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1989-01-01 |
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| Name | Walter M. D. Kern |
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Ridgewood, New Jersey , United States |
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March 10, 1937
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| Died | June 23, 1998
(61 years)
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| Contributor | RMF |
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| Info | One of 29 new members taking office in the 80-member General Assembly in 1978, Kern had been a municipal prosecutor and a hearing officer for the New Jersey Civil Service Commission, among other governmental roles, before winning his first legislative office.
The Judiciary Committee rejected efforts in June 1978 to legalize prostitution or to eliminate laws banning obscenity for adults, instead choosing to propose allowing municipalities to create "Combat Zone-style" adult entertainment districts (as in Boston) where obscenity laws for those over the age of 18 would not apply. Kern had advocated for the repeal of obscenity laws, arguing that "Adults should be able to purchase whatever their perverted hearts desire". That same month, Kern was among the co-sponsors of a bill introduced in the legislature that would protect reporters' files and notes from search and seizure, in the wake of a ruling by the United States Supreme Court that would allow authorities to perform such searches. The Assembly voted 48-26 in December 1982 to increase the drinking age from 19 to 21. Kern voted against the legislation, citing the fact that data had shown lower numbers of drunk driving arrests among younger drivers than among older drivers and the ease of access to alcohol for those impacted by the age increase in communities across the New York State border from Bergen County, many of which had targeted teens as customers. Under legislation sponsored by Kern and adopted in 1988, New Jersey became the first state in the nation to require newly cooperative apartments to have a deed demonstrating ownership of each individual unit as personal property, as a way of minimizing legal entanglements between the co-op as a whole and any single property owner.
Kern was elected in 1977, 1979 and 1981 with W. Cary Edwards, though Edwards didn't take the seat in 1982 to accept a position as counsel to Governor of New Jersey Thomas Kean. Nicholas Felice won a special election in March 1982 to fill Edwards' seat and was elected with Kern in 1983, 1985 and 1987.
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