N.J. Stat. § 40:48I-1 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 48I / Section 48I-1
Optional local cannabis transfer tax and user tax.
Status: in_force

40. Optional Local Cannabis Transfer Tax and User Tax. a. (1) A municipality may adopt an ordinance imposing a transfer tax on the sale of cannabis or cannabis items by a cannabis establishment or a holder of a plenary wholesale license or plenary retail distribution license selling an intoxicating hemp beverage in accordance with section 5 of P.L.2024, c.73 (C.24:6I-48.2) that is located in the municipality. At the discretion of the municipality, the tax may be imposed on: receipts from the sale of cannabis by a cannabis cultivator to another cannabis cultivator; receipts from the sale of cannabis items from one cannabis establishment to another cannabis establishment; receipts from the retail sales of cannabis items or intoxicating hemp beverages by a cannabis retailer or a holder of a plenary wholesale license or plenary retail distribution license to retail consumers who are 21 years of age or older; or any combination thereof. Each municipality shall set its own rate or rates, but in no case shall a rate exceed: two percent of the receipts from each sale by a cannabis cultivator; two percent of the receipts from each sale by a cannabis manufacturer; one percent of the receipts from each sale by a cannabis wholesaler; and two percent of the receipts from each sale by a cannabis retailer or holder of a plenary wholesale license or plenary retail distribution license. (2) A local tax ordinance adopted pursuant to paragraph (1) of this subsection shall also include provisions for imposing a user tax, at the equivalent transfer tax rates, on any concurrent license holder, as permitted by section 33 of P.L.2021, c.16 (C.24:6I-46), operating more than one cannabis establishment, or on any concurrent holder of plenary wholesale licenses or plenary retail distribution licenses. The user tax shall be imposed on the value of each transfer or use of cannabis or cannabis items not otherwise subject to the transfer tax imposed pursuant to paragraph (1) of this subsection, from the license holder's establishment that is located in the municipality to any of the other license holder's establishments, whether located in the municipality or another municipality. b. (1) A transfer tax or user tax imposed pursuant to this section shall be in addition to any other tax imposed by law. Any transaction for which the transfer tax or user tax is imposed, or could be imposed, pursuant to this section, other than those which generate receipts from the retail sales by cannabis retailers or a holder of a plenary wholesale license or plenary retail distribution license, shall be exempt from the tax imposed under the "Sales and Use Tax Act," P.L.1966, c.30 (C.54:32B-1 et seq.). The transfer tax or user tax shall be collected or paid, and remitted to the municipality by the cannabis establishment or the holder of the plenary wholesale license or plenary retail distributor license from the cannabis establishment, plenary wholesale license holder, or plenary retail distributor purchasing or receiving the cannabis or cannabis item, or from the consumer at the point of sale, on behalf of the municipality by the cannabis retailer, plenary wholesale license holder, or plenary retail distributor selling the cannabis item to that consumer. The transfer tax or user tax shall be stated, charged, and shown separately on any sales slip, invoice, receipt, or other statement or memorandum of the price paid or payable, or equivalent value of the transfer, for the cannabis or cannabis item. (2) Every cannabis establishment, plenary wholesale license holder, or plenary retail distributor required to collect a transfer tax or user tax imposed by ordinance pursuant to this section shall be personally liable for the transfer tax or user tax imposed, collected, or required to be collected under this section. Any cannabis establishment, plenary wholesale license holder, or plenary retail distributor shall have the same right with respect to collecting the transfer tax or user tax from another cannabis establishment, plenary retail distributor, plenary whole license holder, or the consumer as if the transfer tax or user tax was a part of the sale and payable at the same time, or with respect to non-payment of the transfer tax or user tax by the cannabis establishment, plenary retail distributor, plenary whole license holder, or consumer, as if the transfer tax or user tax was a part of the purchase price of the cannabis or cannabis item, or equivalent value of the transfer of the cannabis or cannabis item, and payable at the same time, provided, however, that the chief fiscal officer of the municipality which imposes the transfer tax or user tax shall be joined as a party in any action or proceeding brought to collect the transfer tax or user tax. (3) No cannabis establishment, plenary wholesale license holder, or plenary retail distributor required to collect a transfer tax or user tax imposed by ordinance pursuant to this section shall advertise or hold out to any person or to the public in general, in any manner, directly or indirectly, that the transfer tax or user tax will not be separately charged and stated to another cannabis establishment, plenary retail distributor, plenary whole license holder, or the consumer, or that the transfer tax or user tax will be refunded to the cannabis establishment, plenary retail distributor, plenary whole license holder, or the consumer. c. (1) All revenues collected from a transfer tax or user tax imposed by ordinance pursuant to this section shall be remitted to the chief financial officer of the municipality in a manner prescribed by the municipality. The chief financial officer shall collect and administer any transfer tax or user tax imposed by ordinance pursuant to this section. The municipality shall enforce the payment of delinquent taxes or transfer fees imposed by ordinance pursuant to this section in the same manner as provided for municipal real property taxes. (2) (a) In the event that the transfer tax or user tax imposed by ordinance pursuant to this section is not paid as and when due by a cannabis establishment, plenary wholesale license holder, or plenary retail distributor, the unpaid balance, and any interest accruing thereon, shall be a lien on the parcel of real property comprising the cannabis establishment's, plenary wholesale license holder's, or plenary retail distributor's premises in the same manner as all other unpaid municipal taxes, fees, or other charges. The lien shall be superior and paramount to the interest in the parcel of any owner, lessee, tenant, mortgagee, or other person, except the lien of municipal taxes, and shall be on a parity with and deemed equal to the municipal lien on the parcel for unpaid property taxes due and owing in the same year. (b) A municipality shall file in the office of its tax collector a statement showing the amount and due date of the unpaid balance and identifying the lot and block number of the parcel of real property that comprises the delinquent cannabis establishment's, plenary wholesale license holder's, or plenary retail distributor's premises. The lien shall be enforced as a municipal lien in the same manner as all other municipal liens are enforced. d. As used in this section: "Cannabis" means the same as that term is defined in section 3 of P.L.2021, c.16 (C.24:6I-33). "Cannabis cultivator" means the same as that term is defined in section 3 of P.L.2021, c.16 (C.24:6I-33). "Cannabis establishment" means the same as that term is defined in section 3 of P.L.2021, c.16 (C.24:6I-33). "Cannabis items" means the same as that term is defined in section 3 of P.L.2021, c.16 (C.24:6I-33). "Cannabis manufacturer" means the same as that term is defined in section 3 of P.L.2021, c.16 (C.24:6I-33). "Cannabis retailer" means the same as that term is defined in section 3 of P.L.2021, c.16 (C.24:6I-33). "Cannabis wholesaler" means the same as that term is defined in section 3 of P.L.2021, c.16 (C.24:6I-33). "Consumer" means the same as that term is defined in section 3 of P.L.2021, c.16 (C.24:6I-33). "Premises" means the same as that term is defined in section 3 of P.L.2021, c.16 (C.24:6I-33). L.2021, c.16, s.40; amended 2024, c.73, s.9.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:4-25 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 4 / Section 4-25
Miscellaneous revenues
Status: in_force

"Miscellaneous revenues" shall include such amounts as may reasonably be expected to be realized in cash during the fiscal year from known and regular sources, or from sources reasonably capable of anticipation, and lawfully applicable to the appropriations made in the budget, other than dedicated revenues, revenues from taxes to be levied to support the budget, receipts from delinquent taxes, and surplus. Miscellaneous revenues stated in the budget shall be classified according to their respective sources. L.1960, c. 169, s. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1962.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:1-8 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 1 / Section 1-8
Invalidity of sections
Status: in_force

If any chapters of Title 40A, or any section or provision thereof, shall be declared to be unconstitutional, invalid or inoperative, in whole or in part, by a court of competent jurisdiction, such chapter, section or provision shall, to the extent that it is not held to be unconstitutional, invalid or inoperative, be enforced and effectuated, and no such determination shall be deemed to invalidate or make ineffectual the remaining provisions of the said chapter or section of said Title. L.1960, c. 169, s. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1962.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:12-1 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 12 / Section 12-1
Short title
Status: in_force

This act shall be known and be cited as the "Local Lands and Buildings Law." L.1971, c. 199, s. 1, eff. July 1, 1971.
N.J. Stat. § 40:14B-15 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 14B / Section 14B-15
Conflicting interests
Status: in_force

No member, officer or employee of a municipal authority shall have or acquire any interest, direct or indirect, in the utility system or in any property included or planned to be included in the utility system or in any contract or proposed contract for materials or services to be furnished to or used by the municipal authority, but neither the holding of any office or employment in the government of any county or municipality or under any law of the State nor the owning of any property within the State shall be deemed a disqualification for membership in or employment by a municipal authority, and members of the governing body of a local unit may be appointed by such governing body and may serve as members of a municipal authority. L.1957, c. 183, p. 646, s. 15, eff. Aug. 22, 1957.
N.J. Stat. § 40:23-6.10 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 23 / Section 23-6.10
Appropriations
Status: in_force

All appropriations for the expenditure of money as set forth in this chapter shall be subject to the approval of the board of chosen freeholders. L.1940, c. 24, s. 9, eff. March 30, 1940.
N.J. Stat. § 40:55D-12 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 55D / Section 55D-12
Notices of application, requirements.
Status: in_force

7.1. Notice pursuant to subsections a., b., d., e., f., g. and h. of this section shall be given by the applicant unless a particular municipal officer is so designated by ordinance; provided that nothing contained herein shall prevent the applicant from giving such notice if he so desires. Notice pursuant to subsections a., b., d., e., f., g. and h. of this section shall be given at least 10 days prior to the date of the hearing. a. Public notice of a hearing shall be given for an extension of approvals for five or more years under subsection d. of section 37 of P.L.1975, c.291 (C.40:55D-49) and subsection b. of section 40 of P.L.1975, c.291 (C.40:55D-52); for modification or elimination of a significant condition or conditions in a memorializing resolution in any situation wherein the application for development for which the memorializing resolution is proposed for adoption required public notice, and for any other applications for development, with the following exceptions: (1) conventional site plan review pursuant to section 34 of P.L.1975, c.291 (C.40:55D-46), (2) minor subdivisions pursuant to section 35 of P.L.1975, c.291 (C.40:55D-47) or (3) final approval pursuant to section 38 of P.L.1975, c.291 (C.40:55D-50); notwithstanding the foregoing, the governing body may by ordinance require public notice for such categories of site plan review as may be specified by ordinance, for appeals of determinations of administrative officers pursuant to subsection a. of section 57 of P.L.1975, c.291 (C.40:55D-70), and for requests for interpretation pursuant to subsection b. of section 57 of P.L.1975, c.291 (C.40:55D-70). Public notice shall also be given in the event that relief is requested pursuant to section 47 or 63 of P.L.1975, c.291 (C.40:55D-60 or C.40:55D-76) as part of an application for development otherwise excepted herein from public notice. In addition, public notice shall be given by a public entity seeking to erect an outdoor advertising sign on land owned or controlled by a public entity as required pursuant to section 22 of P.L.1975, c.291 (C.40:55D-31) or, if so provided by ordinance adopted pursuant to subsection g. of section 29.1 of P.L.1975, c.291 (C.40:55D-39), by a private entity seeking to erect an outdoor advertising sign on public land or on land owned by a private entity. Public notice shall be given by publication in the official newspaper of the municipality, if there be one, or in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality. b. Except as provided in paragraph (2) of subsection h. of this section, notice of a hearing requiring public notice pursuant to subsection a. of this section shall be given to the owners of all real property as shown on the current tax duplicates, located in the State and within 200 feet in all directions of the property which is the subject of such hearing; provided that this requirement shall be deemed satisfied by notice to the (1) condominium association, in the case of any unit owner whose unit has a unit above or below it, or (2) horizontal property regime, in the case of any co-owner whose apartment has an apartment above or below it. Notice shall be given by: (1) serving a copy thereof on the property owner as shown on the said current tax duplicate, or his agent in charge of the property, or (2) mailing a copy thereof by certified mail to the property owner at his address as shown on the said current tax duplicate. Notice to a partnership owner may be made by service upon any partner. Notice to a corporate owner may be made by service upon its president, a vice president, secretary or other person authorized by appointment or by law to accept service on behalf of the corporation. Notice to a condominium association, horizontal property regime, community trust or homeowners' association, because of its ownership of common elements or areas located within 200 feet of the property which is the subject of the hearing, may be made in the same manner as to a corporation without further notice to unit owners, co-owners, or homeowners on account of such common elements or areas. c. Upon the written request of an applicant, the administrative officer of a municipality shall, within seven days, make and certify a list from said current tax duplicates of names and addresses of owners to whom the applicant is required to give notice pursuant to subsection b. of this section. In addition, the administrative officer shall include on the list the names, addresses and positions of those persons who, not less than seven days prior to the date on which the applicant requested the list, have registered to receive notice pursuant to subsection h. of this section. The applicant shall be entitled to rely upon the information contained in such list, and failure to give notice to any owner, to any public utility, cable television company, or local utility or to any military facility commander not on the list shall not invalidate any hearing or proceeding. A sum not to exceed $0.25 per name, or $10.00, whichever is greater, may be charged for such list. d. Notice of hearings on applications for development involving property located within 200 feet of an adjoining municipality shall be given by personal service or certified mail to the clerk of such municipality. e. Notice shall be given by personal service or certified mail to the county planning board of a hearing on an application for development of property adjacent to an existing county road or proposed road shown on the official county map or on the county master plan, adjoining other county land or situated within 200 feet of a municipal boundary. f. Notice shall be given by personal service or certified mail to the Commissioner of Transportation of a hearing on an application for development of property adjacent to a State highway. g. Notice shall be given by personal service or certified mail to the State Planning Commission of a hearing on an application for development of property which exceeds 150 acres or 500 dwelling units. The notice shall include a copy of any maps or documents required to be on file with the municipal clerk pursuant to subsection b. of section 6 of P.L.1975, c.291 (C.40:55D-10). h. Notice of hearings on applications for approval of a major subdivision or a site plan not defined as a minor site plan under this act requiring public notice pursuant to subsection a. of this section shall be given: (1) in the case of a public utility, cable television company or local utility which possesses a right-of-way or easement within the municipality and which has registered with the municipality in accordance with section 5 of P.L.1991, c.412 (C.40:55D-12.1), by (i) serving a copy of the notice on the person whose name appears on the registration form on behalf of the public utility, cable television company or local utility or (ii) mailing a copy thereof by certified mail to the person whose name appears on the registration form at the address shown on that form; (2) in the case of a military facility which has registered with the municipality and which is situated within 3,000 feet in all directions of the property which is the subject of the hearing, by (i) serving a copy of the notice on the military facility commander whose name appears on the registration form or (ii) mailing a copy thereof by certified mail to the military facility commander at the address shown on that form. i. The applicant shall file an affidavit of proof of service with the municipal agency holding the hearing on the application for development in the event that the applicant is required to give notice pursuant to this section. j. Notice pursuant to subsections d., e., f., g. and h. of this section shall not be deemed to be required, unless public notice pursuant to subsection a. and notice pursuant to subsection b. of this section are required. L.1975,c.291,s.7.1; amended 1979, c.216, s.10; 1985, c.398, s.15; 1991, c.245; 1991, c.412, s.4; 1998, c.95, s.4; 2004, c.42, s.6; 2005, c.41, s.3.
N.J. Stat. § 40:43-66.41 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 43 / Section 43-66.41
Question of forming consolidation commission submitted to voters; alternative methods.
Status: in_force

7. a. If, within one year after the date on which the first ordinance or resolution, pursuant to section 5 of P.L.1977, c.435 (C.40:43-66.39), or the first petition, pursuant to section 6 of P.L.1977, c.435 (C.40:43-66.40), is filed with the clerk of the county, either an ordinance or a resolution or a certified petition is transmitted to the county clerk by each of the other municipalities named in the first such ordinance or a resolution or petition, then one of the following shall occur: (1) The question of forming a consolidation commission shall be submitted to the voters of each of the municipalities named in such ordinances or resolutions or petitions in the following form: "Shall a joint municipal consolidation study commission be formed to study the feasibility of consolidating (insert the names of each of the municipalities named in such ordinances or resolutions or petitions) into a single new municipality, to study the question of the form of government under which such new municipality should be governed, to study the feasibility of consolidating the local school districts of the aforesaid municipalities, and to make recommendations thereon; or, in the alternative, to make recommendations on the consolidation of certain municipal services?" The question shall be submitted to the voters of each municipality so named in the ordinances or resolutions or petitions on the date for the next general election or on the date for the next regular municipal election, whichever shall first occur at least 60 days after the date of the filing with the county clerk of the final ordinance or resolution or petition necessary to require the submission of the question to the voters. The public question submitted to the voters shall be deemed adopted, and a consolidation commission formed, if a majority of the votes cast on the question in each of the municipalities in which the question is submitted shall be in the affirmative; or (2) An ordinance or resolution expressly creating a consolidation commission shall be adopted by each of the municipalities named in such ordinances or resolutions or petitions. The ordinance or resolution shall state that the governing body will not be submitting the question of forming a consolidation commission to the voters of that municipality by referendum. The ordinance or resolution shall state that the governing body is seeking the formation of a consolidation commission pursuant to P.L.1977, c.435 (C.40:43-66.35 et seq.), and shall name the participating municipalities for which a consolidation commission is proposed. Upon adoption of the ordinance or resolution, the clerk of each participating municipality adopting the ordinance or resolution shall forthwith transmit a certified copy thereof to the municipal clerk of each of the other participating municipalities named in the ordinance or resolution, to the clerk of the county in which each participating municipality is located, and to the Commissioner of Community Affairs. The ordinance or resolution forming a consolidation commission shall be deemed adopted, and a consolidation commission formed, if each participating municipality adopts an ordinance or resolution agreeing to participate in a consolidation commission pursuant to this subsection; or (3) One or more of the municipalities named in such ordinances or resolutions or petitions shall submit the question of forming a consolidation commission to the voters pursuant to paragraph (1) of this subsection, and one or more of those municipalities shall adopt an ordinance or resolution expressly creating a consolidation commission pursuant to paragraph (2) of this subsection, in any combination, provided that each of the participating municipalities adopts the formation of a consolidation commission. b. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the submission of the question of forming a consolidation commission to the voters of the municipalities pursuant to paragraph (1) of subsection a. of this section, or the forming of a consolidation commission by ordinance or resolution pursuant to paragraph (2) of subsection a. of this section, named in any combination of such ordinances or resolutions pursuant to section 5 of P.L.1977, c. 435 (C.40:43-66.39) and petitions pursuant to section 6 of P.L.1977, c.435 (C.40:43-66.40), provided that such ordinances or resolutions and petitions are substantively similar. L.1977,c.435,s.7; amended 1999, c.58, s.1; 2001, c.342, s.6.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:67-6 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 67 / Section 67-6
Regional rehabilitation, reentry center, authority, public body politic, corporate.
Status: in_force

