New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 5 - COMMUNITY AFFAIRS
Chapter 30 - LOCAL FINANCE BOARD
Subchapter 3 - ANNUAL BUDGET
Section 5:30-3.2 - Procedures for adoption of budget

Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 5:30-3.2

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024

(a) All budgets shall be introduced, approved, amended and adopted by resolution passed by not less than a majority of the full membership of the governing body.

(b) The procedure shall be as follows:

1. Introduction and approval;

2. Public advertising;

3. Public hearing;

4. Amendments and public hearings, if required;

5. Adoption;

6. The clerk of the local unit shall transmit a certified copy of the budget, as adopted, to the county board not later than 15 days following the adoption of the budget.

(c) The budget shall be introduced, in writing, at a meeting of the governing body. Approval of the introduction of the budget shall constitute a first reading, which may be by title. Within three days of approval, the certified approved budget shall be electronically submitted to the Director through the Financial Automation Submission Tracking (FAST) system, or such other automated system as may be implemented by the Director. Together with the approved budget, the governing body's certification that the local unit's hiring practices comply with the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's "Enforcement Guidance on the Consideration and Arrest of Conviction Records in Employment Decisions Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964," as amended, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000 et seq. (April 25, 2012), shall also be transmitted in such a manner as may be specified by the Director. The Director shall have the discretion to require the submission of one or more certified paper copies of the approved budget, together with all relevant information and documentation, as prescribed in this section, or as otherwise may be required by the Director, parallel to electronic submission.

(d) Within three days after adoption of the budget, the certified adopted budget shall be transmitted to the Director through the FAST system or such other automated system as may be implemented by the Director. The Director shall have the discretion to require the submission of one or more certified paper copies of the adopted budget, together with all relevant information and documentation, as prescribed in this section, or as otherwise may be required by the Director, parallel to electronic submission.

(e) No municipality may adopt its annual budget unless it has submitted to the Director a user-friendly budget section corresponding with the previous year's adopted budget. This provision shall not be interpreted to allow a municipality to avoid submitting a user-friendly budget section together with the corresponding annual budget form.

(f) The governing body of any municipality that operated a solid waste collection district as of December 31, 1989, shall determine the amount of money necessary for the support of the solid waste collection district. The amount so determined shall become part of the municipal budget on forms furnished and prescribed by the Director, and during those years when the annual budget of the municipality is subject to Director approval prior to adoption, shall be subject to approval by the Director.

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