2019 New Jersey Revised Statutes
Title 18A - Education
Section 18A:71B-56 - "Tony Pompelio Commemorative Scholarship Fund"

18A:71B-56. "Tony Pompelio Commemorative Scholarship Fund"

4. a. There is hereby created and established in the authority a scholarship fund which shall be known as the "Tony Pompelio Commemorative Scholarship Fund." The fund shall consist of all funds appropriated by the Legislature or otherwise made available for the Tony Pompelio Commemorative Scholarship Fund program.

b. The fund shall be administered by a board of trustees which shall consist of the executive director or a designee of the executive director, the chairman or a designee of the chairman and eight citizens of this State who have been crime victims or are family members of a crime victim. Citizen members of the board shall be selected by the chairman in consultation with the executive director, and without regard to political affiliation and, on the basis of their experience as crime victims or family members of a crime victim.

c. Each citizen member of the board shall serve for a term of four years and until a successor shall have been appointed and qualified. Any vacancy in the membership of the board shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment for the remainder of the unexpired term.

d. Members of the board shall serve without compensation but shall be entitled to be reimbursed for all reasonable and necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties.

e. The executive director or a designee of the executive director in conjunction with the chairman or a designee of the chairman shall serve as the chief executive officers of the fund and shall organize the work of the fund as deemed necessary to carry out the provisions of this act.

L.2000,c.163,s.4.