6. An authority shall be a public body politic and corporate, established as an instrumentality exercising public and essential governmental functions to provide for the public health and welfare. The authority shall have the duties, privileges, immunities, rights, liabilities, and disabilities of a public body politic and corporate and shall have taxing power. The authority shall be a "contracting unit" for purposes of the "Local Public Contracts Law," P.L.1971, c.198 (C.40A:11-1 et seq.), shall have perpetual succession until termination or dissolution in accordance with the agreement, and shall have the powers to: a. adopt and have a common seal and to alter the same at pleasure; b. sue and be sued; c. acquire, own, rent, hold, lease, as lessor or lessee, use and sell or otherwise dispose of, mortgage, pledge, or grant a security in, any real or personal property, commodity, or service or interest therein; d. plan, develop, acquire, construct, reconstruct, operate, manage, dispose of, participate in, maintain, repair, extend, or improve a center or satellite facility, and act as agent, or designate one or more other persons employed by or contracting with the center to act as its agent, in connection with the planning, acquisition, construction, operation, maintenance, repair, extension, or improvement of the center, and provision to the members of rehabilitation and reentry services, to meet the needs of the members and the State, which shall include the hiring of experts to perform a population review and projected bed needs; e. make and execute additional contracts and other instruments necessary or convenient to the exercise of its powers; f. employ correctional police officers and other employees, without regard to the provisions of Title 11A, Civil Service, of the New Jersey Statutes, but does not preclude employees from entering or becoming party to a collective bargaining agreement; g. contract with any person, entity, or public agency within or outside the State of New Jersey for the construction or operation of the center, or for any interest or share therein, on terms and for a period of time as its board shall determine; h. incur indebtedness through the issuance of bonds, provide for and secure the payment of any bonds and the rights of the holders thereof, and to purchase, hold, and dispose of any bonds; i. accept gifts or grants of real or personal property, money, material, labor, or supplies solely for the purposes and exclusive use and benefit of the authority, and to make and perform those agreements and contracts as may be necessary or convenient in connection with the procuring, acceptance, or disposition of the gifts or grants; j. make and enforce bylaws or rules and regulations for the management and regulation of its business and affairs and for the use, maintenance, and operation of its properties and to amend its bylaws; k. do and perform any acts and things authorized by P.L.2023, c.346 (C.40A:67-1 et seq.), through or by means of its own officers, agents, and employees, or by contract with any person; l. enter into contracts, execute instruments, and do and perform all things necessary, convenient, or desirable for the purposes of the authority, or to carry out any power expressly authorized under P.L.2023, c.346 (C.40A:67-1 et seq.); m. join organizations, including private or trade organizations, which the board has deemed to be beneficial to the accomplishment of the authority's purposes; n. invest any funds held in reserve or sinking funds, or any funds not required for immediate disbursement, including the proceeds from the sale of any bonds, in those obligations, securities, and other investments as the authority deems to be proper and are authorized pursuant to law; and o. establish procedures for budget introduction and adoption, which shall be made pursuant to the "Local Authorities Fiscal Control Law," P.L.1983, c.313 (C.40A:5A-1 et seq.), and which shall be subject to the cap on calculation of adjusted tax levy by local units pursuant to N.J.S.40A:4-45.45, and shall include the following: (1) an amount to be raised by taxation, which shall be conveyed to the Board of Taxation in each participation county within 15 days of the adoption of the budget; (2) the chief financial officer of the authority shall certify the Average Daily Population (ADP) of the inmates from each participating county, for the previous year, by February 1st of each year; (3) based on the ADP and, if determined by a separate formula, the apportionment of any debt service pursuant to the inter-county agreement, the chief financial officer of the authority shall certify each county’s proportional share of inmates for the previous year. By February 15th of each year, the proportional share for each county shall be conveyed to the appropriate County Board of Taxation, to be used to calculate the amount of taxes to be levied in each of the participating counties. These taxes shall be assessed, levied, and collected within the respective taxing districts in the manner prescribed by law; and (4) in each local budget year in which the function of a county jail is transferred from the county government to the authority, the county shall deduct from its final appropriations upon which its permissible county tax levy is calculated, the amount which the county expended for that function during the last full budget year it was included in the county budget. L.2023, c.346, s.6; amended 2025, c.253, s.4.
N.J. Stat. § 40:62-105.10 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 62 / Section 62-105.10
Verification of petition
Status: in_force

Each of the petitions shall be verified by the oath of one or more of the signers thereof, taken and subscribed before a person qualified to administer an oath, to the effect that such petition is signed in their own proper handwriting by each of the signers thereof, that said signers are, to the best knowledge and belief of the affiant, legally qualified to vote at the ensuing election, and that the petition is prepared and filed in absolute good faith for the sole purpose of indorsing the candidate therein named in order to secure his election as a member of the board of water commissioners. L.1951, c. 280, p. 956, s. 10, eff. June 25, 1951.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:27-9 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 27 / Section 27-9
Authorization to issue bonds; purpose
Status: in_force

The governing body of a local unit exercising the powers granted by this chapter is authorized to provide by resolution or ordinance, as the case may be, at one time, or from time to time, for the issuance of general obligation bonds of the local unit for the purpose of paying all or any part of the cost of a flood control facility constructed, acquired, improved, operated, maintained, extended, enlarged or reconstructed pursuant to this chapter. The bonds of each issue shall be issued pursuant to the provisions of the "Local Bond Law," (N.J.S. 40A:2-1 et seq.). Source: C. 40:23-40 (P.L. 1977, c. 333, s. 7). L. 1987, c. 179, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 40:69A-34.1 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 69A / Section 69A-34.1
Mayor-council plan; election of mayor and council; regular municipal or general election
Status: in_force

Any municipality adopting a mayor-council plan of government shall provide in its charter that the mayor and council shall be elected by the voters of the municipality either: a. At a regular municipal election held on the second Tuesday in May in the years in which municipal officers are to be elected, in which case the term of office of the mayor and council members shall begin on July 1 next following their election; or b. At the general election held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November or at such other time as may be provided by law for holding general elections, in which case the term of office of the mayor and council members shall begin on January 1 next following their election. L.1981, c. 465, s. 16, eff. Jan. 9, 1982.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:12A-50 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 12A / Section 12A-50
Findings, declarations relative to landfill reclamation improvement districts
Status: in_force

1. a. The Legislature finds and declares that it is a public purpose and compelling State interest and is consistent with Article VIII, Section 3, paragraph 1 of the Constitution of this State to facilitate the redevelopment of large landfill sites in areas in need of redevelopment within municipalities that are attempting to create economic growth and thereby to promote job creation and economic development. Environmentally sound landfill reclamation is essentially a "capping" process, and the development potential of a capped landfill is limited. The extensive landfill areas in some of the State's areas in need of redevelopment present major obstacles, both environmentally and financially, for the proper redevelopment of the economic potential of these areas, which makes it necessary to provide special financial and redevelopment tools for municipalities to address these obstacles. b. The Legislature, therefore, determines that it is appropriate to enable municipalities to establish landfill reclamation improvement districts in areas in need of redevelopment comprising landfills of sufficient size to foster meaningful economic development and to provide municipalities with the appropriate tools for the reclamation and redevelopment of those districts. c. The Legislature further determines that the proper remediation of extensive landfills and the redevelopment of large landfill sites are necessary to halt the decline in economic activity and the underemployment of economic resources in these areas, to reverse the deterioration of the value of previous investments in areas in need of redevelopment and of public revenue collections on those investments, and to eliminate the disincentive to new investment; and that the improvement of these large sites is vital to the safety, health and welfare of the residents of the municipalities in which they are located and to the State, and constitutes an important opportunity for enhancing the economic condition of the municipalities in which large site landfills are located and that of the State, by augmenting the fiscal resources of government and by stimulating private and public efforts to enhance the attractiveness and desirability of the State as a place to live and work. d. Therefore, to foster this redevelopment, the Legislature further determines, in accordance with the New Jersey Constitution, including without limitation, Article VIII, Section 3, paragraph 1, that a municipality that has created a landfill reclamation improvement district may: (1) provide for a tax abatement within that district and for a payments in lieu of taxes agreement, in accordance with P.L. 1991, c.431 (C.40A:20-1 et seq.) and P. L.1995, c.173 (C.40A:12A-50 et seq.) and this amendatory and supplementary act, P.L.1996, c.73 (C.40A:12A-50a et al.); (2) levy special assessments on real property within that district in accordance with chapter 56 of Title 40 of the Revised Statutes, R.S. 40:56-1 et seq., and with P.L.1995, c.173 and this amendatory and supplementary act, P.L.1996, c.73 (C.40A:12A-50a et al.); and (3) secure revenue bonds, notes or other obligations with those payments in lieu of taxes and special assessments, and utilize these means to secure funds to effect landfill closures, remediation, redevelopment, and construction of infrastructure improvements which will benefit the public at large and which constitute an important public purpose. e. The Legislature, further, determines that special financing problems exist with respect to the size or nature and extent of remediation and infrastructure improvements where the reclamation improvement district consists of a tract of land of at least 150 acres of which not less than 100 acres were formerly used as a landfill, and determines that the municipality, may, by ordinance, levy a franchise assessment for the privilege of transacting business within the district, which franchise assessment shall be used to compensate the municipality for loss of tax revenues arising from assignment of payments in lieu of taxes or special assessments, or both, as security for bonds. f. The Legislature, further, determines that it is appropriate to authorize the New Jersey Economic Development Authority established pursuant to P.L.1974, c.80 (C.34:1B-1 et seq.) or other instrumentality created by law with the power to incur debt and issue bonds and other obligations, as a conduit for municipalities, to issue and secure revenue bonds, notes or other obligations issued in accordance with P.L.1995, c.173 (C.40A:12A-50 et seq.) and this amendatory and supplementary act, P.L.1996, c.73 (C.40A:12A-50a et al.) with respect to financing or refinancing, without limitation, the site work, construction, reconstruction, repair, alteration, improvement, and development of any infrastructure or parking or transportation facilities or work that abates, prevents or reduces environmental pollution or other improvements that provide a public benefit within or appurtenant to a landfill reclamation improvement district. L.1995,c.173,s.1; amended 1996,c.73,s.2.
N.J. Stat. § 40:75-46 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 75 / Section 75-46
Election not to be restrained or delayed; effect of writs
Status: in_force

In order to prevent an incumbent or any other person acting either directly or indirectly in his behalf, from delaying or obstructing the recall election and thereby preventing the incumbent's removal, no writ or order issued out of any court shall be allowed whereby the recall election is prevented, restrained, or delayed, but the recall election shall proceed, notwithstanding any proceedings which may be instituted in any court whereby the legality of any of the petitions, acts, or elections permitted or authorized herein are to be reviewed. Such proceedings for review are not hereby restrained, but may proceed to final judgment, and if as a result thereof it is determined that the incumbent has not been legally removed, then he shall be restored to his office and his salary for the term he has been removed shall be paid. All acts of the boards of commissioners done while such incumbent was removed from his office shall be as lawful as if he had been present and participated therein.
N.J. Stat. § 40:54-4 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 54 / Section 54-4
Ballot; form and content
Status: in_force

The officer charged with the duty of preparing the ballots for such election shall cause the question to be submitted to be printed on the official ballots for such election in substantially the following form: "To vote upon the public question printed below, if in favor thereof mark a cross (X) or plus (+) in the square at the left of the word YES, and if opposed thereto mark a cross (X) or plus (+) in the square at the left of the word NO. "Shall a free public library be established in [ ] YES ........................ (name of municipality) pursuant to sections 40:54-1 to 40:54-29 of [ ] NO the title Municipalities and Counties of the Revised Statutes?"
N.J. Stat. § 40A:66-2 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 66 / Section 66-2
Findings, declarations relative to municipal shared services energy authority.
Status: in_force

2. The Legislature finds and declares that for many years, municipalities in the State have had the power to construct and maintain facilities for the generation and distribution of electricity; that nine municipalities and one rural electric cooperative presently own and operate electric utility systems for the benefit of their residents and businesses; and that the generation and distribution of electricity has evolved from a local and statewide endeavor into a national marketplace and this evolution has resulted in a system where the size and sophistication of the market participants influence the ability to efficiently compete in the marketplace. The Legislature further finds and declares that the ability to reserve sufficient electric capacity at reasonable prices to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient electrical power to local businesses and residents is paramount in the present marketplace, and the ability is contingent on the power to contract for the generation or delivery of a sufficient quantity of wholesale power and to act as a contracting partner in long term, short term, and spot market wholesale power supply contracts; and that given this evolution of the electric supply marketplace, the municipal electric utilities operating in New Jersey should be authorized to act jointly to achieve greater efficiencies in the procurement and generation of electric power at the wholesale level to benefit the retail customers in the participating municipalities. The Legislature further finds and declares that the operation of electric utility systems by municipalities and the improvement of these systems through joint action in the wholesale procurement of electricity and transmission services, and in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electric power and energy within the corporate limits and franchise areas of the participating municipalities, are in the public interest; and that the establishment of a municipal shared services energy authority by municipalities that currently own or operate electric utility systems will ensure the continued viability and stability of these systems, by enabling municipalities to act jointly to develop coordinated bulk power and fuel supply programs, post collateral, and act as a market participant in these programs, thereby providing the means to pursue efficiencies and savings for retail customers within their corporate limits and franchise areas. The Legislature therefore determines that it is in the public interest to permit existing municipally-owned or operated electric utility systems to act jointly through the voluntary creation of a single municipal shared services energy authority, to authorize the authority to perform according to standard electric industry practices, in order to aid in promoting the stability and viability of these systems, and to achieve the efficiencies and savings for the retail customers of these utility systems located within the corporate limits and franchise areas of the participating municipalities. L.2015, c.129, s.2.
N.J. Stat. § 40:55D-136.4 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 55D / Section 55D-136.4
Existing government approval; extension period.
Status: in_force

4. a. (1) For any government approval in existence during the extension period, the running of the period of approval is automatically suspended for the extension period, except as otherwise provided hereunder; however, the tolling provided for herein shall not extend the government approval more than six months beyond the conclusion of the extension period. (2) For any government approval in existence on December 31, 2015 concerning lands located entirely within one or more of the Superstorm Sandy-impacted counties, as defined in section 3 of P.L.2008, c.78 (C.40:55D-136.3), the running of the period of approval is automatically suspended for the Superstorm Sandy-impacted extension period, except as otherwise provided hereunder; however, the tolling provided for herein shall not extend the government approval more than six months beyond the conclusion of the Superstorm Sandy-impacted extension period. (3) Nothing in P.L.2008, c.78 (C.40:55D-136.1 et seq.) shall shorten the duration that any approval would have had in the absence of P.L.2008, c.78 (C.40:55D-136.1 et seq.), nor shall P.L.2008, c.78 (C.40:55D-136.1 et seq.) prohibit the granting of such additional extensions as are provided by law when the tolling granted by P.L.2008, c.78 (C.40:55D-136.1 et seq.) shall expire. Notwithstanding any previously enacted provision of P.L.2008, c.78 (C.40:55D-136.1 et seq.), as amended and supplemented, the running of the period of approval of all government approvals which would have been extended pursuant to the definition of "extension area," added by P.L.2012, c.48, shall be calculated, using that definition, retroactive to the enactment of P.L.2008, c.78 (C.40:55D-136.1 et seq.). b. Nothing in P.L.2008, c.78 (C.40:55D-136.1 et seq.) shall be deemed to extend or purport to extend: (1) any permit or approval issued by the government of the United States or any agency or instrumentality thereof, or any permit or approval by whatever authority issued of which the duration of effect or the date or terms of its expiration are specified or determined by or pursuant to law or regulation of the federal government or any of its agencies or instrumentalities; (2) any permit or approval issued pursuant to the "Pinelands Protection Act," P.L.1979, c.111 (C.13:18A-1 et seq.) if the extension would result in a violation of federal law, or any State rule or regulation requiring approval by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to Pub.L.95-625 (16 U.S.C. s.471i); (3) any permit or approval issued within an environmentally sensitive area; (4) any permit or approval within an environmentally sensitive area issued pursuant to the "Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act," P.L.2004, c.120 (C.13:20-1 et al.), or any permit or approval issued within the preservation area of the Highlands Region as defined in section 3 of P.L.2004, c.120 (C.13:20-3); (5) any permit or approval issued by the Department of Transportation pursuant to Title 27 of the Revised Statutes or under the general authority conferred by State law, other than a right-of-way permit issued pursuant to paragraph (3) of subsection (h) of section 5 of P.L.1966, c.301 (C.27:1A-5) or a permit granted pursuant to R.S.27:7-1 et seq. or any supplement thereto; (6) any permit or approval issued pursuant to the "Flood Hazard Area Control Act," P.L.1962, c.19 (C.58:16A-50 et seq.), except (a) where work has commenced, in any phase or section of the development, on any site improvement as defined in paragraph (1) of subsection a. of section 41 of the "Municipal Land Use Law," P.L.1975, c.291 (C.40:55D-53) or on any buildings or structures or (b) where the permit or approval authorizes work on real property owned by the government or the federal government; (7) any coastal center designated pursuant to the "Coastal Area Facility Review Act," P.L.1973, c.185 (C.13:19-1 et seq.), that as of March 15, 2007 (a) had not submitted an application for plan endorsement to the State Planning Commission, and (b) was not in compliance with the provisions of the Coastal Zone Management Rules at N.J.A.C.7:7E-5B.6; or (8) any permit or approval within the Highlands planning area located in a municipality subject to the "Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act," P.L.2004, c.120, that has adopted, as of May 1, 2012, in accordance with the Highlands Water Protection and Planning Council conformance approval, a Highlands master plan element, a Highlands land use ordinance, or an environmental resource inventory, except that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to any permit or approval within a Highlands center designated by the Highlands Water Protection and Planning Council, notwithstanding the adoption by the municipality of a Highlands master plan element, a Highlands land use ordinance, or an environmental resource inventory. c. P.L.2008, c.78 (C.40:55D-136.1 et seq.) shall not affect any administrative consent order issued by the Department of Environmental Protection in effect or issued during the extension period, nor shall it be construed to extend any approval in connection with a resource recovery facility as defined in section 2 of P.L.1985, c.38 (C.13:1E-137). d. Nothing in P.L.2008, c.78 (C.40:55D-136.1 et seq.) shall affect the ability of the Commissioner of Environmental Protection to revoke or modify a specific permit or approval, or extension thereof pursuant to P.L.2008, c.78 (C.40:55D-136.1 et seq.), when that specific permit or approval contains language authorizing the modification or revocation of the permit or approval by the department. e. In the event that any approval tolled pursuant to P.L.2008, c.78 (C.40:55D-136.1 et seq.) is based upon the connection to a sanitary sewer system, the approval's extension shall be contingent upon the availability of sufficient capacity, on the part of the treatment facility, to accommodate the development whose approval has been extended. If sufficient capacity is not available, those permit holders whose approvals have been extended shall have priority with regard to the further allocation of gallonage over those approval holders who have not received approval of a hookup prior to the date of enactment of P.L.2008, c.78 (C.40:55D-136.1 et seq.). Priority regarding the distribution of further gallonage to any permit holder who has received the extension of an approval pursuant to P.L.2008, c.78 (C.40:55D-136.1 et seq.)shall be allocated in order of the granting of the original approval of the connection. f. P.L.2008, c.78 (C.40:55D-136.1 et seq.) shall not toll any approval issued under the "Municipal Land Use Law," P.L.1975, c.291 (C.40:55D-1 et seq.) in connection with an application for development involving a residential use where, subsequent to the expiration of the permit but prior to January 1, 2007, an amendment has been adopted to the master plan and the zoning ordinance to rezone the property to industrial or commercial use when the permit was issued for residential use. g. Nothing in P.L.2008, c.78 (C.40:55D-136.1 et seq.) shall be construed or implemented in such a way as to modify any requirement of law that is necessary to retain federal delegation to, or assumption by, the State of the authority to implement a federal law or program. h. Nothing in P.L.2008, c.78 (C.40:55D-136.1 et seq.)shall be deemed to extend the obligation of any wastewater management planning agency to submit a wastewater management plan or plan update, or the obligation of a municipality to submit a wastewater management plan or plan update, pursuant to the "Water Quality Planning Act," P.L.1977, c.75 (C.58:11A-1 et seq.) and the Water Quality Management Planning rules, N.J.A.C.7:15-1.1 et seq., adopted by the Department of Environmental Protection, effective July 7, 2008. i. All underlying municipal, county, and State permits or approvals within the extension area as defined in section 3 of P.L.2008, c.78 (C.40:55D-136.3), as amended, are extended in the Pinelands Area as designated pursuant to the "Pinelands Protection Act," P.L.1979, c.111 (C.13:18A-1 et seq.). L.2008, c.78, s.4; amended 2012, c.48, s.3; 2016, c.14, s.2.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:5-16.4 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 5 / Section 5-16.4
Issuance, acceptance of purchase order for license or permit fee
Status: in_force

