New Jersey Revised Statutes Title 53 - State Police

• Section 53:1-1 - Department Continued; Executive Head
  The department of state police, created and established by an act entitled "An act creating a department of state police, providing for the appointment...
• Section 53:1-2 - Appointment, Term, Salary, And Bond Of Superintendent
  The Superintendent of State Police, hereinafter referred to as the superintendent, shall be appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the...
• Section 53:1-3 - Deputy Superintendent
  The superintendent may appoint a deputy superintendent with the rank of major. He shall receive such salary as shall be approved by the Attorney...
• Section 53:1-3.1 - Executive Officer
  The superintendent may appoint an executive officer, with the rank of major. He shall receive such salary as shall be approved by the Attorney...
• Section 53:1-4 - Qualifications For Superintendents And Commissioned Officers; Promotions
  The superintendent, the deputy superintendent and the executive officer of State Police, as well as the captain or lieutenant of each troop, in order...
• Section 53:1-5 - Officers And Personnel
  The Department of State Police in addition to the superintendent, the deputy superintendent and the executive officer shall consist of: a. A headquarters staff...
• Section 53:1-5.2 - Change In Rank And Grade; Increase In Personnel
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the rank and grade of any member of the State Police may be changed from time to time,...
• Section 53:1-5.3 - Preparation, Updating Of Catalogue Listing State Police Positions For Enlisted Members; Posting, Inapplicability
  1. a. The Superintendent shall prepare, or cause to be prepared, and regularly update a catalogue which: (1)Identifies each employment title and position for...
• Section 53:1-6 - Salaries Of Officers And Troopers; Increase For Detective Work
  The personnel enumerated in section 53:1-5 of this Title shall receive salaries which shall be fixed by the superintendent according to salary ranges for...
• Section 53:1-7 - Salary Increases For Personnel
  All persons holding positions enumerated in section 53:1-5 of this Title shall receive such increases in salaries, based upon length of service as the...
• Section 53:1-8 - Appointment Of Officers And Troopers; Term; Removal
  All the officers and troopers enumerated in section 53:1-5 of this title shall be appointed or reappointed by the superintendent for a period of...
• Section 53:1-8.1 - Tenure Granted After Continuous Service Of Five Years; Exception
  Except as provided in section 3 of P.L.1983, c.403 (C.39:2-9.3), any member of the Division of State Police who has or shall hereafter serve...
• Section 53:1-8.2 - Persons Eligible To Become Members Of Division Of State Police
  1. a. The following persons may become members of the Division of State Police and, except as provided in this act, P.L.1997, c.19 (C.53:1-8.2...
• Section 53:1-8.3 - Transfer Of Employees Not Becoming Members Of Division Of State Police
  2. Each inspector of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Enforcement Bureau , each member of the State Capitol Police Force, and each marine law enforcement...
• Section 53:1-9 - Qualifications For Members Of State Police; Examinations; Veterans Preference; Enlistment.
  53:1-9. No person shall be appointed a member of the State Police unless he shall be a citizen of the United States between the...
• Section 53:1-9.1 - Leave Of Absence For Special Duty In Federal Bureau Of Investigation
  The Superintendent of State Police is authorized to grant a leave of absence, without pay, to any officer of the State Police, or to...
• Section 53:1-9.2 - Rights Of Persons Granted Leave Of Absence
  When any such person is so granted a leave of absence, he shall continue to hold his office, position, or employment in the State...
• Section 53:1-9.3 - Retirement Pension Rights Not Affected By Leave Of Absence; Death Or Disability; Contributions During Leave Of Absence
  No such person who, at the time of the granting of his said leave of absence, is a member, in good standing, of any...
• Section 53:1-9.4 - Certification
  The Superintendent of State Police shall certify, in writing, the granting of any such leave of absence, to the Governor and to the Civil...
• Section 53:1-10 - Rules And Regulations; Instruction To Troopers
  The superintendent shall, with the approval of the governor, make all rules and regulations for the discipline and control of the state police, and...
• Section 53:1-10.1 - Annual Report On Public Complaints Of Misconduct By State Police
  1.It shall be the duty of the Superintendent of State Police to compile and submit to the Governor and the Legislature an annual report...
• Section 53:1-11 - Voluntary Withdrawal A Misdemeanor
  Any person who shall voluntarily withdraw from the state police force, without the consent of the superintendent, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
• Section 53:1-11.1 - Establishment; Supervision; Duties Of Superintendent
  There is hereby established in the Division of State Police a Highway Traffic Patrol Bureau, under the supervision of the superintendent, which shall be...
• Section 53:1-11.2 - Personnel
  The bureau shall have a basic cadre of not less than 60 troopers, who shall be members of the State Police within the meaning...
• Section 53:1-11.3 - Establishment
  There is established in the Division of State Police in the Department of Law and Public Safety an Alcoholic Beverage Control Enforcement Bureau under...
• Section 53:1-11.4 - Personnel
  The bureau shall consist of the following: a. Inspectors appointed and trained by the superintendent. Inspectors shall not be subject to the provisions of...
• Section 53:1-11.5 - Powers Of Inspectors
  Inspectors within the bureau: a. Shall have the authority to arrest without a warrant for violations of Title 33 of the Revised Statutes and...
• Section 53:1-11.6 - Investigation Relating To Enforcement Of Title 33; Request
  The Director of the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control in the Department of Law and Public Safety may request the bureau to conduct an...
• Section 53:1-11.7 - Inapplicability Of Act To Rights Of Employees
  Nothing in this act shall be construed to deprive a person of tenure rights or of a right or protection under the laws concerning...
