{"data":{"id":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-2a-157-23","jurisdiction":"us-nj","citation":"N.J. Stat. § 2A:157-23","heading":"Construction;   \"special officer\"  discontinued","body":"It is the intention that this chapter be so construed as to make consistent  throughout the state the law as it applies to the office or position of county  detective and county investigator, to provide that county detectives shall be  in the classified service of the civil service, and county investigators in the  unclassified service and to discontinue the term \"special officer\"  as the  title of any office in the offices of prosecutors.\nL.1951 (1st SS), c.344.","path":["TITLE 2A ADMINISTRATION OF CIVIL AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE"],"source_url":"https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/statutes/STATUTES-TEXT.zip","current_through":"P.L.2025, c.405, and J.R.22","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T17:54:13Z","sha256":"82eacebf11975c880e10b20b37fa5bd078653ee1a981dbb88bb3abe3d265dd3a","source_id":"us-nj","stale":true,"prev":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-2a-157-22","next":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-2a-158-1"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}