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A4496
ASSEMBLY, No. 4496
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
222nd LEGISLATURE
�
INTRODUCED MARCH 9, 2026
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman� DAWN FANTASIA
District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblyman Scharfenberger
SYNOPSIS
���� Revises distribution of monies from Alcohol
Education, Rehabilitation and Enforcement Fund to municipalities.�
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
���� As introduced.
��
An Act
concerning the distribution of monies from the Alcohol
Education, Rehabilitation and Enforcement Fund and amending P.L.1983, c.531.
����
Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:
���� 1.��� Section 6 of P.L.1983,
c.531 (C.26:2B-35) is amended to read as follows:
���� 6.��� a.� Moneys dedicated for
enforcement from the Alcohol Education, Rehabilitation and Enforcement Fund
shall be distributed as follows:
���� (1)�� One-third shall be
distributed to the "Municipal Court Administration Reimbursement
Fund" pursuant to subsection b. of this section.
���� (2)�� Two-thirds shall be
distributed in the "Drunk Driving Enforcement Fund" established
pursuant to section 1 of P.L.1984, c.4 (C.39:4-50.8).
���� b.��� (1)�
[
Each
municipality in this State shall present to the Administrative Office of the
Courts, before December 31, 1983, the number of drunk driving arrests in the
municipality during calendar year 1980.� This number shall be the base year
number of arrests.� In any municipality in which the number of drunk driving
arrests for calendar year 1980 exceeds the average of the number of drunk
driving arrests for calendar years 1979 and 1981, that municipality may
substitute the lower average figure as the base figure for the calculation in
this subsection.� The municipality shall certify this substitution in writing
to the Administrative Office of the Courts within 90 days of the effective date
of this 1986 amendatory act. Once a substituted base year figure is used, it
may not thereafter be changed.
]
�
Beginning January 15,
[
1984
]
2023
,
and each year thereafter
[
the
]
, each
municipality
in the State
shall report to the Administrative Office of
the Courts the number of drunk driving arrests made in its municipality during
the preceding calendar year.
���� (2)�� The Administrative
Office of the Courts shall certify the
[
amounts
submitted by each municipality and shall calculate for each municipality any
increase in the number of arrests between the base year and the
]
number of
arrests reported for the preceding calendar year
by each municipality
.�
[
The
Administrative Office of the Courts shall then calculate the sum of all
increases for all municipalities reporting.
]
���� (3)�� Beginning for calendar
year
[
1983
]
2022
,
the
[
following
fraction
]
amount of funding to be allocated to each reporting municipality from the
Alcohol Education, Rehabilitation and Enforcement Fund
shall be calculated
[
for each
municipality
]
as follows
:
����
(a)
�� The
[
increase in
drunk driving arrests in the municipality between the base year and
]
total
amount of funding received by the municipality from the Alcohol Education,
Rehabilitation and Enforcement Fund in
the preceding year
[
over the total
of increases in drunk driving arrests between the base year and the preceding
year in all reporting municipalities in the State.
���� This fraction
]
shall be
multiplied by
[
the
total amount of the money available in the "Municipal Court Administration
Reimbursement Fund" in the preceding calendar year
]
50
percentage, and the resulting figure shall then be divided by the total number
of drunk driving arrests in the municipality for the same calendar year to
determine the unit dollar value for each arrest
.
����
(b)�� The total amount of
funding received by the municipality from the Alcohol Education, Rehabilitation
and Enforcement Fund in the preceding year shall be multiplied by 50 percentage,
and the resulting figure shall then be divided by the average number of yearly
drunk driving arrests in the municipality for the preceding five calendar years
to determine a five-year unit dollar value for each arrest.
����
(c)�� The figure calculated
pursuant to subparagraph (a) of this paragraph shall be added to the figure
calculated pursuant to subparagraph (b) of this paragraph, and the resulting
figure shall determine the total unit dollar value for each arrest.
����
(d)�� The amount to be
allocated to each reporting municipality shall be the proportion of its total
unit dollar value to the total amount of funds available for allocation from
the �Municipal Court Administration Reimbursement Fund.�
����
(4)
�� This amount shall
be allocated to the municipality for the purpose of maintaining its municipal
court, which may include payments to municipal court judges, municipal
prosecutors and other municipal court personnel for work performed in addition
to regular employment hours.
(cf: P.L.1990, c.41, s.7)
���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect immediately.
STATEMENT
���� This bill revises the
distribution of monies from the Alcohol Education, Rehabilitation and
Enforcement Fund (AEREF) to municipalities for the purpose of maintaining their
municipal courts.
���� The bill provides specifically
as follows:
�
Beginning January 15, 2023, and each year thereafter, each
municipality in the State is to report to the Administrative Office of the
Courts (AOC) the number of drunk driving arrests made in its municipality
during the preceding calendar year.
�
The AOC is to certify the number of arrests reported for the
preceding calendar year by each municipality.
�
Beginning for calendar year 2022, the amount of funding to be
allocated to each reporting municipality from the AEREF is to be calculated as
follows:
���� --The total amount of funding
received by the municipality from the AEREF in the preceding year is to be
multiplied by 50 percent, and the resulting figure will then be divided by the
total number of drunk driving arrests in the municipality for the same calendar
year
to determine the unit dollar value for each arrest.
���� --The total amount of funding
received by the municipality from the AEREF in the preceding year is to be
multiplied by 50 percent, and the resulting figure will then be divided by the
average number of yearly drunk driving arrests in the municipality for the
preceding five calendar years to determine a five-year unit dollar value for
each arrest.
���� --The two figures calculated
above are to be added together, and the resulting figure will determine the
total unit dollar value for each arrest.
���� --The amount to be allocated
to each reporting municipality will be the proportion of its total unit dollar
value to the total amount of funds available for allocation from the �Municipal
Court Administration Reimbursement Fund.