40A:14-180 Appointment of certain county, municipal, sheriff's law enforcement officers.
1. a. The provisions of any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, the appointing authority of a county or municipality which, pursuant to N.J.S.40A:14-106, in the case of a county, or N.J.S.40A:14-118, in the case of a municipality, has established and maintains a police force or the sheriff of any county may appoint as a member or officer of the county or municipal police department or as a member or officer of the county sheriff's office any person who:
(1)was serving as a law enforcement officer in good standing in any State, county or municipal law enforcement department or agency, or county sheriff's office; and
(2)satisfactorily completed a working test period in a State law enforcement title or in a law enforcement title in a county or municipality which has adopted Title 11A, Civil Service, of the New Jersey Statutes or satisfactorily completed a comparable, documented probationary period in a law enforcement title in a county or municipality which has not adopted Title 11A, Civil Service; and
(3)was, for reasons of economy, terminated as a law enforcement officer within 60 months prior to the appointment.
b.A county, municipality, or sheriff may employ such a person notwithstanding that:
(1)Title 11A, Civil Service, of the New Jersey Statutes is operative in that county or municipality;
(2) the county, municipality, or sheriff's office has available to it an eligible or regular reemployment list of law enforcement officers eligible for such appointments; and
(3)the appointed person is not on any eligible list. A county or municipality which has adopted Title 11A, Civil Service, may not employ such a person if a special reemployment list is in existence for the law enforcement title to be filled.
c.If a county or a sheriff determines to appoint a person pursuant to the provisions of this act, first priority in making such appointments shall be given to residents of the county. A municipality making such an appointment shall give first priority to residents of the municipality and second priority to residents of the county not residing in the municipality.
d.The seniority, seniority-related privileges and rank a law enforcement 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 law enforcement position pursuant to the provisions of this section.
The provisions of this section shall not apply to a sheriff's investigator appointed pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1987, c.113 (C.40A:9-117a).
L.1991, c.299, s.1; amended 1993, c.187, s.1; 1996, c.13; 2010, c.103, s.1.
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