• Section 53:1-11.8 - Application Of State Agency Transfer Act
  To the extent appropriate, all provisions of this act shall be carried out in accordance with the "State Agency Transfer Act," P.L. 1971, c....
• Section 53:1-11.9 - Rules And Regulations
  The superintendent may promulgate rules and regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L. 1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.), to effectuate the...
• Section 53:1-11.10 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Bureau" means the Bureau of Marine Law Enforcement established in section 2 of this act. b. "Waters of...
• Section 53:1-11.11 - Bureau Of Marine Law Enforcement
  There is established in the Division of State Police in the Department of Law and Public Safety a Bureau of Marine Law Enforcement under...
• Section 53:1-11.12 - Membership
  The bureau shall consist of the following: a. The law enforcement personnel currently employed by the State Marine Police Force, established by section 2...
• Section 53:1-11.13 - Existing Tenure Rights Unaffected
  Nothing in this act shall be construed to deprive existing classified law enforcement personnel currently titled as Marine Police Officer, Senior Marine Police Officer,...
• Section 53:1-11.14 - Powers, Duties Of Marine Law Enforcement Officers.
  5.Marine law enforcement officers within the bureau: a.Shall have the powers of police officers as the superintendent may prescribe; b.Shall enforce the laws of...
• Section 53:1-11.15 - Duties Of Superintendent
  a. The superintendent may make appointments to the bureau, train members of the bureau, and create ranks in the bureau as he deems necessary...
• Section 53:1-11.16 - Marine Police Stations Unaffected By Act
  12. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no marine police station in operation as of the effective date of P.L.1997, c.19...
• Section 53:1-12 - Bureau Continued; Superintendent To Control; Appointment Of Supervisor And Other Personnel; Equipment; Civil Service Rights; Titles Established
  The State Bureau of Identification created by an act entitled "An act to create a State Bureau of Identification within the Department of State...
• Section 53:1-13 - Fingerprints And Other Records Filed; Information Furnished By State Institutions
  The supervisor of the state bureau of identification shall procure and file for record, fingerprints, plates, photographs, pictures, descriptions, measurements and such other information...
• Section 53:1-14 - Record Of Fingerprints, Etc., Of Persons Confined In Penal Institutions; Penal Institutions To Furnish
  The supervisor of the state bureau of identification may procure and file for record, fingerprints, photographs and other identification data of all persons confined...
• Section 53:1-15 - Fingerprinting Of Suspects.
  53:1-15. The sheriffs, chiefs of police, members of the State Police and any other law enforcement agencies and officers shall, immediately upon the arrest...
• Section 53:1-15.1 - Designation Of Crime Related To Street Gang Activity; Offense For Which Fingerprinting Required.
  2. a. Upon the arrest of any person for a crime or offense for which fingerprinting is required, the arresting officer shall designate whether...
• Section 53:1-16 - Comparison Of All Records Received
  The supervisor of the state bureau of identification shall compare all records received with those already on file in such bureau, and whether or...
• Section 53:1-17 - Supervisor To Instruct, Assist And Co-operate With Local Police Officials
  The supervisor of the state bureau of identification shall co-operate with, afford instruction and offer assistance to sheriffs, chiefs of police and other law...
• Section 53:1-18 - Report Of Criminal Charges Or Disorderly Offenses; Duty Of Clerks Of Courts
  For the purpose of submitting to the Governor and the Legislature a report of statistics on crime conditions in the annual report of the...
• Section 53:1-18a - Report Of Statistics On Crime Conditions; Duty Of Prosecutors
  For the purpose of submitting to the Governor and the Legislature a report of statistics on crime conditions in the annual report of the...
• Section 53:1-18.1 - Fingerprints Of Persons Arrested For Or Charged With Narcotic Or Dangerous Drug Offenses
  Every law enforcement officer designated in R.S. 53:1-15 shall, immediately upon the arrest of any person for or within a reasonable time after the...
• Section 53:1-18.2 - Reports On Narcotic Or Dangerous Drug Cases; Duty Of Clerks Of Court
  The clerk of every court of this State in which any person is prosecuted for an offense under the laws of this State relating...
• Section 53:1-18.3 - Compilation Of Results Of Reports On Narcotic Or Dangerous Drug Cases
  It shall be the duty of the Superintendent of the State Police: To compile and report annually to the Governor and to the Legislature...
• Section 53:1-18.4 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect July first, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-two. L.1952, c. 92, p. 427, s. 4.
• Section 53:1-18.5 - "Dangerous Drugs" Defined
  As used in this act of which this act is amendatory and supplementary "dangerous drugs, substances or compounds" means and includes any of the...
• Section 53:1-19 - Co-operation With National Bureau And Other Agencies
  The supervisor of the state bureau of identification shall co-operate with the bureaus in other states and with the bureau in the department of...
• Section 53:1-20 - Failure Of Officers To Perform Duties; Misdemeanor; Removal
  Any officer mentioned in this article who shall neglect or refuse to make any report or to do any act required by any provision...
• Section 53:1-20.1 - File Of Criminal Records Kept
  To the end that there may be a centralization of information with regard to crime in this State, it shall be the duty of...
• Section 53:1-20.2 - Duty Of Law Enforcement Officers And Public Officers And Employees To Supply Information; County Bureau Of Identification Defined
  To the end that the county bureaus of identification in each of the counties of this State and the bureau of identification of the...
• Section 53:1-20.3 - Release Of Prisoners From Penal Or Other Institutions; Notice To Bureau; Photographs
  It shall be the duty of the wardens of the county jail in the various counties, of the wardens of the county penitentiaries and...
