State of New Jersey
Executive Order #51

Governor Christine Todd Whitman

WHEREAS, an Executive Reorganization for the transfer, consolidation and reorganization of all senior services within the Department of Health and the redesignation of the Department of Health as the Department of Health and Senior Services was filed with the Legislature on May 2, 1996 as Reorganization Plan No. 001-1996; and

WHEREAS, Reorganization Plan No. 001-1996 was to become effective on July 1, 1996 or at such later date as the Governor may establish, if not disapproved by the Legislature; and

WHEREAS, July 6, 1996 begins the first State employee pay period in Fiscal Year 1997; and

WHEREAS, it is necessary to delay the effective date of certain provisions of Reorganization Plan No. 001-1996 until July 6, 1996 due to personnel changes in the Department of Health as a result of the Fiscal Year 1997 State Budget;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN, Governor of the State of New Jersey, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution, by the Statutes of this State and by Reorganization Plan No. 001-1996, do hereby ORDER and DIRECT:

1. That the effective date of the provisions of Reorganization Plan No. 001-1996 that transfer employees to the Department of Health and Senior Services shall be July 6, 1996.

2. This Order shall take effect immediately.

GIVEN, under my hand and seal
this 28th day of June in the Year
of Our Lord, One Thousand Nine
hundred and Ninety-Six, and of the
Independence of the United States,
the Two hundred and Twentieth.

/s/ Christine Todd Whitman
Governor

Attest:

/s/ Harriet Derman
Chief Counsel to the Governor