ATTENTION HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS

§1 - C.18A:18A-49.3

P.L. 2003, CHAPTER 313, approved January 20, 2004

Senate, No. 2567

AN ACT
concerning school photographers and supplementing

chapter 18A of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.

BE IT ENACTED

by the Senate and General Assembly

of the State of New Jersey:

1. A board of education may enter into a contract with a

photographer for the taking of pupil yearbook pictures. The

hiring of a photographer shall not prohibit a pupil from

engaging a photographer of the pupil's choice nor prevent a

picture taken by that photographer from appearing in the

yearbook if the picture meets the specifications of the

yearbook staff.

2. This act shall take effect immediately.

STATEMENT

This bill provides that a board of education

may enter into a contract with a photographer

for the taking of pupil yearbook pictures.

The hiring of a photographer would not prohibit

a pupil from engaging a photographer of the pupil's

choice nor prevent a picture taken by that photographer

from appearing in the yearbook if the picture meets

the specifications of the yearbook staff.

Provides that school board may contract

with photographer for yearbook and may not prohibit

use of pictures made by other photographers.