New Jersey § 52:11-61

§ 52:11-61.

It shall be the duty of the Legislative Counsel: a. To provide general standards for the office to draft, aid in drafting and redrafting

bills, resolutions and amendments thereof, and reviewing the same when drafted elsewhere,

proposed for introduction in the Legislature and other legislative documents for and

upon the request of any legislative commission or of any member, committee or joint

committee of the Legislature; b. To provide general standards for the office to examine and edit legislative bills,

proposed for introduction or introduced from time to time in the Senate and General

Assembly so as to assure, whenever possible, their compliance with the form and general

classification of the Revised Statutes, when so requested or directed by the Legislature

or any committee thereof; c. To furnish assistance and information to the Legislature or any member or committee

thereof or to the departments, officers, institutions and agencies of the State and

to the public in legal matters concerning the statutes, when so requested; d. To receive drafts of legislative bills with suggestions and recommendations from

the New Jersey Law Revision Commission for the improvement and modification of the

general and permanent statute law of the State, and to examine and edit those bills

in the same manner as it would other bills under this section; e. To furnish to the presiding officer of each House of the Legislature or to the

committees, joint committees and members of the Legislature, legal assistance, information

and advice when and in relation to such matters as the commission shall from time

to time determine, relating to (1) The subject matter and legal effect of the statutes and of proposals made for

statutory enactment, and (2) Questions of parliamentary law and legislative procedure; f. Upon the written request of either or both Houses of the Legislature, the presiding

officer of either House, the majority or minority leader of either House, a legislative

committee or commission, to furnish formal written opinions on legal matters; g. On behalf of the commission to assign appropriate compilation numbers to newly-enacted

laws, edit an annual cumulative table of contents to the laws, and initiate administrative

corrections in the text of the laws as authorized and directed by R.S.1:3-1 and R.S.1:3-2 ; h. To provide the prime sponsor or prime sponsors, as the case may be, of a legislative

bill, joint resolution or concurrent resolution, or amendment thereto, as well as

the prime sponsor or prime sponsors, as the case may be, of an identical legislative

bill, joint resolution or concurrent resolution, or amendment thereto, at the same

time as provided to the requester of a written opinion under this section, with advice

of any legal defects, constitutional, procedural or otherwise, of which the Legislative

Counsel is aware, notwithstanding the provisions of section 17 of this act ( C.52:11-70 ); and i. To perform such other duties and responsibilities as shall be directed by the commission

or provided by law or House rule.