• Section 53:1-20.4 - Department Originally Arresting Prisoner To Be Notified Of His Release
  It shall be the duty of the County Bureau of Identification in the several counties of the State immediately upon receipt of such information...
• Section 53:1-20.5 - Definitions
  1. As used in this act: a. "Processing criminal history record background checks" means the process whereby the State Bureau of Identification compares a...
• Section 53:1-20.6 - Rules, Regulations Concerning Dissemination Of Information; Fees.
  2. a. The Superintendent of State Police, with the approval of the Attorney General, shall, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1...
• Section 53:1-20.7 - Criminal History Record Information Fund; Use
  3. a. There is created in the Division of State Police in the Department of Law and Public Safety a separate special account to...
• Section 53:1-20.8 - Background Check By State Police
  The Division of State Police in the Department of Law and Public Safety shall conduct a criminal history record background check which includes a...
• Section 53:1-20.9a - Applicant Background Check For Certain Health Care Professionals
  14. a. In accordance with the provisions of sections 2 through 6 and sections 7 through 13 of P.L.1997, c.100 (C.26:2H-83 through 87 and...
• Section 53:1-20.9b - Exchange Of Fingerprint Data, Information; Determination; Challenge.
  8. a. The Commissioner of Children and Families is authorized to exchange fingerprint data with, and to receive information from, the Division of State...
• Section 53:1-20.9c - Authorization For Exchange Of Fingerprint Data, Information On Assisted Living Administrators.
  7. a. The Commissioner of Health and Senior Services is authorized to exchange fingerprint data with, and to receive information from, the Division of...
• Section 53:1-20.9d - Exchange Of Fingerprint Data, Criminal History Record Information On Residential Child Care, Adoption Agency Staff.
  7. a. The Commissioner of Children and Families is authorized to exchange fingerprint data with, and to receive criminal history record information from, the...
• Section 53:1-20.9e - Conducting Of Criminal History Record Background Check For Guardians.
  8. a. In accordance with the provisions of sections 6 and 7 of P.L.2005, c.370 (C.52:27G-37 and C.52:27G-38), the Division of State Police in...
• Section 53:1-20.9f - Exchange Of Fingerprint Data.
  15. a. The Commissioner of Children and Families is authorized to exchange fingerprint data with, and to receive information from, the Division of State...
• Section 53:1-20.10 - Findings, Declarations
  1. The Legislature finds and declares that advances in computer technology offer promising opportunities for the solution of crimes and the apprehension of criminal...
• Section 53:1-20.11 - Participation In Violent Criminal Apprehension Program
  2. The Division of State Police in the Department of Law and Public Safety shall be responsible for fostering and coordinating any participation by...
• Section 53:1-20.12 - Maintenance, Transmission Of Information
  3. Such information shall be maintained in a format that is compatible with the national VICAP data base maintained by the Federal Bureau of...
• Section 53:1-20.13 - Collection, Reporting Of Information
  4. The Division of State Police and all other initial investigatory law enforcement agencies in the State, including county prosecutors offices and municipal and...
• Section 53:1-20.14 - Equipment, Supplies, Services
  5. Within the limits of appropriations, the superintendent, with the approval of the Attorney General, may contract for and purchase any equipment, supplies or...
• Section 53:1-20.15 - Rules, Regulations
  6. Pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), the Superintendent of State Police may adopt rules and regulations necessary to...
• Section 53:1-20.16 - Criminal History Record Background Check On Adjusters
  21. At the request of the Commissioner of Insurance, the Division of State Police in the Department of Law and Public Safety shall conduct...
• Section 53:1-20.17 - Short Title
  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "DNA Database and Databank Act of 1994." L.1994,c.136,s.1.
• Section 53:1-20.18 - Findings, Declarations Regarding Dna Databases.
  2.The Legislature finds and declares that DNA databanks are an important tool in criminal investigations and in deterring and detecting recidivist acts. It is...
• Section 53:1-20.19 - Definitions Regarding Dna Databanks.
  3.As used in this act: "CODIS" means the FBI's national DNA identification index system that allows the storage and exchange of DNA records submitted...
• Section 53:1-20.20 - Dna Samples Required; Conditions.
  4. a. On or after January 1, 1995 every person convicted of aggravated sexual assault and sexual assault under N.J.S.2C:14-2 or aggravated criminal sexual...
• Section 53:1-20.21 - Purposes Of Dna Samples.
  5.Tests shall be performed on each blood or other biological sample submitted pursuant to section 4 of P.L.1994, c.136 (C.53:1-20.20) in order to analyze...
• Section 53:1-20.22 - Drawing Of Dna Samples; Conditions.
  6. a. Each blood sample required to be drawn or biological sample collected pursuant to section 4 of P.L.1994, c.136 (C.53:1-20.20) from persons who...
• Section 53:1-20.23 - Rules; Procedures
  7. The division shall adopt rules governing the procedures to be used in the submission, identification, analysis and storage of DNA samples and typing...
• Section 53:1-20.24 - Use Of State Database
  8. a. It shall be the duty of the division to store, analyze, classify and file in the State database and with the FBI...
• Section 53:1-20.25 - Expungement Of Records From State Records; Conditions.
  9. a. (1) (i) Any person whose DNA record or profile has been included in the State DNA database and whose DNA sample is...
• Section 53:1-20.26 - Wrongful Disclosure Of Information
  10. Any person who by virtue of employment, or official position, has possession of, or access to, individually identifiable DNA information contained in the...
• Section 53:1-20.27 - Confidentiality
  11. All DNA profiles and samples submitted to the division pursuant to this act shall be treated as confidential except as provided in section...