Except as provided below, whenever a department, agency or bureau of the State requires that the fee for issuing a license or permit be paid in advance, a county, municipality, authority, or other subdivision of local government shall be deemed to have met that requirement by the issuance of a duly executed purchase order payable pursuant to the provisions of the "Local Fiscal Affairs Law" (N.J.S.40A:5-1 et seq.): a. the Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of Law and Public Safety shall not be required to accept a duly executed purchase order; and b. the Department of Transportation may accept a duly executed purchase order from a county, municipality, authority, or other subdivision of local government for the fee for issuing a license or permit if the department determines that its accounting procedures permit the acceptance of such purchase orders. L.1991,c.174,s.1.
N.J. Stat. § 40:68A-23 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 68A / Section 68A-23
Property as public property; bonds declared issued by political subdivision; bonds exempt from taxation
Status: in_force

All port facilities and all other property of a port authority are hereby declared to be public property of a political subdivision of the State and devoted to an essential public and governmental function and purpose and shall be exempt from all taxes and special assessments of the State or any subdivision thereof. All bonds issued pursuant to this act are hereby declared to be issued by a political subdivision of this State and for an essential public and governmental purpose and to be a public instrumentality, and such bonds, and the interest thereon and the income therefrom, and all service charges, funds, revenues and other moneys pledged or available to pay or secure the payment of such bonds, or interest thereon, shall at all times be exempt from taxation except for transfer, inheritance and estate taxes. L.1948, c. 349, p. 1398, s. 23, eff. Sept. 1, 1948.
N.J. Stat. § 40:37-252 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 37 / Section 37-252
Maintenance; annual appropriation
Status: in_force

In any county of the second class in which county lands have been or may be developed or improved for use as a public park or public recreation place with funds made available by the federal government or any instrumentality thereof, the board of chosen freeholders may maintain, preserve, and care for such lands as a public park or parks or recreation place or recreation places and make annual appropriations therefor. Nothing in this article contained shall be construed to apply to any county of the second class, which has adopted the provisions of any other law for the establishment and maintenance of a county park commission.
N.J. Stat. § 40:23-5 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 23 / Section 23-5
Advertise advantages of county
Status: in_force

The board of chosen freeholders may appropriate such sums as it shall deem necessary for the purpose of advertising in newspapers, magazines or otherwise, either within or without the state, the advantages and attractions of the county for residence and business purposes.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:14-149.2 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 14 / Section 14-149.2
Reinstatement and recovery of withheld pay
Status: in_force

If a suspended police officer is found not guilty at trial, the charges are dismissed or the prosecution is terminated, said officer shall be reinstated to his position and shall be entitled to recover all pay withheld during the period of suspension subject to any disciplinary proceedings or administrative action. L.1973, c. 270, s. 2, eff. Nov. 29, 1973.
N.J. Stat. § 40:37-95.10h — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 37 / Section 37-95.10h
Operative upon approval of voters by majority vote
Status: in_force

If at such election a majority of all the votes cast both for and against the adoption of such law shall be cast in favor of the adoption thereof, the same shall immediately become operative in the county voting thereon. L.1970, c. 148, s. 4, eff. July 22, 1970.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:9-133.6 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 9 / Section 9-133.6
Certificate necessary for reappointment
Status: in_force

Commencing January 1, 1986, no person shall be reappointed as municipal clerk in any municipality unless he shall hold a registered municipal clerk certificate issued pursuant to this act. L. 1985, c. 174, s. 6, eff. May 31, 1985.
N.J. Stat. § 40:37D-2 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 37D / Section 37D-2
Findings, declarations
Status: in_force

2. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. There is a need to establish, construct and develop regional food processing and distribution centers in the various counties of the State; and b. These regional centers will stimulate additional economic development in the State by assisting businesses and generating new jobs; and c. These centers are expected to provide substantial benefits to the fishing industry in the State and to enhance the extensive farming industry, especially in southern and central New Jersey, by providing the means to meet the rapidly growing demands for food in these areas. L.1994,c.98,s.2.
N.J. Stat. § 40:27-6.2 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 27 / Section 27-6.2
Review and approval of all subdivisions of land; procedures; engineering and planning standards
Status: in_force

The board of freeholders of any county having a county planning board shall provide for the review of all subdivisions of land within the county by said county planning board and for the approval of those subdivisions affecting county road or drainage facilities as set forth and limited hereinafter in this section. Such review or approval shall be in accordance with procedures and engineering and planning standards adopted by resolution of the board of chosen freeholders. These standards shall be limited to: a. The requirement of adequate drainage facilities and easements when, as determined by the county engineer in accordance with county-wide standards, the proposed subdivision will cause storm water to drain either directly or indirectly to a county road, or through any drainageway, structure, pipe, culvert, or facility for which the county is responsible for the construction, maintenance, or proper functioning; b. The requirement of dedicating rights-of-way for any roads or drainageways shown on a duly adopted county master plan or official county map; c. Where a proposed subdivision abuts a county road, or where additional rights-of-way and physical improvements are required by the county planning board, such improvements shall be subject to recommendations of the county engineer relating to the safety and convenience of the traveling public and may include additional pavement widths, marginal access streets, reverse frontage and other county highway and traffic design features necessitated by an increase in traffic volumes, potential safety hazards or impediments to traffic flows caused by the subdivision; d. The requirement of performance guarantees and procedures for the release of same, maintenance bonds for not more than 2 years duration from date of acceptance of improvements and agreements specifying minimum standards of construction for required improvements. The amount of any performance guarantee or maintenance bond shall be set by the planning board upon the advice of the county engineer and shall not exceed the full cost of the facility and installation costs or the developer's proportionate share thereof, computed on the basis of his acreage related to the acreage of the total drainage basin involved plus 10% for contingencies. In lieu of providing any required drainage easement a cash contribution may be deposited with the county to cover the cost or the proportionate share thereof for securing said easement. In lieu of installing any such required facilities exterior to the proposed plat a cash contribution may be deposited with the county to cover the cost of proportionate share thereof for the future installation of such facilities. Any and all moneys received by the county to insure performance under the provisions of this act shall be paid to the county treasurer who shall provide a suitable depository therefor. Such funds shall be used only for county drainage projects or improvement for which they are deposited unless such projects are not initiated for a period of 10 years, at which time said funds shall be transferred to the general fund of the county, provided that no assessment of benefits for such facilities as a local improvement shall thereafter be levied against the owners of the lands upon which the developer's prior contribution had been based. Any moneys or guarantees received by the county under this paragraph shall not duplicate bonds or other guarantees required by municipalities for municipal purposes. e. Provision may be made for waiving or adjusting requirements under the subdivision resolution to alleviate hardships which would result from strict compliance with the subdivision standards. Where provision is made for waiving or adjusting requirements criteria shall be included in the standards adopted by the board of chosen freeholders to guide actions of the county planning board. Notice of the public hearing on a proposed resolution of the board of chosen freeholders establishing procedures and engineering standards to govern land subdivision within the county, and a copy of such resolution, shall be given by delivery or by certified mail to the municipal clerk and secretary of the planning board of each municipality in the county at least 10 days prior to such hearing. L.1968, c. 285, s. 4, eff. July 1, 1969.
N.J. Stat. § 40:37A-115 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 37A / Section 37A-115
Actions or proceedings; standing of authority; jurisdiction and venue; receiver; reorganizations
Status: in_force

The authority may institute any action or proceeding against any qualified housing sponsor receiving a loan under the provisions of this act, or owning any housing project hereunder, in any court of competent jurisdiction to enforce the provisions of this act, or to foreclose its mortgage, or to protect the public interest, the tenants, the stockholders or creditors of such sponsor. In connection with any such action or proceeding, the authority may apply for the appointment of a receiver to take over, manage, operate and maintain the affairs of such qualified housing sponsor, and the authority through such agent as it shall designate is hereby authorized to accept appointment as receiver of any such sponsor when so appointed by a court of competent jurisdiction. The reorganization of any qualified housing sponsor shall be subject to the supervision and control of the authority and no such reorganization shall be had without the consent of the authority. Upon any such reorganization the amount of capitalization, including therein all stocks, income debentures and bonds and other evidence of indebtedness, shall be such as is authorized by the authority but not in excess of the fair value of the property received. L.1979, c. 275, s. 10, eff. Jan. 3, 1980.
N.J. Stat. § 40:69A-38 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 69A / Section 69A-38
Municipal clerk; duties
Status: in_force

The council shall appoint a municipal clerk, who shall serve as clerk of the council, keep its minutes and records of its proceedings, maintain and compile its ordinances and resolutions as this act requires, and perform such functions as may be required by law. The municipal clerk shall, prior to his appointment, have been qualified by training or experience to perform the duties of the office. L.1950, c. 210, p. 474, s. 3-8, eff. June 8, 1950.
N.J. Stat. § 40:20-35.12 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 20 / Section 20-35.12
Vacancy in offices of all or majority of members
Status: in_force

Whenever the offices of all or a majority of the members of the board of chosen freeholders shall become vacant for any reason, the existence of the vacancies shall be immediately certified to the Governor by any remaining member of the board of chosen freeholders or by the county clerk. The Governor upon receipt of the certification shall forthwith fill the vacancies temporarily by appointment until successors are elected and certified for the unexpired terms at the next general election occurring not less than 60 days subsequent to the certification of the existence of the vacancies. Any appointment made pursuant to this section to fill a vacancy occurring in the next to the last year of the term and certified any time after 60 days prior to the holding of the general election, shall be made for the remainder of the term. L.1979, c. 340, s. 3, eff. Jan. 23, 1980.
N.J. Stat. § 40:12-4 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 12 / Section 12-4
Acquisition of property; authorization; condemnation
Status: in_force

If such board or body by resolution authorizes the acquisition of such lands and appropriates a sum for the purchase and equipment thereof, or authorizes the leasing thereof and appropriates a sum for the equipment thereof, the board shall proceed to acquire the same by purchase, condemnation or lease, as the case may be, and suitably prepare and equip the same for a playground and recreation place, or approach thereto. If the board is unable to agree with the owner or owners as to the price and terms of purchase, or if, by reason of any legal disability, or the absence of any owner or owners thereof, or for any other cause, an agreement for the purchase of such lands or any part thereof, or any rights or interests therein cannot be made, the board may cause such lands or any rights or interests therein to be condemned and taken on behalf of such municipality or county, and the compensation to be made therefor shall be ascertained and paid or tendered in the manner provided in chapter 1 of the title Eminent Domain (s. 20:1-1 et seq.). The board may cause any lands so acquired to be laid out and improved as a public playground, recreation place or an approach thereto. The title to all lands acquired or taken under the provisions of sections 40:12-1 to 40:12-8 of this title shall vest in the municipality or county, and all leases of land for such purpose shall be in the name of the municipality or county, as the case may be.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:14-68 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 14 / Section 14-68
Contracts with volunteer fire companies; member holding public office.
Status: in_force

40A:14-68. a. In any municipality not having a paid or part-paid fire department and force, the governing body, by ordinance, may contract with a volunteer fire company or companies in such municipality, for purposes of extinguishing fires, upon such terms and conditions as shall be deemed proper. The members of any such company shall be under the supervision and control of said municipality and in performing fire duty shall be deemed to be exercising a governmental function; however, the appointment or election of the chief of the volunteer fire company shall remain the prerogative of the membership of the fire company as set forth in the company's certificate of incorporation or bylaws. b. A member of a volunteer fire company established pursuant to subsection a. of this section shall not be precluded from holding elected public office on the governing body of the municipal government where the fire company operates, provided that the volunteer recuse himself from any vote involving or concerning the volunteer fire company. In municipalities below 5,000 in population, recusal from such votes shall only be required for officers, directors, and trustees of the volunteer fire company. amended 1989, c.285, s.1; 2009, c.206, s.2; 2017, c.181, s.2.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:27-22 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 27 / Section 27-22
Statutes repealed
Status: in_force

R.S. 40:69-1 through 40:69-4, R.S. 40:30-18 through 40:30-21, P.L. 1944, c. 207 (C. 40:69-4.1 through 40:69-4.12). P.L. 1977, c. 333 (C. 40:23-34 through 40:23-46) is repealed.
L.1987, c.179, s.1.
N.J. Stat. § 40:68A-3 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 68A / Section 68A-3
Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in this act, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: (1) "Municipality" shall mean any city of any class, any borough, village, town, township, or any other municipality other than a county or a school district; (2) "Governing body" shall mean the commission, council, board or body, by whatever name it may be known, having charge of the finances of the municipality; (3) "Person" shall mean any person, association, corporation, nation, State or any agency or subdivision thereof, municipality of the State or a port authority; (4) "Port authority" shall mean a public body created pursuant to section four of this act; (5) "District" shall mean the area within the territorial boundaries of the municipality or municipalities which created or joined in the creation of a port authority; (6) "Local unit" shall mean any municipality which created or joined in the creation of a port authority; (7) "Port facilities" shall mean harbor, port and shipping facilities of all kinds, including, but not limited to, harbors, channels, turning basins, anchorage areas, jetties, breakwaters, waterways, canals, locks, tidal basins, wharves, docks, piers, slips, bulkheads, public landings, warehouses, terminals, refrigerating and cold storage plants, terminal railway facilities, rolling stock car ferries, tugs, boats, conveyors and appliances of all kinds for the handling, storage, inspection and transportation of freight and the handling of passenger traffic; airport facilities of all kinds for land and sea planes, including, but not limited to, landing fields, hangars, shops, buses, trucks and all other facilities for the landing, taking off, servicing, and repairing and parking of aircraft, and the loading and unloading and handling of passengers, mail, express and freight; exhibition halls and markets; administration buildings; tunnels; causeways and bridges; and shall include all property, rights, easements and franchises relative to any such facilities and deemed necessary or convenient for the acquisition, construction or operation thereof. (8) "Cost" shall mean, in addition to the usual connotations thereof, the cost of acquisition or construction of all or any part of port facilities and of all or any property, rights, easements and franchises deemed by a port authority to be necessary or useful and convenient therefor, including reimbursements to the port authority or any municipality or other person of any moneys theretofore expended for the purposes of the port authority and including interest or discount on bonds to finance such cost, engineering and inspection costs and legal expenses, the cost of financial, professional and other advice, and the cost of issuance of any such bonds; (9) "Real property" shall mean lands both within and without the State, and improvements thereof or thereon, or any rights or interests therein; (10) "Construct" and "construction" shall connote and include acts of construction, reconstruction, replacement, extension, improvement and betterment of port facilities; (11) "Ordinance" means a written act of the governing body of a municipality adopted and otherwise approved and published in the manner or mode of procedure prescribed for ordinances tending to obligate such municipality pecuniarily; and (12) "Resolution" means a written act of the governing body of a local unit adopted and otherwise approved in the manner or mode of procedure prescribed for resolutions tending to obligate such local unit pecuniarily. (13) "Bonds" shall mean bonds or other obligations issued pursuant to this act. L.1948, c. 349, p. 1380, s. 3, eff. Sept. 1, 1948.
N.J. Stat. § 40:63-127 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 63 / Section 63-127
Assessments for benefits need not be made; municipality to pay whole amount
Status: in_force

The body or board of such municipality having charge of its finances may also determine, by ordinance or resolution, that the special benefits conferred upon property within the municipality by the construction of such outlet or trunk sewer, or of any sewer or sewers, system of sewerage, trunk, lateral or connecting sewer connecting with and discharging into any such joint improvement or works shall not be assessed upon the property specially benefited thereby, and in case any assessment shall be levied upon property in such municipality under the provisions of this article, such municipality may pay the gross amount of such assessments when made to the treasurer of the joint meeting, and thereupon the assessments so made upon property within the limits of the municipality shall be canceled and discharged.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:11-20 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 11 / Section 11-20
Certificate of bidder showing ability to perform contract
Status: in_force

There may be required from any bidder submitting a bid on public work to any contracting unit, duly advertised for in accordance with law, a certificate showing that he owns, leases, or controls all the necessary equipment required by the plans, specifications and advertisements under which bids are asked for and if the bidder is not the actual owner or lessee of any such equipment, his certificate shall state the source from which the equipment will be obtained, and shall be accompanied by a certificate from the owner or person in control of the equipment definitely granting to the bidder the control of the equipment required during such time as may be necessary for the completion of that portion of the contract for which it is necessary. L.1971, c. 198, s. 20, eff. July 1, 1971.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:14-87 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 14 / Section 14-87
Payments of interest and principal; inclusion in budget; borrowing to pay
Status: in_force

