[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee
of the Township of Hillsborough as indicated in article histories.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 3-14-1957 (Ch. 33 of the 1977 Code)]
At the first meeting of the Township Committee
in January of each year, the Township Committee shall approve an account,
to be designated the "Township of Hillsborough Payroll Account," for
the payment of all salaries, wages and compensation of all officers
and employees of the Township of Hillsborough, in the County of Somerset,
whose salaries, wages or compensation shall be payable on either an
annual, monthly, weekly or hourly basis.
A.
At each regular meeting of the Township Committee,
the Township Treasurer shall submit to the Township Committee for
its approval or ratification, as the case may be, the necessary payrolls
for the respective amounts due the several officers and employees
of the said Township of Hillsborough for salaries, wages or compensation
as follows:
(1)
In advance for all officers and employees of the Township
whose salaries are on either an annual monthly or weekly basis, when
their salaries or any periodic installment or installments thereof
are or shall become due and payable prior to the next regular meeting
of the Township Committee.
(2)
For all employees of the Township whose wages or compensation
is on an hourly basis, when the compensation has been approved by
some responsible Township official who shall have been designated
by resolution of the Township Committee and by the chairman of the
appropriate committee of the Township Committee and has been certified
by them to the Township Treasurer.
B.
The said payrolls shall be considered by the Township
Committee in due course and approved or ratified if found to be correct.
C.
In case any error or any necessity for adjustment
shall be found in the payrolls submitted to the Township Committee
for its approval or ratification, it shall order to be made such corrections
or adjustments as may appear necessary, and it shall be the duty of
the Township Treasurer to and he shall properly make such corrections
or adjustments and make appropriate record thereof.
A.
The Township Treasurer shall present to the Township
Committee monthly for its approval warrants drawn to the order of
the Township of Hillsborough Payroll Account.
B.
Such Township officers as may be designated by resolution
duly adopted by the Township Committee are hereby authorized to and
shall sign warrants drawn in favor of the aforesaid payroll account
upon receipt by them of due notice that the payrolls for which a particular
warrant is drawn have been approved by the Township Committee.
C.
From time to time the Township Treasurer, upon receipt
of a warrant for the amount due the aforesaid payroll account, shall
deposit the same to the credit of the said payroll account, charging
the appropriate budgetary accounts of the said Township of Hillsborough
therewith.
D.
The Township Treasurer shall thereafter draw checks
against said payroll account to the order of the respective officers
and employees of the Township entitled to receive payment therefrom
for salary, wages or compensation. All checks drawn against said payroll
account shall be signed by the Township Treasurer and no other signature
shall be required thereon.
E.
The Township Treasurer shall withhold from the respective
payees thereof any and all checks for salary, wages or compensation
drawn pursuant to the authority herein granted until the full amount
of the salary, wages or compensation for which such check shall have
been drawn shall have been fully earned by the payee thereof.
[Adopted 7-22-2014 by Ord. No. 2014-13]
A.
All full-time employees, part-time employees, and elected public
officials who receive compensation from the Township of Hillsborough
are mandated to have direct deposit of their compensation as of August
1, 2014, in accordance with N.J.S.A. 52:14-15f.
B.
Seasonal and temporary employees who are employed by the Township
of Hillsborough are exempt from the direct deposit mandate.
C.
Municipal employees may request an exemption from the direct deposit
requirements of this article by written request to the Township of
Hillsborough Chief Financial Officer. Such request will be presented
to the Township Committee for consideration within seven days of receipt.
The Township Committee may grant an exemption from the requirements
of this article for good cause shown on such terms and conditions
as the Township Committee may deem necessary.