• Section 53:1-20.28 - Funding Of Act In First Year
  12. The Attorney General shall use funds obtained through seizure, forfeiture or abandonment pursuant to any federal or State statutory or common law, and...
• Section 53:1-20.28a - "New Jersey Forensic Dna Laboratory Fund."
  7. a. There is created in the Division of State Police in the Department of Law and Public Safety a separate special account to...
• Section 53:1-20.29 - Liability For Cost Of Certain Blood Or Biological Sample Testing.
  1.Any person required pursuant to the provisions of P.L.1994, c.136 (C.53:1-20.17 et seq.) to have a blood sample drawn or other biological sample collected...
• Section 53:1-20.30 - Lien Against Property, Income Of Offender
  2. The State shall have a lien against the property and income of each offender for whom DNA testing is conducted pursuant to section...
• Section 53:1-20.31 - Form Of Lien
  3. The lien shall be in a form to be prescribed by the Attorney General and shall contain the name of the offender who...
• Section 53:1-20.32 - Filing Of Lien
  4. The lien shall be filed with the clerk of the county or register of deeds and mortgages, as the case may be, and...
• Section 53:1-20.33 - Forwarding Of Notice Of Lien, Effect
  5. If it is found that the offender is possessed of any goods, rights, credits, chattels, moneys or effects which are held by any...
• Section 53:1-20.34 - Provision Of Books For Entering Lien, Recordation
  6. The clerk of the county or register of deeds and mortgages, or clerk of the Superior Court, as the case may be, shall...
• Section 53:1-20.35 - Discharge Of Lien By The State
  7. To discharge any lien or liens filed hereunder, the Attorney General or an agent designated by the Attorney General shall file with the...
• Section 53:1-20.36 - Discharge Of Lien By A Person
  8. Any person desiring to secure immediate discharge of any lien may deposit with the court cash in sufficient amount to cover the amount...
• Section 53:1-20.37 - Retaining Of All Dna Profile Information.
  2. a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the Division of State Police in the Department of Law and Public Safety...
• Section 53:1-20.38 - Licensing Of Peddlers, Solicitors By Municipalities; Definitions.
  1. a. If authorized by the county prosecutor, a municipality shall accept, for the purposes of licensing a person as a peddler or solicitor,...
• Section 53:1-21 - Creation; Duties
  The superintendent may, with the approval of the governor, and if in his opinion the detective work of the state police so demands, create...
• Section 53:1-21.1 - Establishment Of Radiotelephone And Intercommunicating System
  There shall be established in the Division of State Police in the Department of Law and Public Safety under the direction of the Superintendent...
• Section 53:1-21.2 - Equipment
  The Superintendent of State Police shall equip State Police headquarters, State Police stations and State Police mobile units with proper modern radiotelephone and intercommunicating...
• Section 53:1-21.3 - Other State Law Enforcement Agencies; Use By
  When, in the opinion of the Superintendent of State Police, it will not interfere with State Police work, other New Jersey law enforcement agencies...
• Section 53:1-21.4 - Contract For Furnishing Of Service
  The Superintendent of State Police, subject to the approval of the Attorney-General, is authorized and empowered to contract for the furnishing of modern mobile...
• Section 53:1-21.5 - Transfer Of Title To State Owned Equipment And Facilities
  The Superintendent of State Police is hereby authorized and empowered to transfer title, on behalf of the State of New Jersey, to any mobile...
• Section 53:1-23 - Physicians And Other Medical Personnel
  Subject to the availability of appropriations, the superintendent may appoint, as members of the staff of the State Police, and set the salary of,...
• Section 53:1-24 - Cooks; Civil Service Rights; Titles
  The superintendent may employ civilian cooks and cooks' helpers to conduct the mess at such salary as he may have to expend for such...
• Section 53:1-25 - Expert Services And Civilian Specialists; Civil Service Rights; Titles Established
  The superintendent may make special and short-time employment of such expert services as may become necessary from time to time in the proper fulfillment...
• Section 53:1-26.1 - Possession Of Goods For Six Months; Auction Sale; Notice; Perishable Goods; Moneys Paid Into State Treasury
  All goods and chattels which shall come into the possession of the State Police by finding, or by being recovered after theft or robbery,...
• Section 53:1-27 - Quarters, Equipment And Teaching Staff For Training School
  Within the limits of the appropriation granted, the superintendent may provide suitable quarters, equipment and teaching staff for the training of the members of...
• Section 53:1-28 - Repeal
  "A supplement to an act entitled "An act creating a Department of State Police, providing for the appointment of a superintendent thereof, together with...
• Section 53:1-29 - Service In Armed Forces Included In Computing Years Of Service For Retirement Rights
  The members of the State Police heretofore temporarily appointed for the duration of a defense emergency and who are now members of the State...
• Section 53:1-30 - Provision Of Means For Defense, Reimbursement, Exceptions.
  1.Whenever a member or officer of the Division of State Police is a defendant in an action or legal proceeding arising out of and...
• Section 53:1-31 - Reinstatement, Recovery Of Pay Under Certain Circumstances.
  2.Whenever a member or officer of the Division of State Police is charged under the laws of this State, another state, or the United...
• Section 53:1-32 - "National Crime Prevention And Privacy Compact"
  1.The Contracting Parties agree to the following: OVERVIEW (a)IN GENERAL.--This Compact organizes an electronic information sharing system among the Federal Government and the States...
• Section 53:1-33 - Complaints Against State Police Officers, Process.
  1.Except as otherwise provided by law, no permanent officer or trooper of the New Jersey State Police shall be removed from his office, employment...