Whenever bonds have been duly issued the board of fire commissioners shall annually include in the budget of the fire district under the section for capital appropriations, the amount required to meet the interest payments and pay the bonds maturing in the ensuing year, together with interest thereon. The board of fire commissioners shall cause the principal and interest on said bonds to be paid as they become due. If no funds are currently available to pay the maturing bonds or interest, the board of fire commissioners may borrow money and execute evidences of indebtedness for the purpose of making such payments in the same manner as in other cases of borrowing. L.1971, c. 197, s. 1, eff. July 1, 1971. Amended by L.1979, c. 453, s. 16.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:26A-13 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 26A / Section 26A-13
Improvements financed by means of local improvement assessments
Status: in_force

If the governing body of one or more local units determines that all or any part of the cost of construction of sewerage facilities acquired or constructed pursuant to this act should be financed by local improvement assessments on real properties located within the local unit or units, the local unit or units shall pass a resolution or ordinance or parallel resolutions or ordinances on the intention to undertake and finance the sewerage facilities and shall give notice thereof by advertising in one or more newspapers of general circulation in the local unit or units, and by notifying each concerned property owner by certified mail. The notice shall fix a date, time and place for a public hearing on the proposed action; except that the date of the hearing shall not be earlier than two weeks after the mailing of notices to concerned property owners. If, after the hearing, the governing body or bodies decide to carry out the proposed local improvement, an ordinance or resolution, or parallel ordinances or resolutions shall be adopted declaring that determination. Source: R.S.40:63-61 and R.S.40:63-125. L.1991,c.53,s.1.
N.J. Stat. § 40:41A-100 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 41A / Section 41A-100
Rules of procedure; quorum; resolutions; compensation
Status: in_force

a. The board shall promptly after its organization determine and adopt, by resolution, a set of bylaws prescribing its own rules of procedure. Said bylaws shall not be inconsistent with any lawful ordinance or statute; b. A majority of the whole number of the members of the board shall constitute a quorum; c. A resolution shall mean any act or regulation of the board required to be reduced to writing, but which may be finally passed at the meeting at which it is introduced. The vote upon every resolution shall be taken by roll call and the yeas and nays shall be entered on the minutes; d. The compensation of the county executive, supervisor, manager or board president, and of freeholders and the administrative officer and department heads shall be fixed by the board by ordinance promptly after its organization. L.1972, c. 154, s. 100, eff. Sept. 19, 1972. Amended by L.1975, c. 84, s. 39, eff. May 5, 1975.
N.J. Stat. § 40:41A-24 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 41A / Section 41A-24
Incorporation
Status: in_force

The inhabitants of any county shall within the boundaries of that county be and remain a body corporate and politic, with perpetual succession. L.1972, c. 154, s. 24, eff. Sept. 19, 1972.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:10-25 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 10 / Section 10-25
Filing copy of contract with State Employees Health Benefit Commission; report to Governor and Legislature
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the executive officer of any employer who enters into a contract pursuant to this subarticle to file a copy thereof with the State Employees Health Benefits Commission. The commission shall prepare and file periodically, and not less than every 2 years, a report to the Governor and the Legislature as to the contracts being entered into by employers and shall make such recommendations concerning the contracts and the coverage thereunder as it deems appropriate to achieve uniformity of coverage and benefits for employees throughout the State. L.1979, c. 230, s. 1, eff. Oct. 15, 1979.
N.J. Stat. § 40:41A-49 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 41A / Section 41A-49
Vacancies
Status: in_force

The office of county manager shall be deemed vacant if: the incumbent moves his residence from the county without board permission; or he is by death, physical or mental illness or other casualty unable to continue to serve as county manager. Any vacancy in the office of county manager shall be filled in the manner prescribed in section 47 of this article. The board of freeholders may appoint the deputy manager or any department head to serve as acting county manager until a successor has been appointed. During the temporary absence or temporary disability of the county manager the deputy manager or a department head designated by the manager if there be no deputy manager, shall serve as acting county manager. L.1972, c. 154, s. 49, eff. Sept. 19, 1972.
N.J. Stat. § 40:52-7 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 52 / Section 52-7
Additional assessments
Status: in_force

1. The governing body of any municipality is authorized to enact an ordinance or ordinances imposing an additional assessment to any fee imposed upon a license issued by the municipality pursuant to P.L.1959, c.109 (C.5:8-100 et seq.), R.S.40:52-1 or R.S.33:1-19. The additional assessment shall be imposed at the rate as shall be determined by the governing body and set forth in the ordinance. In no event shall the total amount of the additional assessment imposed on any one license exceed $200. L.1982,c.68,s.1; amended 1987,c.412; 1994,c.46,s.1.
N.J. Stat. § 40:24-1 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 24 / Section 24-1
Ordinances in effect in 1918 to continue until altered
Status: in_force

L.1918, c. 185, s. 1714, p. 621 [1924 Suppl. s. 48-*1714], being section 1714 of an act entitled "An act concerning counties," approved March fourth, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, saved from repeal. [This section provided that all ordinances, resolutions, actions and regulations in force when the act was passed and not inconsistent therewith, should remain in effect until repealed or otherwise altered.]
N.J. Stat. § 40:54D-22 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 54D / Section 54D-22
Applicability of "Local Public Contracts Law."
Status: in_force

22. All purchases, contracts or agreements made by the authority pursuant to P.L.1992, c.165 (C.40:54D-1 et seq.) shall be made or awarded pursuant to the "Local Public Contracts Law," P.L.1971, c.198 (C.40A:11-1 et seq.). L.1992,c.165,s.22; amended 1997, c.273, s.10.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:7-18 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 7 / Section 7-18
Joint committee to apportion property and indebtedness
Status: in_force

On the Monday after the annexation becomes effective, a committee of three to be appointed by the governing body of the municipality to which the territory shall have been annexed, and a similar committee appointed by the governing body of the municipality of which the territory was formerly a part, shall meet at the municipal building of the municipality to which the territory shall have been annexed, at 10:00 a.m., or as soon thereafter as may be, proceed to state an account of all the property, real and personal, all debts, dues and demands, all judgments, recognizances and claims and all liens, actions and rights of action belonging to the municipality of which the annexed territory formerly formed a part, and to state the fair value thereof to such municipality. They shall also state an account of all the debts outstanding of such municipality, and the proper proportion or share to be borne and paid by the municipality to which the territory has been annexed, and the methods in and times at which payment thereof should be made. L.1979, c. 181, s. 2, eff. Aug. 29, 1979.
N.J. Stat. § 40:9B-1 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 9B / Section 9B-1
Establishment and maintenance of narcotic treatment programs and centers.
Status: in_force

1. The board of county commissioners of any county or the governing body of any municipality may establish and maintain a substance use disorder program for the operation or the support of centers for the diagnosis and treatment of substance use disorder. Such program may be carried on by the establishment and operation of separate facilities or by conducting the same in connection with an existing county or municipal institution or by contract with a licensed hospital or the governing body of another municipality. L.1964, c. 254, s. 1, eff. Dec. 29, 1964; amended 2023, c.177, s.121.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:5-15 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 5 / Section 5-15
Deposit of funds paid to the local unit
Status: in_force

All moneys, including moneys collected by taxation, received from any source by or on behalf of any local unit or any board or department thereof shall, within 48 hours after the receipt thereof, either a. be paid to the officer charged with the custody of the general funds of the local unit, who shall deposit all such funds within 48 hours after the receipt thereof to the credit of the local unit in its designated legal depository, or b. be deposited to the credit of the local unit in its designated legal depository. L.1960, c. 169, s. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1962.
N.J. Stat. § 40:62-133.2 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 62 / Section 62-133.2
Commission empowered to issue bonds
Status: in_force

For the purpose of raising funds to pay the cost of any part of its waterworks, including the cost of enlarging, extending or improving the same, or for the purpose of funding or refunding any bonds including bonds or other obligations issued by any municipality represented by the commission in connection with the acquisition of waterworks, and any extensions thereto and enlargements thereof, a commission shall have power to authorize or provide for the issuance of bonds pursuant to this amendatory and supplementary act. In order to approve an action concerning bonds, the commission shall, by five members voting in the affirmative, adopt a resolution, sometimes referred to in this amendatory and supplementary act as a "bond resolution;" provided, however, that all of the municipalities which constitute the commission shall be represented among the members voting in the affirmative. The bond resolution shall: a. Describe in brief and general terms sufficient for reasonable identification the waterworks or part thereof, sometimes referred to in this amendatory and supplementary act as a "project," to be constructed, acquired, enlarged, extended, or improved or describe the bonds which are to be funded or refunded, if any; b. State the cost or estimated cost of the project, if any; and c. Provide for the issuance of the bonds in accordance with section 4 of this amendatory and supplementary act. L.1991,c.162,s.3.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:12-22 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 12 / Section 12-22
Establishment, maintenance of central registry.
Status: in_force

22. Each municipality and county may establish and maintain a central registry of all real property in which it has acquired title or a leasehold interest for other than street or highway purposes as of the effective date of this act. This registry may also include a record of all real property which a county or municipality may hereafter acquire, sell or lease. The central registry referred to herein, if established and maintained, shall: a. Constitute a public record; b. Be entitled "Municipal Real Property Registry" or "County Real Property Registry" as may be appropriate; c. Be available for inspection in the office of the municipal clerk or clerk of the board of chosen freeholders, as may be appropriate. L.1971,c.199,s.22; amended 1972, c.126; 2000, c.126, s.27.
N.J. Stat. § 40:48-9.12 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 48 / Section 48-9.12
Historic place or site; expenditure of federal aid to preserve or rehabilitate
Status: in_force

Any municipality may expend public funds received by the municipality under the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, 42 U.S.C. 5303-5317 (1974), as amended, for, or in aid of, the preservation, restoration, improvement, or rehabilitation of a historic place or site owned by a nonprofit corporation or association organized pursuant to Title 15 or 16 of the Revised Statutes, if the historic place or site has been approved for inclusion in the New Jersey Register of Historic Places in the Division of Parks, Forestry and Recreation of the Department of Environmental Protection under P.L.1970, c. 268 (C. 13:1B-15.128 et seq.). L.1977, c. 303, s. 1, eff. Dec. 21, 1977.
N.J. Stat. § 40:55B-2 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 55B / Section 55B-2
Legislative finding; purpose of chapter
Status: in_force

It is hereby found and declared as follows: a. That unless many municipalities are to accept decadence and obsolescence as their inevitable lot, they must thoroughly analyze their position in the industrial structure of the country and then completely mobilize their potential resources for efficient manufacture; that the location of industry today is more and more the result of an impartial, scientific study of basic economic conditions; that one of the basic difficulties of many of the municipalities of this state is that they do not know themselves; that they have little appreciation of either their economic strength or their economic weakness; that they have never studied impartially either the economic advantages or the economic disadvantages of their own peculiar geographic position; that there had been an abundance of publicity campaigns and boosting campaigns founded upon superficial generalities and not well designed to enlighten the prospective manufacturer; that a frank inventory of the industrial life of New Jersey communities as a deliberate and sober inquiry of scientific character is necessary to ascertain their real needs and to determine their potential resources for efficient manufacture with a constructive program for sustained and selective growth and a long term policy of industrial rehabilitation and development is necessary. b. That there are now many thousands of unemployed persons within the state of New Jersey, who, if profitably employed, would create annual pay rolls of millions of dollars; that the re-employment of the present unemployed would quicken and improve social conditions.
N.J. Stat. § 40:20-74.1 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 20 / Section 20-74.1
Resolution fixing compensation; publication before passage
Status: in_force

In any case where permitted pursuant to the provisions of sections 40:20-72, 40:20-73 or 40:20-74 of the Revised Statutes, any resolution fixing the salary or other compensation of the members of a board of chosen freeholders or the director thereof, shall, after being introduced and having first reading, be published at least once in two newspapers circulating in the county, one of which shall be a newspaper published at the county seat, if there be such newspaper, together with a notice of the introduction thereof and the time and place when and where it will be further considered for final passage. If there be only one such publication, the same shall be at least one week prior to the time fixed for further consideration for final passage. If there be more than one such publication, the first shall be at least one week prior to the time fixed for further consideration for final passage. L.1947, c. 302, p. 1018, s. 4.
N.J. Stat. § 40:43-66.81 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 43 / Section 43-66.81
Question of consolidation submitted to voters
Status: in_force

4. a. Whenever the governing body of a sparsely populated municipality with a population between 100 and 500 persons according to the most recent federal decennial census and the governing body of an absorbing municipality have both adopted ordinances proposing and consenting to the consolidation of their respective municipalities, the municipal clerk of each municipality shall cause the question of consolidation to be submitted to the registered voters of each municipality on the date for the next general or regular municipal election occurring not less than 60 days after the adoption of the ordinance of the absorbing municipality. At that election, the question shall be submitted in the same manner as other public questions in each such municipality, and in the following form or such part thereof as shall be applicable: "Shall (insert the names of the municipalities) be consolidated into a single municipality to be known as (insert name of absorbing municipality) and governed under (insert the present plan or form of government of the absorbing municipality)?" b. The question submitted pursuant to subsection a of this section shall be deemed approved and adopted only if a majority of those voting on the question in each of the municipalities votes in favor of the question. c. The results of the election in each municipality in which the question was submitted shall be certified in accordance with Title 19 of the Revised Statutes, and the county clerk shall, in turn, not more than five days after said certification, notify the director of the election results. L.1995,c.376,s.4.
N.J. Stat. § 40:55D-116 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 55D / Section 55D-116
Development transfers
Status: in_force

a. The governing body of any municipality in Burlington County may, by ordinance approved by the county planning board, provide for the transfer of development within its jurisdiction. The governing bodies of two or more municipalities may, by substantially similar ordinances, provide for a joint program for the transfer of development, including transfers from sending zones in one municipality to receiving zones in the other. b. The Office of State Planning, established pursuant to section 6 of P.L.1985, c.398 (C.52:18A-201), shall provide such technical assistance as may be requested by municipalities or the county planning board, and as may be reasonably within the capacity of the office to provide, for the purpose of providing for development transfers pursuant to the provisions of this act. The office shall also carry out its responsibilities as provided in sections 9 and 11 of this act. L.1989,c.86,s.4.
N.J. Stat. § 40:62-34.10 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 62 / Section 62-34.10
Filing of ordinance and statement of financing plan with Division of Local Government
Status: in_force

The governing body of any such municipality, wherein such ordinance is adopted, shall file or cause to be filed with the Division of Local Government in the Treasury Department, a copy of the ordinance and a statement of the plan for the financing of the said improvement. L.1958, c. 36, p. 126, s. 2.
N.J. Stat. § 40:14B-22.5 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 14B / Section 14B-22.5
Credit toward certain fees provided by municipal authority.
Status: in_force

5. a. A municipal authority shall provide a credit applicable toward a connection or tapping fee to be charged for a reconnection of a disconnected property that was previously connected to the water or sewerage system, provided that: (1) the property has been connected to the water or sewerage system for at least 20 years; and (2) service charges have been paid for the property in at least one of the last five years. b. The credit required under subsection a. of this section shall be calculated as follows: (1) If the reconnection does not require any new physical connection or does not increase the nature or size of the service or the number of service units, or does not expand the use of the water or sewerage system, the credit shall be equal in amount to the new connection or tapping fee. (2) If the reconnection requires a new physical connection, increases the nature or size of the service or the number of service units, or expands the use of the water or sewerage system, the credit shall be equal in amount to any connection or tapping fee previously paid for the property, and the municipal authority shall charge the difference between the credit and the connection or tapping fee for the new use or class. (3) If no connection or tapping fee was ever paid for the property, but all service charges due and owing on the property have been paid for at least 20 years, the credit shall be equal in amount to the new connection or tapping fee; provided, however, that any charges due and owing pursuant to paragraph (2) of this subsection shall be paid. c. If no connection or tapping fee was ever paid for a disconnected property that is to be reconnected and which was previously connected to the water or sewerage system for at least 20 years, the municipal authority shall charge, in addition to any amount due and owing after application of a credit pursuant to this section, a connection or tapping fee equal to the lesser of: (1) 20 percent of the service charges that would have been paid based upon the usage for the last full year that the property was connected to the water or sewerage system for the period from the date of the disconnection from the water or sewerage system to the date of the new connection; or (2) the new connection fee. d. A credit shall not be allowed under this section for a property that has been disconnected from the water or sewerage system for more than five years. e. As used in this section, "disconnected property" means a property that has been physically disconnected from the water or sewerage system or a property not physically disconnected but to which service has been discontinued without payments being made. A "disconnected property" shall not include a property that has been temporarily disconnected from the water or sewerage system or to which service has been discontinued without payments being made for less than 12 consecutive months and is being reconnected as it existed, prior to the temporary disconnection or discontinuance of service. L.2018, c.74, s.5.
N.J. Stat. § 40:54A-1 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 54A / Section 54A-1
Authorization to create seaquarium authority; name
Status: in_force

The governing body of any municipality bordering on the Atlantic ocean is hereby authorized to create by ordinance a local authority to plan, construct and maintain on or adjacent to the ocean front of the municipality, a place for the display of freshwater and saltwater fishes and marine and aquatic exhibits for educational, recreational, cultural and scientific purposes to be generally designated and known as a seaquarium. Any such local authority shall be known as "the seaquarium authority of " (insert here the name of the municipality) L.1964, c. 103, s. 1, eff. May 29, 1964.
N.J. Stat. § 40:62-133.8 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 62 / Section 62-133.8
Appointment of trustee in event of default
Status: in_force

a. If a default occurs in the payment of the principal of or interest on any bonds of the series after the bonds are due, whether at maturity or upon call for redemption, and this default continues for a period of 30 days, or if the commission fails or refuses to comply with the provisions of this amendatory and supplementary act or fails or refuses to carry out and perform the terms of any contract with the holders of the bonds, and this failure or refusal continues for a period of 30 days after written notice to the commission of its existence and nature, the holders of 25% in the aggregate principal amount of the bonds and the series then outstanding by instrument or instruments filed in the office of the Secretary of State and proved or acknowledged in the same manner as a deed to be recorded, may appoint a trustee to represent the holders of the bonds of the series for the purposes provided in this section. This section shall be applicable only if the bond resolution of the commission authorizing the issuance of a series of its bonds provides that the holders of the bonds of the series are entitled to the benefits of this section. b. The trustee may, and upon written request of the holders of 25% in aggregate principal amount of the bonds of the series then outstanding shall, in his or its own name: (1) By any action, writ, proceeding in lieu of prerogative writ, or other proceeding, enforce all rights of the holders of the bonds, including the right to require the commission to charge and collect water rents adequate to carry out any contract as to, or pledge of, water revenues, and to require the commission to carry out and perform the terms of any contract with the holders of the bonds or its duties under this amendatory and supplementary act; (2) Bring an action upon all or any part of the bonds or interest coupons or claims appurtenant thereto; (3) By action, require the commission to account as if it were the trustee of an express trust for the holders of the bonds; (4) By action, enjoin any acts or things which may be unlawful or in violation of the rights of the holders of the bonds; or (5) Declare the bonds due and payable, whether or not in advance of maturity, upon 30 days' prior notice in writing to the commission and, if all defaults are satisfied, with the consent of the holders of 25% of the principal amount of the bonds then outstanding, annul the declaration and its consequences. c. The trustee shall have and possess all of the powers necessary or appropriate for the exercise of the functions specifically set forth herein or incident to the general representation of the holders of the bonds of the series in the enforcement and protection of their rights. d. In any action or proceeding by the trustee, the fees, counsel fees and expenses of the trustee and of the receiver, if any, appointed pursuant to this amendatory and supplementary act, shall constitute taxable costs and disbursements, and all costs and disbursements, allowed by the court, shall be a first charge upon any water rents and water revenues of the commission pledged for the payment or security of bonds of the series. L.1991,c.162,s.9.
N.J. Stat. § 40:61-12 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 61 / Section 61-12
Ordinances regulating railways in and through parks
Status: in_force

