History: L. 1969, ch. 82, § 1; April 21.
(a) "Sending agency" means any department or agency of the federal government or a state or local government which sends any employee thereof to another government agency under this act.
(b) "Receiving agency" means any department or agency of the federal government or a state or local government which receives an employee of another government under this act.
History: L. 1969, ch. 82, § 2; April 21.
(b) The period of individual assignment or detail under an interchange program shall not exceed two years. However, the sending agency may extend the period of assignment for not more than two additional years. Details relating to any matter covered in this act may be the subject of an agreement between the sending and receiving agencies. Elected officials shall not be assigned from a sending agency nor detailed to a receiving agency.
History: L. 1969, ch. 82, § 3; April 21.
(b) Employees who are on detail shall be entitled to the same salary and benefits to which they would otherwise be entitled and shall remain employees of the sending agency for all other purposes except that the supervision of their duties during the period of detail may be governed by agreement between the sending agency and the receiving agency.
(c) Employees who are in a leave of absence status as provided herein shall be carried on leave without pay: Provided, That they may be granted annual leave or other time off with pay to the extent authorized by law applicable to the sending agency. Except as otherwise provided in this act, employees who are in a leave of absence status shall have the same rights, benefits, and obligations as employees generally who are in such leave status but notwithstanding any other provision of law such employees may be entitled to credit the period of such assignment toward benefits as employees of the sending agency.
(d) Any employee who participates in an exchange under the terms of this section who suffers disability or death as a result of personal injury arising out of and in the course of an exchange, or sustained in performance of duties in connection therewith, shall be treated, for the purposes of the sending agency's employee compensation program, as an employee, as defined in such act, who has sustained such injury in the performance of such duty, but shall not receive benefits under that act for any period for which he or she is entitled to and elects to receive similar benefits under the receiving agency's employee compensation program.
History: L. 1969, ch. 82, § 4; April 21.
History: L. 1969, ch. 82, § 5; April 21.
(b) Appointments of persons so assigned may be made without regard to the laws or regulations governing the selection of employees of the receiving agency.
(c) Employees who are detailed to the receiving agency shall not by virtue of such detail be considered to be employees thereof, except as provided in subsection (d), nor shall they be paid a salary or wage by the receiving agency during the period of their detail. The supervision of the duties of such employees during the period of detail may be governed by agreement between the sending agency and the receiving agency.
(d) Any employee of a sending agency assigned in this state who suffers disability or death as a result of personal injury arising out of and in the course of such assignment, or sustained in the performance of duties in connection therewith, shall be treated for the purpose of receiving agency's employee compensation program, as an employee, as defined in such act, who has sustained such injury in the performance of such duty, but shall not receive benefits under that act for any period for which he or she elects to receive similar benefits as an employee under the sending agency's employee compensation program.
History: L. 1969, ch. 82, § 6; April 21.
History: L. 1969, ch. 82, § 7; April 21.
History: L. 1969, ch. 82, § 8; April 21.