by P.L.1966, c. 113, s. 5, the provisions of the "New Jersey State Wage and...
• Section 34:11-56a31 - Establishment Of Maximum Work Week For Certain Health Care Facility Employees.
  1.It is declared to be the public policy of this State to establish a maximum work week for certain hourly wage health care facility...
• Section 34:11-56a32 - Definitions Relative To Work Hours For Certain Health Care Facility Employees.
  2.As used in this act: "Employee" means an individual employed by a health care facility who is involved in direct patient care activities or...
• Section 34:11-56a33 - Excessive Work Shift Contrary To Public Policy.
  3.The requirement that an employee of a health care facility accept work in excess of an agreed to, predetermined and regularly scheduled daily work...
• Section 34:11-56a34 - Health Care Facility Employee Work Shift Determined; Exceptions Voluntary.
  4. a. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, no health care facility shall require an employee to accept work in excess of...
• Section 34:11-56a35 - Violations, Sanctions.
  5.An employer who violates the provisions of this act shall be subject to the sanctions provided by law for violations of the "New Jersey...
• Section 34:11-56a36 - Construction, Applicability Of Act.
  6. a. The provisions of this act shall not be construed to impair or negate any employer-employee collective bargaining agreement or any other employer-employee...
• Section 34:11-56a37 - Collection Of Data Relative To Mandatory Overtime Prohibition, Report.
  7.The Departments of Health and Senior Services, Human Services, and Law and Public Safety shall each collect data from all health care facilities which...
• Section 34:11-56a38 - Rules, Regulations.
  8.The Commissioner of Health and Senior Services, in consultation with the Attorney General and the Commissioners of Human Services and Labor, shall adopt rules...
• Section 34:11-56.1 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Employee" includes any person, either male or female, employed by an employer, but shall not include persons performing...
• Section 34:11-56.2 - Discrimination In Pay Based On Sex Prohibited
  No employer shall discriminate in any way in the rate or method of payment of wages to any employee because of his or her...
• Section 34:11-56.3 - Enforcement Of Act
  The Commissioner of Labor and Industry shall have the power and it shall be his duty to carry out and enforce the provisions of...
• Section 34:11-56.4 - Inspection Of Records; Obtaining Of Information
  The commissioner, or his authorized representative, shall have the power to enter the place of employment of any employer to inspect and copy payrolls...
• Section 34:11-56.5 - Regulations, Power To Make
  The commissioner shall have the power to issue such regulations, not inconsistent with the purpose and provisions of this act, as he deems necessary...
• Section 34:11-56.6 - Violations Of Act
  Any employer who willfully violates any provision of this act, or who discharges or in any other manner discriminates against any employee because such...
• Section 34:11-56.7 - Failure To Furnish Records; Interference With Commissioner In Performance Of Duties
  Any employer who willfully fails to furnish required records and information to the commissioner upon request, or who falsifies such records or who hinders,...
• Section 34:11-56.8 - Actions By Or On Behalf Of Employees; Damages
  If any employee, because of his or her employer's violation of the provisions of section two of this act, is discriminated against in the...
• Section 34:11-56.9 - Notice Of Alleged Violation; Hearing
  If complaint shall be made to the commissioner, or if he shall have reason to believe that any provision of this act has been...
• Section 34:11-56.10 - Partial Invalidity
  The provisions of this act shall be construed as severable and if any part be held unconstitutional, or for any other reason invalid, the...
• Section 34:11-56.11 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect July first, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-two. L.1952, c. 9, p. 48, s. 11.
• Section 34:11-56.12 - Notification To Certain Employees.
  1. a. Every employer in this State, with 50 or more employees, shall conspicuously post notification, in a place or places accessible to all...
• Section 34:11-56.25 - Public Policy
  It is declared to be the public policy of this State to establish a prevailing wage level for workmen engaged in public works in...
• Section 34:11-56.26 - Definitions.
  2. As used in this act: (1)"Department" means the Department of Labor and Workforce Development of the State of New Jersey. (2)"Locality" means any...
• Section 34:11-56.27 - Prevailing Wage Rate Required In Contract.
  3.Every contract in excess of the prevailing wage contract threshold amount for any public work to which any public body is a party or...
• Section 34:11-56.28 - Specification Of Prevailing Wage Rate By Craft In Contract.
  4.The public body, any lessee to whom the public body is leasing a property or premises and any lessor from whom the public body...
• Section 34:11-56.29 - Record Of Wages Paid By Contractor And Subcontractor
  Every contractor and subcontractor shall keep an accurate record showing the name, craft or trade, and actual hourly rate of wages paid to each...
• Section 34:11-56.30 - Establishment Of Prevailing Wage Rate By Commissioner
  The commissioner shall determine the prevailing wage rate and forthwith shall establish the prevailing wage in the locality in which the public work is...
• Section 34:11-56.31 - Powers Of Commissioner.
  7.The commissioner shall have the authority to: (a)investigate and ascertain the wages of workmen employed in any public work in the State; (b)enter and...
• Section 34:11-56.32 - Posting Of Prevailing Wage Rates
  Contractors and subcontractors performing public work of a public body subject to the provisions of this act shall post the prevailing wage rates for...
• Section 34:11-56.33 - Statement By Contractor Of Amounts Due Workers; Deductions From Payments To Contractor; Payments To Workers
  (a) Before final payment is made by or on behalf of any public body or before the lessor makes such payment, of any sum...
• Section 34:11-56.34 - Notice Of Failure To Pay Prevailing Wages; Protest By Worker.
  10. (a) The fiscal or financial officer of any public body, the lessee to whom the public body is leasing a property or premises...
• Section 34:11-56.35 - Penalties.
  11. (a) Any employer who willfully hinders or delays the commissioner in the performance of his duties in the enforcement of this act, or...
• Section 34:11-56.36 - Alternative Sanction For Payment Of Wages Due
  12. As an alternative to any other sanctions or in addition thereto, herein or otherwise provided by law for violation of this act, the...
• Section 34:11-56.37 - Lists Relative To Contractors Performing Prevailing Wage Public Work.
  13. a. In the event that the commissioner shall determine, after investigation, that any contractor or subcontractor has failed to pay the prevailing wage...
• Section 34:11-56.38 - Prohibition Against Award Of Contract To Non-complying Contractors; Definition; Presumption.
  14. The public body awarding any contract for public work, or otherwise undertaking any public work, or entering into a lease or agreement to...
• Section 34:11-56.39 - Penalty For Discrimination
  15. Any employer who discharges or in any other manner discriminates against any worker because the worker has made any complaint to his employer,...
• Section 34:11-56.40 - Action For Recovery Of Full Amount Of Prevailing Wage
  If any workman is paid by an employer less than the prevailing wage to which such workman is entitled under the provisions of this...
• Section 34:11-56.41 - Collective Bargaining; Effect Of Act
  Nothing in this act shall be deemed to interfere with, impede, or in any way diminish the right of workmen to bargain collectively through...
• Section 34:11-56.42 - Partial Invalidity
  If any provision of this act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the act and...
• Section 34:11-56.43 - Rules And Regulations
  The commissioner is hereby authorized and empowered to prescribe, adopt, promulgate, rescind and enforce rules and regulations as may be required for the administration...
• Section 34:11-56.44 - Short Title
  This act shall be known as the "New Jersey Prevailing Wage Act." L.1963, c. 150, s. 20.
• Section 34:11-56.45 - Repeal Of Inconsistent Acts
  All acts and parts of acts are repealed insofar as they are inconsistent herewith. L.1963, c. 150, s. 21.
• Section 34:11-56.46 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect January 1, 1964. L.1963, c. 150, s. 22.
• Section 34:11-56.47 - Action For Damages Permitted By Certain Persons Bidding On Public Contracts; Conditions; Definitions
  1. a. Any person who submits a bid directly to a public body for a contract for any public work subject to the provisions...
• Section 34:11-56.48 - Short Title.
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as "The Public Works Contractor Registration Act." L.1999,c.238,s.1.
• Section 34:11-56.49 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Public Works Contractors.
  2.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.There is growing concern over the increasing number of construction industry workers on public works projects laboring under...
• Section 34:11-56.50 - Definitions Relative To Public Works Contractors.
  3.As used in this act: "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development or his duly authorized representatives. "Contractor" means a person, partnership,...
• Section 34:11-56.51 - Registration Required For Contractors, Subcontractors.
  4.No contractor shall bid on any contract for public work as defined in section 2 of P.L.1963, c.150 (C.34:11-56.26) unless the contractor is registered...
• Section 34:11-56.52 - Contractor To Register In Writing; Form; Requisites.
  5. a. A contractor shall register in writing with the department on a form provided by the commissioner. The form shall require the following...
• Section 34:11-56.53 - Nonrefundable Registration Fees.
  6. a. The contractor shall pay an initial annual non-refundable registration fee of $300 to the commissioner. The non-refundable registration fee for the second...
• Section 34:11-56.54 - Issuance Of Certificate Of Registration.
  7.Upon receipt of the fee, form and documentation required by section 5 of this act, the commissioner shall issue a certificate of registration to...
• Section 34:11-56.55 - Submission Of All Subcontractor Registration Certificates By Contractor.
  8.Each contractor shall, after the bid is made and prior to the awarding of the contract, submit to the public entity the certificates of...
• Section 34:11-56.56 - Violation; Disorderly Persons Offense; Other Penalties; Suspension; Hearing.
  9. a. A contractor who: (1) willfully hinders or delays the commissioner in the performance of his duties in the enforcement of this act;...
• Section 34:11-56.57 - Regulations.
  10.The commissioner may adopt regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) to carry out the purposes of this act.
• Section 34:11-56.58 - Prevailing Wage Levels For Employees Furnishing State Building Services.
  1.It is declared to be the public policy of this State to establish prevailing wage levels for the employees of contractors and subcontractors furnishing...
• Section 34:11-56.59 - Definitions Relative To Prevailing Wage Levels For Employees Furnishing State Building Services.
  2.As used in this act: "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development or the commissioner's duly authorized representatives. "Building services" means any...
• Section 34:11-56.60 - Contract To Contain Provision For Prevailing Wage, Building Services Rates.
  3.Every contract to furnish building services for any property or premises owned or leased by the State shall contain a provision stating the prevailing...
• Section 34:11-56.61 - Record Of Employee Wages, Benefits.
  4.Each contractor and subcontractor shall keep an accurate record showing the name, classification, and actual hourly rate of wages and any benefits paid to...
• Section 34:11-56.62 - Civil Action To Recover Prevailing Wage For Building Services.
  5.Any worker paid less than the prevailing wage for building services to which the worker is entitled by the provisions of this act may...
• Section 34:11-56.63 - Authority Of Commissioner.
  6.The commissioner shall have the authority to: a.investigate and ascertain the wages of any employees of a contractor or subcontractor furnishing building services for...
• Section 34:11-56.64 - Violations; Fines, Penalties.
  7.Any contractor or subcontractor who willfully hinders or delays the commissioner in the performance of the commissioner's duties in the enforcement of this act,...
• Section 34:11-56.65 - Alternative, Additional Sanctions.
  8.As an alternative to any other sanctions or in addition thereto, herein or otherwise provided by law for violation of this act, the commissioner...
• Section 34:11-56.66 - Retaliation Against Complaining Worker, Disorderly Persons Offense.
  9.Any contractor or subcontractor who discharges or in any other manner discriminates against any worker because the worker has made any complaint to the...
• Section 34:11-56.67 - Collective Bargaining Rights Unaffected.
  10. Nothing in this act shall be deemed to interfere with, impede, or in any way diminish the right of workers to bargain collectively...
• Section 34:11-56.68 - Severability.
  11. If any provision of this act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the act...
• Section 34:11-56.69 - Rules, Regulations.
  12. The commissioner is hereby authorized and empowered to prescribe, adopt, promulgate, rescind and enforce rules and regulations as may be required for the...
• Section 34:11-56.70 - Special License Authorizing Employment At Less Than Prevailing Wage For Building Services Rates.
  13. For any occupation for which prevailing wage for building services rates are established by or pursuant to this act, the commissioner or the...
• Section 34:11-57 - Definitions
  As used in this article: "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Labor and Industry or any person or persons in the department designated in writing...
• Section 34:11-58 - Investigation Of Wage Claims; Testimony; Award And Judgment.
  34:11-58. The commissioner is authorized and empowered to investigate any claim for wages due an employee and in such investigation may summon the defendant,...
• Section 34:11-59 - Claim Docketed; Summons; Service
  An employee may file a written claim for wages against an employer in the wage collection division of the department which shall be entered...
• Section 34:11-60 - Process To Run Throughout State; By Whom Served
  Process of the wage collection division shall run throughout the state. Service of process shall be made either by a constable or a process...
• Section 34:11-61 - Commissioner May Administer Oaths, Take Testimony, Etc.; Process In Name Of Commissioner
  The commissioner shall have power to administer oaths, hear testimony and take or cause to be taken depositions of witnesses residing within or without...
• Section 34:11-62 - Set-off; Dismissal Where Balance Due Defendant Exceeds $1,000.00
  Set-off; dismissal where balance due defendant exceeds $1,000.00. If the defendant files a set-off against the plaintiff for more than $1,000.00 and at the...
• Section 34:11-63 - Appeals, Procedure
  34:11-63. From any judgment which may be obtained in the wage collection division, except such as shall be given by confession, either party may,...
• Section 34:11-65 - Evidence On Appeal
  Upon the trial of any appeal either party may produce any witness not produced or sworn in the court below, or any documentary evidence...
• Section 34:11-66 - Jury Trial, Procedure
  34:11-66. Nothing in this article shall prevent the claimant from instituting an action for his claim in any court of competent jurisdiction or be...
• Section 34:11-67 - Fees And Costs
  34:11-67. No filing fee shall be charged by the wage collection division, for accepting a wage claim, and no advance fees shall be charged...
• Section 34:11-68 - Records Required Relative To Collection, Transportation Of Solid Waste.
  1. a. Every contract with a public body under which a contractor or subcontractor engages in the work of the collection or transportation of...
• Section 34:11a-1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Construction Workers' Fringe Benefit Security Act." L. 1987, c. 150, s. 1.
• Section 34:11a-2 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Construction employer" means a person in the business of building, constructing, altering or repairing any building, road, bridge...
• Section 34:11a-3 - Applicable Fringe Benefit Funds
  The provisions of this act shall apply only to fringe benefit funds which are a. located within and established for the benefit of workers...
• Section 34:11a-4 - Relief For Delinquent Payment
  a. (1) If a subcontractor is at least four weeks delinquent in the payment of fringe benefits, as certified by the trustees of the...
• Section 34:11a-5 - Withholding Of Fringe Benefit Funds
  a. Upon receipt of the notice required by paragraph (2) of subsection a. of section 4 of this act or subsection b. of section...