No steam, or other railroad or railway, shall be laid, or maintained or operated upon or over any part of any of the parks, open spaces, public squares, beach fronts, water fronts, playgrounds, and other places for resort and recreation of any municipality, and of the boulevards or parkways leading thereto, and connecting the same, except at such places and in such manner as the governing body shall, by ordinance, designate and approve.
N.J. Stat. § 40:55D-151 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 55D / Section 55D-151
Review by Office of Smart Growth.
Status: in_force

15. When the Office of Smart Growth receives a petition pursuant to subsection c. of section 14 of P.L.2004, c.2 (C.40:55D-150), it shall review the petition, the record of comment of the county planning board, any supporting documentation submitted by the municipality, and any comments received from property owners in the sending or receiving zones and other members of the public. Within 60 days after receipt of the petition, the Office of Smart Growth shall approve, approve with conditions, or disapprove the proposed development transfer ordinance, stating in writing the reasons therefor. The basis for review by the Office of Smart Growth shall be: a. compliance of the proposed development transfer ordinance with the provisions of P.L.2004, c.2 (C.40:55D-137 et al.); b. accuracy of the information developed in the proposed development transfer ordinance, the development transfer and utility service plan elements of the master plan adopted pursuant to section 19 of P.L.1975, c.291 (C.40:55D-28), the real estate market analysis and capital improvement program adopted pursuant to section 20 of P.L.1975, c.291 (C.40:55D-29); c. an assessment of the potential for successful implementation of the proposed development transfer ordinance; and d. consistency with any plan that applies to the municipality that has been endorsed by the State Planning Commission pursuant to P.L.1985, c.398 (C.52:18A-196 et al.) and its implementing regulations. L.2004,c.2,s.15.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:66-1 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 66 / Section 66-1
Short title.
Status: in_force

1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Municipal Shared Services Energy Authority Act." L.2015, c.129, s.1.
N.J. Stat. § 40:56-21 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 56 / Section 56-21
Assessments; by whom made; board of assessments
Status: in_force

All assessments for benefits for local improvements under this chapter shall be made by the officer or board charged with the duty of making general assessments of taxes in the municipality, except where there is provided by law a board for the making of all such assessments, in which case all assessments shall be made by such board. The governing body of every municipality in which no board is provided by law for the making of all assessments for benefits accruing from local improvements may by ordinance create a general board for that purpose, which board shall thereafter make all such assessments.
N.J. Stat. § 40:66-4 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 66 / Section 66-4
Contracts; bid specification, advertising, renegotiations
Status: in_force

40:66-4. a. The governing body may, if it deem it more advantageous, contract with any person for the cleaning of the streets, or the collection or disposal of solid waste. Before making any such contract or contracts the governing body shall first adopt specifications for the doing of the work in a sanitary and inoffensive manner. The specifications may include provisions limiting solid waste collection service and recyclable material collection service to specified operating hours in order to preserve the peace and quiet in neighborhoods during the hours when most residents are asleep. Any specifications adopted by the governing body for the collection or disposal of solid waste shall conform to the uniform bid specifications for municipal solid waste collection contracts established pursuant to section 22 of P.L.1991, c.381 (C.48:13A-7.22). Any such contract or contracts, the total amount of which exceeds in the fiscal year the amount set forth in, or the amount calculated by the Governor pursuant to, section 3 of P.L.1971, c.198 (C.40A:11-3), shall be entered into and made only after bids shall have been advertised therefor, and awarded in the manner provided in the "Local Public Contracts Law," P.L.1971, c.198 (C.40A:11-1 et seq.). b. Whenever the governing body adopts an ordinance to provide for the collection or disposal of solid waste within its municipal boundaries by imposing solid waste charges based on the number of solid waste containers processed per household pursuant to subsection b. of R.S.40:66-5, on or after the first day of the 13th month following the effective date of that ordinance, the governing body may request the relevant solid waste collector to whom a multi-year contract has been awarded to renegotiate the contract to reflect any reduction in the annual volume of solid waste collected achieved as a result of the ordinance. Amended 1942, c.133; 1968, c.208, s.1; 1989, c.244, s.4; 1991, c.381, s.47; 2001, c.92, s.2.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:14-77 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 14 / Section 14-77
Manner of conducting elections.
Status: in_force

40A:14-77. For an election held at a time other than at the time of the general election, before the opening of the polls, a public proclamation shall be made by the chairman of the board or the clerk or his or their representative as to the purpose of the voting. Two tellers for each polling place shall be appointed by the chairman or clerk and thereupon the polls shall be opened and the balloting shall continue without recess until the closing of the polls. Immediately after the close of the polls the clerk and tellers shall forthwith canvass the vote and certify the results. The clerk shall publicly announce the results. amended 2017, c.206, s.16.
N.J. Stat. § 40:45-3 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 45 / Section 45-3
Time for holding; publication and notice; procedure
Status: in_force

In every case in which a referendum vote of the legal or qualified voters of a municipality is authorized by law such vote may be taken at a special election to be held in such municipality on a day to be specified in a resolution of the governing body thereof. When such a resolution shall be adopted by the governing body specifying a day for the special election, and notice thereof shall be given to the proper officer, he shall cause notice of the special election to be published once in a newspaper published or circulating in the municipality at least ten days before the election. The election shall be held, conducted and canvassed as other elections in the municipality, and the same shall be as valid and effectual as if the vote had been taken at a general election where so provided and all subsequent proceedings may be taken as if the vote had been taken at a general election.
N.J. Stat. § 40:68-43 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 68 / Section 68-43
Guaranty of bonds
Status: in_force

For the purpose of aiding a district in the accomplishment of any of the purposes or powers provided for in this article and in marketing any of its bonds, refunding or other, the municipality in which it is situate may pursuant to ordinance duly adopted by its governing body in the manner provided for adoption of a bond ordinance as provided in the Local Bond Law (N.J.S.40A:2-1 et seq.) and with or without consideration and upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed to by and between the municipality and the district unconditionally guarantee the punctual payment of the principal of and interest on any bonds of the district. Any guaranty of bonds of a district made pursuant to this section shall be evidenced by indorsement thereof or such bonds executed in the name of the municipality and on its behalf by such officer thereof as may be designated in the ordinance authorizing such guaranty and such municipality shall thereupon and thereafter be obligated to pay the principal of and interest on such bonds in the same manner and to the same extent as in the case of bonds issued by it. The principal amount of bonds so guaranteed shall after their issuance be included in the gross debt of such municipality for the purpose of determining the indebtedness of such municipality under or in pursuant to the Local Law. L.1967, c. 184, s. 17, eff. July 27, 1967.
N.J. Stat. § 40:55B-8 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 55B / Section 55B-8
Purposes, functions, and additional powers
Status: in_force

Every commission created under this chapter shall constitute the corporate instrumentality of the municipality, by which it is created, for the following purposes: a. To inquire into, survey and publicize the extent, advantages and utility of the vacant lands of such municipality, whether municipally owned or otherwise. b. To classify such vacant lands according to their adaptability for the settlement thereon of various types of industrial enterprises. c. To study and analyze the various industries of the nation and, to the extent it deems necessary for its purposes, the industries of other nations, with a view to ascertaining the opportunities for the industrial expansion of the municipality. In this connection the reports, records, statistics, compenda and similar documents of existing federal, state, county, municipal and other governmental and public agencies, as well as of responsible private institutions, boards, agencies and similar bodies interested in the compilation of the information relating to industry, shall be resorted to, wherever possible, in order to avoid unnecessary original research and gathering of source material. d. To advertise the industrial advantages and opportunities of its municipality and the availability of real estate within the municipality for industrial settlement and to encourage and accomplish such industrial settlement within the municipality. e. To solicit the several industries to purchase or lease the vacant lands and property of or in the municipality. f. To accomplish the sale or lease of the municipality's vacant lands to industries whose settlement thereon is best calculated, in the judgment of the commission, to advance the interests of the municipality and of its citizens and inhabitants. g. To acquire title to vacant land owned by the municipality for the purpose of resale or lease to industries whose presence within the municipality will benefit in the judgment of the commission, its citizens and inhabitants.
N.J. Stat. § 40:37C-8 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 37C / Section 37C-8
Bonds; issuance; redemption; terms; sale; refunding bonds
Status: in_force

All bonds issued by an authority may be issued as serial bonds or as term bonds or a combination of both types. Such bonds shall be payable solely out of the revenues and receipts derived from the leasing or sale by the authority of the pollution control facilities acquired with the proceeds thereof as may be designated in the proceedings under which the bonds shall be authorized to be issued or from the loan and security agreements or other instruments entered into between an authority and the person to whom the proceeds of the bonds have been loaned for the purpose of paying any of the project costs of a pollution control facility. Such bonds may be executed and delivered by the authority at any time and from time to time, bear such date or dates, mature at such time or times, bear interest at such rate or rates, be in such denominations, be in such form, either coupon or registered, carry such registration privileges, be executed in such manner, be payable in such medium of payment, at such place or places, be subject to such terms of redemption, be executed by the manual or facsimile signatures of such officers of the authority and contain such provisions not inconsistent herewith, all as shall be provided in the proceedings of the authority. If deemed advisable by the authority, there may be retained in the proceedings under which any bonds are authorized to be issued a right or option to redeem all or any part thereof as may be specified in such proceedings, at such price or prices and after such notice or notices and on such terms and conditions as may be set forth in such proceedings, but nothing herein contained shall be construed to confer on any authority the right or option to redeem any bonds except as may be provided in the proceedings under which they shall be issued. Any bonds may be sold at public or private sale for such price or prices and in such manner and at such time or times as may be determined by the authority and the authority may pay all expenses, premiums and commissions which it may deem necessary or advantageous in connection with the issuance thereof. Issuance by the authority of one or more series of bonds for one or more purposes shall not preclude it from issuing other bonds in connection with the same pollution control facilities or any other pollution control facilities or for any other purpose hereunder, but the proceedings whereunder any subsequent bonds may be issued shall recognize and protect any prior pledge made for any prior issue of bonds. Any bonds at any time outstanding may at any time and from time to time be refunded by the issuance of refunding bonds in such amount as the authority may deem necessary but not exceeding an amount sufficient to refund the principal of the bonds so to be refunded, together with any unpaid interest thereon and any premiums, commissions, service fees and other expenses necessary to be paid in connection therewith. Any such refunding may be effected whether the bonds to be refunded shall have then matured or shall thereafter mature, either by sale of the refunding bonds and the application of the proceeds thereof for the payment of the bonds to be refunded thereby, or by the exchange of the refunding bonds for the bonds to be refunded thereby with the consent of all or so many of the holders of the bonds so to be refunded as may be determined and regardless of whether or not the bonds to be refunded were issued in connection with the same pollution control facilities or separate pollution control facilities or for any other purpose hereunder, and regardless of whether or not the bonds proposed to be refunded shall be payable on the same date or different dates or shall be due serially or otherwise. All such bonds and the interest coupons applicable thereto, if any, are hereby made and shall be construed to be negotiable instruments within the meaning, and for all purposes, of Title 12A, Commercial Transactions, of the New Jersey Statutes (N.J.S. 12A:1-101 et seq.) with the exception of any provisions thereof pertaining to registration. L.1973, c. 376, s. 8, eff. Jan. 9, 1974. Amended by L.1983, c. 298, s. 7, eff. Aug. 8, 1983.
N.J. Stat. § 40:9-2.3 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 9 / Section 9-2.3
Appropriation of funds; bonds or notes
Status: in_force

Funds to carry out the purposes of this act shall be included in the annual budget of the county or municipality as required by law and shall be appropriated as are funds for other public purposes. Any county or municipality may authorize and issue bonds or notes to finance the costs of acquisition of the public passenger or freight line in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bond Law, N.J.S. 40A:2-1 et seq., provided that the bonds shall be outstanding for a period of not exceeding 40 years. L.1964, c. 209, s. 3, eff. Oct. 20, 1964. Amended by L.1982, c. 15, s. 4, eff. March 29, 1982.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:9-117.10 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 9 / Section 9-117.10
Duties, benefits and powers; compensation
Status: in_force

Sheriff's officers appointed under the provisions of this act shall have the duties, benefits and powers conferred by law on sheriff's officers, and their compensation shall be as fixed by the sheriff in accordance with the generally accepted county salary ranges and within the confines of the sheriff's budget allocation set by the governing body. L.1982, c. 133, s. 5, eff. Sept. 14, 1982. Amended by L.1984, c. 35, s. 4, eff. April 19, 1984.
N.J. Stat. § 40:37-259 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 37 / Section 37-259
Rules and regulations; penalties
Status: in_force

Every such board of chosen freeholders may make rules and regulations for the government and supervision of all such parks and recreation grounds and all boulevards, parkways and roadways located therein or leading thereto and may prescribe and enforce penalties not exceeding fifty dollars for the violation of any such rule or regulation and may prosecute all persons offending against the same, as disorderly persons. Such rules and regulations shall be plainly printed and conspicuously posted within such parks and public places as well as on the roads, highways and boulevards leading thereto.
N.J. Stat. § 40:48-2.65 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 48 / Section 48-2.65
Definitions; impoundment of shopping carts by municipalities.
Status: in_force

1. a. As used in this section: "Shopping cart" means a push cart of the type or types which are commonly provided by grocery stores, drug stores or other retail mercantile establishments for the use of the public in transporting commodities in stores and markets and their parking areas; and "Parking area" means a parking lot or other property provided by a retailer for the use of a customer for parking an automobile or other vehicle. The parking area of a retail mercantile establishment located in a multi-store complex or shopping center shall include the entire parking area used by the complex or center. b. No municipality shall impound a shopping cart that has a sign or notice identifying the owner of the cart, or the retailer who has written consent from the owner to use the cart, and listing a valid telephone number or address through which the owner or retailer can be contacted, unless the following conditions are met: (1) The shopping cart is located outside the premises or parking area of a retail mercantile establishment; (2) The municipality notifies the owner or retailer of the location of the cart and allows three business days from the date of such notification for the owner, retailer, or an authorized agent to retrieve the shopping cart, unless the immediate removal is necessary to prevent a danger to public safety; (3) The municipality notifies the owner or retailer upon impoundment of a shopping cart, and includes information as to how the cart may be retrieved; (4) The location that an impounded shopping cart is held is reasonably convenient to the owner, retailer, or authorized agent, and is open for business at least six hours of each business day; (5) Any fine imposed upon the owner or retailer for an impounded shopping cart does not exceed $50 for each occurrence for failure to retrieve shopping carts. An occurrence includes all shopping carts impounded in accordance with this section during a 24-hour period; and (6) The municipality must allow the owner or retailer a minimum of five business days following receipt of notice that a shopping cart has been impounded to retrieve the cart before it may sell or otherwise dispose of the cart. c. A municipality may impound a shopping cart that has a sign or notice identifying the owner of the cart, or the retailer who has written consent from the owner to use the cart, and lists a valid telephone number or address through which the owner or retailer can be contacted, without meeting the conditions required by paragraphs (1) through (5) of subsection b. of this section if the municipality: (1) Notifies the owner or retailer within 24 hours of impounding the shopping cart, and includes information on how the cart may be retrieved; (2) Releases the cart to the owner, retailer or authorized agent without any charge or fine whatsoever, if the owner, retailer, or authorized agent attempts to retrieve the cart within five business days of notice. d. Nothing contained in this section shall preclude or otherwise limit a municipality from impounding a shopping cart that does not have a sign or notice identifying the owner of the cart, or the retailer who has written consent from the owner to use the cart, and lists a valid telephone number or address through which the owner or retailer can be contacted. L.2008, c.13, s.1.
N.J. Stat. § 40:54D-10 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 54D / Section 54D-10
"State Tax Uniform Procedure Law" applicable
Status: in_force

10. The tourism assessment and the tax imposed upon predominantly tourism related retail receipts pursuant to this act shall be governed by the provisions of the "State Tax Uniform Procedure Law," R.S.54:48-1 et seq. L.1992,c.165,s.10; amended 2002, c.72, s.7.
N.J. Stat. § 40:56-51 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 56 / Section 56-51
Payment of cost; assessments for benefits
Status: in_force

The additional cost due to the increased width may be assessed upon the lands benefited by reason of such improvement and the assessments and collection thereof shall be made in the same manner as other assessments for local improvements are authorized to be assessed and collected by this chapter, or said additional cost may be raised and paid by general taxation.
N.J. Stat. § 40:37A-90 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 37A / Section 37A-90
Construction of act
Status: in_force

47. This act shall be construed liberally to effectuate the legislative intent and as complete and independent authority for the performance of each and every act and thing herein authorized, and an authority shall not constitute or be deemed to be a county or municipality or agency or component of a municipality for the purposes of any other law; provided, however, that no authority, other than an authority created in or performing services for a county of the second class having a population in excess of 265,000, but less than 350,000 inhabitants, in a county of the third class having a population not in excess of 70,000 inhabitants, or in a county of the fifth class having a population in excess of 150,000, but less than 300,000 inhabitants, shall exercise the powers of a common carrier in any such county, and, except as hereinabove in this section set forth, nothing contained in this act shall in any way affect or limit the jurisdiction, rights, powers or duties of any State regulatory agencies. L.1960,c.183,s.47; amended 1968,c.66,s.6; 1977,c.154; 1994,c.76,s.11.
N.J. Stat. § 40:37-251 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 37 / Section 37-251
Ballot; law applicable
Status: in_force

The county clerk shall cause to be printed on the sample and official ballots to be used at such general election in the manner required by Title 19, Elections, the public question in relation to the establishment of a county park system or county park commission as determined upon and certified to him by the board of chosen freeholders. The county clerk or any other public official or board shall not be required to submit to the voters of the county any proposition for the establishment of a county park system or county park commission in and for the county except in the manner herein provided.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:14-9.8 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 14 / Section 14-9.8
Residency in state; requirement for employment
Status: in_force

Every member of a paid fire department and force and every paid member of a part-paid fire department and force shall be a resident of the State of New Jersey while serving in such position. Members appointed after the effective date of this act shall be residents of New Jersey at the time of their appointment and thereafter unless otherwise provided herein. L.1972, c. 3, s. 10, eff. Feb. 15, 1972.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:5A-30 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 5A / Section 5A-30
Rules, regulations.
Status: in_force

