[1974 Code §§ 18-1—18-8; Ord. No. 83-11; Ord. No. 88-69; Ord. No. 89-41; Ord. No. 2017-65]
The Longevity Pay Program is hereby abolished unless specifically
provided for in a Collective Bargaining Agreement.
[1974 Code § 18-10]
Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40A:5-34.1, all municipal officials and
employees who are required to be bonded pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40A:5-34
are permitted to secure blanket bond coverage with the exception of
the Municipal Tax Collectors and the Comptroller. The blanket bond
coverage shall be filed with the Township Clerk. The individual bond
for the Tax Collectors and the Comptroller shall be similarly filed
with the Township Clerk.
Note: For statutory provisions relating to the
surety bonds of municipal officers and employees, see N.J.S.A. 40A:5-34
et seq.
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[1974 Code § 18-12]
No Township officer or employee, elective or appointive, shall:
a. Directly or indirectly use, or attempt to use, his office position
or employment, to secure or obtain any unwarranted, preferential,
favorite, discriminatory or unlawful rights, benefits, advantages
or privileges for himself or any others.
b. Vote for the adoption or defeat of any legislation or for the payment
or nonpayment of any indebtedness owing, or allegedly owing by the
Township in which he has a direct or indirect personal pecuniary or
other private interest.
c. Recommend, or lobby for, the adoption or defeat of any legislation,
or for the institution or defense of any legal or quasi-legal action
whatever, in which he has or may have, a direct or indirect personal,
pecuniary or other private interest.
d. Approve or disapprove, or in any wise recommend the payment of, any
bill, voucher or indebtedness owed or allegedly owed by the Township
in which he has a direct or indirect personal, pecuniary or private
interest.
e. Accept other employment, or professional retainers, or the promise
thereof, that might reasonably conflict with the performance of his
official duties, or that might reasonably tend to impair his independent
or impartial judgment or action in the exercise or performance of
his official duties.
[1974 Code § 18-13]
The Business Administrator may establish an Employee Grievance
Committee, consisting of five (5) officers and employees of the Township,
to hear, review and adjust informally such grievances as any employee
or department head may present to it. Such hearing, review and adjustment
shall be in accord with Article I, Section 19, of the New Jersey Constitution
(1947).
[1974 Code § 18-14; Ord. #83-36]
As of the effective date of this subsection, all new employees
employed by the Township and the Woodbridge Library Board shall be
residents of the Township on the date of their employment and shall
continue to be residents during the term of their employment. The
provisions of this subsection shall not apply to persons who are presently
nonresident employees of the Library or Township employees previously
exempt, and further shall not apply to department directors as the
same are established by the Administrative Code of the Township of
Woodbridge and all persons who are exempt from the residency requirements
set forth herein by State legislation or Federal law.
a. In the event that a municipal position cannot be filled after due
diligence by officials in securing a person or persons to fill the
post by a resident of the Township and upon notification by the Mayor
or Business Administrator of the Township's inability to employ a
resident, the Municipal Council shall adopt a resolution approving
the nonresidence of the employee.
b. In addition to those employees hereinabove excluded or exempted from
the provisions of this subsection are all persons employed in the
Township of Woodbridge prior to the effective date of Ordinance No.
76-25, dated July 6, 1976.
c. In the event that a present nonresident employee terminates his employment
with the Township after the effective date of this subsection and
then desires to seek Township employment, the person must satisfy
the residence requirements herein.
[Ord. #94-79 Preamble]
Certain employers doing work within the Township wish to use
the services of off-duty Township police officers for certain police
related services; and the Township wishes to charge these employers
utilizing off-duty police officers a specific dollar amount per hour
to cover the costs of the off-duty system and administering the off-duty
system.
[Ord. #94-79 § 1; Ord. #2015-28]
The extra duty rates paid by an outside employer to the Township
for off-duty Township police services shall be in conformance with
the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) currently on file in the
Offices of Personnel and Municipal Clerk.
[Ord. #94-15 Preamble; Ord. #96-06 Preamble]
N.J.S.A. 40A:10-23 allows Woodbridge Township, as a municipal
employer, to subsidize the cost of health benefits for specified groups
of the Township's employees who have retired. This section is required
in order to allow the Township to subsidize the cost of coverage for
the statutorily specified employees. The Township has already been
involved in litigation venued in Middlesex County Chancery Division,
Docket No. C-312-92, requiring the Township to cease its prior practice
of subsidizing retirees who have not complied with statutory criteria
set forth by N.J.S.A. 40A:10-23. This is the Township's prescription
of uniform conditions to subsidize the cost of insurance coverage
to qualified retirees, based upon the recommendation of the Administration
to the Municipal Council. The uniform conditions set forth below are
intended to be an equitable remedy for Township retirees and is consistent
with the practice employed by the New Jersey State Health Benefit
System.