• Section 53:2-1 - Powers, Duties; Cooperation With Other Authorities.
  53:2-1. The members of the State Police shall be subject to the call of the Governor. They shall be peace officers of the State,...
• Section 53:2-2 - Duty To Execute Legal Process Issued By Senate Or Assembly
  The members of the state police, upon the request of the issuing body or the representatives of the issuing body, shall serve and execute,...
• Section 53:2-3 - Certified Copies Of Reports, Photographs Or Other Information Pertaining To Automobile Accident Or Other Casualty In File; Public Access; Fees
  The Superintendent of State Police is authorized upon request, to supply to any applicant a certified copy of any report, photograph, or of any...
• Section 53:2-4 - Contracts For Radio Or Television Programs; Approval
  The Division of Purchase and Property, when requested by the Superintendent of State Police with the approval of the Attorney-General, shall have the power...
• Section 53:2-5 - Veto Power Over Context Of Programs; Technical Assistance
  The Superintendent of State Police shall have the right to accept, reject or modify any script, release or other material to be used in...
• Section 53:2-6 - Deposit Of Funds
  All moneys received under the terms of any contract entered into pursuant to this act, in excess of the costs chargeable thereto, shall be...
• Section 53:2-7 - Toll Free Arson Hotline
  6. The Division of State Police in the Department of Law and Public Safety shall establish a 24-hour toll free arson hotline for the...
• Section 53:3-1 - State Headquarters
  The state house commission shall provide suitable headquarters for the department of state police at Trenton.
• Section 53:3-2 - Local Patrol Stations; Right To Acquire Use Of Lands For
  The superintendent shall from time to time establish headquarters and patrol stations in such localities as he shall deem most advisable for the protection...
• Section 53:3-3 - Equipment Provided; Sale Of Unusable Property
  The superintendent shall provide the state police within the amount of appropriations therefor, with uniforms, emergency and first aid outfits, weapons, horses, horse equipment,...
• Section 53:3-4 - Deductions For Damage To Property
  The superintendent shall make charges against any member of the state police for property of the department lost or destroyed through the carelessness or...
• Section 53:3-5 - Uniforms For State Police
  The members of the department of state police shall wear the following standard uniform, subject to state police regulations: a. Winter uniform: French blue...
• Section 53:3-6 - Penalty For Wearing Or Imitating Uniform
  No person other than a member of the department of state police shall, directly or indirectly, wear, use, or order to be worn or...
• Section 53:3-7 - Markings On Vehicles
  The vehicles used by the state police for purposes of investigation and detective operations need not be marked as state property, and need bear...
• Section 53:3-8 - Establishment; "Sending And Receiving" Stations
  There shall be established a basic system of teletype communication providing for "sending and receiving" stations at each of the state police troop headquarters...
• Section 53:3-9 - Superintendent To Install And Operate Basic System; Personnel, Civil Service Rights; Title
  The superintendent is authorized to install and operate such basic system and employ the necessary personnel for its operation and maintenance. The persons so...
• Section 53:3-10 - Equipment For Police Stations; County And Municipal Agencies May Use System
  All state police stations shall be equipped with the proper receiving apparatus and shall be connected with the basic system. The basic system shall...
• Section 53:3-11 - Interstate Connection Of System Permitted
  The basic system may be connected directly with similar systems in adjoining states and arrangements shall be made for the exchange of interstate police
• Section 53:3-12 - Commutation Of Rations And Quarters
  The superintendent may provide for the payment of commutation of rations and quarters to the members of the state police not provided with rations...
• Section 53:3-13 - Petty Cash Fund; Bond Of Disbursing Officers
  The superintendent shall establish a petty cash account from the annual appropriations to the amount of five thousand dollars, and shall authorize designated commissioned...
• Section 53:3-14 - Payment Of Departmental Expenses
  All expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of this title shall be presented for payment by the superintendent after the same have been...
• Section 53:4-1 - Subpoenas By Superintendent; Service
  Whenever the department of state police desires to examine a member of the department in relation to the discharge of his official duties or...
• Section 53:4-2 - Refusal To Obey Subpoena Or Produce Evidence
  In case any person summoned in accordance with the provisions of section 53:4-1 of this Title shall refuse to obey the subpoena or to...
• Section 53:4-4 - Superintendent May Administer Oaths; Perjury
  The superintendent or deputy superintendent of state police may administer oaths to all witnesses brought before him by virtue of any provision of this...
• Section 53:4-5 - Witness Fees And Mileage
  Witnesses subpoenaed by virtue of this chapter shall be entitled to receive the like fees and mileage as witnesses in civil actions.
• Section 53:5a-2 - Provisos As To Repeal
  Repeal of chapter 5 of Title 53 of the Revised Statutes of New Jersey and all amendments and supplements thereto is subject to the...
• Section 53:5a-3 - Definitions Relative To The State Police Retirement System.
  3.As used in this act: a."Aggregate contributions" means the sum of all the amounts, deducted from the salary of a member or contributed by...
• Section 53:5a-4 - Establishment Of State Police Retirement System; Purpose
  There is hereby established the "State Police Retirement System of New Jersey" in the Division of Pensions of the Department of the Treasury. It...
• Section 53:5a-5 - Membership
  5. The membership of the retirement system shall include: a. The members of the former "State Police Retirement and Benevolent Fund." b. Any person...
• Section 53:5a-5.1 - Transfer To State Police Retirement System Of New Jersey
  4. The membership in the Police and Firemen's Retirement System of New Jersey, established pursuant to P.L.1944, c.255 (C.43:16A-1 et seq.), or the Public...
