US Constitution, NJ
File — Container: File Room: Aisle 5 (TIC)
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Commissions, committees of the state
Permanent Commissions
From the Collection:
Advisory Planning to the Legislature and Governor (no longer in existence?)
Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission
Capital Budgeting and Planning Commission
Casino Control Commission
Commission on Higher Education
Criminal Sentencing and Disposition Commission
Delaware River Basin Commission
Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission
Delaware River Port Authority
Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission
Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission (now New Jersey Meadowlands)
Highway Authority (became part of New Jersey Turnpike Authority)
Interstate Commission on the Delaware River Basin (absorbed by Delaware River Basin Commission - DRBC)
Interstate Cooperation Commission (became Intergovernmental Relations)
Interstate Sanitation Commission (became Interstate Environmental Commission)
Investigation, State Commission
Joint Meeting in the Matter of an Outlet Sewer (incl Second River, no longer exists?)
Law Revision Commission
Martin Luther King Jr. Commerative Commission
New Jersey Commerce and Economic Growth (became New Jersey Economic Development Authotiy)
New Jersey Criminal Diposition (replaced by Criminal Sentencing and Disposition Commission)
New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority
New Jersey Exec. Commission on Ethical Standards (now the State Ethics Committee)
New Jersey Expressway Authority (now South Jersey Transportation Authority)
New Jersey Historical Commission
New Jersey Meadowlands Commission
New Jersey Motion Picture Commission (born digital)
New Jersey Racing Commission
New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority (see Sports)
New Jersey Turnpike Authority
New York - New Jersey Transportation Agency (no longer exists?)
North Jersey Districy Water Supply Commission
North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority
Palisades Interstate Park Commission
Passaic Valley Sewarage Commission
Pinelands Commission
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
South Jersey Port Commission
South Jersey Transportation Authority
Sports and Exposition Authority (see New Jersey Sports)
State Capital Development Commission (absorbed?)
Tri-State Regional Planning Commission (aka. Tri State Transportation Commission, ended in 1982)
Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor (NJ withdrew in 2023, replaced by New York Waterfront, and NJ State Police)
This section of documents contains Permanent Commissions to the State of New Jersey or Interstate Commissions (transcribed from card file)
Temporary Commissiosn
From the Collection:
Abortion Study Commission (ACR 24, 1968)
Administration of Public Medical Care (JR4, 1956)
Advisory, Local Personal Property Tax (JR8, 1961)
Alcoholic Beverage Commission (Ch. 436, 1933)
Alcoholic Beverage Control Study Commission (SCR3025, 1979)
Alcoholism and Promotion of Temperance (Ch. 94, 1945)
Apportionment (begins 1967, GOP-II proposal adopted 1992)
Arts in New Jersey (AJR 20, 1962; AJR 8 1964)
Audit and Finance (JR 2,3 and 9 1929)
Automobile Reparation Reform Act (SCR 68, 1972)
Beach Erosion (JR 9 1948)
Blue Cross in New Jersey
Boundary Commission (JR 1886)
Budget Advisory (G 1935)
Bus Susidy Program Study
CATV Study (A 2041, 1971)
Camp Grounds at Sea Girt, Agents for the Purchase of (L 1888)
Capital Needs of New Jersey (G)
Capital Punishment, To Study (SJR 3, 1964)
Centennial Exhibition (L 1875)
Charitable and Philanthrophic Fund Raising Study (JR 7, 1956)
Child Labor Laws Study (JR 12, 1968)
