[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Barnegat
Light 1-20-1999 by Ord. No. 99-1. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
The Mayor and Borough Council shall have the power to offer a reward,
not to exceed $3,000.00, for the detection and apprehensive of any person
guilty of murder, kidnapping, burglary, robbery, arson or other heinous crime
committed in the Borough of Barnegat Light. Such reward shall be authorized
by resolution of the governing body and shall be approved by the Police Chief
and by a judge of the Superior Court, as required by N.J.S.A. 2A:153-4.
The Mayor and Borough Council shall have the power to offer a reward,
not to exceed $500, for the detection and apprehension of any person guilty
of purposefully or knowingly damaging tangible property of another by an act
of graffiti in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:17-3. For the purpose of this section,
the term act of graffiti means the drawing, painting or the making of any
inscription on a bridge, building, public transportation vehicle, rock, wall,
sidewalk, street or other exposed surface on public or private property without
the permission of the owner. Such reward shall be authorized by resolution
of the governing body, as required by N.J.S.A. 2A:153-4.1.
A reward offered in accordance with this chapter shall be payable to
such person or persons as the Borough Council may, in its discretion and upon
recommendation of the Police Chief, deem entitled thereto. The reward is to
be paid after conviction out of such funds of the borough made available therefor.
No reward offered in accordance with this chapter shall be paid to any
public employee whose duty it is to investigate or to enforce the law, nor
to such employee's spouse, child or parent living in the same household.
