58:1A-20 Definitions relative to Rahway River Intergovernmental Cooperation Committee.
3.As used in this act:
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Environmental Protection.
"Committee" means the "Rahway River Intergovernmental Cooperation Committee" created pursuant to section 4 of this act.
"Department" means the Department of Environmental Protection.
"Environmental protection project" means any work the purpose of which is to reduce point or nonpoint source pollution discharges, stormwater runoff, illegal dumping of litter and other debris, and other environmental and aesthetic insults to the Rahway river system, or to otherwise maintain or enhance the environmental health and water quality of the Rahway river system or any tributary or watershed land thereof.
"River counties" means Union county , Middlesex county, and Essex county.
"River municipalities" means the Union county municipalities of Clark, Cranford, Garwood, Kenilworth, Linden, Mountainside, Rahway, Scotch Plains, Springfield, Summit, Union, Westfield, and Winfield, the Middlesex county municipalities of Carteret, Edison, and Woodbridge, the Essex county municipalities of Maplewood, Millburn, Orange, South Orange, and West Orange, and any other Union , Middlesex, or Essex county municipality that chooses to participate, and is accepted, as a member of the committee as provided in section 4 of this act.
L.1997,c.342,s.3.
58:1A-21 "Rahway River Intergovernmental Cooperation Committee" created.
4. a. There is created the "Rahway River Intergovernmental Cooperation Committee," which shall be composed of: (1) a representative of each river municipality, who shall be selected by the governing body of that municipality and who shall be a voting member of the committee; (2) a representative of Union county, who shall be selected by the governing body of that county and who shall be a voting member of the committee; (3) a representative of Middlesex county, who shall be selected by the governing body of that county and shall be a voting member of the committee; (4) a representative of Essex county, who shall be selected by the county executive of that county and who shall be a voting member of the committee; and (5) the commissioner, or the commissioner's designee, who shall serve ex officio and who shall be a nonvoting member of the committee.
Any municipality in Union county , Middlesex county, or Essex county that is not a river municipality may, through its governing body, request membership, with full voting privileges, on the committee. Such membership shall be granted upon a majority vote of the voting membership of the committee.
b.Vacancies in the positions on the committee shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointments were made.
c.Members of the committee shall serve without compensation, but may, within the limits of funds appropriated or otherwise made available to the committee, be reimbursed for actual expenses necessarily incurred in the discharge of their official duties.
d.A member of the committee may be removed at any time for any reason by the municipal or county governing body, or the county executive, as the case may be, that appointed that member.
L.1997,c.342,s.4.
58:1A-22 Committee organization; quorum; meetings.
5. a. The committee shall organize as soon as may be practicable after the appointment of its members and shall select a chairperson and a vice-chairperson from among its members. The department shall provide technical and planning assistance to the committee.
b.A majority of the voting membership of the committee shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of committee business. Action may be taken and motions and resolutions adopted by the committee at any meeting thereof by the affirmative vote of a majority of the full voting membership of the committee.
c.The committee shall meet regularly as it may determine, and shall also meet at the call of the chairperson of the committee, the commissioner, or the Governor.
L.1997,c.342,s.5.
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