5. The department, in consultation with the Board of Public Utilities, shall promulgate rules and regulations, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), to effectuate the purpose of sections 3 and 4 of P.L.2021, c.317 (C.40A:5A-28 and C.40A:5A-29). L. 2021, c.317, s.5.
N.J. Stat. § 40:12-15.3 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 12 / Section 12-15.3
Propositions deemed approved by voters of county.
Status: in_force

3. a. Any county whose voters, prior to the effective date of P.L.1997, c.24 (C.40:12-15.1 et seq.), approved pursuant to P.L.1989, c.30 (C.40:12-16 et seq.) a proposition authorizing the acquisition of lands for conservation as open space or as farmland shall be deemed to have approved a proposition for the purposes specified in paragraph (1) of subsection a. of section 2 of P.L.1997, c.24 (C.40:12-15.2), but excluding the purpose specified in subparagraph (c) of that paragraph if the proposition was approved prior to the 24 months immediately preceding the effective date of P.L.1997, c.24 (C.40:12-15.1 et seq.), at the amount or rate specified in the original proposition, which purposes shall be determined by adoption of a resolution or ordinance, as appropriate, by the governing body of the county after conducting at least one public hearing thereon and subject to the requirements of subsections b., c. and d. of this section. The county open space and farmland preservation trust fund created for the purposes of P.L.1989, c.30 (C.40:12-16 et seq.) shall be dissolved and any monies remaining therein shall be deposited into the "County Open Space, Recreation, Floodplain Protection, and Farmland and Historic Preservation Trust Fund" created pursuant to subsection c. of section 2 of P.L.1997, c.24 to be utilized for the purposes determined by the governing body of the county as authorized pursuant to this subsection. b. A county shall not expend more than $100,000 for any proposed project or use to be undertaken pursuant to a resolution or ordinance adopted pursuant to subsection a. of this section authorizing a purpose specified in subparagraph (b), (c), or (f) of paragraph (1) of subsection a. of section 2 of P.L.1997, c.24, unless the governing body of the county first conducts a public hearing on the proposed project or use and adopts a resolution or ordinance, as appropriate, authorizing the expenditure. Any public hearing required pursuant to this subsection shall be held at least 45 days before the governing body of the county takes action to adopt the resolution or ordinance authorizing the expenditure. c. In addition to any other applicable requirements of law, rule or regulation, the governing body of the county shall provide notice of the public hearing required pursuant to subsection b. of this section at least 30 days before the date of the hearing as follows: (1) By mailing or otherwise providing a copy of the notice to: (a) the county clerk and to the municipal clerk of every municipality in which the land or lands affected by the proposed project or use are located; and (b) any person who requests in writing of the governing body to receive in advance such notices; and (2) By publishing the notice in a daily or weekly newspaper of general circulation in the county and each municipality in which the land or lands to be affected by the proposed project or use are located. d. The governing body of the county shall include the following information in all notices required pursuant to subsection c. of this section: (1) a general description of the proposed project or use and the location of the land or lands to be affected; (2) the aggregate amount of monies to be utilized for the proposed project or use; (3) a schedule setting forth the anticipated commencement and completion date for the proposed project or use; (4) the date, time, and place of the public hearing; (5) a statement that the public may submit written comments to the governing body of the county on or before the date of the public hearing; and (6) the name and address of the person designated by the governing body of the county to receive the written comments and to contact for additional information. e. Any county whose voters, prior to the effective date of P.L.1997, c.24 (C.40:12-15.1 et seq.), approved pursuant to R.S.40:12-10 et seq. a proposition authorizing the establishment, maintenance, and improvement of a system of public recreation shall be deemed to have approved a proposition for any or all of the purposes specified in paragraph (1) of subsection a. of section 2 of P.L.1997, c.24 (C.40:12-15.2) at the amount or rate specified in the original proposition, which purposes shall be determined by adoption of a resolution or ordinance, as appropriate, by the governing body of the county after conducting at least one public hearing thereon. Any fund created for the purposes of R.S.40:12-10 et seq. shall be dissolved and any monies remaining therein shall be deposited into the "County Open Space, Recreation, Floodplain Protection, and Farmland and Historic Preservation Trust Fund" created pursuant to subsection c. of section 2 of P.L.1997, c.24 to be utilized for the purposes determined by the governing body of the county as authorized pursuant to this subsection. L.1997, c.24, s.3; amended 2011, c.173, s.3.
N.J. Stat. § 40:48-2.33 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 48 / Section 48-2.33
Refusal to permit inspection; continuance of nuisances; penalties
Status: in_force

The ordinance shall provide that any person who refuses to permit an authorized representative of the municipality to enter upon the premises and make inspections in accordance with section 2 of this act or who continues to use any equipment or facility declared to be a nuisance pursuant to the ordinance without complying with the provisions of the notice given, shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than $5.00 nor more than $100.00, or imprisonment for not more than 30 days, or both. Each day of continuance of a nuisance after the time required for abatement thereof, shall constitute a separate offense. L.1955, c. 157, p. 653, s. 6.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:9-78.4 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 9 / Section 9-78.4
Issuance of card.
Status: in_force

4. a. When such a program has been authorized, the county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages, as appropriate, shall issue an identification card to any veteran who is a resident of the county. The veteran identification card shall bear the true name, branch of the military, including a reserve component thereof, in which the veteran served, date of card issuance, and other identifying information as certified by the applicant for such veteran identification card. Every application for a veteran identification card shall be signed and certified by the applicant and shall be supported by such documentary evidence as the county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages, as appropriate, may require. b. Any of the following shall constitute documentary evidence required by subsection a. of this section: the applicant's DD-214, DD-215, or DD-256 form as issued by the federal government, an NGB-22 or other approved separation forms as outlined by all branches of the Armed Forces, or veteran identification card as issued by the United States Department of Veteran Affairs under the "Veterans Identification Card Act of 2015," (38 U.S.C. s.5706) and duly recorded by the office. The county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages, as appropriate, shall require a copy of the documentary evidence submitted to be kept on file with the application for the veteran identification card, and shall note the location of the original documentary evidence as pursuant to this subsection. The copy of the documentary evidence submitted and the application shall be kept confidential and shall not be considered a government record under P.L.1963, c.73 (C.47:1A-1 et seq.), except that they may be released to another government agency. The Adjutant General of the Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs shall assist in the identification, and verification as needed, of approved separation forms as outlined by all branches of the military and submitted by applicants. L.2012, c.30, s.4; amended 2017, c.292, s.2; 2019, c.255, s.3; 2019, c.500, s.10.
N.J. Stat. § 40:69A-149.10 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 69A / Section 69A-149.10
Officers and employees; appointment and recruitment by mayor
Status: in_force

All officers and employees whose appointment or election is not otherwise provided for in this article or by general law shall be appointed by the mayor. If the municipality has not adopted the provisions of Title 11 of the Revised Statutes, it shall be the duty of the mayor to recruit, select and appoint persons qualified by training and experience for their respective offices, positions and employments. L.1981, c. 465, s. 36, eff. Jan. 9, 1982.
N.J. Stat. § 40:5-2 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 5 / Section 5-2
Contributions to first aid, ambulance and rescue squads.
Status: in_force

40:5-2. Any county or municipality may make a voluntary contribution of not more than $125,000 annually to any duly incorporated first aid and emergency or volunteer ambulance or rescue squad association of the county, or of any municipality therein, rendering service generally throughout the county, or any of the municipalities thereof. In addition, if any such associations experience extraordinary need, the county or municipality may contribute an additional amount of not more than $70,000 annually; provided, however, that the need for such additional funds is established by the association and is directly related to the performance of said association's duties. Whenever the total annual county or municipal contribution to an association exceeds $70,000, the chief financial officer of the county or municipality shall receive an audit performed by a certified public accountant or a registered municipal accountant of each association's financial records for the current year which shall certify to the governing body of the county or municipality that such records are being maintained in accordance with sound accounting principles. Any county or municipality may appropriate such additional sums as it may deem necessary for the purchase of first aid, ambulance, rescue or other emergency vehicles, equipment, supplies and materials for use by these associations, the title to which shall remain with the county or municipality, provided that the funds are controlled and disbursed by the county or municipality. In the case of a joint purchase made by the governing bodies of two or more local units pursuant to the provisions of the "Consolidated Municipal Services Act," P.L.1952, c.72 (C.40:48B-1 et seq.), the title to the purchase shall be held by the joint meeting formed by the contracting governing bodies. Amended 1941, c.236; 1951, c.298, s.1; 1960, c.36; 1966, c.290; 1974, c.122; 1978, c.115; 1983, c.520; 1983, c.544; 1985, c.19, s.2; 1986, c.120, s.1; 1987, c.31; 2001, c.403; 2022, c.12.
N.J. Stat. § 40:3-14 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-14
Bonds falling due; funds transmitted for payment
Status: in_force

At least three days previous to the time when any bonds shall fall due, for which there are funds to the credit of such bonds in the custody of the sinking fund commission, the commission shall transmit to the chief financial officer of the municipality, county or school district, as the case may be, the funds on hand to the credit of such bond issue, providing such funds are not in excess of the amount of bonds falling due, in which case only an amount sufficient to retire such bonds shall be transmitted. Should there be a surplus in any account, after the payment of all the bonds of such issue, then such surplus shall be placed in the special sinking fund account, if such shall exist in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, and if there be no special sinking fund account, such surplus shall be distributed among the other bond accounts in the sinking fund, and credited to the principal thereof.
N.J. Stat. § 40:63-71 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 63 / Section 63-71
Surveys and maps; municipalities may enter on land to inspect
Status: in_force

Any two or more municipalities, by their respective governing bodies, or by their boards charged by law with the construction of sewers and drains in such municipalities respectively, may unite and jointly cause to be made, at their joint expense, by competent engineers, surveys, maps and plans of, and reports, specifications and estimates for, any proposed improvement or works authorized by section 40:63-70 of this title, which such municipalities may desire jointly to construct, maintain and operate; and for such purpose, and before determining upon a final route or location for such proposed improvement or works, may, by their engineers, agents and servants, lawfully enter upon any lands or waters, to explore and make surveys, and do all necessary preliminary work, doing, however, no unnecessary damage or injury to private or other property.
N.J. Stat. § 40:55D-62 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 55D / Section 55D-62
Power to zone.
Status: in_force

49. Power to zone. a. The governing body may adopt or amend a zoning ordinance relating to the nature and extent of the uses of land and of buildings and structures thereon. Such ordinance shall be adopted after the planning board has adopted the land use plan element and the housing plan element of a master plan, and all of the provisions of such zoning ordinance or any amendment or revision thereto shall either be substantially consistent with the land use plan element and the housing plan element of the master plan or designed to effectuate such plan elements; provided that the governing body may adopt a zoning ordinance or amendment or revision thereto which in whole or part is inconsistent with or not designed to effectuate the land use plan element and the housing plan element, but only by affirmative vote of a majority of the full authorized membership of the governing body, with the reasons of the governing body for so acting set forth in a resolution and recorded in its minutes when adopting such a zoning ordinance; and provided further that, notwithstanding anything aforesaid, the governing body may adopt an interim zoning ordinance pursuant to subsection b. of section 77 of P.L.1975, c.291 (C.40:55D-90). The zoning ordinance shall be drawn with reasonable consideration to the character of each district and its peculiar suitability for particular uses and to encourage the most appropriate use of land. The regulations in the zoning ordinance shall be uniform throughout each district for each class or kind of buildings or other structure or uses of land, including planned unit development, planned unit residential development and cluster development, but the regulations in one district may differ from those in other districts. b. No zoning ordinance and no amendment or revision to any zoning ordinance shall be submitted to or adopted by initiative or referendum. c. The zoning ordinance shall provide for the regulation of any airport safety zones delineated under the "Air Safety and Zoning Act of 1983," P.L.1983, c.260 (C.6:1-80 et seq.), in conformity with standards promulgated by the Commissioner of Transportation. d. The zoning ordinance shall provide for the regulation of land adjacent to State highways in conformity with the State highway access management code adopted by the Commissioner of Transportation under section 3 of the "State Highway Access Management Act," P.L.1989, c.32 (C.27:7-91), for the regulation of land with access to county roads and highways in conformity with any access management code adopted by the county under R.S.27:16-1 and for the regulation of land with access to municipal streets and highways in conformity with any municipal access management code adopted under R.S.40:67-1. This subsection shall not be construed as requiring a zoning ordinance to establish minimum lot sizes or minimum frontage requirements for lots adjacent to but restricted from access to a State highway. L.1975, c.291, s.49; amended 1983, c.260, s.12; 1985, c.222, s.30; 1985, c.516, s.13; 1989, c.32, s.25; 1991, c.445, s.9; 2013, c.106, s.13.
N.J. Stat. § 40:69A-165 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 69A / Section 69A-165
Promise of office, position, employment or benefits forbidden
Status: in_force

No candidate for office, appointment or employment, and no officer, appointee, or employee in any municipality shall directly or indirectly give or promise any person any office, position, employment, benefit or anything of value for the purpose of influencing or obtaining the political support, aid or vote of any person, under the penalty of being disqualified to hold the office or employment to which he may be or may have been elected or appointed. L.1950, c. 210, p. 509, s. 17-16, eff. June 8, 1950.
N.J. Stat. § 40:65-8 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 65 / Section 65-8
Costs; record filed; apportionment and assessment; notice to owners
Status: in_force

The officer of the municipality in charge of such improvement shall keep an accurate account of the cost thereof and if such cost or any part thereof is to be assessed upon the several properties fronting on the improvement, shall assess such cost or the proportion thereof required to be assessed under said ordinance upon such properties in proportion to their respective frontage thereon, and file a report thereof under oath with the municipal clerk. The governing body shall examine such report, and if properly made, confirm and file it with the officer charged with the collection of assessments, who shall record such sidewalk assessments in the book in which other assessments of the municipality are recorded. Before confirming the report the governing body shall give notice to the owner or owners named therein of the time and place fixed for examination of the report. The notice shall be served in the same manner as required for service of notices before consideration by a governing body of a municipality of assessments for benefits for local improvements, but failure to give any such notice shall not invalidate the proceedings. Amended by L.1958, c. 133, p. 635, s. 4, eff. July 29, 1958.
N.J. Stat. § 40:23-8.22 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 23 / Section 23-8.22
National burn victim foundation; contributions by counties or municipalities
Status: in_force

Any county or municipal governing body may enter a line item in its annual budget for the purpose of making a contribution to the National Burn Victim Foundation which shall be for a public purpose and which will be used to provide the following services to the State of New Jersey: a. Specialized burn treatment facilities and services; b. Burn treatment educational programs for first aid, E.M.S. and other emergency level personnel; c. Burn victim rehabilitation programs, psychological; d. Burn medical research; e. Burn prevention programs for the general public and civic organizations. L.1977, c. 13, s. 1, eff. Feb. 10, 1977.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:2-5 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 2 / Section 2-5
Authorization as appropriation
Status: in_force

An authorization of obligations shall constitute an appropriation of the proceeds thereof for the purposes stated in the bond ordinance. L.1960, c. 169, s. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1962.
N.J. Stat. § 40:62-25.5 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 62 / Section 62-25.5
Severability
Status: in_force

If any section, subsection, clause or provision of this act shall be adjudged unconstitutional or ineffective in whole or in part, to the extent that it is not adjudged unconstitutional or is not ineffective it shall be valid and effective and no other section, subsection, clause or provision of this act shall on account thereof be deemed invalid or ineffective, and the inapplicability or invalidity of any section, subsection, clause or provision of this act in any one or more instances or under any one or more circumstances shall not be taken to affect or prejudice in any way its applicability or validity in any other instance or under any other circumstance. L.1973, c. 280, s. 5, eff. Nov. 29, 1973.
N.J. Stat. § 40:54D-5 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 54D / Section 54D-5
Exemptions from taxation
Status: in_force

5. No tax on predominantly tourism related retail receipts shall be imposed upon: a. The receipts of a sale or transaction originating or consummated, or both, outside the tourism improvement and development district, notwithstanding that some act may be necessarily performed with respect to the sale or transaction within the district; b. A nonresident of the district or on account of any sale or transaction by or with a nonresident of the district, except when imposed without discrimination as between residents and nonresidents on account of transfers, sales, or other transactions actually made or consummated within the tourism improvement and development district by a nonresident while within the district. L.1992,c.165,s.5.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:14-123.1a — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 14 / Section 14-123.1a
Police departments; priority of eligibility for initial appointment; preference, certain.
Status: in_force

2. a. In any municipality of this State, before any person shall be appointed as a member of the police department and force, the appointing authority may classify all the duly qualified applicants for the position or positions to be filled in the following classes: I. Residents of the municipality. II. Other residents of the county in which the municipality is situate. III. Other residents of the State. IV. All other qualified applicants. Within each such classification duly qualified applicants who are veterans shall be accorded all such veterans' preferences as are provided by law. Persons discharged from the service within 6 months prior to making application to such municipality who fulfill the requirements of N.J.S.40A:14-123.1, and who, thereby, are entitled to appointment notwithstanding their failure to meet the New Jersey residency requirement at the time of their initial application, shall be placed in Class III. Preference in appointment second to that accorded to veterans pursuant to current law but superseding that accorded non-veterans shall be accorded all duly qualified applicants whose natural or adoptive parent was killed in the lawful discharge of official duties while serving as a law enforcement officer in any law enforcement agency in the State at any time prior to the closing date for the filing of an application, provided that required documentation is submitted with the application by the closing date. This paragraph shall not, however, be applicable if the municipality has entered into a consent decree with the United States Department of Justice concerning the hiring practices of the municipality. When a veteran and a non-veteran whose parent was killed in the lawful discharge of official duties while serving as a law enforcement officer in any law enforcement agency in the State are duly qualified applicants for a position, first preference shall be given to the veteran. As used in this section, "law enforcement officer" means any person who is employed as a permanent full-time member of an enforcement agency, who is statutorily empowered to act for the detection, investigation, arrest and conviction of persons violating the criminal laws of this State and statutorily required to successfully complete a training course approved, or certified as being substantially equivalent to such an approved course, by the Police Training Commission pursuant to P.L.1961, c.56 (C.52:17B-66 et seq.); and "law enforcement agency" means a department, division, bureau, commission, board or other authority of the State or of any political subdivision thereof which has by statute or ordinance the responsibility of detecting and enforcing the general criminal laws of this State. b. In any municipality which classifies qualified applicants pursuant to subsection a. of this section, the appointing authority shall first appoint all those in Class I and then those in each succeeding class in the order above listed, and shall appoint a person or persons in any such class only to a vacancy or vacancies remaining after all qualified applicants in the preceding class or classes have been appointed or have declined an offer of appointment. c. In any such municipality operating under the provisions of Title 11A of the New Jersey Statutes, the classes of qualified applicants defined in subsection a. of this section shall be considered as separate and successive lists of eligibles, and the Civil Service Commission shall, when requested to certify eligibles for positions specified in this section, make such certifications from said classes separately and successively, and shall certify no persons from any such class until all persons in the preceding class or classes have been appointed or have declined offers of appointment. d. This section shall apply only to initial appointments and not to promotional appointments of persons already members of the police department. e. In making temporary appointments the appointing authority may utilize the classifications set forth in subsection a. of this section, and shall classify accordingly all duly qualified applicants for the positions to be temporarily filled. L.1976, c.132, s.2; amended 2005, c.290, s.2; 2008, c.29, s.98.
N.J. Stat. § 40:48B-17 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 48B / Section 48B-17
Assessors holding office on effective date of this act
Status: in_force

