New Jersey § 40a:4-45

§ 40a:4-45.

In the preparation of its budget, a county may not increase the county tax levy to

be apportioned among its constituent municipalities in excess of 2.5% or the cost-of-living

adjustment, whichever is less, of the previous year's county tax levy, subject to

the following exceptions: a. The amount of revenue generated by the increase in valuations within the county,

based solely on applying the preceding year's county tax rate to the apportionment

valuation of new construction or improvements within the county, and such increase

shall be levied in direct proportion to said valuation; b. Capital expenditures, including appropriations for current capital expenditures,

whether in the capital improvement fund or as a component of a line item elsewhere

in the budget, provided that any such current capital expenditures would be otherwise

bondable under the requirements of N.J.S.40A:2-21 and 40A:2-22 ; c. (1) An increase based upon emergency temporary appropriations made pursuant to N.J.S.40A:4-20 to meet an urgent situation or event which immediately endangers the health, safety

or property of the residents of the county, and over which the governing body had

no control and for which it could not plan and emergency appropriations made pursuant

to N.J.S.40A:4-46 . Emergency temporary appropriations and emergency appropriations shall be approved

by at least two-thirds of the governing body and by the Director of the Division of

Local Government Services, and shall not exceed in the aggregate 3% of the previous

year's final current operating appropriations. (2) (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1990, c. 89 .) The approval procedure in this subsection shall not apply to appropriations adopted

for a purpose referred to in subsection d. or f. below; d. All debt service; e. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1990, c. 89 .) f. Amounts required to be paid pursuant to (1) any contract with respect to use, service

or provision of any project, facility or public improvement for water, sewerage, parking,

senior citizen housing or any similar purpose, or payments on account of debt service

therefor, between a county and any other county, municipality, school or other district,

agency, authority, commission, instrumentality, public corporation, body corporate

and politic or political subdivision of this State; and (2) any lease of a facility

owned by a county improvement authority when the lease payment represents the proportionate

amount necessary to amortize the debt incurred by the authority in providing the facility

which is leased, in whole or in part; g. That portion of the county tax levy which represents funding to participate in

any federal or State aid program and amounts received or to be received from federal,

State or other funds in reimbursement for local expenditures. If a county provides matching funds in order to receive the federal or State or

other funds, only the amount of the match which is required by law or agreement to

be provided by the county shall be excepted; h. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1987, c. 74.) i. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1990, c. 89 .) j. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1990, c. 89 .) k. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1990, c. 89 .) l . (Deleted by amendment, P.L.2004, c. 74 .) m. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1990, c. 89 .) n. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1990, c. 89 .) o . (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1990, c. 89 .) p. Extraordinary expenses, approved by the Local Finance Board, required for the implementation

of an interlocal services agreement; q. Any expenditure mandated as a result of a natural disaster, civil disturbance or

other emergency that is specifically authorized pursuant to a declaration of an emergency

by the President of the United States or by the Governor; r. Expenditures for the cost of services mandated by any order of court, by any federal

or State statute, or by administrative rule, directive, order, or other legally binding

device issued by a State agency which has identified such cost as mandated expenditures

on certification to the Local Finance Board by the State agency; s. That portion of the county tax levy which represents funding to a county college

in excess of the county tax levy required to fund the county college in local budget

year 1992; t. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.2004, c. 74 .) u. Expenditures for the administration of general public assistance pursuant to P.L.1995, c. 259 ( C.40A:4-6.1 et al.); v. Amounts in a separate line item of a county budget that are expended on tick-borne

disease vector management activities undertaken pursuant to P.L.1997, c. 52 ( C.26:2P-7 et al.); w. Amounts expended by a county under an interlocal services agreement entered into

pursuant to the “Interlocal Services Act,” P.L.1973, c. 208 ( C.40:8A-1 et seq. al. ) entered into after the effective date of P.L.2000, c. 126 ( C.52:13H-21 et al.) or amounts expended under a joint contract pursuant to the “Consolidated

Municipal Service Act,” P.L.1952, c. 72 ( C.40:48B-1 et seq. ) entered into after the effective date of P.L.2000, c. 126 ( C.52:13H-21 et al.); x. Amounts appropriated in the first three years after the effective date of P.L.2003, c. 92 ( C.18A:7F-5b et al.) for liability insurance, workers' compensation insurance and employee group

insurance; y. Amounts appropriated in the first three years after the effective date of P.L.2003, c. 92 ( C.18A:7F-5b et al.) for costs of domestic security preparedness and responses to incidents and

threats to domestic security ; z. Expenditures of amounts received pursuant to section 5 of P.L.1981, c. 278 ( C.13:1E-96 ) . In the first full year where an existing appropriation or expenditure that is subject

to budget limitations is made an exception to budget limitations, a county shall deduct

from its final appropriations upon which its permissible expenditures are calculated

pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1976, c. 68 ( C.40A:4-45.2 ) the amount which the county expended for that purpose during the last full budget

year, or portion thereof, in which the purpose so excepted was funded from appropriations

in the county budget. In the first full year where an existing appropriation or expenditure that is not

subject to budget limitations is made subject to budget limitations, a county shall

add to its final appropriations upon which its permissible expenditures are calculated

pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1976, c. 68 ( C.40A:4-45.2 ) the amount which the county expended for that purpose during the last full budget

year, or portion thereof, in which the purpose so excepted was funded from appropriations

in the county budget.