Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 18A:17-4

  • Board: means the board of education. See New Jersey Statutes 18A:1-1
  • District: means a school district. See New Jersey Statutes 18A:1-1
  • Employee: includes the holder of any position or employment. See New Jersey Statutes 18A:1-1
  • person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • Residence: means domicile, unless a temporary residence is indicated. See New Jersey Statutes 18A:1-1
No board of education shall reduce the number of janitors, janitor engineers, custodians or janitorial employees in any district by reason of residence, age, sex, race, religion or political affiliation and when any janitor, janitor engineer, custodian or janitorial employee under tenure is dismissed by reason of reduction in the number of such employees, the one having the least number of years to his credit shall be dismissed in preference to any other having a longer term of service and the person so dismissed shall be and remain upon a preferred eligibility list, in the order of years of service, for reemployment whenever vacancies occur and shall be reemployed by the board in such order and upon reemployment shall be given full recognition for previous years of service in his respective positions and employments.

L.1967, c.271.