{"data":{"id":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-40a-14-180","jurisdiction":"us-nj","citation":"N.J. Stat. § 40A:14-180","heading":"Appointment of certain county, municipal, sheriff's law enforcement officers.","body":"1. a. The provisions of any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, the appointing authority of a county or municipality which, pursuant to N.J.S.40A:14-106, in the case of a county, or N.J.S.40A:14-118, in the case of a municipality, has established and maintains a police force or the sheriff of any county may appoint as a member or officer of the county or municipal police department or as a member or officer of the county sheriff's office any person who:\n(1)\twas serving as a law enforcement officer in good standing in any State, county or municipal law enforcement department or agency, or county sheriff's office; and\n(2)\tsatisfactorily completed a working test period in a State law enforcement title or in a law enforcement title in a county or municipality which has adopted Title 11A, Civil Service, of the New Jersey Statutes or satisfactorily completed a comparable, documented probationary period in a law enforcement title in a county or municipality which has not adopted Title 11A, Civil Service; and\n(3)\twas, for reasons of economy, terminated as a law enforcement officer within 60 months prior to the appointment.\nb.\tA county, municipality, or sheriff may employ such a person notwithstanding that:\n(1)\tTitle 11A, Civil Service, of the New Jersey Statutes is operative in that county or municipality;\n(2)\t the county, municipality, or sheriff's office has available to it an eligible or regular reemployment list of law enforcement officers eligible for such appointments; and\n(3)\tthe appointed person is not on any eligible list.  A county or municipality which has adopted Title 11A, Civil Service, may not employ such a person if a special reemployment list is in existence for the law enforcement title to be filled.\nc.\tIf a county or a sheriff determines to appoint a person pursuant to the provisions of this act, first priority in making such appointments shall be given to residents of the county. A municipality making such an appointment shall give first priority to residents of the municipality and second priority to residents of the county not residing in the municipality.\nd.\tThe seniority, seniority-related privileges and rank a law enforcement officer possessed with the employer who terminated the officer's employment for reasons of economy shall not be transferable to a new position when the officer is appointed to a law enforcement position pursuant to the provisions of this section.\nThe provisions of this section shall not apply to a sheriff's investigator appointed pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1987, c.113 (C.40A:9-117a).\nL.1991, c.299, s.1; amended 1993, c.187, s.1; 1996, c.13; 2010, c.103, s.1.","path":["TITLE 40A MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES"],"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":"26636a6003812a0f2140ec496dfd609f5310a996840d6fdadf4ef45e1d2bf75b","source_id":"us-nj","stale":true,"prev":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-40a-14-179","next":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-40a-14-180.1"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}