Permits certain municipalities to appoint persons separate from civil service eligible list under certain circumstances.

A1261

ASSEMBLY, No. 1261

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman MICHAEL INGANAMORT

District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman Fantasia

SYNOPSIS

���� Permits certain municipalities to appoint persons
separate from civil service eligible list under certain circumstances.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative
Counsel.

��

An Act

concerning certain municipalities and civil
service eligible lists, and supplementing chapter 4 of Title 11A of the New
Jersey Statutes.�

����
Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� Notwithstanding any
other law, rule or regulation to the contrary, when a municipality with no
police department and having a population less than 12,000 according to the
latest federal decennial census requests a certified eligible list from the
Civil Service Commission, the commission shall provide the list within 30 days
from the date of receipt of the request.� If the commission fails to respond to
the request within 30 days, or an appointment does not result from the list,
the municipality may appoint an otherwise qualified candidate for the position.
�The municipality shall sign a waiver designed and authorized by the Civil
Service Commission exempting the candidate from the civil service hiring
process.�

���� Upon accepting appointment,
the candidate shall satisfactorily complete the working test period to be considered
by the commission as qualified for the position and to have civil service
status.�

���� The Civil Service Commission
shall not require the municipality to replace the candidate upon issuance of a
certified eligible list.� This provision shall apply regardless of whether or
not the candidate is listed on the certified eligible list.�

���� For the purposes of this
section, �municipality� shall mean and include cities, towns, townships,
villages, and boroughs.

���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect on the first day of the second month next following enactment, except
the Civil Service Commission may take any anticipatory administrative action in
advance as shall be necessary for the implementation of this act.�

STATEMENT

���� Currently, when a municipality
requests an eligible list of hires from the Civil Service Commission to fill a
vacancy, it may take several months to receive the eligible list, and in the
meantime, positions go unfilled. In addition, there are times when the list is
received and either there are no suitable persons, or the persons on the list
do not accept the position.�

���� Under this bill, when a
municipality having no police department and a population less than 12,000
requests a certified eligible list from the commission, the commission must
provide the list within 30 days from the date of receipt of the request. If the
commission fails to respond to the request within the 30 days, or an
appointment does not result from the list, the municipality may hire a
qualified person.� ����������� The municipality will sign a waiver designed and
authorized by the Civil Service Commission exempting the candidate from the
civil service hiring process.� Upon accepting appointment, the candidate must
satisfactorily complete the working test period to be considered by the
commission as qualified for the position and to have civil service status.� The
Civil Service Commission will not require the municipality to replace the
candidate upon issuance of a certified eligible list.�

���� This bill will help reduce the
number of unfilled positons in certain municipalities.