40:41A-128 - Appointments between election and time of taking office under optional plan; pending actions and proceedings - New Jersey Statutes

40:41A-128.  Appointments between election and time of taking office under optional plan;  pending actions and proceedings    a.  No subordinate board, department, body, office, position or employment shall be created and, except in the case of positions created by this act, no appointments shall be made to any subordinate board, department or body, or to any office, employment or position, without limitation, between the date of election of officers and the effective date of the administrative code; except  that such temporary appointments may be made as shall be deemed necessary for  the continuation of government services or as may be required by emergency  situations, which situations shall be identified in a resolution adopted by the  board of freeholders; provided, however, that all such temporary appointments  shall terminate on the date that the administrative code takes effect.  Nothing  in this subsection shall be construed as limiting the discretion of the  appointing authority to reappoint, on a permanent basis, any person whose  temporary appointment terminates on the effective date of the administrative  code.

    b.  All actions and proceedings of a legislative, executive or judicial character which are pending upon the effective date of an optional plan adopted  pursuant to this act may continue, and the appropriate officer or employee  under such optional plan shall be substituted for the officer or employee  theretofore exercising or discharging the function, power or duty involved in  such action or proceeding.

     L.1972, c. 154, s. 128, eff. Sept. 19, 1972.  Amended by L.1975, c. 84, s. 41,  eff. May 5, 1975;  L.1975, c. 255, s. 4, eff. Nov. 26, 1975.