[Ord. #94-80 § 6; Ord. #96-06 §§ 1—5;
Ord. #13-61 § 10]
Pursuant to the authority of N.J.S.A. 40A:10-23, the Township
hereby sets uniform conditions governing the payment of insurance
premiums after retirement of Township's employees as follows:
a. Full Payment. Woodbridge Township shall pay one hundred (100%) percent
of the cost of Health Insurance for any person who retires as a Woodbridge
Township employee and who has either (i) twenty-five (25) years of
service with Woodbridge Township as the employer; or (ii) thirty (30)
years of service in either the Public Employee Retirement System or
the Police and Fire Retirement System of which not less than the final
ten (10) years of service were as a Woodbridge Township employee.
b. Fifteen (15) Years of Service and Sixty-two (62) Years of Age. The
Township is to pay sixty (60%) percent of the cost of Health Insurance
Coverage for any Woodbridge Township's employee who has retired from
Woodbridge Township prior to June 30, 1996 and who had reached the
age of sixty-two (62) or older at retirement with at least fifteen
(15) years of service with Woodbridge Township, the employer. This
provision is to be phased in over a twelve (12) month period according
to uniform guidelines set forth by the Administration of the Township
of Woodbridge.
c. Disability Pension. The Township is to pay one hundred (100%) percent
of the cost of coverage for Woodbridge Township employees who retire
from the Township on a New Jersey State Recognized Disability Pension,
with such pension authorized prior to June 30, 1996.
As to such pensions authorized after June 30, 1996, the Township
is to pay sixty (60%) percent of the cost of coverage.
d. Labor Agreements. Consistent with the Township's labor agreements,
the Township will allow any retiree having served a minimum of ten
(10) years with the Township as the employer the right to participate
at the employees' own full cost in the Township's Health Benefit Program.
e. Dependents/Spouse. The provisions of this section will also apply
to those dependents including spouses, who are dependents of a Township
retiring employee at the time of the employee's retirement from Woodbridge
Township.
[Ord. #93-10 Preamble]
N.J.S.A. 63:1-20.5 (hereinafter the "Statute") directs the Superintendent
of State Police to adopt rules and regulations which establish and
implement the process by which the State Bureau of Identification
may provide criminal history record information to local government
agencies in noncriminal matters. Pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure
Act," N.J.S.A. 52:14B-1 et seq., the Superintendent of State Police
adopted rules, regulations and fees for the processing of criminal
background checks for noncriminal matters; said rules, regulations
and fees being codified in N.J.A.C. 13:59-1.1 et seq. (hereinafter
the "Regulations"). The Mayor and Municipal Council have determined
it to be in the best interests of the citizens of the Township of
Woodbridge to perform criminal record background checks on prospective
employees of the Township and those persons seeking a position with
any emergency response or service entity within the Township in order
to thoroughly ascertain their suitability for the employment or position.
[Ord. #93-10 § 1]
As used in this section:
ACCESS
Shall mean to instruct, communicate with, store data in,
gain entry into, retrieve data from, disseminate, or otherwise make
use of any computer, computer system or computer network.
AUTHORIZED AGENCY
Shall mean any agency authorized by a Federal or State statute,
rule or regulations, executive order, administrative code or local
ordinance to access Criminal History Record Information maintained
as part of a computerized database of the New Jersey Criminal Justice
Information System for noncriminal justice purposes, including licensing
and/or employment purposes.
CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD INFORMATION or CHRI
Shall mean information collected by criminal justice agencies
regarding individuals, and stored in the computerized database of
the New Jersey Criminal Justice Information System, consisting of
identifiable descriptions and notations of arrests, indictments or
other formal criminal charges and any dispositions arising therefrom,
including sentencing, correctional supervision and release.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE AGENCY
Shall mean (1) the courts of the State of New Jersey and
(2) a government agency of the State of New Jersey or any sub-unit
thereof which performs functions pertaining to the administration
of criminal justice pursuant to a statute, ordinance or regulation,
and which allocates a substantial portion of its budget to the administration
of criminal justice.
FEE
Shall mean that cost established by law for processing all
criminal history record requests for authorized agencies for noncriminal
justice purposes, including licensing and/or employment.
LICENSING AND/OR EMPLOYMENT PURPOSE
Shall mean any noncriminal justice purpose including licensing
and/or employment, for which applicant fingerprints or name search
requests are submitted by authorized agencies as required or permitted
by a Federal or State Statute, rule or regulation, executive order,
administrative code provision or local ordinance to the State Bureau
of Identification for the processing and obtaining of Criminal History
Record Information background checks.
PROCESSING CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD BACKGROUND CHECKS
Shall mean (1) the process whereby the State Bureau of Identification,
at the request of an authorized agency, accesses the Criminal History
Record Database of the New Jersey Criminal Justice Information System
to compare a set of classifiable fingerprints or to conduct a name
search request to determine if New Jersey Criminal History Record
Information exists for the person identified by the authorized agency;
and, (2) the furnishing by the State Bureau of Identification to an
authorized agency of all records or convictions in a New Jersey State
Court and all records of pending arrests and/or charges for violations
of New Jersey laws which the New Jersey Criminal Justice Information
System indicates as having no dispositions, regardless of their age,
unless such records have been expunged pursuant to law.
[Ord. #93-10 § 2]
The Township of Woodbridge shall hereinafter be deemed an "authorized
agency" for purposes of and pursuant to the Statute and the Regulations
in order that it may request the State Bureau of Identification to
access the Criminal History Records Database of the New Jersey Criminal
Justice Information System in order to compare fingerprints or to
conduct a name search, in order to determine if criminal history record
information exists for a prospective employee of the Township or a
prospective member of an emergency response or service entity within
the Township.