New Jersey Statutes 52:11-69. Officers and employees of the office; status
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 52:11-69
- person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
b. Officers and employees of the office shall be chosen subject to the approval of the commission without reference to political affiliation, solely on grounds of fitness to perform the duties of their office or employment and their employment and civil service status shall be governed by subsection d. of R.S. 11:4-4, except that:
(1) Any person holding office, position or employment in any department, board, commission or agency in the Executive Branch of the State Government, which is in the classified service of the civil service, who shall be appointed to any office, position or employment under the Legislative Services Commission shall, after the adoption of a resolution by the Legislative Services Commission to that effect, hold the office, position or employment to which he is so appointed with the same civil service rights, privileges and protections as he had and enjoyed in said office, position or employment in the Executive Branch of the State Government, notwithstanding that the office, position or employment to which he is so appointed shall itself be in the unclassified service of the civil service; and
(2) Employees performing stenographic or clerical duties may be appointed from the classified service of the civil service of the State in any case in which in the judgment of the commission more competent persons can be so employed and when so appointed such employees shall have civil service status as members of the classified service of the civil service, but no law or rule regulating assignment to duties, hours of work or payment for overtime shall be binding upon the agency as to persons employed by it whether or not they are employed from the classified service of the civil service.
Laws 1979, c. 8, s. 16.