New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-18.1. Residency requirements for employees of municipal authority operating certain water system
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-18.1
- 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
1. Any ordinance, resolution, rule, regulation, order, or directive establishing, as may be permitted by law, a residency requirement for employees of a municipal authority operating a water system that serves more than one municipality shall provide that any person employed or to be hired by the municipal authority in relation to the operation of its water system may reside within any municipality served by the water system, and shall further provide that a non-resident of the municipalities served by the water system may be hired if the municipal authority is unable to hire a qualified resident. Any provision of an ordinance, resolution, rule, regulation, order, or directive to the contrary shall be void and have no force or effect.
Nothing in this section shall be construed as prohibiting a municipal authority from employing or hiring a non-resident of the municipalities served by its water system if no residency requirement is established.
L.2019, c.231, s.1.