• Section 53:5a-5.2 - Accumulated Deductions Remitted To State Police Retirement System
  5. Within 120 days of the effective date of P.L.1997, c.19 (C.53:1-8.2 et al.), the Police and Firemen's Retirement System and the Public Employees'...
• Section 53:5a-5.3 - Calculation Of Liability Of Employer
  6. The actuary of the State Police Retirement System shall calculate the liability of the employer of the inspectors, members of the State Capitol...
• Section 53:5a-5.4 - Inapplicability Of C.53:5a-3.
  37. The provisions of section 3 of P.L.1965, c.89 (C.53:5A-3) as amended by P.L.2010, c.1 concerning persons who become members of the retirement system...
• Section 53:5a-6 - Creditable Service; Purchase Of Service Credit.
  6. a. Service as a full-time commissioned officer, noncommissioned officer or trooper rendered as a member, and service credit which was transferred from the...
• Section 53:5a-6.1 - Filing Of Detailed Statement Of Military Service; Purchase Of Service Credit.
  2.A member may file a detailed statement of military service in the Armed Forces of the United States, rendered prior to becoming a member,...
• Section 53:5a-7 - Cessation Of Membership
  Membership in the retirement system shall cease upon retirement, withdrawal or death or if service is discontinued for more than 2 consecutive years. L.1965,...
• Section 53:5a-8 - Retirement For Age And Service; Benefits
  8. a. The Legislature finds and declares that the public health, safety and welfare require the ongoing health and fitness of all members of...
• Section 53:5a-8.1 - Applicability To Retirements
  8. The provisions of subsection f. of section 8 of P.L.1965, c.89 (C.53:5A-8) as amended in section 7 of P.L.1991, c.206, shall apply to...
• Section 53:5a-8.2 - Applicability Of Act
  3. a. The increase in retirement allowances under the amendatory provisions of sections 1 and 2 of this act, P.L.1993, c.354 shall be applicable...
• Section 53:5a-9 - Retirement On Ordinary Disability Retirement Allowance; Payments Upon Death
  9. a. Upon the written application by a member in service, by one acting in his behalf or by the State, any member, under...
• Section 53:5a-10 - Retirement On Accidental Disability Retirement Allowance; Payments Upon Death
  a. Upon the written application by a member in service, by one acting in his behalf or by the State, any member may be...
• Section 53:5a-11 - Retirement For Disability; Medical Examination; Report
  a. Upon the receipt by the retirement system of a written application for a disability retirement allowance, the system shall refer the application to...
• Section 53:5a-12 - Death Benefits
  a. Upon the receipt of proper proofs of the death in active service of a member of the retirement system on account of which...
• Section 53:5a-14 - Accidental Death Benefits; Payment Of Health Insurance Premiums.
  14. a. Upon the death of a member in active service as a result of: (1)an accident met in the actual performance of duty...
• Section 53:5a-14.1 - Pension Benefits Under Former Section 53:5-5 Discontinued By Remarriage Of Mother; Right To Receive Benefits
  The surviving child or children of any former member of the New Jersey State Police who were receiving pension benefits under former section 53:5-5...
• Section 53:5a-14.2 - Applicability Of Adjustment In Survivors' Benefits.
  2.The adjustment in survivors' benefits pursuant to this act, P.L.2001, c.350, shall apply to benefit entitlements granted prior to and in effect on the...
• Section 53:5a-15 - Death Benefit Coverage; Former Officers, Noncommissioned Officers Or Troopers Covered Under Pre-existing Group Life Program
  a. In the case of any officer, noncommissioned officer or trooper of the Division of State Police of the Department of Law and Public...
• Section 53:5a-15.1 - Determination Of Active Membership; Eligibility For Death Benefit After Retirement
  For the purposes of sections 12 d., 13 d., and 14 e. a member of the State Police Retirement System shall be deemed to...
• Section 53:5a-15.2 - Designation And Change Of Beneficiary; Payments Upon Death Of Member
  The designation of beneficiary by a member or retirant shall be made in writing on a form satisfactory to the retirement system, and filed...
• Section 53:5a-15.3 - Eligibility Of Beneficiary Of Retirant To Death Benefit; Minimum Amount Of Monthly Allowance Or Benefit
  Any other provision of this act notwithstanding, (a) no beneficiary of a retirant who enrolled as a member on or after July 1, 1971...
• Section 53:5a-15.4 - Evidence Of Insurability; Necessity Prior To Eligibility For Death Benefits; Effective Date Of Coverage
  a. Any person entitled to become a member of the State Police Retirement System shall not be allowed any of the death benefits established...
• Section 53:5a-16 - Group Life Insurance; Purchase To Provide For Death Benefits
  The State Treasurer is hereby authorized and permitted to purchase from one or more life insurance companies, as determined by him, group life insurance...
• Section 53:5a-17 - Qualifications Of Life Insurance Companies
  Any life insurance company must meet the following requirements in order to qualify under section 16: a. be licensed under the laws of the...
• Section 53:5a-18 - Purchase Of Group Insurance Coverage For Death Benefit Provisions
  The State Treasurer may, in his discretion, determine to purchase group insurance coverage for the death benefit provisions as provided in sections 8c, 9c,...
• Section 53:5a-19 - Payment Of Premiums From Group Insurance Premium Fund
  In the event the State Treasurer shall determine to purchase group insurance coverage for the death benefits, premiums for the same shall be paid...
• Section 53:5a-20 - Payment Of Unpaid Pension Benefits
  20. Upon the death of a retirant, any unpaid pension benefits due him shall be paid in one lump sum to such person, if...
