New Jersey Statutes 56:8-186. Criminal history record background checks condition for employment
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 56:8-186
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- 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
- State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
b. No person shall own or be employed by an international labor matching organization or an international matchmaking organization unless the division certifies that the person has no criminal history record of a conviction for an offense enumerated in subsection d. of this section.
c. No international labor matching organization or international matchmaking organization shall employ a person who has not been certified pursuant to subsection b. of this section.
d. A person subject to subsection b. of this section whose criminal history record background check reveals a conviction for any of the following crimes and offenses shall be disqualified from owning or being employed by an international labor matching organization or an international matchmaking organization:
(1) If the conviction was in New Jersey for a crime:
(a) involving danger to the person, meaning those crimes and disorderly persons offenses set forth in N.J.S. 2C:11-1 et seq., N.J.S. 2C:12-1 et seq., N.J.S. 2C:13-1 et seq., N.J.S. 2C:14-1 et seq. or N.J.S. 2C:15-1 et seq.; or
(b) against the family, children or incompetents, meaning those crimes and disorderly persons offenses set forth in N.J.S. 2C:24-1 et seq. or the “Prevention of Domestic Violence Act,” P.L.1991, c.261 (C. 2C:25-17 et seq.); or
(c) involving theft as set forth in chapter 20 of Title 2C of the New Jersey Statutes; or
(d) involving any controlled dangerous substance or analog as set forth in chapter 35 of Title 2C of the New Jersey Statutes except paragraph (4) of subsection a. of N.J.S.2C:35-10; or
(e) involving terrorism as set forth in the “September 11th, 2001 Anti-Terrorism Act,” P.L.2002, c.26 (C. 2C:38-1 et seq.); or
(f) involving prostitution and related offenses as set forth in N.J.S. 2C:34-1
(2) If the conviction was in any other state or jurisdiction for conduct constituting any of the crimes described in paragraph (1) of this subsection.
L.2009, c.152, s.2.