13:1D-18.3 - Office of Recycling - New Jersey Statutes

13:1D-18.3.  Office of Recycling
    a.   There is established in the Department of Environmental Protection a New Jersey Office of Recycling.  All of the functions, powers and duties heretofore exercised by the Department of Energy and the commissioner thereof pursuant to P.L. 1981, c. 278 (C. 13:1E-92 et seq.) are transferred to and vested in the New Jersey Office of Recycling in the Department of Environmental Protection and the commissioner thereof.  The New Jersey Office of Recycling shall be under the immediate supervision of an administrator who shall be appointed by the Commissioner of Environmental Protection and who shall be in the unclassified service of the State.

   b.   The administrator shall administer the work of the New Jersey Office of Recycling under the direction of the commissioner and shall perform any other functions of the department as the commissioner may prescribe.

   c.   Whenever in any law, rule, regulation, order, contract document, judicial or administrative proceeding or otherwise, reference is made to the de facto Office of Recycling under the joint administration of the Departments of Energy and Environmental Protection, the same shall mean and refer to the New Jersey Office of Recycling in the Department of Environmental Protection.

   d.   All transfers directed by this section shall be made in accordance with the "State Agency Transfer Act," P.L. 1971, c. 375 (C. 52:14D-1 et seq.).

   L. 1987, c. 102, s. 49.