The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-29
CHAPTER CCLYIII.


An Act to establish a law department in
cities of the first class in this state, to pro-
vide for the appointment and duties of the
law officers therein. and for their compen-
sation and terms of office.
1. Be it enacted by the Senate and Cen
eral Assembly of the State of New Jersey,
That in each city of the first class in this
state there shall be a law department which
shall consist of the following officers: a city
OF corporation counsel, a city or corporation
attorney, and an assistant city or corpora
ton attorney: the city or corporation coun-
sci and the city or corporation attorney shall
be counselors-at-Iaw of this state OF GOOD
standing, and the assistant city or corpora
ton attorney shall be an a~ttorney-at-law of
this state of good standing; all of said Of
icers shall be appointed by the respective
mayors of said cities on the fourth Tuesday
in May, one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-four, and on the fourth Tuesday of
each second succeeding year thereafter; they
shall serve for the term of two years, and
until their successors shall have been ap-
pointed.
officers shall discharge the duties that now
devolve upon any and all law officers in each
of said cities respectively under u re-
ouire1nents and regulations as now provided
by law. and that said officers shall perform
all other duties. which now devolve upon any
law officer, city or corporation counsel, city
or corporation attorney, or upon the counsel
or attorney for any board or COMMISSION
within the said city, except as herein other
wise provided.
5. And be it enacted. That the city or. cor
p~oration counsel shall be the chief law officer
of the city: he shall provide written opinions
when required to the mayor the various
boards and departments of the city govern
ment when required, and be their adviser
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official duties, and he shall assist the city or
corporation attorney in the trial or argu-
ment of any cause in which the city or any
of the boards or officers may be a party,
pertaining to the business of the city; it
shall be the duty of the city or corporation
attorney to draw and prepare all contracts
in which the city is interested and ordered
by any board or department of the city gov
ernment to be approved by the city or cor
poration counsel, and to prosecute and de-
feud any action in which the city is a party,
or any of its boards or departments, or
officers, in relation to the interests of the
city, and to prepare all such causes for trial
OF argument, and to perform such other du-
ties as shall pertain to the Office of city or
corporation attorney; it shall be the duty of
the assistant city or corporation attorney to
aid generally in assisting the city or cor
poration attorney in the duties herein allot-
ted to him, and perform such other work
of the law department of the city as shall be
assigned to him by the city or corporation
ounsel.
4. And be it enacted, That on the third
Monday in May. one thousand eight hun
bred and nintty-four, the offices of city or
corporation counsel. corporation attorney
and assistant city or corporation attorney,
the Offices of the counsel and attorney of
any board of works, board of street and
water commissioners, the board of health,
acoueduct board, the commissioners of ad-
justment, and the office of every other law
officer of said city shall become vacant, and
the terms of said officers shall then cease al
though they may lave been appointed for a
longer term.
5. And be it enacted, That any vacancy
which may occur in the Office of city or cor
poration counsel, city or corporation attor-
ney, OF assistant city or corporation attor-
ney, after the first Tuesday after the third
Monday in May, one thousand eight hun
dred n ninety-four, shall be filled by
the mayor, but for the unexpired term
only.
6. And be it enacted, That the city or cor
poration couns so appointed shall receive
an annual salary of not more than six thous-
and dollars, payable monthly, to be fixed by
the mayor; that the city or corporation at
torney shall receive an annual salary OF not
more than four thousand dollars, payable
monthly, to be 1xed by the mayor, and that
the assistant city or corporation attorney
shall receive an annual salary of not more
than fifteen hundred dollars, payable month
ly, to be fixed by the mayor; all of such sal
aries shall be paid by the board OF finance or