{"data":{"id":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-52-13h-16","jurisdiction":"us-nj","citation":"N.J. Stat. § 52:13H-16","heading":"Preliminary rulings","body":"16.  The council shall have the authority to issue a preliminary ruling enjoining enforcement of a statute or a rule or regulation pending the council's consideration of whether the statute or the rule or regulation constitutes an unfunded mandate whenever a complaint filed with the council by a county, municipality or school district demonstrates, to the satisfaction of the council, that significant financial hardship to the county, municipality or school district would result from compliance and there is a substantial likelihood that the statute or the rule or regulation is, in fact, an impermissible, unfunded State mandate.\nL.1996,c.24,s.16.","path":["TITLE 52 STATE GOVERNMENT, DEPARTMENTS AND OFFICERS"],"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":"c62a48e4020db79b47dd101aae231022485dbb61a930451ee4fa4b85a5fbdd00","source_id":"us-nj","stale":true,"prev":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-52-13h-15","next":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-52-13h-17"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}