• Section 34:11a-6 - Release From Obligation
  Any private or public project owner, prime contractor or subcontractor who makes a proper payment to a fringe benefit fund or deposits the payment...
• Section 34:11a-7 - Actions Commenced By Fringe Benefit Fund
  With regard to actions commenced by a fringe benefit fund in the courts of this State, the private or public project owner shall not...
• Section 34:11a-8 - Entitlement To Remedies
  Fringe benefit funds entitled to the remedies against a private or public project owner provided pursuant to sections 4 and 5 of this act...
• Section 34:11a-9 - Insolvency
  If a construction employer files for insolvency or makes an assignment of rights pursuant to the laws of this State, any delinquent fringe benefits...
• Section 34:11a-10 - Responsibility For Damages
  If a notice filed pursuant to section 4 of this act is willfully or knowingly in excess of the amounts due the fringe benefit...
• Section 34:11a-11 - Responsibility For Costs, Fees
  All costs and fees arising out of the procedures established in section 5 of this act shall be the responsibility of the delinquent party....
• Section 34:11a-12 - Additional Remedies
  The remedies provided pursuant to the act shall be in addition and not in lieu of any other remedies provided under the laws of...
• Section 34:11a-13 - Notification To Employees On Coverage For Treatment Of Breast Cancer
  9. An employer in this State who provides coverage to his employees or their dependents for treatment of breast cancer shall annually and upon...
• Section 34:11a-14 - Notification To Employees By Employers With Self-funded Health Plans
  18. An employer who provides a comprehensive self-funded health benefits plan to his employees or their dependents in this State shall annually, and upon...
• Section 34:11a-15 - Notification To Employees Of Coverage For Biologically-based Mental Illness.
  9.An employer in this State who provides health benefits coverage to his employees or their dependents for treatment of biologically-based mental illness shall annually,...
• Section 34:11a-16 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Notification With Regard To Health Benefits Plans.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.Many employers in this State offer health benefits coverage to their employees under a health benefits plan as...
• Section 34:11a-17 - Notice By Employer Of Termination, Change Of Benefits.
  2.An employer that provides a health benefits plan as defined in section 2 of P.L.1997, c.192 (C.26:2S-2) to its employees in this State shall...
• Section 34:11a-18 - Violations, Penalties.
  3. a. The Commissioner of Labor shall enforce and administer the provisions of sections 1 through 4 of this act, and the commissioner or...
• Section 34:11a-19 - Regulations.
  4.The Commissioner of Labor shall promulgate regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), necessary to effectuate the provisions of...
• Section 34:11a-20 - Regulations Relative To Employer Providing Health Benefits Plan And Domestic Partners.
  57. a. An employer that provides a health benefits plan as defined in section 2 of P.L.1997, c.192 (C.26:2S-2) to its employees and their...
• Section 34:11b-1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Family Leave Act." L.1989, c.261, s.1.
• Section 34:11b-2 - Findings, Declarations
  The Legislature finds and declares that the number of families in the State in which both parents or a single parent is employed outside...
• Section 34:11b-3 - Definitions.
  3.As used in this act: a."Child" means a biological, adopted, or resource family child, stepchild, legal ward, or child of a parent who is...
• Section 34:11b-4 - Duration, Frequency Of Family Leave; Payment By Employer; Certification; Denial Of Leave
  An employee of an employer in this State subject to the provisions of this act shall be entitled to a family leave of 12...
• Section 34:11b-5 - Reduced Leave Schedule
  An employee shall be entitled, at the option of the employee, to take this leave on a reduced leave schedule, except that: a. The...
• Section 34:11b-6 - Employees To Be Informed Of Their Rights And Obligations
  An employer shall display conspicuous notice of its employees' rights and obligations pursuant to the provisions of this act, and use other appropriate means...
• Section 34:11b-7 - Return From Leave; Conditions
  An employee who exercises the right to family leave under section 4 of this act shall, upon the expiration of the leave, be entitled...
• Section 34:11b-8 - Continuation Of Health Benefits During Leave
  a. During a leave taken under section 4 of this act, the employer shall maintain coverage under any group health insurance policy, group subscriber...
• Section 34:11b-9 - Withholding Of Rights, Benefits; Discharge Of Employee, Unlawful
  a. It shall be unlawful for any employer to interfere with, restrain or deny the exercise of, or the attempt to exercise, the rights...
• Section 34:11b-10 - Penalty For Violation By Employer
  The penalty for an employer violating this act is, in addition to other relief or affirmative action provided by law, not more than $2,000.00...
• Section 34:11b-11 - Suits, Complaints, Permitted; Punitive Damages
  Any person may initiate suit in Superior Court or file a complaint with the division on either an individual or class basis. In addition...
• Section 34:11b-12 - Award Of Attorneys' Fees
  In an action or complaint brought under this act, the prevailing party may be awarded reasonable attorneys' fees as part of the cost, provided...
• Section 34:11b-13 - Family Leave In Addition To Temporary Disability Benefits
  Family leave granted under this act is in addition to, and shall not abridge nor conflict with, any rights pursuant to the "Temporary Disability...
• Section 34:11b-14 - Benefits Provided By Collective Bargaining Agreement; Reduction Prohibited
  No provision of this act shall be deemed to justify an employer in reducing employment benefits provided by the employer or required by a...
• Section 34:11b-15 - Reports On Impact, Benefits Of Act
  a. The director shall provide reports to the Governor, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the General Assembly, each of which...
• Section 34:11b-16 - Rules, Regulations
  The director shall promulgate rules and regulations in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), deemed necessary for the implementation...
• Section 34:11c-1 - Short Title.
  1.This act shall be known as the "New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act" or "NJ SAFE Act." L.2013, c.82, s.1.
• Section 34:11c-2 - Definitions Relative To Victims Of Domestic, Sexual Violence.
  2.As used in this act: "Employee" means a person who is employed for at least 12 months by an employer, with respect to whom...
• Section 34:11c-3 - Regulations Relative To Employees Affected By Domestic, Sexual Violence; Definitions.
  C.34:11C-3 Regulations relative to employees affected by domestic, sexual violence; definitions. 3. a. Any employee of an employer in the State who was a...
• Section 34:11c-4 - Certain Actions By Employer Prohibited.
  4.An employer shall not discharge, harass or otherwise discriminate or retaliate or threaten to discharge, harass or otherwise discriminate or retaliate against an employee...
• Section 34:11c-5 - Violations; Penalties.
  5. a. Upon a violation of any of the provisions of section 3 or section 4 of this act, an employee or former employee...
• Section 34:12-1 - Combinations To Persuade Others As To Employment Not Unlawful
  It shall not be unlawful for any two or more persons to unite, combine or bind themselves by oath, covenant, agreement, alliance or otherwise,...
• Section 34:12-2 - Employer Shall Not Require Renouncement Of Membership In Society Or Brotherhood As Condition Of Employment
  No corporation doing business in this state shall, directly or indirectly, require, as a condition of employment of labor in any branch of its...
• Section 34:12-3 - Employer Shall Not Require Employees To Renounce Membership In Or Refrain From Joining Society Or Brotherhood
  No corporation doing business in this state shall require directly or indirectly that any individuals shall either individually or collectively, in any manner promise...
• Section 34:12-4 - Penalty
  Any violation of either section 34:12-2 or section 34:12-3 of this title shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars...
• Section 34:12-5 - Contracts Against Membership In Labor Unions Or Employers' Organizations Void
  Every contract, agreement, promise or undertaking whether written or oral, express or implied between an employer and employee or prospective employee whereby either party...
• Section 34:13-1 - Appointment Of Arbitrators
  Whenever any grievance or dispute of any nature shall arise between any employer, joint stock association, company or corporation engaged in manufacturing, hereinafter in...
• Section 34:13-2 - Oath Of Arbitrators
  Each arbitrator shall, before he proceeds to the business of the arbitration, take and subscribe an oath, to be taken and subscribed before any...
• Section 34:13-3 - Board To Select Secretary And To Give Notice Of Time And Place Of Hearing
  When the board is ready for the transaction of business, it shall select one of its number to act as secretary, whose duty it...
• Section 34:13-4 - Subpoenas For Production Of Books; Attendance Of Witnesses; Penalty
  It shall be lawful for the clerk of any court of record within the county wherein such board of arbitrators may be, to issue...
• Section 34:13-5 - Proceedings Before Board
  Witnesses shall be examined on oath or affirmation which oath or affirmation the chairman of the board is empowered to administer. A majority of...
• Section 34:13-6 - Rules
  The board may make and enforce rules for its government and the transaction of business before it and fix its sessions and adjournments, and...
• Section 34:13-7 - Decision Of Board; Time, Requisites And Effect
  After the matter in dispute has been fully heard, the board, or a majority thereof, shall, within five days, render a decision thereon, which...
• Section 34:13-8 - Power Of Board To Cease On Decision And Report; Other Differences May Be Submitted
  When the board has reached a decision and filed its report, its power shall cease, unless there may be in existence at the same...
• Section 34:13-9 - Board To Receive No Compensation; Expenses
  The members of the board shall not receive any compensation for their services, but the expenses of the board may be met and paid...
• Section 34:13a-1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as "New Jersey Employer-Employee Relations Act." L.1941, c. 100, p. 228, s. 1. Amended by...
• Section 34:13a-2 - Declaration Of Policy
  It is hereby declared as the public policy of this State that the best interests of the people of the State are served by...
• Section 34:13a-3 - Definitions.
  3.When used in this act: (a)The term "board" shall mean New Jersey State Board of Mediation. (b)The term "commission" shall mean New Jersey Public...
• Section 34:13a-4 - State Board Of Mediation; Establishment; Membership
  There is hereby established in the Department of Labor and Industry a board to be known as the New Jersey State Board of Mediation....
• Section 34:13a-5 - Objective
  It shall be the objective of the board hereby established to take such steps as will most effectively and expeditiously carry out the policy...
• Section 34:13a-5.1 - Establishment Of Division Of Public Employment Relations And Division Of Private Employment Dispute Settlement.
  5.There is hereby established a Division of Public Employment Relations and a Division of Private Employment Dispute Settlement. (a)The Division of Public Employment Relations...
• Section 34:13a-5.2 - Public Employment Relations Commission
  There is hereby established in the Division of Public Employment Relations a commission to be known as the New Jersey Public Employment Relations Commission....
• Section 34:13a-5.3 - Employee Organizations; Right To Form Or Join; Collective Negotiations; Grievance Procedures.
  7.Except as hereinafter provided, public employees shall have, and shall be protected in the exercise of, the right, freely and without fear of penalty...
• Section 34:13a-5.4 - Unfair Practices; Proceedings For Enforcement; Determination Of Questions Within Scope Of Collective Negotiations; Appeal; Rules For Representation Elections And Negotiations; Order Of Enforcement
  a. Public employers, their representatives or agents are prohibited from: (1) Interfering with, restraining or coercing employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed...
• Section 34:13a-5.5 - Representation Fee In Lieu Of Dues
  2. a. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, the majority representative and the public employer of public employees in an appropriate...
• Section 34:13a-5.6 - Representation Fee In Lieu Of Dues By Payroll Deduction
  3.Where a negotiated agreement is reached, pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1979, c.477 (C.34:13A-5.5), or where the public employer has been ordered by the...
• Section 34:13a-5.7 - Discrimination Between Nonmembers And Members On Basis Of Payment Of Fee; Unfair Practice
  Any action engaged in by a public employer, its representatives or agents, or by an employee organization, its representatives or agents, which discriminates between...
• Section 34:13a-5.8 - Payment To Majority Representative
  Payment of the representation fee in lieu of dues shall be made to the majority representative during the term of the collective negotiation agreement...
• Section 34:13a-5.9 - Rules And Regulations
  The commission may promulgate rules or regulations to effectuate the purposes of this act. L.1979, c. 477, s. 6, eff. July 1, 1980.
• Section 34:13a-5.10 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Collective Negotiations Units For Executive Branch Employees.
  1. a. The Legislature finds and declares that, for more than three decades, there have been broad-based collective negotiations units for the employees in...
• Section 34:13a-6 - Powers And Duties
  (a) Upon its own motion, in an existing, imminent or threatened labor dispute in private employment, the board, through the Division of Private Employment...
• Section 34:13a-6.1 - Priority Of Reorganization Plan Of Department Of Labor And Industry
  To the extent that the reorganization plan of the Department of Labor and Industry which was submitted to the Legislature on May 11, 1972...
• Section 34:13a-7 - Arbitration
  Whenever a controversy shall arise between an employer and his employees which is not settled either in conference between representatives of the parties or...
• Section 34:13a-8 - Strikes
  Nothing in this act shall be construed to interfere with, impede or diminish in any way the right of private employees to strike or...
• Section 34:13a-8.1 - Effect Of Act Upon Prior Agreements Or Upon Pension Statutes
  Nothing in this act shall be construed to annul or modify, or to preclude the continuation of any agreement during its current term heretofore...
• Section 34:13a-8.2 - Filed Contracts In Public Employment
  The commission shall collect and maintain a current file of filed contracts in public employment. Public employers shall file with the commission a copy...
• Section 34:13a-8.3 - Development And Maintenance Of Programs
  The commission in conjunction with the Institute of Management and Labor of Rutgers, The State University, shall develop and maintain a program for the...
• Section 34:13a-9 - Personnel; Compensation
  (1) For the performance of its work, under this act, the board may request and shall avail itself of and utilize the service of...
• Section 34:13a-10 - Disqualifications
  No member or officer of the board having any financial or other interest in a trade, business, industry or occupation in which a labor...
• Section 34:13a-10.1 - Board Members; Participation; Membership Or Employment In Other Agencies
  No member of the board shall take any part, directly or indirectly, in any proceeding involving any relation between employees and employers before any...
• Section 34:13a-11 - Rules
  The board shall have power to adopt, alter, amend or repeal such rules in connection with the voluntary mediation of labor disputes in private...
• Section 34:13a-12 - Construction
  Nothing contained in this act shall be construed as interfering with, impeding or diminishing in any way any right guaranteed by law or by...
• Section 34:13a-13 - Separability Of Provisions
  If any clause, sentence, paragraph or part of this act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstances, shall for any reason be...
• Section 34:13a-14 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Compulsory Arbitration Procedure
  1.The Legislature finds and declares: a. Recognizing the unique and essential duties which law enforcement officers and firefighters perform for the benefit and protection...
• Section 34:13a-14a - Short Title
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Police and Fire Public Interest Arbitration Reform Act." L.1995,c.425,s.1.
• Section 34:13a-15 - Definitions
  "Public fire department" means any department of a municipality, county, fire district or the State or any agency thereof having employees engaged in firefighting...
• Section 34:13a-16 - Negotiations Between Public Fire, Police Department And Exclusive Representative; Unfair Practice Charge; Negotiation; Factfinding; Arbitration.
