N.J. Stat. tit. 40, ch. 83

in effect

N.J. Stat. § 40:83-1 Selection of officers and employees

All officers and employees in any municipality governed by this subtitle shall be selected with reference to their qualifications and fitness for the public service required of them and without reference to their political faith or affiliations.

N.J. Stat. § 40:83-2 No officer or employee to be interested in contracts

No officer or employee elected or appointed in any such municipality shall be interested directly or indirectly in any contract or job for work or materials, or the profits thereof, or services to be furnished or performed for the municipality, and no such officer or employee shall be interested directly or indirectly in any contract or job for work or materials or the profits thereof, or services to be furnished or performed, for any person operating any interurban railway, street railway, gas works, waterworks, electric light or power plant, heating plant, telegraph line, telephone exchange, or other public utility within the territorial limits of such municipality.

N.J. Stat. § 40:83-3 No officer or employee to receive free service; exceptions

No officer or employee shall accept or receive, directly or indirectly, from any person operating within the territorial limits of said municipality, any interurban railway, street railway, gas works, waterworks, electric light or power plant, heating plant, telegraph line, telephone exchange or other business using or operating under a public franchise, any frank, free pass, free ticket or free service, or accept or receive, directly or indirectly, from any person, any other service upon terms more favorable than is granted to the public generally, except that such prohibition of free transportation shall not apply to policemen or firemen in uniform. Nor shall any free service to the municipal officials heretofore provided by any franchise or ordinance be affected by this section.

N.J. Stat. § 40:83-4 Unlawful methods for securing political support

No candidate for office, appointment or employment, and no officer, appointee, or employee in any such municipality shall directly or indirectly give or promise any person any office, position, employment, benefit or anything of value for the purpose of influencing or obtaining the political support, aid or vote of any person, under the penalty of being disqualified to hold the office or employment to which he may be or may have been elected or appointed.

N.J. Stat. § 40:83-5 Certain acts misdemeanors

Any person who shall violate any provision of sections 40:83-2, 40:83-3 or 40:83-4 of this title shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

N.J. Stat. § 40:83-6 Tenure of veterans in office of city engineer

1. Any person being an honorably discharged soldier, sailor or marine, who served in the Army, Navy or Marine Corps of the United States in any war of the United States, or an honorably discharged member of the American Merchant Marine who served during World War II and is declared by the United States Department of Defense to be eligible for federal veterans' benefits, and holding the office, position or employment of city engineer in any city governed under the municipal manager form of government law, who heretofore has held, hereafter shall hold or heretofore and hereafter shall have held said office, position or employment continuously for a period of 15 years from the date of his original appointment as city engineer of such municipality under an indefinite term or under fixed terms or under both indefinite and fixed terms, while said city was governed under said law or under any other law or both, shall hold his said office, position or employment during good behavior and efficiency and shall not be removed therefrom except for good cause and then only upon a sworn complaint, specifying the cause, filed with the city manager of said municipality and after a public, fair and impartial hearing before said city manager. L.1943,c.190,s.1; amended 1991,c.389,s.24.

N.J. Stat. § 40:83-7 Complaint for removal; hearing

Upon the filing of such complaint, a certified copy thereof shall be served upon such person at least five days before the hearing and at such hearing such person shall have the right to be represented by counsel, to produce and have process to compel the attendance of witnesses on his own behalf and to cross-examine the witnesses produced against him, and said city manager shall have power to issue writs of subpoena to compel the attendance of witnesses at said hearing. L.1943, c. 190, p. 531, s. 2.

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