Children and Youth, NJ Committee On (for 1960 White House conference)
Chronic Sick (JR 1949)
Civil Service Investigating (JR 1916)
Civil War Centennial (JR 11 1959 and JR 5 1961)
Columbian Exhibition, World's Committee of the New Jersey School Exhibit (authorized by Board of Education, appointed by Governor)
Conflicts of Interest in the performance of public duties by persons holding public office... (SCR 18, 1956)
Conflicts of Interest, Legislative Commission
Constitution Committee to Formulate Certain Amendments to
Constituion NJ, Committee on the Revision of (JR 2 1941)
Constitutional Convention, 1947
Constitutional Convention, 1966
Construction Safety, Gov's Advisory (G 1959)
Corporation Law Revision (Ch. 10 1958)
Corporation Law, Commissioners Appointed to Revise (SCR, 1916)
Corporations, Commissioners Appointed to Revise (Ch 351, 1895)
Corporations, Commissioners Appointed to Revise (Ch 30, 1905)
Counseling and Placement Services for High School Graduates, to Study (ACR 1964)
County and Municipal Government Study (Ch. 28, 1966)
County and Municipal Law Revision (ch. 231, 1956)
County and Municipal Taxation and Expenditure, to Investigate (JR 13, 1929)
County Penal System Study (JR 3, 1973)
Crime in New Jersey, Commission to Study the Causes and Prevention Of (Ch. 84, 1966)
Crime, Commission to Investigate the Subject of (G 1927)
Criminal Law Revision
Defense Council
Defense Council - War Transportation Commmittee
Defense of Indigent Persons Accused of Crime (JR 12, 1966)
Delaware Bay Area Development (JR 15 1959)
Delaware River Fisheries and Stream Pollution (JR 2, 1908)
Delaware River Treaty (Ch. 94 1923 and Ch. 344 1926)
Dependency and Crime (Ch. 140 1908)
Displaced Persons, Govs. Commission On (G)
Divorce Law Study (ch. 57 1967)
Drainage Stream Clearence, Joint (ACR 23 1953 and ACR 4 1954)
Driver Education Study (AJR 32 1962)
Economy and Efficiency (JR 6 1912)
Education Dept. Building Cold, Commission to Study (SJR 4 1956)
Educational Television Committee (AJR 9 1953)
Efficiency and Economy in State Govt, Gov's Committee
Legislative Commission to Study Efficiency and Economy in State Government (SCR 13, 1964)
Efficiency and Economy in State Govt, State Commission (SCR 141, 1976)
Election Law Revision (Ch. 29 1964, Ch. 78 1965)
Election Laws Study (JR 14 1953, JR 6 1956)
Emergency City Govt, Commission On (SJR4 1959)
Emergency Committee, Gov's Report (G 1939)
Emegency Relief Administration
Eminent Domain Revision (Ch. 50 1962)
Employer's Liability (Ch. 241, 1911)
Energy Crisis Study
Essex County East-West Freeway (ACR 41, 1956)
Excise (CR 1908)
Exec. Branch of the State Govt., to study the organization and operation (SJRI 1954)
Family Court Study (JR 12 1968)
Federal-State War Conference on Social Protection
Federal Writer's Project
Flood Control (JR 19 1929)
Fluoridation Study (JR 3, 1971)
Gambling Study (SCR 58, 1972)
Gasoline Study (ACR 7, 1952)
General Hospitals
Habitual Sex Offender (SJR 7, 1949)
Hackensack Meadowlands Study (SCR 147, 1975)
Health Admin., Local, Gov's Committee (G)
Health and Safety of Workers, Gov's Advisory Committee
Health and Welfare, State Conference (G 1938)
Hospitals, state aid for care of indigent patients, study (Ch. 1940, 1965)
Housing, Advisory Committee
Housing, Gov's Temporary Committee
Hudson River Waterfront Study Planning and Development
Immigration (Ch. 362, 1911)
Improvement of the Law of Evidence, Commission (JR 15, 1955)
Income Maintenance (PL 1975 c. 359)
Income Maintenance (PL 1978 c. 108)
Individual Liberty and Personal Privacy
Industrial Development (SCR 13, 1955)
Industrial Education (JR 11, 1908)
Industrial Recovery Admin., NJ Code of Fair Competition (Ch. 372 1933)
Institutions and Agencies Dept, to Study (G)
Intergovernmental Relations, New Jersey (JR, 1954?)
