Borough of Fair Lawn, NJ
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2023-02-28
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Part I, Administrative Legislation
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Chapter 33 Police Department
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Article XI Suspensions; Relieving From Duty
- Part I, Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 2 Administration, Departments and Budget and Fiscal Procedures
- Ch 4 Cable Television Board
- Ch 7 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 10 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 13 Fire Department
- Ch 16 Historian
- Ch 19 Housing Authority
- Ch 24 Length of Service Awards Program
- Ch 25 Volunteer Emergency Services Stipend Program
- Ch 30 Personnel
- Ch 33 Police Department
- Ch 33 Art XI Suspensions; Relieving From Duty
- § 33-30 Suspension pending filing of formal charges.
- § 33-31 Relief from duty for conduct detrimental to good order.
- § 33-32 Report to Chief and Municipal Manager; filing of formal charges.
- § 33-33 Discipline only for proper reasons and with proper procedure.
- § 33-34 Right to appeal to Civil Service Commission.
- Ch 39 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 42 Tort Claim Form
- Part II, General Legislation
- Ch 49 Affordable Housing
- Ch 53 Alarms, Burglar, Medical and Fire
- Ch 56 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 59 Amusement Devices
- Ch 62 Animals
- Ch 66 Automobile Dealers
- Ch 70 Bicycles
- Ch 74 Broadway Special Improvement District
- Ch 76 Business Hours
- Ch 85 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 86 Crane Regulations
- Ch 87 Distribution of Handbills, Circulars and Other Printed Materials
- Ch 90 Drive-Through Restaurants
- Ch 94 Fees
- Ch 97 Fences
- Ch 101 Fire Insurance Claims
- Ch 104 Fire Prevention
- Ch 108 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 111 Food Handling
- Ch 117 Heating
- Ch 120 Historical Properties
- Ch 124 Junkyards
- Ch 125 Land Development
- Ch 128 Laundries and Dry Cleaners
- Ch 129 Lawn Fertilizing
- Ch 131 Lead-Based Paint
- Ch 134 Library
- Ch 137 Licensing
- Ch 140 Littering
- Ch 144 Massage, Bodywork, and Somatic Therapy Establishments
- Ch 147 Motorized Scooters
- Ch 148 Murals
- Ch 150 Noise
- Ch 153 Numbering of Buildings
- Ch 157 Parking on Posted Property
- Ch 160 Parks and Recreation Areas
- Ch 162 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 163 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 166 Pesticides
- Ch 167 Planting or Growing Bamboo
- Ch 170 Property Maintenance
- Ch 173 Public Health Nuisances
- Ch 177 Rent Control
- Ch 180 River Road Special Improvement District
- Ch 183 Sales
- Ch 184 School Buses
- Ch 186 Secondhand Precious Metals and Gems
- Ch 189 Sewers
- Ch 190 (Reserved)
- Ch 192 Sidewalk Sales
- Ch 200 Soil Removal
- Ch 204 Solid Waste
- Ch 205 Special Events
- Ch 208 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 213 Tattooing and Body Piercing Parlors
- Ch 215 Taxation
- Ch 216 Taxicabs and Limousines
- Ch 220 Tobacco
- Ch 223 Towing
- Ch 226 Trees
- Ch 230 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 232 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 236 Vehicles, Impoundment of
- Ch 241 Water
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
The Chief of Police or, in his/her absence,
the officer in charge may suspend any employee in his/her Department
for a period not exceeding five days pending the filing of formal
charges on account of inefficiency, incompetency, misconduct, negligence,
insubordination or other sufficient cause.
The Chief of Police or, in his/her absence,
the officer in charge or any superior officer may relieve an employee
from duty whenever the conduct or action of that subordinate is detrimental
to good order and discipline.
All such suspensions or the relieving of an
employee from duty shall be reported in writing to the Chief of Police
for his/her approval and comment, and by him/her reported to the Borough
Manager within 24 hours of the suspension or relief from duty, who
shall conform or modify the action taken or direct such other disciplinary
action as may be required. Where the Borough Manager confirms an order
of suspension or suspends any Police Department officer or employee,
he/she shall cause the making and filing of formal charges to be served
upon the suspended officer or employee, setting a date for hearing
in accordance with law. Service shall be within 72 hours of the date
of suspension.
No officer or member of the Police Department
shall be suspended, fined, reduced in rank or removed from office
except for the reasons established, and in accordance with the procedure
laid down in applicable state laws.
Any employee so suspended, fined or demoted
shall have the same right of appeal to the Civil Service Commission
as provided in the case of removals.