Any assessor of any municipality which has combined to form an office of joint municipal tax assessor hereunder, and who, on the effective date of this act, held his office or position during good behavior and was not subject to removal therefrom except for good cause shown after hearing, shall be employed on the same basis as a member of the staff of the joint municipal tax assessor at a salary not less than he was receiving at the time the joint agreement is effective with respect to his municipality. L.1967, c. 180, s. 4, eff. July 27, 1967.
N.J. Stat. § 40:66A-8 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 66A / Section 66A-8
Incinerator, environmental services authority charges.
Status: in_force

8. (a) Every incinerator or environmental services authority is hereby authorized to charge and collect rents, rates, fees or other charges (in this act sometimes referred to as "service charges") for the services and facilities of the garbage disposal system. (b) Such rents, rates, fees and charges, being in the nature of use or service charges, shall as nearly as the incinerator or environmental services authority shall deem practicable and equitable be uniform throughout the district for the same type, class and amount of use or service of the garbage disposal system. (c) The incinerator or environmental services authority shall prescribe and from time to time when necessary revise the schedule of such service charges, which in any event shall be such that the revenues of the incinerator or environmental services authority will at all times be adequate to pay all expenses of operation and maintenance of the garbage disposal system, including reserves, insurance, extensions, and replacements, and to pay punctually the principal of and interest on any bonds and to maintain such reserves or sinking funds therefor as may be required by the terms of any contract of the incinerator or environmental services authority. Said schedule shall thus be prescribed and from time to time revised by the incinerator or environmental services authority after public hearing thereon which shall be held by the incinerator or environmental services authority at least 7 days after publication of notice of the proposed adjustment of the service charges and of the time and place of the public hearing in at least two newspapers of general circulation in the area serviced by the authority. The incinerator or environmental services authority shall provide evidence at the hearing showing that the proposed adjustment of the service charges is necessary and reasonable, and shall provide the opportunity for cross-examination of persons offering such evidence, and a transcript of the hearing shall be made and a copy thereof shall be available upon request to any interested party at a reasonable fee. The incinerator or environmental services authority shall likewise fix and determine the time or times when and the place or places where such service charges shall be due and payable and may require that such service charges shall be paid in advance for periods of not more than 1 year. A copy of such schedule of service charges in effect shall at all times be kept on file at the principal office of the incinerator or environmental services authority and shall at all reasonable times be open to public inspection. L.1948, c.348, s.8; amended 1981, c.125, s.3; 1981, c.511, s.19; 2012, c.31, s.10.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:2-63 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 2 / Section 2-63
Application of chapter
Status: in_force

Bonds or bond anticipation notes of any county or municipality authorized by county bond resolution or municipal bond ordinance finally passed prior to the effective date of this chapter in accordance with the provisions of the local bond law, constituting sections 40:1-1 to 40:1-88 of the Revised Statutes, as amended and supplemented, may be issued, sold or delivered as if this chapter had not taken effect and in accordance with the provisions either of said law or of this chapter for issuance, sale or delivery of bonds or bond anticipation notes. Where any other law refers to the issuance of indebtedness in accordance with the provisions of chapter 1 of Title 40, it shall be taken to mean that the indebtedness shall be issued pursuant to this chapter. This chapter shall not affect or apply to the incurring of indebtedness or the issuance of bonds or notes for school purposes except as other laws may provide for the issuance of such bonds or notes pursuant to this chapter. L.1960, c. 169, s. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1962. Amended by L.1964, c. 72, s. 10.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:5-30.1 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 5 / Section 5-30.1
Findings, declarations relative to the "1033 program."
Status: in_force

1. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. Federal law permits the Secretary of the United States Department of Defense to transfer to federal and State agencies personal property of the Department of Defense that the secretary determines is suitable for use by agencies in law enforcement activities, including counterdrug and counterterrorism activities and is excess to the needs of the Department of Defense. b. Informally known as the "1033 program," this initiative allows local law enforcement agencies to obtain, at little or no cost and without the approval of the governing body of the local unit, surplus federal property, including aircraft, armored vehicles, automatic weapons, and night vision equipment originally intended for use by the United States Armed Forces. c. According to the New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety, the Office of Emergency Management has assisted with the transfer of over $30 million in excess Department of Defense property to participating law enforcement agencies since the beginning of federal fiscal year 2014. d. In this era of fiscal constraint, participation in the 1033 program allows local units to obtain equipment that they might not otherwise be able to afford, and to prepare for, respond to, and recover from incidents of terrorism and natural disasters, such as hurricanes and severe floods. e. Although equipment is provided through the 1033 program at no cost to county and municipal law enforcement agencies, these entities are responsible for costs associated with the maintenance, fueling, and upkeep of this equipment, and for specialized training for its operation. f. Recent events in Ferguson, Missouri, regarding the use of military equipment to respond to civil protest, have brought increased public scrutiny to the 1033 program and questions regarding those situations in which equipment obtained through the 1033 program is utilized. g. Taxpayers are the primary consumers and financiers of services provided by county and municipal law enforcement agencies and have the right to be assured that their money is spent in an efficient and effective manner and the right to know the purposes for which public funds are utilized. h. It is not the Legislature's intent to deny county and municipal law enforcement agencies access to equipment vital to public safety and counterterrorism efforts, but elected civilian officials, such as mayors, municipal council members, county executives, and county freeholders, are ultimately responsible for the supervision, policies, and budgetary decisions governing these entities. i. Civilian officials are also responsible for the acquisition of equipment necessary for local law enforcement agencies to carry out their responsibilities, yet current law does not require that they formally approve such acquisitions through the 1033 program. j. It is therefore appropriate to establish a system of local oversight for county and municipal law enforcement agencies that participate in and acquire equipment through the 1033 program and guidelines for the use of this equipment by those entities. L.2015, c.23, s.1.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:65-4.1 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 65 / Section 65-4.1
Short title.
Status: in_force

1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Common Sense Shared Services Pilot Program Act." L.2013, c.166, s.1.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:14-72 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 14 / Section 14-72
Fire district elections.
Status: in_force

40A:14-72. a. An election shall be held annually either on the third Saturday in February or at the time of the general election on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in each established fire district for the election of members of the board according to the expiration of terms. The initial election for a newly created fire district may take place on another date as a governing body may specify under N.J.S.40A:14-70, but the annual election thereafter shall be held either on the third Saturday in February or at the time of the general election on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. b. For an election held at a time other than at the time of the general election, the place of the election shall be determined by the board and a notice thereof, and of the closing date for the filing with the clerk of the board of petitions of nomination for membership on the board, shall be published at least once in a newspaper circulating in the district, at least six weeks prior to the date fixed for the election. c. For an election held at the time of the general election, the place of the election shall be determined pursuant to R.S.19:8-1 et seq. and notice thereof shall be published pursuant to R.S.19:12-7. Notice of the closing date for the filing, with the county clerk, of nominations by petition for direct nomination for membership on the board shall be published by the board at least once in a newspaper circulating in the district, at least 21 days prior to the date by which such nominations are required to be filed with the county clerk. d. Fire districts located in the same municipality may combine the publication of their notices of election. For the purpose of this section, "notices of election" shall include the notices required to be published under section 6 of P.L.2009, c.79 (C.19:63-6). e. The legal voters at an annual election held on the third Saturday in February shall determine the amount of money to be raised for the ensuing year and determine such other matters as may be required. If the amount of money to be raised for the ensuing year exceeds the permissible property tax levy increase as determined pursuant to section 10 of P.L.2007, c.62 (C.40A:4-45.45), a public question shall be submitted to the legal voters to increase the amount to be raised by taxation by more than the allowable adjusted tax levy. f. If a fire district holds its annual election at the time of the general election, then the legal voters shall determine the amount of money to be raised for the ensuing year only by such amount that exceeds the permissible property tax levy increase as determined pursuant to section 10 of P.L.2007, c.62 (C.40A:4-45.45). The legal voters shall determine whether to increase the amount to be raised by taxation by more than the allowable adjusted tax levy for the ensuing year through the submission of a public question. The board of fire commissioners of the fire district shall notify the county or municipal clerk, as appropriate, of the need to conduct a referendum pursuant to this subsection at least 60 days before the date of the referendum. A referendum conducted pursuant to this subsection shall be held on the third Saturday in February of the budget year in which the levy increase would apply. g. No fire district election shall be held between the period of 45 days prior to the primary or general election to the certification of the results of the primary or general election. amended 1973, c.25, s.1; 1973, c.235, s.2; 1985, c.288, s.3; 1994, c.181; 2017, c.206, s.11; 2023, c.124, s.22.
N.J. Stat. § 40:37-95.27 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 37 / Section 37-95.27
Application of act
Status: in_force

The provisions of this act shall apply to all counties which have heretofore or shall hereafter adopt the provisions of chapter 276 of the laws of 1946, but shall remain inoperative in any such county until submitted to and approved by the legal voters of the county as herein provided. L.1954, c. 246, p. 906, s. 2.
N.J. Stat. § 40:48B-21 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 48B / Section 48B-21
Applicability of Consolidated Municipal Service Act
Status: in_force

The provisions of the Consolidated Municipal Service Act, P.L. 1952, c. 72 (C. 40:48B-1 et seq.), as amended, shall be applicable to the extent that the same are not inconsistent with the provisions of this act. L.1967, c. 180, s. 8, eff. July 27, 1967.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:9-58 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 9 / Section 9-58
Disposition of personal property of unknown decedent.
Status: in_force

40A:9-58. The county or intercounty medical examiner or the assistant county or intercounty medical examiner shall take charge of the personal property found on or pertaining to an unknown decedent, and shall make an inventory of all such personal property and file a copy thereof with the clerk of the board of chosen freeholders. Within 20 days after the death, the said personal property with a copy of the inventory shall be delivered to the county treasurer. After 20 days following such delivery the county treasurer, in his discretion, may sell said property at public or private sale. If the proceeds of any such sale shall not be claimed by a personal representative of the decedent or person entitled thereto within 2 years after the sale, the said proceeds shall become the property of the county. amended 2018, c.62, s.47.
N.J. Stat. § 40:60-21 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 60 / Section 60-21
Title; funds kept separate; disbursements
Status: in_force

The site shall be acquired in the name of the municipality, and all funds appropriated or contributed for the purpose shall be paid into its treasury and kept as a separate fund to be expended by the treasurer of the municipality in the usual course and method, upon the certification of the mayor or other chief executive officer and two other members of the commission, to be designated by the commission for that purpose, that the payment is authorized by the commission within the purpose, and authorization of the ordinance and contracts thereunder.
N.J. Stat. § 40:61-36 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 61 / Section 61-36
Leasing of parks, etc. authorized; period of leases.
Status: in_force

40:61-36. The governing body of every municipality bordering on the Atlantic Ocean may lease, rent or hire, the whole or any part of any public parks, recreation grounds or places of public resort, owned by it and not presently needed by the municipality for municipal purposes, or any building or portion thereof located therein for any period not exceeding: a. 10 years for any waterfront property bordering on the ocean, tidal water bays or rivers, or easement rights therein; and b. 25 years for any property not bordering on the ocean, tidal water bays or rivers, or easement rights therein, or which property is not related to waterfront activities or concessions. Amended by L.1959, c. 6, p. 47, s. 1, eff. Feb. 11, 1959; amended 2023, c.332.
N.J. Stat. § 40:41A-67 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 41A / Section 41A-67
Board powers
Status: in_force

The board of freeholders: a. Shall pass in accordance with this act whatever ordinances and resolutions it deems necessary and proper for the good governance of the county; b. Shall appoint and remove the county administrative officer by a majority vote and may create the office of, appoint and remove, a deputy administrative officer by a majority vote; c. Shall advise and consent to all appointments by the supervisor; d. Shall appoint a clerk to the board who shall keep the records and minutes of the board, and who shall serve at the pleasure of the board or for such term, not to exceed 3 years, as may be provided by the administrative code; provided, however, that a ordinance providing for the adoption of any such term shall not be enacted between October 1 of any year and January 1 of the succeeding year; e. Shall appoint the county counsel, who shall head the county's legal department, and who shall serve at the pleasure of the board or for such term, not to exceed 4 years, as may be provided by the administrative code; provided, however, that an ordinance providing for the adoption of any such term shall not be enacted between October 1 of any year and January 1 of the succeeding year. The administrative code may also establish a term, not to exceed 3 years, for the position of assistant county counsel; f. May pass a resolution of disapproval of a suspension or dismissal, subject to the provisions of section 87b. of this act; g. May override a veto of the county supervisor by a two-thirds vote of its full membership; h. Shall approve the annual operating and capital budgets. L.1972, c. 154, s. 67, eff. Sept. 19, 1972. Amended by L.1975, c. 84, s. 24, eff. May 5, 1975; L.1978, c. 141, s. 10, eff. Nov. 13, 1978.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:62-2.1 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 62 / Section 62-2.1
Voters may increase terms of certain mayors, council members.
Status: in_force

1. a. The legal voters of any town in which the mayor and council members are elected for two-year terms of office, may by petition and referendum, require that the mayor and council members shall be elected for four-year terms of office. b. Upon the submission to the town clerk of a petition, signed by at least fifteen per centum (15%) of the legal voters of the municipality who cast their votes in the municipality at the last election in which members of the General Assembly were elected, the proposition shall be submitted to the voters at the next general election. The proposition shall not be submitted more than once in any 10-year period. c. The notice, advertisement and conduct of the referendum shall be in the same manner as for offices voted at the general election. d. The proposition shall be submitted to the voters at the election in substantially the following form: "Shall the term of the mayor and council members in ...............(name of town)............... be increased to four years?" e. A canvass and return of the vote upon the proposition shall be made by the election officers in the same manner as for officers voted for at the general election, and a majority of all the votes cast upon the proposition in favor of the proposition shall be sufficient to adopt it. L.1991, c.227, s.1; amended 2009, c.339, s.6.
N.J. Stat. § 40:65-12.2 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 65 / Section 65-12.2
Rules, regulations.
Status: in_force

2. On or before the first day of the sixth month next following enactment of P.L.2015, c.71 (C.40:65-12.1 et seq.), the director, in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall adopt and promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary for the implementation of this act, including guidance for the acceptable physical characteristics of hydrant locator poles, maintenance requirements for such poles, and snow removal standards. L.2015, c.71, s.2.
N.J. Stat. § 40:48-6 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 48 / Section 48-6
Records kept and business conducted in municipal building; vaults
Status: in_force

When any municipality maintains a municipal building, or rooms or space for the use and purposes of the municipal government, owned or leased by it, or occupied by virtue of any other permission or authority, all books, records, data, accounts, maps, and papers relating to the government or the conduct of municipal business and matters shall be kept therein, in the custody of the governing body. The governing body shall provide therein a substantial safe or vault, reasonably secure against fire and ordinary theft, for the safe-keeping of such books of account and valuable records and documents, papers and other data. The governing body may designate some other place or places for the safe-keeping of such books, valuable records, documents and papers affording equal or greater security against fire and theft.
N.J. Stat. § 40:55-21.15 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 55 / Section 55-21.15
Municipalities qualified to receive certain state aid; urban growth zones; determination by ordinance; exemption of projects from land use ordinances
Status: in_force

Any municipality receiving State aid pursuant to the provisions of P.L.1971, c. 64, as amended and supplemented from time to time, or a municipality certified by the Commissioner of Community Affairs to qualify under such law in every respect except population, may by ordinance determine that an area or areas within such municipality be designated an urban growth zone as defined in and for all purposes of "The New Jersey Economic Development Authority Act," P.L.1974, c. 80 (C. 34:1B-1 et seq.). Such ordinance may provide that, notwithstanding any law or other ordinance or local regulation to the contrary, all construction projects undertaken by, or with the assistance of, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority in such urban growth zones shall be exempt from the terms and requirements of the land use ordinances and regulations, including but not limited to the master plan and zoning ordinances, of such municipality for any period of time which may be mutually agreed upon. L.1977, c. 423, s. 1, eff. Feb. 27, 1978.
N.J. Stat. § 40:60-34 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 60 / Section 60-34
Ballot; form and content
Status: in_force

The proposition to be submitted shall be placed upon the official ballots to be used at such election in substantially the following form: "To vote upon the public question printed below, if in favor thereof mark a cross (X) or plus (+) in the square at the left of the word YES, and if opposed thereto mark a cross (X) or plus (+) in the square at the left of the word NO. "Shall the following described lands be [ ] YES vacated and the public rights in and to such lands be extinguished? [ ] NO ...................................... (Here insert short description.)"
N.J. Stat. § 40A:9-154.1 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 9 / Section 9-154.1
Adult school crossing guards; appointment; term; revocation; qualifications; supervision and direction
Status: in_force

1. The governing body, or the chief executive, or the chief administrative officer, as appropriate to the form of government of any municipality, may appoint adult school crossing guards for terms not exceeding one year and revoke such appointments for cause and after proper hearing before the chief of police or other chief law enforcement officer of the municipality. No person shall be appointed as an adult school crossing guard unless he: a. Is a citizen and resident of this State; b. Is sound in body and of good health; c. Is of good moral character; and d. Has not been convicted of any criminal offense involving moral turpitude. An adult school crossing guard may be a member of the police department or force of the municipality and his powers and duties as an adult school crossing guard shall cease at the expiration of the term for which he was appointed. He shall not have the right to bear firearms or the power of arrest unless the crossing guard is also a member of a police department or force. Every adult school crossing guard shall be under the supervision and direction of the chief of police or other chief law enforcement officer of the municipality wherein he is appointed and shall perform his duties only in such municipality. He shall comply with the rules and regulations applicable to the conduct and decorum of the regular police officers of the municipality. Before any adult school crossing guard is appointed the chief of police shall ascertain the eligibility of the applicant and make a report to the governing body, or the chief executive or chief administrative officer, as the case may be. L.1979,c.82,s.1; amended 1981, c.227, s.1; 1996, c.113, s.15.
N.J. Stat. § 40:60-50 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 60 / Section 60-50
Transfer of municipal property to federal government for national park
Status: in_force