Interstate Bridge and Tunnel Commission, NJ (JR 3 1906, JR 4 1912, Ch. 49 1918, now administered by Port Authority and South Jersey Port)
Intrastate Bus Operation, Legislative (SCR 22, 1958 etc)
Judicial Council of New Jersey
Jury System, Commission to Investigate the Report to the Legislature (JR 9, 1912)
Juvenile Delinquency (Ch. 136, 1936)
Landlord Tenant Relationship Study (ACR 28 1969)
Law Enforcement Council (Ch. 253 1952, Ch. 182 1953)
Commission On Legal and Ethical Problems in the Delivery of Health Care
Legislative Reapportionment and Congressional Redistricting Planning (SCR 21 1964, SCR 3, 1965)
Lehigh Valley Railroad, Commission to Confer With (SJR 1911)
Library Services, to Study (JR 9 1954)
Local Govt. Conflicts of Interest and Code of Ethics Study (SCR 69 1972)
Local Property Taxation, Gov's Committee (G)
Management Commission, Gov's
Meadow Reclamation (JR 8 1930)
NJ Commission to Study Meadowland Development (JR 8 1963)
Mental Defectives, Commission on the Care of (JR 5 1913)
Mental Health (ACR 42 1956, ACR 35 1957)
Mentally Deficient Persons, Commission to Study (AJR 11 1950)
Metropolitan Rapid Transit Commission (Ch. 194 1952)
Middle Income Housing Study Commission (JR 11 1955)
Migratory Children, Commission to Investigation (JR 6 1930)
Military Training and Instruction in High School (Ch. 211, 1916)
Mobile Home Study (JR 3 1977)
Morris Canal Abandonment, to Investigate (CR 1903)
Morris Canal and Banking Co. (G 4/23)
Morris Canal Investigation Committee (JR 10 1912)
Morven, Gov's Committee On (G)
Motor Vehicles Air Pollution Control Study (JR 8, 1964
Motor Vehicles Drivers License Study (SR 3 1968)
Motor Vehicle Inspection Study (AJR 28)
Motor Vehicle Study (Ch. 68 1974)
Municipal Financing, for the Survey Report (AR 1915)
Municipal Government (JR3 1907, JR1 1948)
Narcotic Control (Ch 449 1953, Ch 226 1964 changed from Perm. Comm. to Advisory Council)
Narcotic Drug Study (JR 15 1962)
Narcotics, legislative (JR 8 1951)
NJ American Revolution Bicenntenial Celebration
NJ Bioethics
NJ Blue Cross Rate Study
NJ Child Labor Law Study (JR 11 1955)
NJ Gov's Milk Committee
NJ Higher Education, Gov's Committee
NJ Medical College (JR 4 1950)
NJ Old Age Study (JR 3 1954)
NJ State Employees Safety (G 1965)
NJ State Racing (Ch. 333 1933)
NJ Tercentenery 1664-1964
NJ Workmen's Comp (G 1972)
NY-NJ Port and Harbor (Ch. 130, 1917)
Newark Bay
No Fault Auto Accident Insurance Plan (JR 4 1970)
Open Space Policy (Ch. 312 1968)
Passaic River Flood District
Passaic River Navigation (Ch. 173 1912)
Passaic Valley Flood Control, Gov's Committee
Pension and Retirement (JR 11 1917)
Pension Survey
Personnel Employed by Various State Depts, etc. Commission to Study (Ch. 162 1943)
Physically Handicapped, Governer's NJ State Committee to Employ - Bloomfield-West Essex County
Port of New York, On Taxation of Property (JR 1,5 1925)
Port Raritan District
Post-War Economic Welfare (Ch. 192, 1943)
Primary and Election Laws, to Revise (JR 4 1916)
Prison Industry (JR 1 1917)
Prison Labor
Prison System (JR 1877)
Prisons and Parole System, to examine and investigate (Ch. 315 1941)
Professionak and Occupational Licensing Study
Public and School Employees Grievance Procedure Study (Ch. 170 1966 and Ch. 8 1967)
Public Broadcasting for NJ, Gov's
Public Education, to Survey
Public Employee Employer-Employee Relations Study (Ch. 124, 1974)
Public Records, Committee of Citizens On
Railroad Companies, Committee to Confer With Respecting Payment of Their Taxes (SCR 1938)
Railroad Grade Crossing, for Elimination or Alteration
Railroad Tax Hearing
Railroad Tax Law of 1941, on the Operation Of
