[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township
of Liberty 2-5-2016 by Ord. No.
2016-002.[1] Amendments noted where applicable.]
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Editor's Note: This ordinance also repealed former Ch.
8, Joint Municipal Court, adopted 9-4-2014 by Ord. No. 2014-009.
The Township of Liberty does hereby withdraw from the Municipal Court of North Warren at Hope effective as of the date the shared service agreement between the Town of Belvidere and Liberty Township is signed and accepted by both municipal governing bodies and upon the approval of the aforesaid agreement by the New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts. At that time Liberty Township Code Chapter 8 shall be repealed and the contents herein be substituted therein.
Under the powers and authority granted to the Township by N.J.S.A.
2B:12-1 et seq. a Municipal Court is hereby established for the Township
of Liberty, in the County of Warren, to be known as the Municipal
Court of the Township of Liberty.
The territorial jurisdiction of the municipal court of the Township
shall be that territory embraced within the municipal boundaries of
the Township and as provided in N.J.S.A. 2B:12-16.
The municipal court of the Township and the judge thereof shall
have jurisdiction over all of the offenses set forth in N.J.S.A. 2B:12-17,
together with any other matter concerning which jurisdiction shall
by statute be conferred upon municipal courts of this state.
All administrative matters, fees, costs and all procedural rules
and regulations shall be governed and controlled by the provisions
of appropriate statutes in such case made and provided, by and prescribed
by the New Jersey Superior Court governing the courts of the State
of New Jersey, and the regulations and directives of the administrative
office of the courts of New Jersey, regarding procedures of municipal
courts.
The Municipal Court shall have a Municipal Judge, Prosecutor,
Public Defender and Court Administrator. The aforesaid parties shall
have such qualifications, be appointed and serve such term as provided
by law.
The salary of the Municipal Judge, Prosecutor, Public Defender,
Court Administrator, staff and the other costs of operating the Municipal
Court shall be shared between any municipalities with which the Township
Committee has executed, an interlocal agreement, as provided for in
such interlocal agreement. Any costs and fines collected from defendants
and any other costs or amounts collected or received by the Court
operated pursuant to the interlocal agreement shall be divided between
such municipalities as provided for in the interlocal agreement unless
otherwise provided by law.
Before entering upon the duties of the respective offices, the
Judge and Court Administrator and Violations Clerk thereof, shall
enter into a bond to the Township of Liberty and the County of Warren
and State of New Jersey in such amount and with such surety as the
Township Committee may fix, conditioned upon the faithful performance
of its respective duties of such officers.
The Mayor, on behalf of the Township Committee, is authorized
to enter into and executed an interlocal agreement with another municipality
for the appointment of persons to serve as the Judge, Prosecutor,
Public Defender and administrative staff of the Municipal Court of
the Township of Liberty.