  3. a. (1) Negotiations between a public fire or police department and an exclusive representative concerning the terms and conditions of employment shall begin...
• Section 34:13a-16.1 - Annual Continuing Education Program For Arbitrators
  4.The commission shall establish an annual continuing education program for the arbitrators appointed to its special panel of arbitrators. The program shall include sessions...
• Section 34:13a-16.2 - Guidelines For Determining Comparability Of Jurisdictions
  5. a. The commission shall promulgate guidelines for determining the comparability of jurisdictions for the purposes of paragraph (2) of subsection g. of section...
• Section 34:13a-16.3 - Fee Schedule; Commission's Costs
  6.The commission may establish a fee schedule to cover the costs of effectuating the provisions of P.L.1977, c.85 (C.34:13A-14 et seq.), as amended and...
• Section 34:13a-16.4 - Biennial Reports
  7.The commission shall submit biennial reports to the Governor and the Legislature on the effects of this amendatory and supplementary act on the negotiations...
• Section 34:13a-16.5 - Rules, Regulations
  8.The commission, in accordance with the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall promulgate rules and regulations to effectuate...
• Section 34:13a-16.6 - Survey Of Private Sector Wage Increases
  9.Beginning on the July 1 next following the enactment of P.L.1995, c.425 (C.34:13A-14a et al.) and each July 1 thereafter, the New Jersey Public...
• Section 34:13a-16.7 - Definitions Relative To Police And Fire Arbitration; Limitation On Awards.
  2. a. As used in this section: "Base salary" means the salary provided pursuant to a salary guide or table and any amount provided...
• Section 34:13a-16.8 - Police And Fire Public Interest Arbitration Impact Task Force.
  3. a. There is established a task force, to be known as the Police and Fire Public Interest Arbitration Impact Task Force. b.The task...
• Section 34:13a-16.9 - Effective Date.
  4.This act shall take effect January 1, 2011; provided however, section 2 of P.L.2010, c.105 (C.34:13A-16.7) shall apply only to collective negotiations between a...
• Section 34:13a-17 - Powers Of Arbitrator
  The arbitrator may administer oaths, require the attendance of witnesses, and the production of such books, papers, contracts, agreements and documents as he may...
• Section 34:13a-18 - Limitations On Finding, Opinion, Order Of Arbitrator
  5.The arbitrator shall not issue any finding, opinion or order regarding the issue of whether or not a public employer shall remain as a...
• Section 34:13a-19 - Decision; Enforcement; Venue; Effective Date Of Award; Amendment Or Modification
  The decision of the arbitrator may be enforced at the instance of either party in the Superior Court with venue laid in the county...
• Section 34:13a-21 - Change In Conditions During Pendency Of Proceedings; Prohibition Without Consent
  During the pendency of proceedings before the arbitrator, existing wages, hours and other conditions of employment shall not be changed by action of either...
• Section 34:13a-22 - Definitions
  As used in this act: "Commission" means the New Jersey Public Employment Relations Commission. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Education. "Discipline" includes all forms...
• Section 34:13a-23 - Assignment To Extracurricular Activities; Subject To Collective Negotiations
  All aspects of assignment to, retention in, dismissal from, and any terms and conditions of employment concerning extracurricular activities shall be deemed mandatory subjects...
• Section 34:13a-24 - Imposition Of Minor Discipline
  a. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, and if negotiated with the majority representative of the employees in the appropriate collective bargaining unit,...
• Section 34:13a-25 - Transfer Of Employees
  Transfers of employees by employers between work sites shall not be mandatorily negotiable except that no employer shall transfer an employee for disciplinary reasons....
• Section 34:13a-26 - Withholding Increment For Disciplinary Reasons
  Disputes involving the withholding of an employee's increment by an employer for predominately disciplinary reasons shall be subject to the grievance procedures established pursuant...
• Section 34:13a-27 - Resolution Of Disputes
  a. If there is a dispute as to whether a transfer of an employee between work sites or withholding of an increment of a...
• Section 34:13a-28 - Additional Rights
  Nothing in this act shall be deemed to restrict or limit any right established or provided by section 7 of P.L.1968, c.303 (C.34:13A-5.3); this...
• Section 34:13a-29 - Grievance Procedures; Binding Arbitration
  a. The grievance procedures that employers covered by this act are required to negotiate pursuant to section 7 of P.L.1968, c.303 (C.34:13A-5.3) shall be...
• Section 34:13a-30 - Employment With Public Employee Labor Organizations, Certain; Prohibited.
  1.During the period in which an individual, pursuant to section 504 of Pub.L.86-257 (29 U.S.C.s.504), is prohibited from serving: as a consultant or adviser...
• Section 34:13a-31 - Has Been Reallocated To 34:11a-14
• Section 34:13a-32 - Definitions Relative To School Employee Collective Negotiations.
  2.For the purposes of this act: "Employer" or "public employer" means any local or regional school district, charter school and its board of trustees,...
• Section 34:13a-33 - Terms, Conditions Of Employment Under Expired Agreements.
  3.Notwithstanding the expiration of a collective negotiations agreement, an impasse in negotiations, an exhaustion of the commission's impasse procedures, or the utilization or completion...
• Section 34:13a-34 - Participation In Mandatory Fact Finding; Report; Appointment Of Super Conciliator.
  4. a. In any case in which collective negotiations between an employer and a majority representative have failed to result in the parties reaching...
• Section 34:13a-35 - Investigatory Proceedings.
  5.The super conciliator shall promptly schedule investigatory proceedings. The purpose of the proceedings shall be to: a. Investigate and acquire all relevant information regarding...
• Section 34:13a-36 - Final Report.
  6.If the actions taken by the super conciliator fail to resolve the dispute, the super conciliator shall issue a final report, which shall be...
• Section 34:13a-37 - Confidentiality; Exceptions.
  7.The mediator, fact finder, or super conciliator, while functioning in a mediatory capacity, shall not be required to disclose any files, records, reports, documents,...
• Section 34:13a-38 - Report To Governor, Legislature.
  8.Five years after the effective date of this act, the commission shall submit a report to the Governor and to the Legislature on the...
• Section 34:13a-39 - Rules, Regulations.
  9.The commission, in accordance with the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) shall promulgate rules and regulations to effectuate...
• Section 34:13a-40 - Definitions Relative To Employee Assistance Programs For Certain Public Employees.
  1.For the purposes of this act: "Civil union" means a civil union as defined in section 2 of P.L.2006, c.103 (C.37:1-29). "Employee assistance program"...
• Section 34:13a-41 - Employee Assistance Programs; Licensure, Establishment.
  2.Employee assistance programs may provide advice, counseling, treatment, referral and other assistance, except that nothing in this act shall be construed to authorize a...
• Section 34:13a-42 - Prohibited Actions By Public Employer.
  3.No public employer shall take any action against an employee of the employer, including termination, because the employee or a dependent of the employee...
• Section 34:13a-43 - Confidentiality; Waivers.
  4. a. Except as provided in subsection b. of this section, each request by an employee or dependent for assistance from, referral to, participation...
• Section 34:13b-1 - Declaration Of Policy
  It is hereby declared to be the policy of the State that heat, light, power, sanitation, transportation, communication, and water are life essentials of...
• Section 34:13b-2 - Collective Bargaining
  Employees shall have the right to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing. The majority of any craft or class of...
• Section 34:13b-2.1 - Construction Contractors, Employees, Osha Certification, Payment Of Rate For Trade, Craft; Required On Public Utility Work.
  2.Any construction contractor contracting with a public utility to engage in construction work on a public utility shall employ on the site only employees...
• Section 34:13b-3 - Additional Powers To State Board Of Mediation
  There is hereby included in the functions of the State Board of Mediation the following responsibility: (A) The determination of who are the representatives...
• Section 34:13b-4 - Contracts Between A Utility And Its Employees
  All labor agreements hereafter entered into between the management of a utility and its employees or any craft or class of employees shall be...
• Section 34:13b-5 - Written Notice Of Changes Desired In Existing Labor Contracts Required
  In the case of all existing labor contracts, agreements or understandings which do not provide for at least a sixty-day notice of desired changes...
• Section 34:13b-6 - Expired Labor Contracts; Written Notice Of Desired Changes Required
  Whenever at the time of the passage of this act a labor contract between a utility and its employees has existed and has expired,...
• Section 34:13b-7 - Change In Terms Of Employment Not The Subject Of Contract; Notice Of Changes Desired
  Whenever, after the passage of this act, a situation exists in any utility whereby employees are rendering services under terms and conditions which were...
• Section 34:13b-13 - Seizure
  Should either party in a labor dispute between a utility and its employees, after having given sixty days' notice thereof, or failing to give...
• Section 34:13b-14 - Rules And Regulations
  The Governor is authorized to prescribe the necessary rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this act. L.1946, c. 38, p. 94,...
• Section 34:13b-15 - Labor Not To Be Required Without Employee's Consent
  Under no circumstances shall any employee be required to render, perform or engage in any work, labor or service without his consent; nor shall...
• Section 34:13b-16 - Definitions.
  16. (a) The term "public utility" shall include autobusses; bridge companies; canal companies; electric light, heat and power companies; ferries and steamboats; gas companies;...
• Section 34:13b-17 - Severability
  If any clause, sentence, paragraph or part of this act, or of any supplement thereto or amendment thereof, or the application thereof to any...
• Section 34:13b-18 - Sixty-day Notice Of Intention To Strike
  It shall be unlawful for any employee or representative of any craft, class or group of employees of a public utility to institute, participate...
• Section 34:13b-19 - Strike After Seizure
  After the Governor has taken or shall take possession of any plant, equipment or facility of any public utility for the use and operation...
• Section 34:13b-20 - Board Of Arbitration; Submission To Board
  Within ten days after the Governor has taken or shall take possession of any plant, equipment or facility of any public utility pursuant to...
• Section 34:13b-21 - Hearing; Powers Of Board; Refusal To Testify Or Produce Evidence
  The Board of Arbitration shall promptly proceed to arbitrate the matters submitted to it. It shall promptly hold hearings and shall have the power...
• Section 34:13b-23 - Findings And Award; Duration Of Order; Retroactive Effect
  The findings, decision and order of the Board of Arbitration shall, unless modified or reversed on appeal, be conclusive and binding upon all of...
• Section 34:13b-24 - Lockout, Strike Or Work Stoppage; Penalty
  Any lockout, authorized or engaged in, by any public utility in violation of any provision of this act, or any failure or refusal by...
• Section 34:13b-25 - Violations
  Any officer or agent of any public utility or labor union, or any person performing the duties of such officer or agent, who shall...
• Section 34:13b-26 - Injunctive Relief; Declaratory Or Other Relief
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary: The commissioner, director or other chief administrative officer of any department or agency of...
• Section 34:13b-27 - Written Findings And Decision; Factors To Be Considered
  (a) It shall be the duty of each board of arbitration appointed pursuant to chapter forty-seven of the laws of one thousand nine hundred...
• Section 34:13b-28 - Repeal
  Section six of chapter forty-seven of the laws of one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven is repealed. L.1949, c. 308, p. 997, s. 2.
• Section 34:13c-1 - Importation Or Transportation Of Strikebreakers
  It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, partnership or corporation to import from outside the boundaries of the State of New Jersey, or...
• Section 34:13c-2 - Recruitment, Etc., Of Persons To Take Place Of Employees During Strike Or Lockout
  It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, not directly involved in a strike or lockout, to recruit any person or persons...
• Section 34:13c-3 - Applicability Of Provisions To Employment Agents And New Jersey Employment Service
  Employment agents licensed as such under the laws of the State of New Jersey, and the New Jersey Employment Service shall not be affected...
• Section 34:13c-4 - Importation Of Union Pickets
  This act shall apply to the importation of union pickets from without the State. L.1960, c. 193, p. 834, s. 4.
• Section 34:13c-5 - Violation; Penalty
  Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. L.1960, c. 193, p. 834, s. 5.
• Section 34:13c-6 - Inapplicability Of Act To Common Carriers
  This act shall not apply to common carriers. L.1960, c. 193, p. 834, s. 6.
• Section 34:15-1 - Employees' Right To Recover For Negligent Injury; Willful Negligence As Defense; Jury Question
  When personal injury is caused to an employee by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment, of which the actual...
• Section 34:15-2 - Defenses Abolished
  The right to compensation as provided by this article shall not be defeated upon the ground that the injury was caused in any degree...
• Section 34:15-3 - Contract Not To Bar Liability
  If an employer enters into a contract, written or verbal, with an independent contractor to do part of such employer's work, or if such...
• Section 34:15-4 - Death Of Employee
  The provisions of this article shall apply to any claim for the death of an employee arising under sections 2A:31-1 to 2A:31-6 of the...
• Section 34:15-5 - Burden Of Proof
  In all actions at law brought pursuant to this article, the burden of proof to establish willful negligence of the injured employee shall be...
• Section 34:15-6 - Liens For Legal Services
  34:15-6. No claim for legal services or disbursements pertaining to any demand or suit under this chapter shall be an enforceable lien against the...
• Section 34:15-7 - Compensation By Agreement; Defenses; Burden Of Proof
  When employer and employee shall by agreement, either express or implied, as hereinafter provided, accept the provisions of this article compensation for personal injuries...
• Section 34:15-7.1 - Horseplay Or Skylarking On Part Of Fellow Employees
  An accident to an employee causing his injury or death, suffered while engaged in his employment but resulting from horseplay or skylarking on the...
• Section 34:15-7.2 - Claim Based On Cardiovascular Or Cerebral Vascular Causes; Preponderance Of Credible Evidence Of Proof Of Cause By Work Effort
  In any claim for compensation for injury or death from cardiovascular or cerebral vascular causes, the claimant shall prove by a preponderance of the...
• Section 34:15-7.3 - Worker's Compensation For Injury, Death Occurring While Responding To Law Enforcement, Public Safety, Medical Emergency
  a. For any cardiovascular or cerebrovascular injury or death which occurs to an individual covered by subsection b. of this section while that individual...
• Section 34:15-8 - Election Surrender Of Other Remedies
  Such agreement shall be a surrender by the parties thereto of their rights to any other method, form or amount of compensation or determination...
• Section 34:15-9 - Presumption As To Acceptance Of Elective Compensation Provisions
  Every contract of hiring made subsequent to the fourth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, shall be presumed to have been...
• Section 34:15-10 - Employment Of Minors
  34:15-10. In the employment of minors, this article shall be presumed to apply unless the notice be given by or to the parent or...
• Section 34:15-11 - Termination Of Contract
  The contract for the operation of the provisions of this article may be terminated by either party upon sixty days' notice in writing prior...
• Section 34:15-12 - Schedule Of Payments
  34:15-12. Following is a schedule of compensation: a. For injury producing temporary disability, 70% of the worker's weekly wages received at the time of...
