Requires municipality with over 4,000 residents to provide public with list of certain community service organizations.

A5132

ASSEMBLY, No. 5132

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED MAY 28, 2026

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman� ANTHONY ANGELOZZI

District 8 (Atlantic and Burlington)

Assemblywoman� MAUREEN ROWAN

District 2 (Atlantic)

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires municipality with over 4,000 residents to
provide public with list of certain community service organizations.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

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An Act
requiring municipalities to provide the public with a
list of community service organizations and supplementing
chapter 48 of
Title 40 of the Revised Statutes.�

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

���� 1.��� a. A municipality with a
population exceeding 4,000 residents, as of the most recent federal decennial
census, shall develop and maintain
a list of community
service organizations in the area and the contact information for those
organizations.� A municipality shall publish the list on its Internet website
free of charge or publish the list on an eligible online news publication available
to the public free of charge.� A municipality shall provide a notice in a
prominent location on its Internet website if it publishes its list in an
online news publication and shall publish a hyperlink to the online news
publication.

���� b.��� As
used in this section, a
"
community
service organization
"
is
an organization whose purpose is to provide voluntary services to the community
or its residents to benefit the community.�

���� c.���� A
municipality shall update the published list once per year, on a date
determined by the municipality.�

���� d.��� A
municipality shall not be liable for failing to update their published list to
reflect that an organization is no longer in operation.�

���� 2.��� E
ach
municipality may apply for reimbursement of actual costs related to the
requirements pursuant to section 1 of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending
before the Legislature as this bill) to the Division of Local Government
Services in the Department of Community Affairs, in a manner and on any forms
as determined by the department, and the department shall reimburse the municipality
for those costs.� The department shall include in its annual budget request to
the Governor an amount equal to the moneys necessary to pay the reimbursement
costs required pursuant to this section, and if applicable, any amount to cover
any backlog of reimbursements.� The Legislature shall appropriate the necessary
funds to the department for the purposes of this section.�

���� 3.��� This act shall take
effect immediately.�

STATEMENT

���� This bill requires a municipality
with a population exceeding 4,000 people to provide the public with a list of
community service organizations in the area and such organizations� contact
information.� The bill requires a municipality to
publish
the list on its Internet website free of charge or publish the list on an
eligible online news publication available to the public free of charge.� A
municipality that publishes its list in an online news publication is required
to provide a notice in a prominent location on its official Internet website as
well as a hyperlink to the online news publication.� The bill requires a
municipality to update the published list once per year, on a date determined
by the municipality.� Furthermore, a municipality is not liable for failing to
update their published list to reflect that an organization is no longer in
operation.�

���� This
bill defines �community service organization,� as an organization whose purpose
is to provide voluntary services to the community or its residents to benefit
the community.�

���� This
bill allows e
ach municipality to
apply to the Division of Local Government Services in the Department of
Community Affairs for reimbursement of actual costs related to compliance and requires
the department to reimburse the municipality for those costs.� The bill
requires the department to include in its annual budget request to the Governor
an amount equal to the moneys necessary to pay the reimbursement costs, and if
applicable, any amount to cover any backlog of reimbursements.� The bill
requires the Legislature to appropriate the necessary funds to the department
for these purposes.�
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