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NJ Rev Stat § 40:18-4.2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:18-4.2 - Annexation to borough of Matawan, Monmouth county, of part of township of Madison, Middlesex county

40:18-4.2. Annexation to borough of Matawan, Monmouth county, of part of township of Madison, Middlesex county  All that part of the township of Madison, in the county of Middlesex, and bounded as follows: Beginning at a concrete monument set by A. T. McMichael, surveyor, November, 1938, on the north side of Lakeside drive as shown on a map entitled Revised Map of Lakeside Heights, now known as Lake Lefferts Estates, situated part in Matawan borough, Monmouth county, and part in Madison township, Middlesex county, N.J., made January, 1936, by Richard Heuser, C. E., resurveyed and redrawn by A. T. McMichael, civil engr. & surveyor, P. O. Building, South Amboy, N.J., June, 1938, said maps being filed in offices of clerks of Monmouth and Middlesex counties. Said beginning monument is distant on a course of south 59 degrees 10 minutes west 195.15 feet from the prolongation of Weldon road; thence, as the needle of the above McMichael pointed January, 1936, (1) north 04 degrees 34 minutes west 544.00 feet to a concrete monument, the first course herein runs parallel with and is distant westerly 175 feet from the westerly side of the said Weldon road measured at right angles to the said road; thence (2) north 13 degrees 34 minutes east 360.05 feet to a point on the north side of Elizabeth avenue; thence (3) north 59 degrees 10 minutes east 530.00 feet, more or less, to the dividing line between Monmouth and Middlesex counties; thence (4) beginning again at the above beginning monument, south 30 degrees 50 minutes east 345.00 feet, more or less, to the above mentioned county line; thence (5) northeasterly along the same to the end of the third course herein, containing 9.283 acres, more or less, and being that part of the premises conveyed by Floyd T. Taylor to Anita G. Taylor by deed dated April 4, 1938, and recorded in the office of the clerk of Middlesex county, which is situated in the township of Madison in the county of Middlesex, is hereby set off from the township of Madison, in the county of Middlesex, annexed to, and made a part of, the borough of Matawan, in the county of Monmouth, and shall be governed by the laws of this State relating to boroughs. L.1939, c. 244, p. 657, s. 1, eff. July 18, 1939.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:18-4.3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:18-4.3 - Monmouth and Middlesex counties; boundary lines

40:18-4.3. Monmouth and Middlesex counties; boundary lines  The boundary line between the county of Middlesex and the county of Monmouth at this place be, and the same hereby is, made and established as courses one (1), two (2), three (3), and four (4) of the description set forth in section one (1) of this act so as to give effect hereto. L.1939, c. 244, p. 658, s. 2, eff. July 18, 1939.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:19-1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:19-1 - Change of county seat

40:19-1. Change of county seat  The county seat of any county may be changed from one municipality to another therein, in the manner hereafter in this chapter provided.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:19-2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:19-2 - Resolution; submission to voters

40:19-2. Resolution; submission to voters  In order to effect the change, the board of chosen freeholders shall adopt a resolution that the county seat shall be changed to a municipality other than that in which it is then located, designating the other municipality by name. The resolution shall not become effective until a majority of the legal voters of the county shall vote in the manner hereinafter provided, for the proposed change.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:19-3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:19-3 - Petition for resolution; resolution on initiative of board

40:19-3. Petition for resolution; resolution on initiative of board  If a petition signed by at least twenty per cent of the legal voters of the county shall be presented to the board, requesting such a change of the county seat from one municipality to another therein named, the board shall pass a resolution therefor. The board of chosen freeholders may pass such resolution on its own initiative.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:19-4 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:19-4 - Referendum

40:19-4. Referendum  Upon the passage of the resolution, the clerk of the board of chosen freeholders shall forthwith transmit a certified copy thereof to the proper officer, notifying him that a vote is desired upon the question. Such officer shall, in the manner and form provided by law, place the same upon the ballots used at the next general election occurring not less than thirty days after the passage of the resolution.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:19-5 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:19-5 - Ballot; form and content

