40A:9-133.4 - Conditions for issuance of certificates
40A:9-133.4. Conditions for issuance of certificates a. Upon payment of a fee of $25.00 payable to the order of the State Treasurer, the Director of the Division of Local Government Services shall issue a registered municipal clerk certificate, notwithstanding the provisions of section 2 of this act, under the following conditions:
(1) To a person holding the position of municipal clerk for five or more years, provided that person has passed the examination required by section 2 of this act. This subsection shall expire on December 31, 1985; and
(2) To a person who received a registered municipal clerk certificate from Rutgers, The State University between 1977 and effective date of this act.
b. The Director of the Division of Local Government Services shall issue a temporary municipal clerk certificate to a person who is in the third year of an initial appointment on the effective date of this amendatory and supplementary act, provided that the person pays the fee required under subsection a. of this section. That person shall be eligible for appointment to a second term as municipal clerk on a conditional basis. If a person so appointed has not completed the courses and passed the examination required by section 2 of this amendatory and supplementary act by the end of the second year of the second term, this person shall forfeit the position at that time.
c. The governing body of a municipality may provide for a three year initial appointment, to the office of municipal clerk, of an individual who has not completed the specific course work or the examination requirement set forth in section 2 of this amendatory and supplementary act, but who is otherwise qualified under that section. Any such appointment shall be contingent upon the requirement that the individual undertake the appropriate course work and take the examination during the term of that appointment.
L. 1985, c. 174, s. 4, eff. May 31, 1985.