• Section 53:5a-21 - Conversion Privileges
  Any such group policy or policies shall include, with respect to any insurance terminating or reducing because an insured person has ceased to be...
• Section 53:5a-22 - Payment Of Benefits Under Group Policies; Nomination Of Payee
  Benefits under such group policy or policies shall be paid by the insurance company to such person, if living, as the insured person shall...
• Section 53:5a-23 - Manner Of Payment; Arrangements For Settlement
  Any such group policy or policies shall provide that payment of any death benefits which are payable by the insurance company may be made...
• Section 53:5a-24 - Credit To Policyholder In Absence Of Brokerage Commissions
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any insurance company or companies issuing such policy or policies may credit the policyholder, in the form of...
• Section 53:5a-25 - Death After Retirement
  Upon the death after retirement of a member of the retirement system, there shall be paid to the surviving spouse a pension of 50%...
• Section 53:5a-26 - Withdrawal From Service Or Cessation Of Membership; Return Of Contributions
  A member who withdraws from service or ceases to be a member for any cause other than death or retirement shall receive the amount...
• Section 53:5a-27 - "Special" Retirement
  27. a. Should a member resign after having established 25 years of creditable service as a full-time commissioned officer, noncommissioned officer or trooper of...
• Section 53:5a-28 - Separation Of Certain Personnel From Service; Election To Receive Deferred Retirement Allowance; Reenrollment Upon Reemployment
  a. Should a member, after having established 10 years of creditable service as a full time commissioned officer, noncommissioned officer or trooper of the...
• Section 53:5a-29 - Loan Terms; Repayment After Retirement Of Member Of Sprs.
  29.Any member who has at least three years of service to the member's credit for which the member has contributed as a member may...
• Section 53:5a-30 - State Police Retirement System Trustees, Committee.
  30. a. Subject to the provisions of P.L.1955, c.70 (C.52:18A-95 et seq.), the general responsibility for the proper operation of the retirement system is...
• Section 53:5a-31 - Administration Of Funds.
  31. a. The board of trustees shall be and are hereby constituted trustees of all the various funds established by this act except the...
• Section 53:5a-32 - Duties Of Actuary
  The actuary shall recommend such data as shall be necessary for actuarial valuation of the various funds created by this act. At least once...
• Section 53:5a-33 - Establishment Of Funds
  Under this act there shall be established a Contingent Reserve Fund, the Annuity Savings Fund, the Retirement Reserve Fund and the Retired Members' Group...
• Section 53:5a-34 - Contingent Reserve Fund.
  34.The Contingent Reserve Fund shall be the fund in which shall be credited contributions made by the State. a.Upon the basis of the tables...
• Section 53:5a-34.1 - Liability Determined By Actuary
  2. The actuary for the State Police Retirement System shall determine for the valuation period of the retirement system in which this act takes...
• Section 53:5a-34.2 - Payment Of Pension Adjustment Benefits; Funding
  30. Pension adjustment benefits for members and beneficiaries of the State Police Retirement System provided by the "Pension Adjustment Act," P.L.1958, c.143 (C.43:3B-1 et...
• Section 53:5a-35 - Annuity Savings Fund
  The Annuity Savings Fund shall be the fund in which shall be credited aggregate contributions by members or on their behalf to provide for...
• Section 53:5a-36 - Retirement Reserve Fund
  The Retirement Reserve Fund shall be the fund from which all retirement allowances and pensions shall be paid. Upon the retirement of a member,...
• Section 53:5a-37 - Retired Members' Group Insurance Premium Fund
  The Retired Members' Group Insurance Premium Fund shall be the fund in which shall be accumulated the contributions from retired members to provide for...
• Section 53:5a-38 - Payroll Deductions; Amount.
  38.There shall be deducted from the payroll of each active member of the system 7 1/2% of the amount of his salary, which shall...
• Section 53:5a-38.1 - Periodic Benefits Payable Under Workers' Compensation Law; Salary Deductions Paid By Employer; Retirement Benefits Application
  30. a. If any member of the retirement system receives periodic benefits payable under the Workers' Compensation Law during the course of his active...
• Section 53:5a-39 - Obligations Of State; Estimate Of Moneys Needed; Budget Request; Appropriation
  Regular interest charges payable, the creation and maintenance of reserves in the Contingent Reserve Fund, the maintenance of retirement reserves as provided for in...
• Section 53:5a-40 - Payment Of Proceeds Of Tax On Foreign Insurance Companies To State Treasurer For Deposit In General Funds
  While 1/8 of the 2% tax collected by the State Tax Commissioner under section 54:17-1 of the Title Taxation from insurance companies of other...
• Section 53:5a-41 - Inapplicability Of Other Provisions; Necessity For Creation Of Reserves
  a. No other provision of the law in any other statute which provides wholly or partly at the expense of the State of New...
• Section 53:5a-42 - Fraud; Punishment; Correction Of Errors
  Any person who shall knowingly make any false statement or shall falsify or permit to be falsified any record or records of this retirement...
• Section 53:5a-43 - Waiver Of Portion Of Pension, Benefit Or Retirement Allowance
  Any member or any beneficiary who has been or, in the future, may be retired, or receive a pension, benefit or retirement allowance, including...
• Section 53:5a-44 - Deductions From Pension Or Allowance To Pay Premiums For Group Health Insurance Plan Or State Health Benefits Program
  If possible, whenever any retirant or beneficiary shall, in writing, request the Division of Pensions to make deductions from his retirement allowance or pension...