• Section 34:15-12.1 - Employees Receiving Subsistence Payments From Veterans Administration; Special Benefits
  Any employee receiving subsistence payments from the Veterans Administration of the Federal Government under the Act of Congress of June twenty-second, one thousand nine...
• Section 34:15-12.2 - Fund From Which Special Benefit Payable
  Any such employee shall be entitled to receive a special benefit payable from the fund provided for by sections 34:15-94 and 34:15-95 of the...
• Section 34:15-12.3 - Amount Of Special Benefit
  The amount of such special benefit shall be computed by determining the difference between the amount of the compensation for such permanent disability and...
• Section 34:15-12.4 - Application For Special Benefits; Payment
  Such special benefits shall be applied for, ordered paid, and payable in similar manner as other payments from said fund to employees are applied...
• Section 34:15-12.5 - Retroactive Effect
  This act shall apply to accidents occurring after July first, one thousand nine hundred and forty-six. L.1947, c. 364, p. 1175, s. 5.
• Section 34:15-12.6 - Period For Making Application
  Applications for such special benefits must be made not later than within one year from the date of the last payment of compensation to...
• Section 34:15-12.7 - Damage To Prosthetic Devices, Hearing Aids, Artificial Members; Dental Appliances Or Eyeglasses; Liability
  Whenever as the result of an accident for which compensation is payable to any employee of any employer under article 2 of chapter 15...
• Section 34:15-13 - Death Benefits, Burial Expenses; Computation And Distribution.
  34:15-13. Except as hereinafter provided, in case of death, compensation shall be computed, but not distributed, on the following basis: a.For one or more...
• Section 34:15-15 - Medical And Hospital Service.
  34:15-15. The employer shall furnish to the injured worker such medical, surgical and other treatment, and hospital service as shall be necessary to cure...
• Section 34:15-15.1 - Reimbursement Of Insurance Company Or Others Paying Medical, Surgical Or Hospital Expenses
  Whenever the expenses of medical, surgical or hospital services, to which the petitioner would be entitled to reimbursement if such petitioner had paid the...
• Section 34:15-15.2 - Hospital Service; Care Required; Expenses
  Whenever hospital service is required to cure or to relieve an injured workman of the effects of the injury or to restore the functions...
• Section 34:15-15.3 - Motion By Worker For Emergent Medical Treatment.
  1.When through medical documentation a physician states that a worker is in need of emergent medical care that is not, following a request by...
• Section 34:15-15.4 - Designation Of Contact Person By Carrier, Self-insured Employer.
  2.Every carrier and self-insured employer shall designate a contact person who is responsible for responding to issues concerning medical and temporary disability benefits where...
• Section 34:15-16 - Compensation To Run Consecutively; Payment For Compensation, Medical Treatment, Etc., After Termination Of Liability
  Compensation for all classes of injuries shall run consecutively, and not concurrently, except as provided in this section and in section 34:15-15 of this...
• Section 34:15-17 - Notification Of Employer
  Unless the employer shall have actual knowledge of the occurrence of the injury, or unless the employee, or some one on his behalf, or...
• Section 34:15-18 - Service Of Notice; Form; Sufficiency
  The notice referred to may be served personally upon the employer, or upon any agent of the employer upon whom a summons may be...
• Section 34:15-19 - Examination Of Employee As To Physical Condition; X-rays
  After an injury, the employee, if so requested by his employer, must submit himself for physical examination and X-ray at some reasonable time and...
• Section 34:15-20 - Dispute; Submission To Division; Order Approving Settlement
  In case of a dispute over or failure to agree upon a claim for compensation between employer and employee, or the dependents of the...
• Section 34:15-21 - Payments In Case Of Death; To Whom Made; Bond
  34:15-21. Payments in case of death; to whom made; bond. In case of death, compensation payments may be made directly to dependents of full...
• Section 34:15-22 - Dispute; Procedure; Agreement No Bar To Determination On Merits
  Procedure in case of dispute shall be in accordance with article four of this chapter (section 34:15-49, et seq.). No agreement between an employee...
• Section 34:15-23 - Refusal Of Medical And Surgical Treatment By Employee
  Whenever it shall appear that an employer is being prejudiced by virtue of the refusal of an injured employee to accept proffered medical and...
• Section 34:15-24 - Payment Of Whole Award In Trust
  At any time after the entry of the award, a sum equal to all future installments of compensation may where death or the nature...
• Section 34:15-25 - Commutation Of Award
  34:15-25. Compensation may be commuted by the bureau at its present value, when discounted at five per centum (5%) simple interest, upon application of...
• Section 34:15-26 - Counsel Fees
  34:15-26. When any proceedings have been taken under the provisions of article two of this chapter, the bureau or the Superior Court shall, as...
• Section 34:15-27 - Modification Of Agreement.
  34:15-27. An agreement for compensation may be modified at any time by a subsequent agreement. Upon the application of any party, a formal award,...
• Section 34:15-28 - Interest On Payments Withheld.
  34:15-28. Interest on payments withheld. Whenever lawful compensation shall have been withheld from an injured employee or dependents for a term of 60 or...
• Section 34:15-28.1 - Delay Or Refusal In Payment Of Temporary Disability Compensation; Penalty
  If a self-insured or uninsured employer or employer's insurance carrier, having actual knowledge of the occurrence of the injury, or having received notice thereof...
• Section 34:15-28.2 - Powers Of Judges Of Compensation.
  1.If any employer, insurer, claimant, or counsel to the employer, insurer, or claimant, or other party to a claim for compensation, fails to comply...
• Section 34:15-28.3 - Fines, Penalties, Assessments, Costs Not Included In Expense Base Of Insurer.
  2.Any fine, penalty, assessment, or cost, imposed on an insurer pursuant to section 1 of this act, shall not be included in the expense...
• Section 34:15-28.4 - Rules, Regulations.
  3.The Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development shall, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), promulgate rules and regulations necessary...
• Section 34:15-29 - Compensation Preferential Lien; Claim Not Assignable; Set Offs
  The right of compensation granted by this chapter shall have the same preference against the assets of the employer as is now or may...
• Section 34:15-30 - Occupational Disease; Compensation For Death Or Injury; Exception
  When employer and employee have accepted the provisions of this article as aforesaid, compensation for personal injuries to or for death of such employee...
• Section 34:15-31 - "Compensable Occupational Disease" Defined
  a. For the purpose of this article, the phrase "compensable occupational disease" shall include all diseases arising out of and in the course of...
• Section 34:15-32 - Occupational Disease; Determining Disability And Amount Of Compensation
  The compensation payable for death or disability total in character and permanent in quality resulting from an occupational disease shall be the same in...
• Section 34:15-33.2 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect on January first, one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine. L.1948, c. 468, p. 1916, s. 4. 34:15-33.3 Application to...
• Section 34:15-33.3 - Application To Uninsured Employer's Fund For Certain Claims For Exposure To Asbestos.
  2. a. In the case of a claim for compensation for an occupational disease resulting in injury or death from an exposure to asbestos,...
• Section 34:15-34 - Time For Claiming Compensation For Occupational Disease
  Notwithstanding the time limitation for the filing of claims for compensation as set forth in sections 34:15-41 and 34:15-51, or as set forth in...
• Section 34:15-35 - Provisions Applicable To Occupational Diseases; Claim For Accident Excluded
  All provisions of this article and article 3 of this title (s. 34:15-36 et seq.), applicable to claims for injury or death by accident,...
• Section 34:15-35.10 - Occupational Hearing Loss
  Compensation for noise induced occupational loss of hearing which constitutes an occupational disease shall be paid only as provided in this act. All provisions...
• Section 34:15-35.11 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Noise induced occupational hearing loss" means a permanent bilateral loss of hearing acuity of the sensorineural type due...
• Section 34:15-35.12 - Degree Of Hearing Loss; Determination Of Degree
  a. For purposes of determining the degree of hearing loss for awarding compensation for noise induced occupational hearing loss, the average hearing threshold for...
• Section 34:15-35.13 - Liability For Hearing Loss; Previous Hearing Loss; Audiometric Testing
  a. Where hearing loss measurement is practicable, an employer shall be liable for the hearing loss of an employee to which his employment has...
• Section 34:15-35.14 - Administration Of Testing; Fraud
  A judge or referee of compensation shall have the discretion to order further audiometric testing if there is any suspicion of fraud or any...
• Section 34:15-35.15 - Frequencies; Evaluation Of Hearing Loss
  In any evaluation of occupational hearing loss, only hearing levels at frequencies of 1,000, 2,000, and 3,000 Hertz shall be considered. L.1979, c. 285,...
• Section 34:15-35.16 - Hearing Tests; Instruments; Test Conditions
  Hearing levels shall be determined at all times by using puretone air-conduction audiometric instruments calibrated in accordance with American National Standard ANSI S3.6-1969-R 1973...
• Section 34:15-35.17 - Audiometric Technician To Perform Hearing Test; Audiologic Evaluation
  All hearing tests shall be performed by a person at the level of a certified audiometric technician or above; an individual who meets the...
• Section 34:15-35.18 - Compensation Amount
  There shall be payable for total hearing loss 200 weeks of compensation. Partial disability compensation shall be paid for such periods as are proportionate...
• Section 34:15-35.19 - Filing Claims; Time Limitations
  Time limitations for the filing of claims for compensation for occupational hearing loss shall be in accordance with time limitations for the filing of...
• Section 34:15-35.20 - Time For Filing Claims; Date Of Disability
  No claims for compensation for occupational hearing loss shall be filed until after 4 full consecutive calendar weeks have elapsed since removal from exposure...
• Section 34:15-35.21 - Award; Use Of Hearing Aids
  No reduction in award for hearing loss shall be made if the ability of the employee to understand speech is improved by the use...
• Section 34:15-35.22 - Failure To Use Protective Devices, Compensation For Hearing Loss
  No compensation shall be payable for loss of hearing caused by hazardous noise after the effective date of this act if an employer can...
• Section 34:15-36 - Definitions.
  34:15-36. "Willful negligence" within the intent of this chapter shall consist of (1) deliberate act or deliberate failure to act, or (2) such conduct...
• Section 34:15-37 - Wages; Computation
  "Wages," when used in this chapter shall be construed to mean the money rate at which the service rendered is recompensed under the contract...
• Section 34:15-38 - Method Of Calculating Compensation For Temporary Disability
  To calculate the number of weeks and fraction thereof that compensation is payable for temporary disability, determine the number of calendar days of disability...
• Section 34:15-39 - Agreements And Releases Invalid
  No agreement, composition, or release of damages made before the happening of any accident, except the agreement defined in section 34:15-7 of this title...
• Section 34:15-39.1 - Unlawful Discharge Of, Or Discrimination Against, Employee Claiming Compensation Benefits; Penalty
  It shall be unlawful for any employer or his duly authorized agent to discharge or in any other manner discriminate against an employee as...
• Section 34:15-39.2 - Additional Penalty; Summary Recovery
  As an alternative to any other sanctions herein or otherwise provided by law, the Commissioner of Labor and Industry may impose a penalty not...
• Section 34:15-39.3 - Liability Of Employer For Penalty
  The employer alone and not his insurance carrier shall be liable for any penalty under this act. L.1966, c. 157, s. 3.
• Section 34:15-40 - Liability Of Third Party.
  34:15-40. Where a third person is liable to the employee or his dependents for an injury or death, the existence of a right of...
• Section 34:15-41 - Claims Barred After Two Years
  In case of personal injury or death all claims for compensation on account thereof shall be forever barred unless a petition is filed in...
• Section 34:15-41.1 - Claimant In Country At War With United States Or With Which Postal Communications Are Suspended; Limitations
  In computing any limitation of time for filing petitions and instituting proceedings prescribed by chapter fifteen of Title 34 of the Revised Statutes, the...
• Section 34:15-42 - Constitutionality And Construction
  Article 1 of this chapter (s. 34:15-1 et seq.), and article 2 of this chapter (s. 34:15-7 et seq.), are declared to be inseparable...
• Section 34:15-43 - Compensation For Injury In Line Of Duty.
  34:15-43. Every officer, appointed or elected, and every employee of the State, county, municipality or any board or commission, or any other governing body,...
• Section 34:15-43.2 - Volunteer Fire Department Members; Respiratory Diseases; Presumption Of Occupational Disease
  Any condition or impairment of health of any member of a volunteer fire department caused by any disease of the respiratory system shall be...
• Section 34:15-43.3 - Time Of Development Or First Manifestation Of Respiratory Disease
  For the purposes herein expressed, the time of development or first manifestation of such disease or diseases shall only be determined by and run...
• Section 34:15-43.4 - Maximum Benefits For Volunteers
  A person participating under the supervision of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, in a volunteer program in that part of the Palisades Interstate Park...
• Section 34:15-44 - Names Of Public Employees Carried On Pay Roll
  When any payment of compensation under this chapter shall be due to any public employee, the name of the injured employee, or in case...
• Section 34:15-45 - Guardian's Powers
  34:15-45. In any case where a person under the age of twenty-one years shall be entitled to receive any compensation or distributive share under...
• Section 34:15-46 - Parent To Act As Guardian
  34:15-46. In case a person under the age of twenty-one years shall be entitled to receive a sum or sums amounting, in the aggregate,...
• Section 34:15-48 - Representative Appointed For Compensation Beneficiary
  The commissioner and each deputy commissioner of compensation is hereby authorized and empowered when in his judgment it shall be advisable, to appoint a...
• Section 34:15-49 - Jurisdiction Of Division; Salaries, Qualifications, Tenure Of Judges, Etc.
  34:15-49. a. The Division of Workers' Compensation shall have the exclusive original jurisdiction of all claims for workers' compensation benefits under this chapter. The...
• Section 34:15-49.1 - Referees Designated Judges Of Compensation
  Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 34:15-49 to the contrary, referees of formal hearings in the Division of Workers' Compensation who have been so employed...
• Section 34:15-49.2 - Inapplicability Of Mandatory Retirement For Worker's Compensation Judges, Certain.
  18.The mandatory retirement provisions implemented pursuant to this act, P.L.1999, c.380 (C.52:14-15.115 et al.), shall be inapplicable for three years after the effective date...
• Section 34:15-49.3 - Certain Worker's Compensation Judges Permitted To Work Beyond Age 70.
  20.Notwithstanding the provisions of this act, P.L.1999, c.380 (C.52:14-15.115 et al.), to the contrary, any judge of the Division of Workers' Compensation who is...
• Section 34:15-50 - Approval And Filing Of Agreement
  Whenever an employer or his insurance carrier and an injured employee, or the dependents of a deceased employee, shall, by agreement, duly signed, settle...
