A 354 New Jersey General Assembly · 2024-2025 Regular Session

Clarifies regional municipal court jurisdiction over State Police and other matters originating outside of participating municipalities.

This bill clarifies jurisdiction for regional municipal courts established under New Jersey's 2021 pilot program. It specifies that these courts will no longer automatically handle cases filed by State Police or county law enforcement agencies when the incident originated outside participating municipalities. Instead, such cases must now be filed in the municipal court of the specific municipality where the incident occurred. Pending cases remain under the regional court's jurisdiction, but new cases from non-participating areas will be routed locally. Counties may still choose via ordinance to grant regional courts additional jurisdiction over certain countywide matters.
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Introduced Jan 9, 2024 Last action Jan 9, 2024
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Introduced in the Assembly, Referred to Assembly Judiciary Committee
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Claire Swift
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