New Jersey § 52:13h-1

§ 52:13h-1.

The Legislature finds and declares that: a. at the November 1995 general election, the people of this State approved an amendment

to the New Jersey Constitution providing that, in certain cases, new statutes and

new administrative rules and regulations promulgated by State agencies shall not impose

unfunded mandates on counties, municipalities or school districts; b. the purpose of this constitutional provision is to prevent the State government

from requiring units of local government to implement additional or expanded activities

without providing funding for those activities; c. the long-standing, prior practice of State-imposed, unfunded mandates has contributed

to the rise in local property taxes which has increasingly burdened New Jersey's property

owners; d. the constitutional amendment also directs the Legislature to create a Council on

Local Mandates to resolve disputes regarding whether a law or a rule or regulation,

covered by the amendment, constitutes an unfunded State mandate; and e. it is, therefore, the purpose of this act to effectuate the will of the people

of this State and to fulfill the Legislature's responsibility to establish the Council

on Local Mandates.