• Section 34:15-51 - Filing Of Petition; Two Year Limit
  34:15-51. Every claimant for compensation under Article 2 of this chapter (R.S. 34:15-7 et seq.) shall, unless a settlement is effected or a petition...
• Section 34:15-52 - Copy Of Petition Forwarded To Employer
  34:15-52. Within five days after the filing of the petition or as soon thereafter as is practicable, the Division of Workers' Compensation shall cause...
• Section 34:15-53 - Time, Place And Notice Of Hearing; Adjournment
  Within 20 days after the filing of an answer, or the expiration of the time for filing an answer if no answer is filed,...
• Section 34:15-54 - Dismissal Of Petition; Notice; Reinstatement
  No petition shall be dismissed for want of prosecution or for failure to formally adjourn the cause, until after notice shall be served by...
• Section 34:15-54.1 - Referee's Powers As To Dismissal Of Petitions For Want Of Prosecution And Reinstatement; Discontinuances
  Any referee designated as a "referee, formal hearings," shall have the same power as a deputy director in respect to the dismissal of formal...
• Section 34:15-55 - Service Of Papers
  It shall be sufficient service of any paper, except the original notice to the defendant, if the same is sent by registered mail, addressed...
• Section 34:15-55.1 - Secretary Of Workmen's Compensation Bureau As Agent For Service Of Process On Nonresidents; Method And Effect Of Service; Continuances
  Any employer, not a resident of this State, or any employer not licensed to do business in this State, or any resident employer who...
• Section 34:15-56 - Rules Of Evidence
  At such hearing evidence, exclusive of ex parte affidavits, may be produced by both parties, but the official conducting the hearing shall not be...
• Section 34:15-57 - Summary Hearing; Power To Modify And Commute Award, Determination And Rule For Judgment Or Order Approving Settlement
  The commissioner, the director, and each deputy director, is hereby authorized to hear and determine the matters in dispute in a summary manner, and...
• Section 34:15-57a - Notice Of Unemployment Compensation, Conditions
  3. The Division of Workers' Compensation shall provide notice to each individual receiving compensation under the provisions of the workers' compensation law (chapter 15...
• Section 34:15-57.1 - Reimbursement Of Benefits Paid Under Temporary Disability Benefits Law
  Whenever an employee becomes entitled to or is awarded compensation for temporary disability pursuant to chapter fifteen of Title 34 of the Revised Statutes...
• Section 34:15-57.2 - Inquiry As To Other Payments Received Before Paying Compensation; Proof Of Amounts Paid
  Whenever an employer or his insurance carrier involved in the claim under chapter fifteen of Title 34 of the Revised Statutes shall receive written...
• Section 34:15-57.3 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect on the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and fifty. L.1950, c. 174, p. 403, s. 3.
• Section 34:15-57.4 - Workers' Compensation Fraud, Crime Of Fourth Degree; Civil Liability.
  1. a. A person shall be guilty of a crime of the fourth degree if the person purposely or knowingly: (1)Makes, when making a...
• Section 34:15-58 - Judgment And Settlement Filed, Receipts, Bar Of Judgment
  34:15-58. A statement containing the date and place of hearing, together with the decision, award, determination and rule for judgment or the order approving...
• Section 34:15-59 - Docket; Records
  The secretary of the bureau shall keep a docket in which shall be entered the title of each cause, the date of the determination...
• Section 34:15-60 - Subpoenas, Fees, Contempt
  34:15-60. The director, each deputy director and each of the referees shall have the same power as the Superior Court to issue subpoenas to...
• Section 34:15-61 - Administering Oaths; Perjury
  The commissioner, each deputy commissioner and each referee shall have power to administer oaths. Any person who, having been sworn as a witness in...
• Section 34:15-62 - Public Hearings
  All hearings conducted under this chapter shall be open to the public.
• Section 34:15-63 - No Filing Fees
  Neither party shall pay any fees for filing any papers with the division or with the secretary thereof, and the clerk of any county...
• Section 34:15-64 - Rules, Regulations, Fees For Witnesses, Attorneys.
  34:15-64. a. The commissioner, director and the judges of compensation may make such rules and regulations for the conduct of the hearing not inconsistent...
• Section 34:15-65 - Deposition Of Absent Witness
  The deposition of a witness whose attendance before said bureau cannot be secured by reason of his absence from the State, or by reason...
• Section 34:15-66 - Appeal; Costs
  Any party may appeal from the judgment of a judge of compensation to the Appellate Division of the Superior Court, which appeal shall be...
• Section 34:15-66.1 - Judgment Docketed; Execution; Supplementary Proceedings
  Any judgment entered in the Appellate Division of the Superior Court pursuant to the provisions of section 34:15-66 of this Title may be entered...
• Section 34:15-68 - Physical Examination Of Employee
  In all cases where it shall be necessary to make a physical examination of an employee in an inquiry to award compensation, the examination...
• Section 34:15-69 - Copy Of Judgment To Be Filed With Director
  Whenever any judgment is entered in the Appellate Division of the Superior Court upon any matter arising under the provisions of this chapter the...
• Section 34:15-69.1 - Discontinuance Or Sale Of Business; Discharge Of Employer From Further Liability; Assumption Of Obligations By Third Party
  Whenever any employer has discontinued his business or sold or otherwise disposed of the greater part of his business or assets, the division may,...
• Section 34:15-69.2 - Order; Filing; Effect
  2. Such order shall by its terms discharge the employer from any and all claims, demands or liabilities whatsoever for or on account of...
• Section 34:15-69.3 - Applicability Of Provisions Of Title To Third Party Assuming Obligations
  All provisions of this Title not inconsistent herewith shall thenceforth apply as against such third party with the same force and effect as though...
• Section 34:15-70 - Short Title
  This article may be cited as the "employers' liability insurance law" .
• Section 34:15-71 - Employer's Obligation To Injured Employee
  Every employer, except the state or a municipality, county or school district, who is now or hereafter becomes subject to the provisions of article...
• Section 34:15-72 - Employers Not Electing Benefits Of Compensation Law Required To Insure
  In like manner every employer except the state or a municipality, county or school district who is now or hereafter becomes subject to the...
• Section 34:15-73 - Proof Of Compliance
  On demand of the commissioner of banking and insurance personally or in writing mailed to the post-office address of the employer by registered mail,...
• Section 34:15-74 - Compensation Insurance Provided For Certain Volunteers By Municipality Or County
  34:15-74. Except as otherwise provided in this section, the governing body of every municipality and the committee of every fire district shall provide compensation...
• Section 34:15-74.1 - Compensation Insurance By Volunteer Fire Company For Volunteer Firemen And Volunteer First Aid Or Rescue Squad Workers
  Any volunteer fire company may provide compensation insurance for member volunteer firemen doing public fire duty and volunteer first aid or rescue squad workers...
• Section 34:15-74.2 - Compensation Insurance By Board Of Education For Members Of Board
  Every board of education shall provide compensation insurance for its members covering the performance of their official duties as members of the board and...
• Section 34:15-75 - Compensation For Injury, Death For Certain Volunteers.
  34:15-75. Compensation for injury and death, either or both, of any volunteer fireman, county fire marshal, assistant county fire marshal, volunteer first aid or...
• Section 34:15-76 - Payments To Certain Volunteers
  34:15-76. All payments of compensation to volunteer firemen, county fire marshals, assistant county fire marshals, volunteer first aid or rescue squad workers, volunteer drivers...
• Section 34:15-77 - Employer Carrying Own Insurance
  Any employer desiring to carry his own liability insurance may make application to the Commissioner of Insurance showing his financial ability to pay compensation....
• Section 34:15-77.1 - Hospitals; Group Self-insurance; Conditions
  With respect to any group of employers licensed by the State as hospitals who adopt a plan for self-insurance for the payment of compensation...
• Section 34:15-77.2 - Liability For Compensation Prescribed By Title 34; Bankruptcy Of Participating Employer
  Any employer licensed by the State as a hospital who participates in group self-insurance shall not be relieved from the liability for compensation prescribed...
• Section 34:15-77.3 - Addition Or Termination Of Participating Employers; Notice
  Such group self-insurer shall promptly notify the commissioner, on a form to be prescribed by the commissioner, of the addition of any participating employer...
• Section 34:15-77.4 - Termination Of Plan; Surety Bond; Insurance Policy
  If such a group self-insurance plan is terminated, the securities or surety bond on deposit with the commissioner shall remain in the custody of...
• Section 34:15-77.5 - Financial Statement; Description Of Service Organizations
  Every such group self-insurer shall, on an annual basis, or as often as the commissioner deems it necessary, furnish to the commissioner: a. A...
• Section 34:15-77.6 - Annual Examination
  The commissioner may conduct such annual examinations of each such group self-insurer as he deems necessary and proper. L.1983, c. 376, s. 7, eff....
• Section 34:15-77.7 - Denial Of Application Or Revocation Of Consent
  The commissioner shall have the authority to deny the application of any group of self-insurers to pay such benefits, or to revoke his consent...
• Section 34:15-77.8 - Rules And Regulations
  The Commissioner of Insurance shall promulgate such rules and regulations, including appropriate fee schedules, as he deems necessary to effectuate the provisions of this...
• Section 34:15-78 - Insurance In Stock Or Mutual Company; Notice Filed By Company; Domestic Help Excepted
  Every employer not operating under section 34:15-77 of this title shall insure and keep insured his liability in any stock company or mutual association...
• Section 34:15-79 - Penalties For Failure To Carry Insurance.
  34:15-79. a. An employer who fails to provide the protection prescribed in this article, who misrepresents one or more employees as independent contractors, or...
• Section 34:15-79.1 - Proof Of Workers' Compensation Coverage Required With Certain Annual Reports Of Employers.
  1. a. Every corporation, limited partnership, limited liability company, limited liability partnership or other employer required by law to submit an annual report, shall...
• Section 34:15-80 - Notices Of Insurance Posted
  Every employer who has complied with the provisions of this article shall post and maintain in a conspicuous place or places in and about...
• Section 34:15-81 - Cancellation Of Contract; Notice
  Any contract of insurance issued by a stock company or mutual association against liability arising under this chapter may be canceled by either the...
• Section 34:15-82 - Liability For Injuries Or Death
  An employer securing the payment of compensation by any of the methods prescribed in section 34:15-78 of this title notwithstanding, shall be liable primarily...
• Section 34:15-83 - Insurance Contract For Benefit Of Employees And Dependents
  Every contract of insurance covering the liability of an employer for compensation to injured employees or their dependents, written by a stock company or...
• Section 34:15-84 - Enforcement Of Provisions
  34:15-84. Every such contract shall further provide, or be construed to provide, that any injured employee or his dependents may enforce the provisions thereof...
• Section 34:15-85 - Knowledge Of Injury; Jurisdiction
  Every such contract shall provide, or be construed to provide, that, as between the employee and the insurance carrier, the notice to or knowledge...
• Section 34:15-86 - Insurance Carrier Directly Liable
  Every such contract shall provide, or be construed to provide, that, upon the death, insolvency or bankruptcy of the insured employer, or upon his...
• Section 34:15-87 - Limitations And Restrictions On Liability
  No policy of insurance against liability arising under this chapter shall contain any limitation of the liability of the insurer to an amount less...
• Section 34:15-88 - Classification Of Risks, Rates, Schedules And Rules; Approval By Insurance Commissioner
  Every insurance company or mutual association which insures employers against liability either under this chapter or for damages imposed by law arising out of...
• Section 34:15-89.1 - Notification To Mutual Associations, Stock Companies Of Requirements Of Employer Id Numbers.
  2. a. On or before March 1, 1996 and thereafter, the Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau shall notify all mutual associations and stock companies...
• Section 34:15-90.1 - Compensation Rating And Inspection Bureau Continued; Directors, Appointment, Terms.
  1. a. The Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau, established and continued by R.S.34:15-89, consisting of all insurers authorized to write workers' compensation or employers'...
• Section 34:15-90.2 - Authority Of Compensation Rating And Inspection Bureau.
  2.The Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau shall have authority to: a.Enter into contracts as are necessary or proper to carry out the provisions and...
• Section 34:15-90.3 - Effective Date.
  4.This act shall take effect July 1, 2009, except that the Commissioner of Banking and Insurance may take such anticipatory administrative action in advance...
• Section 34:15-91 - Actuary And Additional Assistants In Insurance Department
  The commissioner of banking and insurance is authorized to employ an actuary and necessary assistants and to fix their compensation, subject to the provisions...
• Section 34:15-92 - Domestic Help Excepted
  Each employer of domestic servants or household employees and every stock company or mutual association affording insurance for the liability of such employers by...
• Section 34:15-92.1 - Other Exceptions
  If and when any class or classes of employers or employees shall be excepted from the provisions of article 2 of this chapter (s....
• Section 34:15-93 - Expense Of Enforcement; Payments By Insurers
  To defray the expenses of the commissioner of banking and insurance in carrying out the provisions of this article, each mutual association and each...
• Section 34:15-94 - Annual Surcharge For Second Injury Fund.
  34:15-94. a. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1999, c.408). b.Commencing January 1, 1989 and on the first day of each year thereafter, the Commissioner of Labor...
• Section 34:15-95 - Second Injury Fund
  The sums collected under R.S. 34:15-94 shall constitute a fund, to be known as the Second Injury Fund, out of which a sum shall...
• Section 34:15-95.1 - Application For Benefits; Decision; Review; Commissioner Of Labor As Party
  Applications for benefits under this act shall be made by a verified petition filed in duplicate within 2 years after the date of the...
• Section 34:15-95.2 - Vested Rights
  No person shall be deemed to acquire or to have acquired any vested rights, under the provisions of this section. L.1940, c. 133, p....
• Section 34:15-95.3 - Application Of Chapter; Exemption Of Mutual Agricultural Insurance Companies
  Nothing in this article (s. 34:15-70 et seq.) shall apply to any mutual agricultural insurance company incorporated under chapter 252 of the laws of...
• Section 34:15-95.4 - Special Adjustment Benefit Payment
  Any employee or dependent receiving weekly benefits as provided under R.S. 34:15-95, R.S. 34:15-12(b) or R.S. 34:15-13 at a rate applicable prior to January...
• Section 34:15-95.5 - Reduction Of Disability Benefits For Persons Under Age Sixty-two; Exception
  For persons under the age of 62 receiving benefits as provided under R.S. 34:15-95, or R.S. 34:15-12(b), and whose period of disability began after...
• Section 34:15-96 - First Report Of Accident.
  34:15-96. First report of accident. Every employer who has made provisions for payment of obligations to an injured employee as required by article 5...
• Section 34:15-98 - Final Report Of Accident.
  34:15-98. Final report of accident. Not more than 26 weeks after an insurance carrier, third party administrator, self-insured employer or statutory non-insured employer learns...
• Section 34:15-99 - Report Not Public.
