40A:14-180.2 Appointment of certain county correctional officers.
2. a. The provisions of any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, the appointing authority of a county correctional facility, be that the governing body of the county pursuant to R.S.30:8-19 or the sheriff pursuant to R.S.30:8-17, may appoint as a county correctional officer any person who:
(1)was serving as a county correctional officer in good standing in any county correctional facility in this State; and
(2)satisfactorily completed a working test period in a county correctional officer title or in a county which has adopted Title 11A, Civil Service, of the New Jersey Statutes or satisfactorily completed a comparable, documented probationary period in a county correctional title in a county which has not adopted Title 11A, Civil Service; and
(3)was, for reasons of economy, terminated as a county correctional officer within 60 months prior to the appointment.
b.The appointing authority of a county correctional facility may employ such a person notwithstanding that:
(1)Title 11A, Civil Service, of the New Jersey Statutes is operative in that county;
(2)the appointing authority has available to it an eligible or regular reemployment list of corrections officers eligible for such appointments; and
(3)the appointed person is not on any eligible list. If the county appointing authority is subject to the provisions of Title 11A, Civil Service, it may not employ such a person if a special reemployment list is in existence for the county corrections officer title to be filled.
c.If the county appointing authority determines to appoint a person pursuant to the provisions of this act, it shall give first priority in making such appointments to residents of the county.
d.The seniority, seniority-related privileges, and rank a county corrections officer possessed with the employer who terminated the officer's employment for reasons of economy shall not be transferable to a new position when the officer is appointed to a county corrections officer position pursuant to the provisions of this section.
L.2010, c.103, s.2.
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