year without having such
absence charged to the annual
sick leave or the accumulated
sick leave provided in Sections
18A:30-2 and 18A:30-3. Salary
or wage payments provided
in this Section shall be made
for absence during the waiting
period and during the period
the employee received or was
eligible to receive a temporary
disability benefit under Chapter
15 of Title 34, Labor and
Workmen’s Compensation,
of the Revised Statutes. Any
amount of salary or wages paid
or payable to the employee
pursuant to this Section shall be
reduced by the amount of any
workmen’s compensation award
made for temporary disability.
b. Leave taken by an employee
pursuant to Subsection A. of
this section shall constitute
satisfactory service as provided
pursuant to NJSA 18A:29-
14 and any other provision,
statutory or contractual, relating
to employment, adjustment, or
other increments and shall not
constitute inefficiency or other
good cause for the withholding
of an employment or adjustment
increment.
18A:30-3.2 Credit with Unused
Sick Leave
Whenever a board of education
employs any person who has an unused
accumulation of sick leave days
from another school district in NJ,
the employing board may grant, not
later than the end of the first year
of employment, part or full credit
therefore. The amount of any such
credit shall be fixed by resolution
of the board uniformly applicable
to all employees and subject to the
provisions of this Chapter.
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18A:30-3.3 Certificate Issued
Showing Unused Sick Leave
Upon termination of employment
of any employee from any school
district, the board shall issue, at the
request of the employee, a certificate
stating such employee’s unused
accumulation of sick leave days as of
the date of such termination. Such
certificate shall be filed with the new
employer within one year of the date
of such new employment.
18A:30-4 Physician’s certificate
required for sick leave
In case of sick leave claimed, a board
of education may require a physician’s
certificate to be filed with the
secretary of the board of education
in order to obtain sick leave.
18A:30-6 Prolonged Absence
Beyond Sick Leave Period
When absence, under the circumstances
described in Section 18A:30-
1 of this Article, exceeds the annual
sick leave and the accumulated sick
leave, the board of education may
pay any such person each day’s
salary less the pay of a substitute,
if a substitute is employed, or the
estimated cost of the employment of
a substitute if none is employed, for
such length of time as may be determined
by the board of education in
each individual case. A day’s salary is
defined as 1/200 of the annual salary.
18A:30-7 Power of Boards of
Education to Pay Salaries
Nothing in this Chapter shall affect
the right of the board of education
to fix, either by rule or by individual
consideration, the payment of salary
in cases of absence not constituting
sick leave, or to grant sick leave over
and above the minimum sick leave
as defined in this Chapter or allowing
days to accumulate over and
above those provided for in Section
18A:30-2, except that no person
shall be allowed to increase his total
accumulation by more than 15 days
in any one year.
Miscellaneous Provisions
18A:6-1 Corporal Punishment of
Pupils
No person employed or engaged in
a school or educational institution,
whether public or private, shall inflict
or cause to be inflicted corporal
punishment upon a pupil attending
such school or institution; but any
such person may, within the scope of
his employment, use and apply such
amounts of force as is reasonable
and necessary:
(1) to quell a disturbance,
threatening physical injury to
others;
(2) to obtain possession of weapons
or dangerous objects upon the
person or within the control of
pupil;
(3) for the purpose of self-defense;
and
(4) for the protection of persons
or property; and any such
acts, shall not be construed to
constitute corporal punishment,
within the meaning and
intendment of this section.
Every resolution by law, rule, ordinance,
or other act or authority
permitting or authorizing corporal
punishment to be inflicted upon a
pupil attending a school or educational
institution shall be void.
18A:16-6 Indemnity of officers
and employees against civil
actions
Whenever any civil or administrative
action or other legal proceeding
has been or shall be brought against
any person holding any office,
position or employment under the