  34:15-99. Report not public. The reports of accidents filed with, or transmitted or forwarded to, the Division of Workers' Compensation or the Compensation Rating...
• Section 34:15-100 - Medical Reports
  As a part of the necessary medical service required by the compensation law, the employer or insurance carrier shall, when directed so to do,...
• Section 34:15-101 - Penalty For Noncompliance
  Every employer, insurer or other person failing to comply with the terms of this article shall, for each offense, be liable to a penalty...
• Section 34:15-102 - Rules And Regulations; Agreements Filed
  The workmen's compensation bureau is authorized to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the purpose of this article...
• Section 34:15-103 - Short Title
  This article may be cited as the workers' compensation security fund act. Amended by L.1980, c. 83, s. 4, eff. Aug. 21, 1980.
• Section 34:15-104 - Definitions.
  34:15-104. As used in this article, unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires: "Fund" means the workers' compensation security fund created by R.S.34:15-105....
• Section 34:15-105 - Workers' Compensation Security Fund.
  34:15-105. There is hereby created a fund to be known as "the workers' compensation security fund," for the purpose of assuring to persons entitled...
• Section 34:15-105.1 - Workers' Compensation Security Fund Transferred.
  1.The workers' compensation security fund created pursuant to R.S.34:15-105, along with all its functions, powers and duties and all its assets, liabilities and balances,...
• Section 34:15-106 - Annual Returns By Carriers; "Net Written Premiums" Defined.
  34:15-106. Every carrier shall annually file with the Commissioner of Banking and Insurance returns, under oath, on a form to be prescribed and furnished...
• Section 34:15-107 - Contributions To The Fund.
  34:15-107. For the privilege of carrying on the business of workers' compensation insurance in this State, every carrier shall pay into the fund a...
• Section 34:15-108 - Contributions, When Ceased; Resumption Of Contributions.
  34:15-108. When the aggregate amount of all such payments into the fund, together with accumulated interest thereon, less all its expenditures and known liabilities,...
• Section 34:15-111 - Payment Of Claims; Application; Recovery.
  34:15-111. A valid claim for compensation or death benefits, or installments thereof, heretofore or hereafter made pursuant to this chapter or the federal "Longshore...
• Section 34:15-117 - Insolvency Of Carrier; Notice To Division Of Workers' Compensation; Report Of Conditions.
  34:15-117. Forthwith upon any carrier becoming insolvent, the Commissioner of Banking and Insurance shall so notify the Division of Workers' Compensation, and the division...
• Section 34:15-120.1 - Uninsured Employer's Fund
  a. There is hereby created a fund which shall be known as the "uninsured employer's fund" to provide for the payment of awards against...
• Section 34:15-120.2 - Benefit Payments
  a. In any case in which a claim for compensation is filed pursuant to the provisions of the workers' compensation law, R.S. 34:15-1 et...
• Section 34:15-120.3 - Default By Uninsured Employer; Judgment.
  12. The director, in any case in which an award of compensation payable by an uninsured employer or an assessment has been ordered by...
• Section 34:15-120.4 - Application For Compensation
  a. After an award has been entered against an employer for compensation under any provision of the workers' compensation law, R.S. 34:15-1 et seq.,...
• Section 34:15-120.5 - Subrogation; Right Of Fund Against Employer
  To the extent of the compensation and benefits paid or payable to an employee or his dependents from the uninsured employers' fund, the fund,...
• Section 34:15-120.6 - Annual Accounting
  The commissioner shall annually submit an accounting of the "uninsured employer's fund" to the State Treasurer and to the appropriations and labor committees of...
• Section 34:15-120.7 - Rules, Regulations
  The commissioner may make all rules and regulations necessary for the processing and payment of compensation out of the "uninsured employer's fund." The commissioner...
• Section 34:15-120.8 - Limitation On Liability
  The liability of the "uninsured employer's fund" and the State with respect to payment of any compensation, benefits, expenses, fees for disbursements properly chargeable...
• Section 34:15-120.9 - Action Against Employer
  If an employer fails to provide compensation to an employee or his beneficiaries as required by chapter 15 of Title 34 of the Revised...
• Section 34:15-120.10 - Administrative Expenses; $10,000 Limit
  In any fiscal year during which benefit payments are made from the "uninsured employer's fund," the Commissioner of Labor shall apply an amount equal...
• Section 34:15-120.11 - Duties Of Division Of Workers' Compensation
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the Division of Workers' Compensation shall use every available administrative means to ensure that benefit payments from...
• Section 34:15-120.12 - Notification Of Change In Income
  The burden shall be upon the claimant to immediately notify in writing the Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation of any increase or...
• Section 34:15-120.13 - Exhaustion Of Remedies
  The Commissioner of Labor shall, on behalf of the "uninsured employer's fund," exhaust all remedies at law against the uninsured delinquent employer of the...
• Section 34:15-120.14 - Other Obligations Unaffected
  Nothing in this act, P.L. 1988, c. 25 (C. 34:15-120.9 et seq.), shall affect the obligations of insurance carriers or self-insured employers imposed by...
• Section 34:15-120.15 - Definitions
  1. As used in this act: "Association" means the New Jersey Self-Insurers Guaranty Association created in subsection a. of section 2 of this act....
• Section 34:15-120.16 - "New Jersey Self-insurers Guaranty Association"
  2. a. There is created a nonprofit entity to be known as the "New Jersey Self-Insurers Guaranty Association." All self-insurers shall be members of...
• Section 34:15-120.17 - Board Of Directors
  3. The board of directors of the association shall consist of five persons and shall be organized as established in the plan of operation....
• Section 34:15-120.18 - Association Obligated For Payment Of Compensation; Powers; Assessments
  4. a. Upon creation of the Insolvency Fund pursuant to the provisions of section 5 of this act, the association is obligated for payment...
• Section 34:15-120.19 - Insolvency Fund
  5. Upon the adoption of a plan of operation or the adoption of rules by the commissioner pursuant to subsection a. of section 6...
• Section 34:15-120.20 - Plan Of Operation
  6. a. (1) Within one year of the effective date of this act, the board of directors shall submit to the commissioner a proposed...
• Section 34:15-120.21 - Written Notice Of Bankruptcy Proceedings, Determination Of Insolvency
  7. a. A member employer which files for relief in bankruptcy under Title 11 of the United States Code, 11 U.S.C. s.101 et seq.;...
• Section 34:15-120.22 - Powers Of Department
  8. The department may: a. Require that the association notify other interested parties of the determination of insolvency and of their rights under this...
• Section 34:15-120.23 - Assignment Of Rights To Association
  9. a. Any person who recovers from the association under this act shall be deemed to have assigned his rights to the association to...
• Section 34:15-120.24 - Detection, Prevention Of Employer Insolvencies
  10. To aid in the detection and prevention of employer insolvencies: a. Upon determination by majority vote of the membership of the board that...
• Section 34:15-120.25 - Examination, Regulation Of Association
  11. The association shall be subject to examination and regulation by the department. No later than March 30 of each year, the board of...
• Section 34:15-120.26 - Immunity From Liability
  12. There shall be no liability on the part of, and no cause of action of any nature shall arise against, any member employer,...
• Section 34:15-120.27 - Stay Of Proceedings
  13. a. All proceedings in which an insolvent member is a party, or is obligated to defend a party, in any court or before...
• Section 34:15-120.28 - Deadline For Filing Claims
  14. Notwithstanding any other provision of chapter 15 of Title 34 of the Revised Statutes, a covered claim, as defined therein, with respect to...
• Section 34:15-120.29 - Additional Obligations Of Association
  15. In addition to its obligation to pay compensation to the employees of insolvent members pursuant to section 4 of this act, the association...
• Section 34:15-120.30 - Construction Of Act
  16. This act shall not be construed as reducing, to any degree or in any way, the responsibility of the commissioner to exercise caution...
• Section 34:15-121 - Workers' Compensation Formal Cases; Records, Destruction
  1. Any records of, or pertaining to, workers' compensation formal cases, wherein original claim petitions have been on file for 45 or more years,...
• Section 34:15-122 - Records Of Workmen's Compensation Of Kind Specified In Article Six
  Any records of, or pertaining to, workmen's compensation of the kind and character specified in article six of chapter fifteen of Title 34 of...
• Section 34:15-123 - Agreements For Payment Of Workmen's Compensation
  Agreements for the payment of workmen's compensation, which have been or shall have been on file for eight or more years, may be destroyed...
• Section 34:15-124 - Records And Papers Not Part Of Record Of Workmen's Compensation Formal Cases
  Records and papers of, or pertaining to, workmen's compensation cases, on file in the Division of Workmen's Compensation and its predecessor, Workmen's Compensation Bureau,...
• Section 34:15-125 - Records On Microfilm Or Other Media, Destruction
  5. Any records of, or pertaining to, workers' compensation formal cases, which have not been on file for 45 or more years but which...
• Section 34:15-126 - Force, Effect Of Microfilm Or Other Media
  6. Any microfilm made or information retained in other media by the Division of Workers' Compensation pursuant to law, or a certified copy of...
• Section 34:15-127 - Liability For Destruction Of Records
  No official, or member of the Department of Labor and Industry, shall be held liable on his bond, or in the way of damages,...
• Section 34:15-128 - Limited Right To Inspect, Copy Records.
  1. a. Notwithstanding any other provision of the chapter to which this act is a supplement or of any other law, no records maintained...
• Section 34:15-128.1 - Short Title.
  5.Sections 6 through 9 of this act shall be known and may be cited as the "Workers' Compensation Medical Information Confidentiality Act." L.2001,c.326,s.5.
• Section 34:15-128.2 - Definitions Relative To "Workers' Compensation Medical Information Confidentiality Act."
  6.For the purposes of section 1 of P.L.1966, c.164 (C.34:15-128) and sections 6 through 9 of this amendatory and supplementary act: "Disclose" means to...
• Section 34:15-128.3 - Disclosure Of Medical Information.
  7. a. In any case of an individual seeking workers' compensation from an employer, it shall be unlawful for the employer, the workers' compensation...
• Section 34:15-128.4 - Withholding Information Unlawful; Certain Circumstances.
  8.Except for medical or non-medical evaluations performed for the purposes of evaluating the permanency of an employee's disability requested by the employer or its...
• Section 34:15-128.5 - Violations, Fine, Penalty.
  9.Any person who violates any provision of section 7 or 8 of this amendatory and supplementary act shall be subject to a fine of...
• Section 34:15-129 - Short Title
  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New Jersey Horse Racing Injury Compensation Board Act." L.1995,c.329,s.1.
• Section 34:15-130 - Findings, Declarations.
  2.The Legislature finds and declares that, whereas current law already requires virtually all employers to provide for the payment of workers' compensation benefits to...
• Section 34:15-131 - Definitions Relative To The New Jersey Horse Racing Injury Compensation Board.
  3.As used in this act: "Board" means the New Jersey Horse Racing Injury Compensation Board established by section 4 of P.L.1995, c.329 (C.34:15-132). "Commission"...
• Section 34:15-132 - "New Jersey Horse Racing Injury Compensation Board" Established
  4. There is hereby established the "New Jersey Horse Racing Injury Compensation Board," which shall be in, but not of, the Department of Law...
• Section 34:15-133 - Powers Of Board
  5. The board shall have the power to: a.purchase and serve as the master policyholder for any insurance, or self-insure pursuant to R.S.34:15-77, for...
• Section 34:15-134 - Insurance Coverage; Assessments.
  6. a. The board shall secure workers' compensation insurance coverage for horse racing industry employees. b.The board shall assess and collect sufficient funds to...
• Section 34:15-134.1 - Trainer To Carry Compensation Insurance For Employees, Eligibility For Coverage.
  2.Notwithstanding any provision of P.L.1995, c.329 (C.34:15-129 et seq.), as amended: a.A standardbred trainer who is licensed or is required to be licensed by...
• Section 34:15-135 - Employee, Employer Relationship Under The Act.
  7. a. For the purposes of this act and R.S.34:15-36, a horse racing industry employee shall be deemed to be in the employment of...
• Section 34:15-136 - Computing Wages
  8. Notwithstanding the provision of any other law, in determining workers' compensation benefits pursuant to R.S.34:15-1 et seq., the wages of a horse racing...
• Section 34:15-136.1 - Documentation, Maintenance Of Complete And Accurate Records Of Wages Paid.
  6. a. A thoroughbred trainer shall document and maintain complete and accurate records of all wages paid, whether by check or in cash, to...
• Section 34:15-137 - Act As Supplemental To Other Arrangements
  9. Nothing in this act shall affect any existing contract or policy of employers' liability insurance or the liability of any insurance company or...
• Section 34:15-138 - Plan Of Operation
  10. a. The board shall create a plan of operation to ensure fair, reasonable, and equitable administration. The plan of operation and any amendments...
• Section 34:15-139 - Commission Examination, Financial Report
  11. The board shall be subject to examination by the commission. The board shall submit to the commission no later than March 31 of...
• Section 34:15-140 - Tax Exemption
  12. The board shall be exempt from payment of all fees and all taxes levied by this State or any of its subdivisions. L.1995,c.329,s.12.
• Section 34:15-141 - Liability Limited
  13. a. The liability of the board and the State with respect to payment of any compensation, benefits, expenses, fees or disbursements properly chargeable...
• Section 34:15-142 - Applicability Of R. S.34:15-1 et Seq.
  14. The provisions of R.S.34:15-1 et seq. shall apply to the provision of workers' compensation insurance under this act in all respects, except as...
• Section 34:15b-35 - Definitions Relative To Job Training.
  1.As used in this act: "Approved community-based or faith-based organization" means an organization which is an approved service provider, a nonprofit organization exempt from...
• Section 34:15b-36 - Funding Of Vocational Training.
  2. a. All vocational training funded with federal job training funds shall be training which is likely to substantially enhance the trainee's marketable skills...
• Section 34:15b-37 - Funding Of On The Job Training.
  3. a. On the job training shall not be paid for with federal job training funds for any employment found by the commissioner to...
• Section 34:15b-38 - Counseling Requirement.
  4. a. No individual shall receive employment and training services paid for with federal job training funds other than counseling unless the individual first...
• Section 34:15b-39 - Eligibility For Employment, Training Services.
  5.An otherwise qualified individual shall not be denied employment and training services or other workforce investment services included in the Employability Development Plan developed...
• Section 34:15b-40 - Approval, Evaluation Of Service Provider.
  6. a. No federal job training funds shall be used to obtain employment and training services from a service provider unless the provider is...
• Section 34:15c-1 - Definitions.
  4.As used in this act: a."At-risk youth" means a teenage high school dropout or a teenage parent or other teenager whose pattern of behavior...
• Section 34:15c-2 - State Employment And Training Commission; Created
  There is created in the Executive Branch of the State Government a commission which shall be known as the State Employment and Training Commission....