• Section 53:5a-44.1 - Medicare Premium Reimbursement
  Any retirant of the State Police Retirement System established pursuant to P.L. 1965, c. 89 (C. 53:5A-1 et seq.) who pays the premium charges...
• Section 53:5a-45 - Tax Exemption; Exemptions From Levy And Sale, Garnishment, Attachment Or Other Process; Assignability Of Rights; Assignment Of Group Insurance Policy Rights And Benefits
  The right of a person to a pension, an annuity, or a retirement allowance, to the return of contributions, any benefit or right accrued...
• Section 53:5a-46 - Partial Invalidity
  If any provision, section, or part of any section of this act is declared to be unconstitutional, the same shall not be held to...
• Section 53:5a-47 - Short Title
  This act shall be known as the "State Police Retirement System Act." L.1965, c. 89, s. 47, eff. July 1, 1965.
• Section 53:6-1 - Purpose
  The purposes of this compact are to: a. Detection and apprehension. Provide close and effective co-operation and assistance in detecting and apprehending those engaged...
• Section 53:6-2 - Force And Effect
  This compact shall enter into force when enacted into law by any 2 of the States of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and...
• Section 53:6-3 - Withdrawal
  Any party State may withdraw from this compact by enacting a statute repealing the same, but no such withdrawal shall take effect until 1...
• Section 53:6-4 - Mid-atlantic State Police Administrator's Conference
  There is established the "Mid-Atlantic State Police Administrators' Conference," hereinafter called the "conference," to be composed of the administrative head of the State Police...
• Section 53:6-5 - Alternates
  If authorized by the laws of his party State, the administrative head of the State Police Department of a party State may provide for...
• Section 53:6-6 - Selection Of Alternates
  An alternate serving pursuant to subsection 3.2 of this article shall be selected only from among the officers and employees of the State Police...
• Section 53:6-7 - Vote
  The members of the conference shall be entitled to one vote each. No action of the conference shall be binding unless taken at a...
• Section 53:6-8 - Seal
  The conference shall have a seal. L.1969, c. 80, s. 3.5, eff. June 11, 1969.
• Section 53:6-9 - Officers
  The conference shall elect annually, from among its members, a chairman, who shall not be eligible to succeed himself, a vice chairman and a...
• Section 53:6-10 - Personnel
  Irrespective of the civil service, personnel or other merit system laws of any of the party States, the executive secretary, subject to the direction...
• Section 53:6-11 - Employee Benefits
  The conference may establish and maintain independently or in conjunction with any one or more of the party States, a suitable retirement system for...
• Section 53:6-12 - Utilization Of Services
  The conference may borrow, accept or contract for the services of personnel from any party State, the United States, or any subdivision or agency...
• Section 53:6-13 - Acceptance Of Aid
  The conference may accept for any of its purposes and functions under this compact any and all donations, grants of money, equipment, supplies, materials...
• Section 53:6-14 - Facilities
  The conference may establish and maintain such facilities as may be necessary for the transacting of its business. The conference may acquire, hold and...
• Section 53:6-15 - By-laws
  The conference shall adopt by-laws for the conduct of its business and shall have the power to amend and rescind these by-laws. The conference...
• Section 53:6-16 - Annual Report
  The conference annually shall make to the Governor and Legislature of each party State a report covering the activities of the conference for the...
• Section 53:6-17 - Powers
  The conference shall have power to: a. Mid-Atlantic Criminal Intelligence Bureau. Establish and operate a Mid-Atlantic Criminal Intelligence Bureau, hereinafter called "the bureau," in...
• Section 53:6-18 - Central Criminal Intelligence Service
  The bureau established and operated pursuant to Article IV of this compact is designated and recognized as the instrument for the performance of a...
• Section 53:6-19 - Meetings
  The members of the conference from any 2 or more party States, upon notice to the chairman as to the time and purpose of...
• Section 53:6-20 - Budget
  The conference shall submit to the Governor or designated officer or officers of each party State a budget of its estimated expenditures for such...
• Section 53:6-21 - Appropriations
  Each of the conference's budgets of estimated expenditures shall contain specific recommendations of the amount or amounts to be appropriated by each of the...
• Section 53:6-22 - Pledge Of Credit
  The conference shall not pledge the credit of any party State. The conference may meet any of its obligations in whole or in part...
• Section 53:6-23 - Receipts And Disbursements
  The conference shall keep accurate accounts of all receipts and disbursements. The receipts and disbursements of the conference shall be subject to the audit...
• Section 53:6-24 - Inspection Of Accounts
  The accounts of the conference shall be open at any reasonable time for inspection by duly constituted officers of the party States and any...
• Section 53:6-25 - Audit
  Nothing contained herein shall be construed to prevent conference compliance with laws relating to audit or inspection of accounts by or on behalf of...
• Section 53:6-26 - Liberal Construction; Severability
  This compact shall be liberally construed so as to effectuate the purposes thereof. The provisions of this compact shall be severable and if any...
• Section 53:6-27 - Compact Entered Into By State
  The Mid-Atlantic State Police Compact is hereby entered into and enacted into law with any and all of the States legally joining therein in...
• Section 53:6-28 - Designation Of Alternate
  The Superintendent of State Police is authorized to designate an alternate to serve in his place and stead on the Mid-Atlantic State Police Administrators'...
• Section 53:6-29 - Retirement Coverage
  The employees of the Mid-Atlantic State Police Administrators' Conference may, upon the concluding of an agreement for coverage with the State Police Retirement System,...
• Section 53:6-30 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Mid-Atlantic State Police Compact." L.1969, c. 80, s. 9.4, eff. June 11, 1969.

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