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USA Statutes : new_jersey
Title : TITLE 30 INSTITUTIONS AND AGENCIES
Chapter : 30:4-1
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30:4-1. Boards of trustees; appointment; terms; vacancies; removal; compensation; organization
The State board, with the approval of the Governor, shall appoint a board of trustees for each institution or agency within the department or for each group or class thereof as it may determine.
Whenever the establishment or assumption of jurisdiction over an additional institution, or the acquisition of a site therefor, is authorized by the Legislature the State board, with the approval of the Governor, may appoint a board of trustees therefor or may authorize or designate any existing board of trustees to assume jurisdiction thereof. Each board of trustees of an institution shall be known as ~the board of trustees~ naming the institution or group or class for which the board is appointed. The State board, with the approval of the Governor, shall determine the names of the boards of noninstitutional agencies.
Except as otherwise specifically provided by statute, the boards of trustees shall consist of not less than five nor more than seven members appointed with the approval of the Governor from residents of the State at large without respect to political affiliation or belief. At least two women shall be members of each board in charge of the Training School for Boys, Jamesburg, the Home for Disabled Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and their Wives and Widows, and the institutions or agencies for the blind, feebleminded, the epileptic and the insane and at least two members of the Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired shall themselves be legally blind but they shall not be employees, or related by blood, marriage or adoption to any employee, of said commission. At least a majority of the members of each board in charge of the Training School for Girls, Trenton, and the women@s reformatory shall be women.
The term of each board member shall be 3 years commencing on July 1 and ending on June 30, of the third year thereafter. A vacancy shall be filled by the State board, with the approval of the Governor, for the unexpired term only.
The members of new or additional boards of trustees shall at the time of their appointment be divided into groups so that the terms of two members shall expire on June 30 of the year next succeeding appointment; the terms of two others on June 30 of the second year succeeding appointment; the term of the fifth member and in case of larger boards the term of the sixth member, on June 30 of the third year succeeding appointment; the term of the seventh member of a board having seven members, on June 30 of the fourth year succeeding appointment. Their successors shall be appointed for 3-year terms.
The members of such boards shall receive no compensation for services but shall be reimbursed for actual expenditures incurred in the performance of duty. They shall be subject to removal by the State board, with the approval of the Governor at any time for good and sufficient cause.
On or before July 1 of each year each such board shall reorganize by the election from among its members of a chairman and vice chairman and shall appoint a secretary, with the approval of the chief executive officer of the institution, who shall be an employee of the department and shall serve at the pleasure of the board without additional compensation. The term of office of the chairman and vice chairman shall be until June 30 of the following year or until their successors are elected and qualified.
Amended by L.1960, c. 74, p. 516, s. 1; Laws 1962, c. 197, s. 2; L.1971, c. 384, s. 16, eff. Jan. 5, 1972; L.1972, c. 58, s. 1, eff. June 6, 1972; L.1977, c. 63, s. 12, eff. April 15, 1977.
30:4-1.1. Boards of trustees; powers and duties
It shall be the duty of the local boards of trustees to advance long-range planning for the medical care, correctional and training programs at their respective institutions; and maintain general oversight of the institution. The board shall not administer the individual institutions.
The board of trustees shall have power to:
a. Review institutional needs;
b. Exercise visitorial supervision over the institution under the supervision or control of the department. Its visitorial general powers of supervision are hereby defined as visiting such institution to examine into its manner of conducting its affairs and to advise the commissioner on the observance and enforcement of the laws of the State;
c. Develop with the commissioner and his staff and jointly promulgate and maintain a comprehensive master plan which shall be long-range in nature and be regularly revised and updated, including priorities for the construction of new institutions and the development of new programs;
d. Recommend and advise the commissioner on building programs of the institution as required by the master plan, provided that provision is made therefor in the annual or a supplemental or special appropriation act of the Legislature or otherwise;
e. Review and comment upon budget requests from the institution;
f. Encourage harmonious and cooperative relationships with other similar institutions in the area, public and private;
g. Review periodically existing programs of care, training, rehabilitation, research and public service in the institution, and in similar institutions of other states, and advise the State board and the commissioner as to any desirable change;
h. Make to the commissioner such recommendations as it deems necessary with regard to services, lands, buildings, and equipment to be furnished by the institution;
i. Authorize such studies and require such reports from the chief executive officer of the institution as it may deem necessary from time to time;
j. Advise the institutional head;
k. Control and determine the use of patient or inmate welfare funds within the general regulation of the State board;
l. Interpret the mandate and work of the institution to the public;
m. Carry out such other duties as the commissioner or the State board may assign to the board or to its individual members;
n. Periodically review existing rules, regulations and policies of the State parole board and advise the parole board as to any desirable or necessary changes;
o. Review the cases of such inmates as may be eligible for parole consideration and provide the appropriate parole board panel with a written recommendation regarding the case. The State parole board shall, prior to considering any inmate for release, provide the boards of trustees with a written notice of all such inmates to be considered. The boards of trustees may, in addition, review the cases of such inmates as may appeal decisions pursuant to section 14 of this amendatory act and provide the parole board with a written recommendation regarding the case, which shall be considered by the board. The State parole board shall state on the record its reasons for rejecting any recommendation made pursuant to this section.
L.1971, c. 384, s. 18, eff. Jan. 5, 1972. Amended by L.1972, c. 58, s. 2, eff. June 6, 1972; L.1979, c. 441, s. 25, eff. Feb. 21, 1980.
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