• Section 34:15c-3 - Members Of The Commission; Appointments; Terms
  The commission shall consist of the following members: the Commissioners of Commerce, Energy and Economic Development, Community Affairs, Education, Human Services, and Labor and...
• Section 34:15c-4 - Appointment Of Executive Director; Duties
  The commission shall appoint an executive director. The executive director shall report to the chairperson of the commission and be responsible for administering the...
• Section 34:15c-5 - Purpose Of Commission.
  8.The purpose of the commission shall be to develop and assist in the implementation of a State workforce investment policy with the goal of...
• Section 34:15c-6 - Duties Of Commission.
  9.The commission shall: a.Issue the New Jersey Unified Workforce Investment Plan pursuant to the provisions of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, Pub.L.105-220 (29...
• Section 34:15c-6.1 - Report Evaluating, Projecting State's Workforce Needs.
  1.The commission shall, at least annually, prepare a report that evaluates and projects the State's workforce needs. a.The report, at a minimum, shall include...
• Section 34:15c-7 - Preparation Of New Jersey Unified Workforce Investment Plan.
  10.The commission shall prepare a New Jersey Unified Workforce Investment Plan. The plan shall include: a.A description of the State workforce investment policy developed...
• Section 34:15c-7.1 - Selection Of Industries With Growing, Unmet Demand For Skilled Workers.
  12. a. The State Employment and Training Commission shall select industries in which a growing or unmet demand for skilled workers, professionals or other...
• Section 34:15c-8 - Establishment Of Performance Standards For Evaluating Workforce Investment System.
  11. a. The commission shall establish quantifiable performance standards for evaluating the workforce investment system, and guidelines for procedures to encourage and enforce compliance...
• Section 34:15c-10 - Commission Shall Establish Requirements For Each Workforce Investment Program.
  13.The commission shall establish such requirements as it deems appropriate for each workforce investment program to utilize the comprehensive occupational information compiled and disseminated...
• Section 34:15c-10.1 - Certificate Of Approval For, Application By Qualifying Schools.
  13. a. A qualifying school shall make a written application to the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development for a certificate of approval, and...
• Section 34:15c-10.2 - State Eligible Training Provider List.
  14. a. The Department of Labor and Workforce Development shall maintain a Statewide list of approved training providers known as the State Eligible Training...
• Section 34:15c-11 - Commission To Coordinate Initiatives With State Departments.
  14. a. The commission shall foster and coordinate workforce investment initiatives of all State Departments. It shall promote initiatives of the Department of Education...
• Section 34:15c-12 - Preparation Of Annual Budget For Commission, Funding.
  15. a. The chairperson of the commission shall prepare an annual budget for the commission. Resources to support the activities of the commission and...
• Section 34:15c-13 - Rules, Regulations
  The commission shall adopt rules and regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) necessary to effectuate the provisions of...
• Section 34:15c-15 - Workforce Investment Boards; Representatives; Duties, Powers.
  18. a. Each workforce investment area shall be under the jurisdiction of a Workforce Investment Board. Each local workforce investment area established by the...
• Section 34:15c-15.1 - Workforce Investment Board To Maintain Internet Website, Webpage; Contents.
  2.Each Workforce Investment Board shall maintain either an Internet website or a webpage on the county's Internet website. The purpose of the website or...
• Section 34:15c-17 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Adult Literacy.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.Education affects an individual's employability, wages, productivity, ability to function effectively in the family and community, and ultimately,...
• Section 34:15c-18 - State Council For Adult Literacy Education Services.
  2. a. There is created within the State Employment and Training Commission, established pursuant to section 5 of P.L.1989, c.293 (C.34:15C-2) in the Department...
• Section 34:15c-19 - Purpose Of Council.
  3.The purpose of the council shall be to facilitate Statewide and local policy development, planning and oversight in consultation with the stakeholders in the...
• Section 34:15c-20 - Annual Report To Governor, Legislature.
  4.The council shall report annually to the Governor and the Legislature. The annual report shall include, but not be limited to, the accomplishments and...
• Section 34:15c-21 - Council On Gender Parity In Labor And Education.
  1. a. There is created, in the New Jersey State Employment and Training Commission, a council which shall be known as the Council on...
• Section 34:15c-22 - Duties Of Council.
  2.The Council shall: a.Assess the effectiveness of State programs designed to provide gender equity in labor, education, and training; b.Make recommendations to the Commissioners...
• Section 34:15c-23 - Authority Of Council.
  3.The council is authorized to: a.Hold public hearings; b.Employ staff, responsible to the Executive Director of the State Employment and Training Commission, to assist...
• Section 34:15d-1 - Short Title
  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "1992 New Jersey Employment and Workforce Development Act." L.1992,c.43,s.1.
• Section 34:15d-2 - Findings, Declarations
  2. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. New Jersey, facing an intensely competitive world economy, must choose whether to compete against countries that...
• Section 34:15d-3 - Definitions Relative To Workforce Development.
  3.As used in this act: "Administrative costs" means any costs incurred by the department to administer the program, including any cost required to collect...
• Section 34:15d-4 - Workforce Development Partnership Program.
  4. a. The Workforce Development Partnership Program is hereby established in the Department of Labor and Workforce Development and shall be administered by the...
• Section 34:15d-5 - Office Of Customized Training Established.
  5. a. There is hereby established, as part of the Workforce Development Partnership Program, the Office of Customized Training. Moneys allocated to the office...
• Section 34:15d-6 - Training Grants.
  6. a. The Workforce Development Partnership Program shall, to the extent that resources available in the fund permit, provide, for each qualified displaced or...
• Section 34:15d-7 - Counseling.
  7.Counseling shall be made available by the department to each qualified displaced worker or qualified disadvantaged worker applying to participate in the Workforce Development...
• Section 34:15d-8 - Employment, Training Services; Criteria.
  8. a. No employment and training services shall be obtained from a service provider with moneys from the fund unless the provider is located...
• Section 34:15d-9 - Workforce Development Partnership Fund.
  9. a. A restricted, nonlapsing, revolving Workforce Development Partnership Fund, to be managed and invested by the State Treasurer, is hereby established to: provide...
• Section 34:15d-10 - Commissioner's Duties
  10. The commissioner shall, in a manner which complies with all provisions of this act: a. Implement performance measurements for the program consistent with...
• Section 34:15d-11 - Rules, Regulations
  11. The commissioner shall, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), adopt rules and regulations necessary to govern the proper...
• Section 34:15d-12 - Definitions
  1. For the purposes of sections 1 through 9 of this act: "Commissioner" is the Commissioner of Labor, or designee of the commissioner. "Department"...
• Section 34:15d-13 - Employer And Worker Contributions
  2. Beginning on January 1, 1993, each worker shall contribute to the Workforce Development Partnership Fund an amount equal to 0.025% of the worker's...
• Section 34:15d-14 - Transfer Of Funds To Workforce Development Partnership Fund
  3. The State Treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to requisition and withdraw on or after July 1, 1992 an amount not to exceed...
• Section 34:15d-15 - Employer Responsibilities For Workers' Contributions
  4. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, each employer shall: withhold in trust the amount of all workers' contributions from...
• Section 34:15d-16 - Failure Of Employer To Make Report; Deficiencies
  5. If an employer fails to make any report or permit any inspection required by the commissioner to implement the provisions of this act,...
• Section 34:15d-17 - Refund To Taxpayer
  6. a. If an employee receives wages from more than one employer during any calendar year, and the sum of the employee's contributions deposited...
• Section 34:15d-18 - Cancellation, Refusal To Honor Checks
  7. The State Treasurer, as treasurer and custodian of the Workforce Development Partnership Fund, is hereby authorized and directed to cancel of record and...
• Section 34:15d-19 - Schedule Of Fines
  8. A schedule of fines, no fine exceeding $1,000 for a single offense, shall be established by the commissioner for any of the following...
• Section 34:15d-20 - Rules, Regulations
  9. The commissioner shall, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) promulgate rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions...
• Section 34:15d-21 - "Supplemental Workforce Fund For Basic Skills."
  1. a. A restricted, nonlapsing, revolving "Supplemental Workforce Fund for Basic Skills," to be managed and invested by the State Treasurer, is hereby established...
• Section 34:15d-21.1 - Short Title.
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New Jersey Basic Skills Training Program for Economic Growth Act." L.2009, c.199, s.1.
• Section 34:15d-21.2 - Findings, Declarations Relative To The Basic Skills Training Program.
  2.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.A skilled workforce is one of the most critical issues to New Jersey businesses and the State's economic...
• Section 34:15d-22 - Contributions To Fund.
  2.Beginning on January 1, 2002, each worker shall contribute to the Supplemental Workforce Fund for Basic Skills an amount equal to 0.0175% of the...
• Section 34:15d-23 - Refund Of Excess Employee Contributions.
  3.If an employee receives wages from more than one employer during any calendar year, and the sum of the employee's contributions deposited in the...
• Section 34:15d-24 - "Nj Place" Program.
  1. a. There is established, in the Department of Labor and Workforce Development and under the direction of the State Employment and Training Commission...
• Section 34:15d-25 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Workforce Development Funds.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.New Jersey, the headquarters of many of the leaders in the field of industrial research and development, has...
• Section 34:15d-26 - New Jersey Innovation And Research Fellowship Program.
  3. a. The Department of Labor and Workforce Development, in consultation with the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, shall establish the New Jersey Innovation...
• Section 34:15e-1 - Short Title
  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Youth Transitions to Work Partnership Act." L.1993,c.268,s.1.
• Section 34:15e-2 - Findings, Declarations
  2. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. To succeed in the face of intensely competitive conditions, the economy of New Jersey requires the...
• Section 34:15e-3 - Definitions.
  3.As used in this act: "Apprenticeship Policy Committee" or "committee" means the New Jersey Apprenticeship Policy Committee which: a.Was established by a written agreement...
• Section 34:15e-4 - Youth Transitions To Work Partnership Established; Purpose
  4. a. The Youth Transitions to Work Partnership is hereby established in, but not of, the Department of Labor. Notwithstanding any appropriations that are...
• Section 34:15e-5 - Grant Eligibility
  5. a. To be eligible for a grant from the partnership, a consortium shall include: (1) Each employer that employs apprentices in connection with...
• Section 34:15e-6 - School-to-apprenticeship Linkage Program, Establishment
  6. a. Each consortium which is awarded a grant from the partnership shall establish a school-to-apprenticeship linkage program for high school students, which shall...
• Section 34:15e-7 - Program Link To Post-secondary Education Options Established
  7. Each consortium which is awarded a grant from the partnership shall establish a program which provides the option of linkages from apprenticeship to...
• Section 34:15f-1 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Mentoring Programs.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that there are a significant number of students in New Jersey who are economically and socially disadvantaged and who...
• Section 34:15f-2 - Definitions Relative To Mentoring Programs.
  2.As used in this act: "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development; "Department" means the Department of Labor and Workforce Development; "Educational...
• Section 34:15f-3 - At-risk Youth Mentoring Program.
  3.There is established in the Department of Labor and Workforce Development an At-Risk Youth Mentoring Program to be administered by the Commissioner of Labor...
• Section 34:15f-4 - "At-risk Youth Mentoring Grant Fund."
  4.There is established within the Department of Labor a separate grant fund to be known as the "At-Risk Youth Mentoring Grant Fund." An educational...
• Section 34:15f-5 - Application For Grant.
  5.An educational foundation shall submit an application for a grant to the commissioner for his review. The application shall provide the following information: the...
• Section 34:15f-6 - Participation Of Mentor; Student Schedules.
  6. a. Under the program each mentor shall commit to participate in the program for a minimum of one calendar year. Each student shall...
• Section 34:15f-7 - Criminal History Record Check For Mentor.
  7.Notwithstanding any provision of P.L.1986, c.116 (C.18A:6-7.1 et seq.) to the contrary, a mentor shall undergo a criminal history record check in accordance with...
• Section 34:15f-8 - Joint Committee On Mentoring.
  8.There is created a joint legislative committee to be known as the Joint Committee on Mentoring. The joint committee shall be comprised of 12...
• Section 34:15f-9 - Annual Report On Progress Of Mentoring Program; Report To Governor, Legislature After Three Years.
  9. a. An educational foundation shall submit an annual report on the progress of its mentoring program to the department and to the joint...
• Section 34:15f-11 - Rules, Regulations.
  11. The Department of Labor shall adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), the rules and regulations necessary to...
• Section 34:15f-12 - Youth Employment And After School Incentive Pilot Program.
  1. a. There is established in the Department of Labor and Workforce Development a Youth Employment and After School Incentive Pilot Program which shall...
• Section 34:15f-13 - Development, Administration Of Program.
  2. a. In cooperation with the Disadvantaged Youth Employment Opportunities Council established in section 1 of P.L.2001, c.446 (C.34:15F-12), the Commissioner of Labor and...
• Section 34:15f-14 - Maximum Hours Of Employment For Youths.
  3. a. The State's limitations on hours of employment for child labor shall govern the maximum hours of employment for youths employed through the...
• Section 34:15f-15 - Plan To Collect Data On Effectiveness Of Program.
  4. a. The Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development shall implement a plan to collect data on the effectiveness of the program in meeting...
• Section 34:15f-16 - Eligibility For Tax Credit Allotments.
  5.Employers participating in the employment program established under this act shall be eligible for the tax credit allotments authorized under the provisions of P.L....
• Section 34:15f-17 - Study, Report On Providing Students With Information And Employment In High-demand Industries.
  1.The Commissioner of Education and the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development shall undertake a review of all existing efforts of their respective departments...
• Section 34:16-20 - Definitions
  As used in this chapter: "Commission" means the State Rehabilitation Commission, Department of Labor and Industry, for the rehabilitation of handicapped persons. "Maintenance" means...
• Section 34:16-21 - Rehabilitation Commission; Membership
  There is hereby established the Rehabilitation Commission which is placed in the Department of Labor and Industry for housekeeping purposes. The commission is hereby...
• Section 34:16-22 - Chairman
  The chairman of the commission shall be the Commissioner of Labor and Industry of the State of New Jersey. L.1955, c. 64, p. 213,...
• Section 34:16-23 - Terms Of Office; Vacancies
  Of the members of the commission appointed by the Governor, the first members shall be appointed, 3 for 1 year, 3 for 2 years,...
• Section 34:16-24 - Compensation; Expenses
  The members of the commission shall serve without pay but actual expenses incurred in the performance of their duties shall be paid out of...
• Section 34:16-25 - Removal Of Members
  The Governor may at any time remove for inefficiency or neglect of duty any member of the commission appointed by him, charges in writing...
• Section 34:16-26 - Report To Governor; Recommendations
  The commission shall annually make report to the Governor of its work in carrying out the provisions of this chapter and shall submit to...
• Section 34:16-27 - Powers Of Commission.
