N.J. Stat. tit. 9, ch. 10

in effect

N.J. Stat. § 9:10-1 Establishment and management

The board of chosen freeholders of a county having a juvenile and domestic relations court may establish and equip a school of detention for dependent and delinquent children under sixteen years of age whom it may be necessary to detain by order or direction of the County Court and for that purpose may purchase suitable land and buildings or erect buildings on land owned by the county, but the consent of the County Court shall be had before any lands shall be purchased or buildings erected for such purpose. The school of detention with the land belonging thereto shall constitute a special school district in such county and the county superintendent of schools shall apportion and pay to the county treasurer, who shall be the custodian of the school's moneys, such apportionment of State school moneys and interest and surplus revenues as are paid to other school districts. The general management of the detention school when completed shall be vested in a board of directors consisting of the judge of the juvenile and domestic relations court, the county superintendent of schools, two members of the board of chosen freeholders selected by the director of such board and such director and the superintendent of schools of the most populous city in the county. Amended by L.1953, c. 9, p. 77, s. 21.

N.J. Stat. § 9:10-2 Incorrigible, insubordinate and disorderly children and habitual truants

Children under the age of sixteen who shall be habitual truants from school or habitually insubordinate or incorrigible and disorderly during attendance at school and who have been complained against in accordance with subtitle 5 of this title (s. 9:18-1 et seq.) shall be received by the school of detention. All children under sixteen years of age arrested for any cause, except murder or manslaughter, and school children habitually truant or incorrigible may by order of the juvenile and domestic relations court be held in the detention school until final judgment.

N.J. Stat. § 9:10-3 Scope and purpose of school; personnel

9:10-3. A county school of detention shall be arranged and conducted so far as practicable for the safe custody of the inmates and so far as duration of commitment permits for their training for good citizenship and self-support. There shall be ample ground for farming or gardening and shops or other means for industrial training and the institution shall be maintained or conducted as a home. To this end a superintendent and such teachers, matrons, masters, farmers and other employees shall be employed by the board of directors as in their judgment may be necessary for the proper maintenance of the school and grounds and the proper care, instruction and training of the children. The superintendent shall be a competent person of good moral character and shall reside in the school. The superintendent or principal teacher shall prepare and adopt a course of study and training for the pupils of the school subject to approval of the board of directors and the State Board of Education. The teachers shall have the qualifications and certificates of public school teachers in the public schools of this State. The principal teacher shall be the supervising principal and the school shall be entitled to apportionment of school moneys as a school district under the supervision of a supervising principal. The teachers and principals shall make such reports and keep such records as are required in other school districts in the county. The superintendent shall employ, subject to the approval of the board of directors, such additional help as may be necessary for the maintenance of buildings and grounds. The compensation and terms of service of superintendent and other employees shall be fixed by the board of directors. Whatever sum in addition to money received from the State is necessary to operate the school shall be appropriated by the governing body of the county. All bills shall be paid by the custodian of the school's moneys on order signed by the president and secretary of the board of directors. Amended L.1990,c.26,s.6.

N.J. Stat. § 9:10-4 Superintendents of detention house or school in certain counties

The board of chosen freeholders of a county of the second class, the third class or the fifth class, which has a detention school or a detention house may by resolution appoint a superintendent therefor who in addition to his duties as superintendent shall be an assistant county probation officer with all the powers and duties prescribed by law for an assistant probation officer. He shall perform such duties as shall be fixed by the board or by statutes relating to detention houses or schools. He shall hold office during the pleasure of the board and his salary shall be fixed by the board.

N.J. Stat. § 9:10-5 Records and reports

The superintendent of a county school of detention shall keep a complete record of children committed thereto, containing the name, address and age of each child, cause of detention, time of detention, offense alleged to have been committed if any, and any other useful data or information the juvenile and domestic relations court may direct to be kept. He shall also keep a record of all expenditures made by the county for the care and maintenance of the school. He shall make a report to the board of chosen freeholders between the first and thirty-first of December in each year containing an itemized statement of all such expense necessary to maintain the school and the number of inmates during each month. The juvenile and domestic relations court at any time may require the superintendent to furnish information concerning the conduct, maintenance or inmates of the school. Amended by L.1953, c. 9, p. 78, s. 22.

N.J. Stat. § 9:10-6 Bonds

For the purpose of obtaining means for the purchase of lands and buildings or the erection of buildings as authorized by section 9:10-1 of this title a county may issue bonds to an amount not exceeding one-half of one per cent of the ratables of the county for the purpose of establishing a detention school.

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