New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 10 - HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 3 - CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION
Subchapter 1 - DEBARMENT, SUSPENSION AND DISQUALIFICATION OF PERSON(S)
Section 10:3-1.6 - Conditions for suspension of a person(s)

(a) Suspension shall be imposed only upon approval of the commissioner and upon approval of the Attorney General except as otherwise provided by law.

(b) The existence of any cause for suspension shall not require that a suspension be imposed, and a decision to suspend shall be made at the discretion of the commissioner and of the Attorney General, and shall be rendered in the best interests of the State.

(c) Suspension shall not be based upon unsupported accusation but upon adequate evidence that cause exists or upon evidence adequate to create a reasonable suspicion that cause exists.

(d) In assessing whether adequate evidence exists, consideration shall be given to the amount of credible evidence which is available, to the existence or absence of corroboration as to important allegations, and to inferences which may properly be drawn from the existence or absence of affirmative facts.

(e) Reasonable suspicion of the existence of a cause described in 10:3-1.2(a) 1 through 7 may be established by rendering of a final judgment or conviction by a court or administrative agency of competent jurisdiction, by grand jury indictment, or by evidence that such violations of civil or criminal law did in fact occur.

(f) A suspension invoked by another agency for any of the causes described in this subchapter may be the basis for the imposition of a concurrent suspension by DHS which may impose such suspension without the approval of the Attorney General or his designee.