New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 13 - LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY
Chapter 78 - ADMINISTRATION OF VICTIM AND WITNESS ADVOCACY FUND
Subchapter 5 - ALLOCATION AND DISBURSEMENT FROM FUND
Section 13:78-5.2 - Disbursement of moneys to State and grant awards to county Offices of Victim-Witness Advocacy

1. Each county prosecutor shall provide the State Office of Victim-Witness Advocacy with a completed application for grant funds to supplement the operation of the county Office of Victim-Witness Advocacy on forms prescribed by the Director.

2. Each county prosecutor shall submit a certification executed by each of the following county officials: the county prosecutor; the chief executive or chief appointed official; the chief financial officer; and the county commissioner director or president. The certification shall state that they authorize the application and that the grants awarded from the Fund will be expended solely for the development, provision, and/or enhancement of services to victims and witnesses in accordance with legislative mandates or the Attorney General Standards and related administrative and training costs.

3. A county should expend a grant award in the local budget year in which it is received.

4. A grant award from the Fund may be withheld from a county until that county's governing body approves the county prosecutor's budget request for the county Office of Victim-Witness Advocacy.