[Amended 7-14-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-03]
The Municipal Judge shall prepare or have prepared a budget
for the Municipal Court which shall be submitted to the governing
body of each member by November 1 of each year. The budget shall set
forth, based upon the income and expenses for the prior twelve-month
period ending September 30, an estimate of all expenses and revenues
for the upcoming calendar year and shall be in a form that is consistent
with municipal budgets. The Township of Hope shall establish the final
budget for the Municipal Court of North Warren at Hope as part of
its municipal budget preparation.
Insurance coverage and/or bonds shall be obtained that protect
the Municipal Court and its personnel from claims against them arising
out of workers' compensation, bodily injury, property damage,
personal injury, or civil rights violations, defalcations by Court
personnel and such other coverages as may be necessary. The coverage
may be provided through policies issued to the members and/or through
separate policies issued to the Municipal Court.
[Amended 7-14-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-03]
A. The legally permitted municipal share of all fines, assessments,
costs or other charges collected by the Court (hereinafter "municipal
income") shall be forwarded monthly to Hope Township and credited
to the Court account and applied to the expenses of maintaining and
operating the Court. The Court administration shall simultaneously
submit a monthly summary of all income and disbursements to each municipality.
B. All other fines, assessments, Court costs and other charges shall
be distributed as required by law.
C. To the extent that the annual expenses necessary to maintain and
operate the Court are either greater than or less than the municipal
income received, they shall be allocated among the municipalities
pursuant to the following formula:
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The percentage share of each municipality shall be the total
of the fines divided by the amount of fines generated by that municipality.
By way of illustration, if the total in fines was $100,000 and Hope
generated $25,000 of such total, the share attributed to Hope would
be 25%.
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D. Each municipality shall pay monthly to Hope Township its estimated share of any anticipated deficit as established by the budget described in §
17-5.
E. On or about
October 31 of each year, Hope Township shall submit to each municipality
a final accounting for the prior fiscal/calendar year with any credit
due to be applied to future contributions.
The governing bodies of the Township of Blairstown, the Township
of Liberty and the Township of Hope are hereby authorized to enter
into a contract with each other incorporating the provisions of this
chapter pursuant to the Interlocal Services Act, N.J.S.A. 40:8A-1
et seq. In the event of any discrepancy between this chapter and
said Interlocal Services Act, and any amendments thereto, the Act
shall take precedence.