Railroads and Canals in NJ, Board to Reappraise (JR 3 1909)
Real Estate Title Insurance Study (ACR 77 1972)
Real Property Tax Exemption (ACR 42 1968)
Recreation (ACR 11 1949)
Regional Planning
Riparian Lands (JR 11 1960)
Rules of Evidence (SCR 28 1966)
Rutgers and the State University (JR 2, 7, 1928)
Salt Water Fishing, Investigation Of (SR 1906)
Sandy Hook State Park, Legislative (JR 17 1933)
School Aid (JR 9 1950)
School Survey (G 1932)
Second Mortgage Loan Study (JR 11 1956)
Senior Citizens Tax Study (JR 16 1968)
Sex Discrimination in the Statutes (Ch. 68, 1978)
Ship Canal Advisory
Social Security
South Jersey Port and Delaware River Port, to study the practibility of consolidating (SCR 18 1966)
South Jersey Transit Authority
Special Tax (1880)
Sports Hall of Fame, Advisory
State Admin. and Professional Compensation
State Admin. Reorganization (JR 1 1944)
State Aid to School Districts (Ch. 32 1966)
State and County Aid to General Hospitals (JR 6 1927)
State Capitol Building (JR 2 1945)
State College for the Benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts(Ch 4 1902)
State-Employee Relations (G 1942)
State Employees Retirement System, Special (JR 7 1951)
State Law Enforcment Pension, Advisory Commission (Ch. 320, 1951)
State Lottery Planning (JR 11 1959)
State Sewarage (Ch. 210 1889)
State Tax Policy
Status of Women, Gov's
Student Service (Ch. 23 1942, Ch. 145 1943)
Subminal Projection (ACR 33 1958)
Tax Assessments, Commission to Investigate (JR 7 1912)
Tax Law Revision (Ch. 95 1938)
Tax Laws, to Investigate (JR 1 1919)
Tax Policy (1970)
Taxation, to Investigate (CR 1896)
Taxation, Commissioners Appointed to Investigate (SCR 1904)
Taxation of Intangible Personal Property (JR 4 1944)
Taxation of State Owned Land (JR 10 1965)
Taxation of Out of State NJ Residents (SCR 25 1957)
Teacher Preperation Programs Study (PL 1978 c. 25)
Textile Fabrics (Ch. 107, 1877)
Toll Roads and Bridges, to Investigate (JR 2, 1916)
Traffic (JR 4 1928)
Transit Problems
Travel and Resort Industry Study
USS New Jersey Battleship (JR 6 1975)
Unemployment Relief (Ch. 92 1938)
Uniform Commercial Code, to Study and Report Upon (Ch 66 1959)
Uniform Consumer Credit Code (Ch. 238 1969)
US Constitution, NJ
Urban Colored Population (Ch 393, 1938)
Victory Garden Committee
War Records
Water Supply, Legislative (AJR 4 1955)
Weather Service (1890-1902)
Welfare Administration (JR 9 1951)
Welfare and Relief Laws (ACR 3 1968)
Worker's Comp Act and Practices, Study Of (JR 16 1933)
Workmen's Comp Law Study (Ch. 126, s. 18, 1966)
Work's Progress Administration
World's Fair
Youth, Gov's Committee
Youth Study (SJR 3 originally State Juvenile Deliquency, to Study, SEE ALSO: IF-Newark Youth)
Includes the following temporary commissions. Dates represent the law that founded the commission, but not necessarily all documents in the section.
Departments transcribed from card file.
JR = Joint Resolution
CR = Concurrent Resolution
A = Assembly
C = Congressional
S = Senate
G likely was used for General
Dates
- 1852 - 2025
Extent
From the Collection: TBD Linear Feet (Linear feet estimated: One aisle Main, 4 aisles Fireroom, 4.5 drawers, 5+ aisles offsite)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Creator
- From the Collection: New Jersey. (Organization)
Repository Details
Part of the Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library Repository
Contact:
3rd Floor
Newark Public Library
5 Washington St.
Newark NJ 07102 United States
973-733-7775
njreference@npl.org
3rd Floor
Newark Public Library
5 Washington St.
Newark NJ 07102 United States
973-733-7775
njreference@npl.org