New Jersey High School Senior Photography Law
You can choose the photographer you want. The school must use the photo in the yearbook if it is similar to the style of the others.
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P.L. 2003, CHAPTER 313,
approved January 20, 2004Senate, No. 2567
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AN ACT concerning school photographers and supplementing chapter2 18A of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.
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BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State5
of New Jersey:6
7 1. A board of education may enter into a contract with a
8 photographer for the taking of pupil yearbook pictures. The hiring of
9 a photographer shall not prohibit a pupil from engaging a
10 photographer of the pupil's choice nor prevent a picture taken by that
11 photographer from appearing in the yearbook if the picture meets the
12 specifications of the yearbook staff.
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14 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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17 STATEMENT
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19 This bill provides that a board of education may enter into a
20 contract with a photographer for the taking of pupil yearbook pictures.
21 The hiring of a photographer would not prohibit a pupil from engaging
22 a photographer of the pupil's choice nor prevent a picture taken by
23 that photographer from appearing in the yearbook if the picture meets
24 the specifications of the yearbook staff.
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29 Provides that school board may contract with photographer for
30 yearbook and may not prohibit use of pictures made by other
31 photographers.