Any municipality owning or holding lands devoted to or used for public recreation ground or park purposes or set apart and designated as a public recreation ground or park, or devoted to or used for water purposes or any other purposes whatsoever, however acquired or held, and which said lands embrace or are a part of a site or sites of historical interest and are part of the lands or areas of any national historical park created, established, dedicated or set apart by act of the congress of the United States, may dedicate, turn over and transfer said lands, or any part or parts thereof, free of payment therefor, to the federal government for the purposes of and to become part of said national historical park. Such dedication, turning over or transfer of said land shall be authorized by ordinance and may be made with such restrictions, reservations and reversions as the governing body of said municipality may by said ordinance determine.
N.J. Stat. § 40:62-44 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 62 / Section 62-44
Extension of system; referendum; when necessary
Status: in_force

Any municipality engaging in the business of transportation may extend any system of transportation. No extension of any route or routes of such system exceeding one-fourth in length of the one authorized by any referendum shall be made, except by ordinance approved by the legal voters thereof, voting at a referendum election called and held in the manner provided in sections 40:62-36 to 40:62-39 of this title.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:12A-2 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 12A / Section 12A-2
Findings, determinations, declarations
Status: in_force

2. The Legislature hereby finds, determines and declares: a. There exist, have existed and persist in various communities of this State conditions of deterioration in housing, commercial and industrial installations, public services and facilities and other physical components and supports of community life, and improper, or lack of proper, development which result from forces which are amenable to correction and amelioration by concerted effort of responsible public bodies, and without this public effort are not likely to be corrected or ameliorated by private effort. b. From time to time the Legislature has, by various enactments, empowered and assisted local governments in their efforts to arrest and reverse these conditions and to promote the advancement of community interests through programs of redevelopment, rehabilitation and incentives to the expansion and improvement of commercial, industrial, residential and civic facilities. c. As a result of those efforts, there has grown a varied and complex body of laws, all directed by diverse means to the principal goal of promoting the physical development that will be most conducive to the social and economic improvement of the State and its several municipalities. d. It is the intent of this act to codify, simplify and concentrate prior enactments relative to local redevelopment and housing, to the end that the legal mechanisms for such improvement may be more efficiently employed. L.1992,c.79,s.2.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:12-32 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 12 / Section 12-32
Findings, declarations
Status: in_force

The Legislature finds and declares that: a. There exists within this State a serious shortage of decent, safe, and sanitary dwelling units for persons of limited means, particularly in urban centers such as Newark, Irvington, Paterson, Trenton and Camden; b. In those same centers in which the housing crisis is most severe, many residential properties have been acquired by municipalities because of their abandonment or the failure on the part of their owners to pay property taxes; c. Owing to their abandonment and neglect, these structures are generally unsafe and unsound, posing a threat to local residents and undermining the stability of entire neighborhoods; d. The already formidable demands placed upon these governments in attempting to maintain acceptable levels of municipal service in the face of declining assistance from higher levels of government are only exacerbated by the financial expense and administrative burden associated with the upkeep of this obsolescent municipal property; e. Not only does the persistence of this urban ill seriously drain municipal coffers and undermine the physical and social fabric of our major urban centers, but it also represents a senseless waste of residential accommodation at a time when affordable housing is becoming increasingly scarce; f. If municipalities were provided with greater flexibility in disposing of these municipally-owned residential buildings, they would thereby be assisted in diminishing the onerous burdens associated with property ownership under these circumstances, in recycling housing units which are so vital, and finally, in reversing the fortunes of neighborhoods which exist in the shadow of these abandoned, obsolescent, and unsafe structures; g. It is therefore in the public interest and a valid public purpose for the Legislature to allow municipalities the discretion to dispose of these residential properties for limited consideration, through the establishment of urban homesteading programs, in order to facilitate their reuse and, equally, to encourage and promote the economic revitalization of this State's urban centers. L. 1988, c. 148, s. 2.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:11-13b — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 11 / Section 11-13b
Online parking payment service fees.
Status: in_force

3. Any contract entered into by a municipality, or a parking authority, as that term is defined in section 3 of P.L.1948, c.198 (C.40:11A-3), for an online parking payment service shall stipulate that parking fees shall not be charged to a user of the service during a time period when parking is prohibited or is free at a parking project. L.2025, c.241, s.3.
N.J. Stat. § 40:59-5 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 59 / Section 59-5
Market commissioner; duties
Status: in_force

The market commissioner shall gather data, make investigations and obtain information as to prevailing prices of food-stuffs and shall daily publish in the municipality a fair price list, giving in detail what, in his opinion, as a result of his investigation, prices for foodstuffs should be in such municipality from day to day.
N.J. Stat. § 40:63-87 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 63 / Section 63-87
Voting by municipalities, quorum; specific concurrence required
Status: in_force

Each municipality, through its body or board represented in such joint meeting, shall be entitled to one vote therein, on all motions, resolutions, appointments and all other proceedings taken in or by such joint meeting, subject to the qualifications hereinafter specified; and such vote shall be cast and announced as is directed by a majority of all the members of such municipal body or board present in such joint meeting, whether such members present constitute a quorum of such body or board, or not. If only one member of such municipal body or board be present at the joint meeting, the vote of his municipality may be cast by him. A majority of the municipalities so contracting, when represented as aforesaid in such joint meeting, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and such majority may adopt and make rules of order governing the proceedings of such joint meeting, and rules for the government of the officers, agents and servants employed or appointed by the same, but in the case of municipalities which have heretofore jointly contracted for or jointly constructed any joint sewers, sewerage system or disposal plant or works under the authority of an act entitled "An act to authorize any two or more municipalities in this state to jointly provide, maintain and operate trunk or outlet sewers and sewage disposal plant or plants or a system of sewerage and to otherwise act jointly concerning the collection, removal or disposal of sewage and make contracts in relation thereto," approved April eighth, one thousand nine hundred and ten, no election, appointment or other action of said joint meeting, shall become operative or be binding on said joint meeting, or any of said municipalities, unless concurred in by the body or board, or bodies or boards of such respective contracting municipality or municipalities represented or entitled to be represented in said joint meeting present thereat, as by the ordinance providing for the making of the joint contract, are directed to pay twenty-five per cent or more of the total cost, damages and expenses of the improvements or works specified in said contract and in said ordinance authorizing the same.
N.J. Stat. § 40:72-1.3 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 72 / Section 72-1.3
Vote required for adoption; amendment and repeal
Status: in_force

If a majority of the qualified electors voting on the proposed ordinance shall vote in favor thereof, such ordinance shall thereupon become a valid and binding ordinance of the municipality, and any ordinance proposed by petition or which shall be adopted by a vote of the people shall not be repealed or amended except by a vote of the people.
N.J. Stat. § 40:69A-15 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 69A / Section 69A-15
Ballots; submission of question of adoption of optional plan of government
Status: in_force

If the charter commission shall recommend that the question of adopting one of the optional plans of government authorized by this act shall be submitted to the voters of the municipality, it shall be the duty of the municipal clerk to cause the question of adoption or rejection to be placed upon the ballot at such time as the commission shall in its report specify. The commission may cause the question to be submitted to the people at the next general or regular municipal election, occurring not less than 60 days following the filing of a copy of the commission's report with the clerk, or at a special election occurring not less than 60 days or more than 120 days after the filing of the report, at such time as the commission's report shall direct. At such election the question of adopting that plan of government recommended by the charter commission shall be submitted to the voters of the municipality in the same manner as other public questions to be voted upon by the voters of a single municipality. The charter commission shall frame the question to be placed upon the ballot as provided in section 1-14 and, if it deems appropriate, an interpretative statement to accompany such question. L.1950, c. 210, p. 466, s. 1-15. Amended by L.1953, c. 254, p. 1745, s. 7, eff. July 20, 1953; L.1981, c. 465, s. 4, eff. Jan. 9, 1982.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:14-209 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 14 / Section 14-209
Suspension, termination not subject to Title 11A, payment status.
Status: in_force

10. a. When a law enforcement officer or firefighter employed by a law enforcement agency or department that is not subject to the provisions of Title 11A of the New Jersey Statutes is suspended from performing his official duties without pay for a complaint or charges, other than (1) a complaint or charges relating to the subject matter of a pending criminal investigation, inquiry, complaint, or charge whether pre-indictment or post indictment, or (2) when the complaint or charges allege conduct that also would constitute a violation of the criminal laws of this State or any other jurisdiction, and the law enforcement agency or department employing the officer or firefighter seeks to terminate that officer's or firefighter's employment for the conduct that was the basis for the officer's or firefighter's suspension without pay, the officer, as an alternative to the judicial review authorized under N.J.S.40A:14-150, and the firefighter, as an alternative to the judicial review authorized under N.J.S.40A:14-22, may submit an appeal of his suspension and termination to the Public Employment Relations Commission for arbitration conducted in accordance with the provisions of section 11 of P.L.2009, c.16 (C.40A:14-210). A final determination on the officer's or firefighter's suspension and termination shall be rendered by an arbitrator within 180 calendar days from the date the officer or firefighter is suspended without pay. If a final determination is not rendered within those 180 days, as hereinafter calculated, the officer or firefighter shall, commencing on the 181st calendar day, begin again to receive the base salary he was being paid at the time of his suspension and shall continue to do so until the final determination on the officer's or firefighter's termination is rendered. b. The 180 calendar day period shall commence on the date that the officer or firefighter is suspended without pay and shall be calculated as follows: (1) The calendar days that accrue between the date the officer or firefighter is terminated by his employing agency or department and the date on which the officer or firefighter submits his appeal for arbitration to the Public Employment Relations Commission pursuant to section 11 of P.L.2009, c.16 (C.40A:14-210) shall not be used in calculating the date upon which the officer or firefighter is entitled, pursuant to subsection a. of this section, to receive his base salary pending a final determination on his appeal; (2) If the officer or the firefighter or their representative requests and is granted a postponement of a hearing or any other delay before the 181st calendar day, the calendar days that accrue during that postponement or delay shall not be used in calculating the date upon which the officer or firefighter is entitled, pursuant to subsection a. of this section, to receive his base salary pending a final determination on his appeal; (3) If the officer or the firefighter or their representative causes by his actions a postponement, adjournment or delay of a hearing before the 181st calendar day, the calendar days that accrue during that postponement, adjournment or delay shall not be used in calculating the date upon which the officer or firefighter is entitled, pursuant to subsection a. of this section, to receive his base salary pending a final determination on his appeal; (4) If the officer and the agency or the firefighter and the department agree to any postponement or delay of a hearing before the 181st calendar day, the calendar days that accrue during that postponement or delay shall not be used in calculating the date upon which that officer or firefighter is entitled, pursuant to subsection a. of this section, to receive his base salary pending a final determination on his appeal; or (5) If the arbitrator or the Public Employment Relations Commission for good cause postpones or delays a hearing before the 181st calendar day, the calendar days that accrue during that postponement or delay shall not be used in calculating the date upon which that officer or firefighter is entitled, pursuant to subsection a. of this section, to receive his base salary pending final determination of his appeal. c. If an officer or firefighter, who is receiving full pay pending a final determination in accordance with the provisions of subsection a. of this section, requests and is granted, or who otherwise causes by his actions a postponement, adjournment or delay of a hearing, or whose representative requests and is granted, or who otherwise causes by his actions a postponement, adjournment or delay of a hearing, that officer or firefighter shall be paid no salary during the period of that postponement, adjournment or delay. L.2009, c.16, s.10.
N.J. Stat. § 40:67-16.4 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 67 / Section 67-16.4
Marking routes
Status: in_force

Any such ordinance shall provide for the conspicuous marking of the streets forming the truck routes. The marking shall be by signs so placed and maintained as to clearly show the truck routes by both day and night, and shall designate the weight of the trucks which are required to use such truck routes. L.1953, c. 354, p. 1930, s. 4, eff. Aug. 8, 1953.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:16-8 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 16 / Section 16-8
Authority of mayor to vote in filling a vacancy
Status: in_force

In municipalities governed by the provisions of Article 3 or 16A of the "Optional Municipal Charter Law," P.L.1950, c. 210 (C. 40:69A-31 et seq. and C. [40:69A-149.1] et seq.), or by the provisions of laws governing boroughs, R.S. 40:86-1 to R.S. 40:94-6 inclusive, a mayor shall be permitted to vote to fill a vacancy in the membership of a governing body only in the case of a tie vote. L.1979, c. 83, s. 1, eff. April 26, 1979. Amended by L.1981, c. 465, s. 38, eff. Jan. 9, 1982.
N.J. Stat. § 40:60-23 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 60 / Section 60-23
Plans and specifications; approval by architect or engineer
Status: in_force

The commission shall, if necessary, be authorized to employ the services of an architect or engineer, or both, to supervise the drawing of maps, plans and specifications for such grounds, building and its fixtures, and the construction thereof. No payments for such construction work shall be approved by the commission except upon the certification of the architect or engineer having the particular supervision thereof, or the architect or engineer of the municipality where no special architect or engineer has been employed for that purpose, that the work, construction, development, materials or fixtures are in conformity with the ordinance and any contract entered into thereunder by the commission.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:14-146.13 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 14 / Section 14-146.13
Fees
Status: in_force

a. Except as specified in subsection b. of this section, a local unit may charge a reasonable fee as may be fixed by the governing body for equipment and uniforms supplied pursuant to this act, but may not charge a fee for the costs of training or issuing a certificate of appointment. The local unit shall not be required to compensate a special law enforcement officer for time spent in training; b. In addition to charging a reasonable fee as fixed by the governing body for equipment and uniforms supplied pursuant to this act, a local unit with a population in excess of 300,000, according to the 1980 federal decennial census, may charge a fee for the costs of training and for the administrative costs of issuing a certificate of appointment for a special law enforcement officer whose duties consist solely of performing public safety functions for a private employer. L. 1985, c. 439, s.6; amended by L. 1987, c. 96, s. 2.
N.J. Stat. § 40A:12-21.1 — NJ Code / Title 40A / Chapter 12 / Section 12-21.1
Private sale of personal property authorized
Status: in_force

2. When the governing body of any county or municipality shall determine that any form of personal property as defined in subsection (f) of section 2 of P.L.1971, c.199 (C.40A:12-2) and as amended in section 1 of P.L.1995, c.12, owned by the county or municipality, is no longer needed for county or municipal purposes, as the case may be, that governing body, by resolution or ordinance, may authorize a private sale of the personal property without compliance with any other law governing disposal of personal property by counties and municipalities, for a consideration, which may be nominal to any organization or association listed in section 21 of P.L.1971, c.199 (C.40A:12-21). The private sale of the personal property shall contain a limitation that the personal property shall be used only for the purposes of that organization or association, and to render those services or to provide those facilities as may be agreed upon, and not for commercial business, trade or manufacture, and that if the personal property is not used in accordance with that limitation, ownership thereto shall revert to the county or municipality. L.1995,c.12,s.2.
N.J. Stat. § 40:68A-49 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 68A / Section 68A-49
Default in payment of series bonds; appointment of trustee; powers
Status: in_force

(a) If the bond resolution of a municipal port authority authorizing or providing for the issuance of a series of its bonds shall provide in substance that the holders of the bonds of such series shall be entitled to the benefits of this section, then if there shall be a default in the payment of principal of or interest on any bonds of such series after the same shall become due, whether at maturity or upon call for redemption, and if any such default shall continue for a period of 30 days, or if the municipal port authority shall fail or refuse to comply with any of the provisions of this act or shall fail or refuse to carry out and perform the terms of any contract with the holders of any such bonds, and if such failure or refusal shall continue for a period of 30 days after written notice to the municipal port authority of its existence and nature, the holders of 25% in aggregate principal amount of the bonds of such series then outstanding by instrument or instruments filed in the office of the Secretary of State and proved or acknowledged in the same manner as a deed to be recorded, may appoint a trustee to represent the holders of the bonds of such series for the purposes provided in this section. (b) Such trustee may and upon written request of the holders of 25% in aggregate principal amount of the bonds of such series then outstanding shall, in his or its own name: (1) By any action, or other proceeding, enforce all rights of the holders of such bonds, including the right to require the municipal port authority to charge and collect facility charges adequate to carry out any contract as to, or pledge of, system revenues, and to require the municipal port authority to carry out and perform the terms of any contract with the holders of such bonds or its duties under this act; (2) Bring an action upon all or any part of such bonds or interest coupons or claims appurtenant thereto; (3) By action, require the municipal port authority to account as if it were the trustee of an express trust for the holders of such bonds; (4) By action, enjoin any acts or things which may be unlawful or in violation of the rights of the holders of such bonds; or (5) Declare all such bonds due and payable, whether or not in advance of maturity, upon 30 days' prior notice in writing to the municipal port authority and, if all defaults shall be made good, then with the consent of the holders of 25% of the principal amount of such bonds then outstanding, annul such declaration and its consequences. (c) Such trustee shall, in addition to the foregoing, have and possess all of the powers necessary or appropriate for the exercise of the functions specifically set forth herein or incident to the general representation of the holders of bonds of such series in the enforcement and protection of their rights. (d) In any action or proceeding by such trustee, the fees, counsel fees and expenses of the trustee and of the receiver, if any, appointed pursuant to this act, shall, if allowed by the court, constitute taxable costs and disbursements, and all costs and disbursements, allowed by the court, shall be a first charge upon any facility charges and system revenues of the municipal port authority pledged for the payment or security of bonds of such series. L.1960, c. 192, p. 822, s. 21, eff. Feb. 15, 1961.
N.J. Stat. § 40:20-75 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 20 / Section 20-75
Annual meetings
Status: in_force

40:20-75. The stated annual meeting of each board of county commissioners shall be held at a location within the county seat or any county facility, including the place of holding the Superior Court, in the respective counties at 12:00 p.m. on either the first or the second day of January or on some other hour on any day during the first week of January, annually, as the board, by resolution passed before said meeting, may determine. If the date so fixed shall fall upon a Sunday the meeting shall be held the following day, unless said resolution authorizes the meeting to be held on a Sunday. Amended 1953,c.37,s.25; 1974,c.154; 1977,c.394; 1991,c.91,s.378; 2023, c.226.
N.J. Stat. § 40:48C-39 — NJ Code / Title 40 / Chapter 48C / Section 48C-39
Failure to make report or allow inspection; failure to disclose amount due
Status: in_force

a. Any person who fails, neglects or refuses to make any report required by an ordinance adopted pursuant to this act, any person who refuses to permit an officer or agent designated by the municipality to examine his books, records and papers, and any person who knowingly makes any incomplete, false, or fraudulent report, or attempts to do anything whatever to avoid the full disclosure of the amount due under the ordinance to avoid the payment of the whole or any part thereof is a disorderly person. b. The failure of any person to receive or procure the forms required for making reports required by an ordinance adopted pursuant to this act shall not excuse him from making such report. L.1970, c. 326, s. 39, eff. Dec. 23, 1970.