The Regional Health Commission is hereby established pursuant
to N.J.R.S. 26:3-83 to 3-94.
The purposes of the Commission shall be:
A. Establishment of a Regional Air Pollution Control Department.
(1) Promulgation of administrative employment and operational policies
with regard thereto.
(2) Formulation of ordinances or codes for the control of air pollution
and the repeal or amendment of ordinances or codes in and for each
participating municipality and on behalf of the Regional Health Commission.
(3) Establishment of Commission offices.
(4) Preparation of an annual proposed budget and the distribution of
expenses relating thereto among member municipalities.
(5) To carry out other activities designed to reduce, prevent or eliminate
air pollution.
B. Development of other regional health services.
(1) Other health services which lend themselves to a regional approach
may be authorized and established by the Commission only by resolution
of the interested participating municipalities.
(2) Resolutions authorizing the establishment of other health services
by the Regional Health Commission shall define the service to be rendered
and the method of cost distribution and any other terms and conditions
pertinent or relating to that service.
(3) The Regional Health Commission, upon receipt of the municipal resolutions,
shall establish the administrative and operational policies needed
for the service, employ staff, establish office facilities, prepare
an annual budget and utilize any and all authority vested under Article
6, Regional Health Commission, N.J.R.S. 26:3-83 to 3-94, to provide
the authorized service.
The Commission shall adopt, and may from time to time amend,
bylaws.
This joint agreement shall become effective upon its execution
by all of the participating municipalities.
This joint agreement shall continue for an indefinite term unless
terminated by the withdrawal of a participating municipality, which
may be done only on the first day of the Commission's fiscal
year, provided that a certified copy of a duly adopted resolution
giving notice thereof is delivered to the President and Secretary
of the Commission by the withdrawing participating municipality at
least one year prior thereto.
This joint agreement may be amended from time to time to provide
for additional participating municipalities, provided that at all
times every participating municipality shall be contiguous to at least
one other participating municipality.
This joint agreement may be amended only by an instrument in
writing and executed by all participating municipalities.
This joint agreement shall extend to and bind the successors
and assigns of the parties hereto, and the parties hereto do hereby
expressly intend to be legally bound thereby.
Nothing herein shall in any way be constructed to limit the
powers of the individual municipalities to adopt air pollution ordinances
more stringent than those in the attached code.