  8.The commission shall be authorized to: (a)Adopt and promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this...
• Section 34:16-28 - Director; Employees And Special Assistants
  The commission shall appoint a director, who shall be its executive officer and have primary responsibility for, and shall devote his full time to...
• Section 34:16-29 - Cooperation With Other Agencies; Administration; Services And Facilities
  The commission is also authorized: (a) To co-operate with the Federal Government in carrying out the purposes of any Federal statutes pertaining to vocational...
• Section 34:16-29.1 - Division Of Vocational Rehabilitation Services Administrators, Duties
  32. The director or other chief administrative officer of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services in the Department of Labor shall: a. cause copies...
• Section 34:16-30 - State Treasurer As Custodian Of Funds
  The State Treasurer is hereby designated as the custodian of all funds received from the Federal Government for the purpose of carrying out any...
• Section 34:16-31 - Hearings
  Any individual applying for or receiving vocational rehabilitation or independent living rehabilitation who is aggrieved by any action or inaction of the commission shall...
• Section 34:16-32 - Prohibited Activities
  No officer or employee engaged in the administration of the vocational rehabilitation and independent living rehabilitation programs shall use his official authority to influence...
• Section 34:16-33 - Confidential Character Of Records
  All records relating to the receipt of or application for vocational rehabilitation or independent living rehabilitation services shall be confidential and shall not be...
• Section 34:16-34 - Amendment Or Repeal Of Act
  The Legislature reserves the right to amend or repeal all or any part of this act at any time; and there shall be no...
• Section 34:16-35 - Severability
  If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act and...
• Section 34:16-36 - Liberal Construction
  The provisions of this chapter shall be liberally construed in order that its purposes and objects may be fully effectuated. L.1955, c. 64, p....
• Section 34:16-37 - Repeals
  Sections 34:16-1, 34:16-2, 34:16-3, 34:16-4, 34:16-5, 34:16-6, 34:16-7, 34:16-8, 34:16-9, 34:16-10, 34:16-11, 34:16-12, 34:16-13, 34:16-14, 34:16-15, 34:16-16, 34:16-17, 34:16-18, 34:16-19, 18:17-6, 18:17-7, 18:17-8, and...
• Section 34:16-38 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1955." L.1955, c. 64, p. 218, s. 19.
• Section 34:16-39 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and cited as the "Sheltered Workshop Act of 1971." L.1971, c. 272, s. 1.
• Section 34:16-40 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Sheltered workshop" means an occupation oriented facility operated by a nonprofit agency, public or private, which except for...
• Section 34:16-41 - Programs Of Vocational Rehabilitation Or Extended Employment
  The division shall administer a program of vocational rehabilitation to an extended employee and shall plan, institute, support, and administer a program of extended...
• Section 34:16-42 - Contracts With Approved Sheltered Workshops; Amount Payable
  The division is hereby authorized to contract with an approved sheltered workshop for the furnishing of extended employment programs to severely handicapped persons when...
• Section 34:16-43 - Determination Of Eligibility For Extended Employment Program; Standards For Operation Of Sheltered Workshop; Progress Reports
  The division and the commission are hereby vested with the authority: a. to determine the eligibility of severely handicapped persons for the extended employment...
• Section 34:16-44 - Inapplicability Of Requirement For Employer's Permit Relating To Ratio Of Employees In Home Work To Those In Factory For Extended Employment Program Of Sheltered Workshop
  The provisions of P.L.1941, c. 308 (C. 34:6-136.1 et seq.) relating to the ratio of employees engaged in home work to those employed in...
• Section 34:16-45 - Handicapped Workers Labor; Policy Of Authentication Of Source Of Goods
  It is the policy of the State to assist handicapped persons and organizations established to aid handicapped persons in the sale of goods or...
• Section 34:16-46 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Handicapped person" means any individual who is unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of...
• Section 34:16-47 - Manufacturer Or Distributor Of Goods Made By Handicapped Persons; Registration; Identification Labels; Fees; Duration
  To facilitate ready and authoritative identification of goods or articles made by handicapped persons, any handicapped person and any public or private institution or...
• Section 34:16-48 - Sale Of Goods Made By Handicapped Persons; Label; Necessity; Requirements
  No goods or articles made in this or any other state may be displayed, advertised, solicited for sale by telephone, mail or otherwise, offered...
• Section 34:16-49 - Labels Or Stamps; Contents
  Any handicapped worker, or any public or private institution or agency, corporation, firm, or association, registered with the division pursuant to this act, engaged...
• Section 34:16-50 - Violations
  Any person, firm, corporation, institution, or association who (a) shall use or employ an imprint, stamp, or symbol or label issued or approved by...
• Section 34:16-51 - Findings, Declarations
  The Legislature finds and declares that many handicapped citizens enrolled in sheltered (extended) employment programs at sheltered workshops earn subminimum wages in a noncompetitive...
• Section 34:16-52 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Division" means the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services in the Department of Labor. b. "Handicapped citizen" means any...
• Section 34:16-53 - Transportation Expense Program
  The Commissioner of Labor is directed to establish and implement within 120 days of the effective date of this act a program to be...
• Section 34:16-54 - Annual Survey
  The division shall annually conduct a survey to assess the transportation needs of these sheltered workshops. L. 1987, c. 455, s. 4.
• Section 34:16-55 - Rules, Regulations
  The Commissioner of Labor shall adopt rules and regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L. 1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.) to...
• Section 34:17-1 - Purposes
  Any seven or more persons, residents in this state, may associate themselves into a society for the purpose of carrying on any lawful mechanical,...
• Section 34:17-2 - Certificate Of Association; Contents
  The certificate of association shall set forth: a. The name assumed to designate such society and to be used in its business and dealings,...
• Section 34:17-3 - Certificate; Signing; Acknowledging; Recording And Filing
  Such certificate shall be signed by the persons originally associating themselves together, shall be proved or acknowledged by at least seven of them before...
• Section 34:17-4 - First Meeting
  The first meeting of such society shall be called by a notice signed by a majority of the persons named in the certificate of...
• Section 34:17-5 - Board Of Directors; Officers And Agents
  The business of every such society shall be managed and conducted by a board of not less than five directors, who shall be members...
• Section 34:17-6 - By-laws
  The by-laws of such society shall provide: a. For an annual meeting of the members thereof and such other regular and special meetings as...
• Section 34:17-7 - Name Affixed On Outside Of Place Of Business
  Every such society shall paint or affix, and shall keep painted or affixed, its name on the outside of every office or place in...
• Section 34:17-8 - Registered Office; Change
  Every such society shall have a registered office to which all communications and notices may be addressed. Notices in writing of the location of...
• Section 34:17-9 - Capital Stock
  The capital stock of such society shall be divided into shares the par value of which shall not be more than fifty dollars, and...
• Section 34:17-10 - Member Entitled To One Vote
  No member of such society shall be entitled to more than one vote upon any subject, which vote must be cast in person. The...
• Section 34:17-11 - Holding Interest In Other Society
  Any society incorporated under this chapter may hold in its corporate name any amount of interest in any other society through which its products...
• Section 34:17-12 - Annual Report
  The board of directors of every society incorporated under this chapter shall annually make a statement in writing of the condition of such society,...
• Section 34:17-13 - Inspection Of Books
  Any member or other person having an interest in the fund of any such society may inspect its books, at all reasonable hours, at...
• Section 34:17-14 - Distribution Of Profits; Sinking Fund
  There shall be such distribution of the profits of such society among the workmen, purchasers and members as shall be prescribed in the certificate...
• Section 34:17-15 - Transfer Of Shares
  Any member of such society, by a writing under his hand, delivered at the office of the society, may nominate any person, being the...
• Section 34:17-16 - Contribution By Stockholder
  When the whole capital of such society has not been paid in, and its assets are insufficient for the payment of its debts, liabilities...
• Section 34:17-17 - Reincorporation Under Chapter
  Any association incorporated under an act entitled "An act to encourage the organization and regulate co-operative associations of workmen," approved March twenty-second, one thousand...
• Section 34:17-18 - Dissolution
  Any society formed pursuant to this chapter may be dissolved in the manner provided by section 14:13-1 of the title Corporations, General.
• Section 34:18-1 - Fidelity Deposits By Employees As Trust Funds
  Any and all sums of money taken or received by any employer from any employee as deposit or security for the faithful performance by...
• Section 34:18-2 - Failure To Segregate Security Moneys; Bankruptcy; Insolvency
  The failure of any employer to segregate such moneys or to deposit such moneys in separate accounts shall not be deemed or taken to...
• Section 34:18-3 - Failure To Repay Security Moneys; Punishment
  Any employer who shall fail to pay back to an employee such deposit or security moneys or so much thereof as may be due...
• Section 34:18-4 - Contracts Waiving Statutory Provisions Void
  Any contract or agreement between any employer and employee whereby the provisions of section one (1) and two (2) hereof are waived or whereby...
• Section 34:18-5 - "Employer" Defined
  The term employer shall include any individual, or members of firms or partnerships, and all officers of corporations having to do with the management...
• Section 34:19-1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Conscientious Employee Protection Act." L. 1986, c. 105, s. 1, eff. Sept. 5,
• Section 34:19-2 - Definitions
  2. As used in this act: a. "Employer" means any individual, partnership, association, corporation or any person or group of persons acting directly or...
• Section 34:19-3 - Retaliatory Action Prohibited.
  3.An employer shall not take any retaliatory action against an employee because the employee does any of the following: a.Discloses, or threatens to disclose...
• Section 34:19-4 - Written Notice Required
  The protection against retaliatory action provided by this act pertaining to disclosure to a public body shall not apply to an employee who makes...
• Section 34:19-5 - Civil Action, Jury Trial; Remedies.
  5.Upon a violation of any of the provisions of this act, an aggrieved employee or former employee may, within one year, institute a civil...
• Section 34:19-6 - Fees, Costs To Employer
  A court, upon notice of motion in accordance with the Rules Governing the Courts of the State of New Jersey, may also order that...
• Section 34:19-7 - Posting Of Notices.
  7.An employer shall conspicuously display, and annually distribute to all employees, written or electronic notices of its employees' protections, obligations, rights and procedures under...
• Section 34:19-8 - Other Rights, Remedies Unaffected
  Nothing in this act shall be deemed to diminish the rights, privileges, or remedies of any employee under any other federal or State law...
• Section 34:19-9 - Definitions Relative To Employer Communications On Religious, Political Matters To Employees.
  1.For the purposes of this act: "Employer" means a person engaged in business who has employees, including the State and any political subdivision or...
• Section 34:19-10 - Required Participation By Employee In Meetings, Communications Prohibited; Exception.
  2.No employer or employer's agent, representative or designee may, except as provided in section 3 of this act, require its employees to attend an...
• Section 34:19-11 - Permitted Communication About Religious, Political Matters.
  3. a. An employer or its agent, representative or designee may communicate to employees information about religious or political matters that the employer is...
• Section 34:19-12 - Retaliation Against Complaining Employee Prohibited.
  4.No employer or employer's agent, representative or designee shall discharge, discipline or otherwise penalize or threaten to discharge, discipline or otherwise penalize any employee...
• Section 34:19-13 - Civil Action By Aggrieved Employee.
  5.Any aggrieved employee may enforce the provisions of this act by means of a civil action brought no later than ninety days after the...
• Section 34:19-14 - Construction Of Act.
  6.Nothing in this act shall be construed to limit an employee's right to bring a common law cause of action against an employer for...
• Section 34:20-1 - Short Title.
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Construction Industry Independent Contractor Act." L.2007, c.114, s.1.
• Section 34:20-2 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Classification Of Construction Employees.
  2.The Legislature finds that employers in the construction industry who improperly classify employees as independent contractors deprive these workers of proper Social Security benefits...
• Section 34:20-3 - Definitions Relative To Classification Of Construction Employees.
  3.For purposes of this act: "Employer" means a partnership, association, joint stock company, trust, corporation, or other legal business entity or successor thereof who...
• Section 34:20-4 - Certain Services Deemed Employment; Exceptions.
  4.For purposes of the "New Jersey Prevailing Wage Act," P.L.1963, c.150 (C.34:11-56.25 et seq.), the "unemployment compensation law," R.S.43:21-1 et seq., the "Temporary Disability...
• Section 34:20-5 - Improper Classification Of Construction Employees, Degree Of Offense, Crime; Penalties.
  5. a. An employer, or any officer, agent, superintendent, foreman, or employee of the employer who fails to properly classify an individual as an...
• Section 34:20-6 - Penalty For Knowingly Improperly Classifying Construction Employee; Debarment.
  6.If the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development determines, after investigation, that an employer or any officer, agent, superintendent, foreman, or employee of the...
• Section 34:20-7 - Suspension Of Contractor's Registration; Notification, Hearing, Appeal; Stop-work Order, Civil Penalty For Continued Violation.
  7. a. If the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development determines, after investigation, that an employer failed to properly classify an individual as an...
• Section 34:20-8 - Improper Classification Of Construction Worker, Civil Action By Employee.
  8. a. No employer shall require or request that any individual enter into an agreement or sign a document which results in the misclassification...
• Section 34:20-9 - Discrimination, Retaliation Prohibited.
  9.It shall be unlawful for an employer or any other party to discriminate in any manner or take adverse action against any person in...
• Section 34:20-10 - Severability.
  10.The provisions of this act shall be deemed to be severable and if any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence or other part of this act...
• Section 34:20-11 - Rules, Regulations.
  11.The commissioner shall, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), make and promulgate rules and regulations necessary to implement the...
• Section 34:21-1 - Definitions Relative To Prenotification Of Certain Plant Closings, Transfers And Mass Layoffs.
  1.As used in this act: "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development. "Department" means the Department of Labor and Workforce Development. "Employer"...
• Section 34:21-2 - Requirements For Establishment Subject To Transfer, Termination Of Operations, Mass Layoffs.
  2.If an establishment is subject to a transfer of operations or a termination of operations which results, during any continuous period of not more...
• Section 34:21-3 - Contents Of Required Notification.
  3.The notification provided pursuant to subsection a. of section 2 of this act shall include: a.A statement of the number of employees whose employment...
• Section 34:21-4 - Construction Of Act Relative To Collective Bargaining Agreements.
  4.This act shall not be construed as limiting or modifying any provision of a collective bargaining agreement which requires notification, severance payment or other...
• Section 34:21-5 - Establishment Of Response Team.
  5. a. There is established, in the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, a response team. The purpose of the response team is to...
• Section 34:21-6 - Initiation Of Suit By Aggrieved Employee, Former Employee.
  6.An aggrieved employee or former employee or his authorized representative may initiate suit in Superior Court under this act either individually or on behalf...
• Section 34:21-7 - Short Title.
  7.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Millville Dallas Airmotive Plant Job Loss Notification Act." L.2007, c.212, s.7.

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