28:2-26.1 Fire Museum and Fallen Firefighters Memorial reorganized as independent, non-profit organization; membership, meetings.
1. a. The New Jersey Fire Museum and Fallen Firefighters Memorial is hereby removed from the auspices of the Department of Environmental Protection and reorganized and established as an independent, non-profit organization, which shall oversee the permanent fire museum and fallen firefighter memorial to honor New Jersey's proud history of firefighting service and the brave men and women who have sacrificed their lives in the fire service. The museum collection donated by Ernest Day shall be transferred from the Department of Environmental Protection and placed in the custody of the New Jersey Fire Museum and Fallen Firefighters Memorial.
b. The New Jersey Fire Museum and Fallen Firefighters Memorial shall be governed by a board of directors which shall organize within 30 days after the appointment of its members. The board shall select a chairperson from among the members. The board shall meet at the call of the chairperson at the times and places it may deem appropriate and necessary to fulfill its duties, except that the board shall meet a minimum of four times per year. A majority of the members shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of conducting business.
c. The board shall appoint an executive director who shall be compensated within the limits of the funds made available by the board for that purpose. The executive director shall serve at the pleasure of the board and shall be a person qualified by training and experience to perform the duties of the office.
L.2021, c.463, s.1.
Structure New Jersey Revised Statutes
Title 28 - Historic Memorials, Monuments and Sites
Section 28:1-4 - Rules and regulations; seal
Section 28:1-7 - Commemorative highway markers; erection and maintenance
Section 28:1-8 - Erection of monuments by societies; contribution by commission to cost
Section 28:1-9 - Celebrations of important historic events
Section 28:1-10 - Limitation on financial obligations
Section 28:1-11 - Contracts made in name of state
Section 28:1-13 - Enumeration of memorials, monuments and sites transferred
Section 28:1-14 - Acts saved from repeal
Section 28:1-15 - Municipal committees or commissions; funds from private sources; other powers
Section 28:1-16 - Appropriations
Section 28:1-17 - Employees of abolished boards and commissions
Section 28:2-7 - Battle park at Princeton
Section 28:2-8 - Association continued; board of trustees and officers; by-laws; seal.
Section 28:2-9 - Capital stock; subscriptions to; certificates; state seal attached to
Section 28:2-10 - Assignment or transfer of stock; unclaimed stock forfeited to association
Section 28:2-11 - Powers of trustees; property of association exempt from taxes
Section 28:2-13 - Final appropriation to Washington headquarters; acceptance as release of claims
Section 28:2-18 - Expenditures by board of trustees
Section 28:2-18.1 - Doyle Veterans' Cemetery
Section 28:2-25 - New Jersey Naval Museum
Section 28:2-26.2 - Powers, responsibilities, duties of board of directors.
Section 28:2-27 - Designation of "Axel B. Carlson, Jr. Reef"
Section 28:2-28 - All Sports Museum of Southern New Jersey designated.
Section 28:2-29 - Acquisition of other funds and related materials
Section 28:2-30 - "Railroad and Transportation Museum Fund," established
Section 28:2-31 - Lapsing funds
Section 28:2-32 - Findings, declarations regarding railroad, transportation museum
Section 28:2-33 - Location, establishment of "New Jersey Transportation Heritage Center"
Section 28:2-34 - Designation of official entity constructing law enforcement memorial and museum.