40:19-5. Ballot; form and content  The question shall be printed upon the ballots to be used at the 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 county seat of .............. [ ] YES county be changed from ............. to ................ (specify names of [ ] NO municipalities)?"
NJ Rev Stat § 40:19-6 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:19-6 - Submission at general election; law applicable

40:19-6. Submission at general election; law applicable  The question shall be voted upon at said next general election, and the votes shall be canvassed, and the result determined and announced in the manner provided by the laws relating to elections.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:19-7 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:19-7 - Vote required for adoption; board to provide accommodations

40:19-7. Vote required for adoption; board to provide accommodations  If a majority of the legal voters voting at the election shall vote YES the board of chosen freeholders shall thereupon provide suitable lands and buildings necessary for the accommodation of the courts and officers, and for the transaction of the business of the county in the municipality to which the change shall be made, and shall suitably furnish and equip such buildings.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:19-8 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:19-8 - Courts and county officers established in new county seat

40:19-8. Courts and county officers established in new county seat  After the acquisition and furnishing of such buildings, the courts of the county and all the county officers shall be established therein. Amended by L.1953, c. 37, p. 637, s. 22, eff. March 19, 1953.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:19-9 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:19-9 - Resubmission

40:19-9. Resubmission  A vote upon such question shall not be taken oftener than once in five years in the same county.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:19A-1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:19A-1 - Counties of third class; establishment of offices outside county seat and county jail

40:19A-1. Counties of third class; establishment of offices outside county seat and county jail  The governing body of any county of the third class may, by resolution or ordinance, as appropriate, provide for the establishment and maintenance of any of the county offices at any location within the county except that the following shall not be located without the county seat of the county, that is to say: The county clerk's office; The register's of deeds and mortgages office; The sheriff's office; The surrogate's office; The county prosecutor's office; and The places for holding the Superior Court within the county. The governing body of a county may, upon the adoption of a resolution or ordinance, as appropriate, and after a public hearing, provide for the establishment of a county jail at any location within the county. L.1955, c. 109, p. 578, s. 1, eff. June 30, 1955. Amended by L.1982, c. 12, s. 1, eff. March 19, 1982.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:20-1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:20-1 - Board of county commissioners.

40:20-1 Board of county commissioners.  40:20-1. The property, finances, and affairs of every county shall be managed, controlled, and governed by a board elected therein, to be known as "the board of county commissioners of the county of ..................... (specifying name of county)", and the executive and legislative powers of the county shall be vested in that board of county commissioners, except where by law any specific powers or duties are imposed or vested in a Constitutional officer. The board of county commissioners of any county which has created the office of county administrator, pursuant to the provisions of N.J.S.40A:9-42, may, by resolution, delegate to that office such executive and administrative powers, duties, functions, and responsibilities as the board may deem appropriate. After the effective date of P.L.2020, c.67, the county letterheads, stationery, and other writings, once exhausted, shall be replaced with new letterheads, stationery, and other writings with the title of board of county commissioners. No later than one year following the effective date of P.L.2020, c.67, the Internet website of a county, shall bear the title of board of county commissioners. Any county signs or other writings bearing the former title of board of chosen freeholders, which would require the expenditure of county funds to update or replace, shall be changed to bear the title of board of county commissioners upon the next update or replacement made in the ordinary course of business. amended 1987, c.236, s.1; 2020, c.67, s.2.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:20-1.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:20-1.1 - Quarterly fiscal reports

40:20-1.1. Quarterly fiscal reports  Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary, all boards, bodies or commissions appointed by the board of chosen freeholders of a county and receiving funds or using funds made available by said freeholder board, shall render quarterly fiscal reports covering both operating and capital construction and improvement funds, or operating and capital construction or improvement funds, on a calendar basis, to said freeholder board. L.1968, c. 332, s. 1, eff. Nov. 13, 1968.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:20-1.2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:20-1.2 - Grant of powers

40:20-1.2. Grant of powers  The grant of powers under this amendatory and supplementary act is intended to be as broad as is consistent with the Constitution of the State of New Jersey and with general law relating to local government. The grant of powers shall be construed as liberally as possible in regard to the county's right to reorganize its structure and to alter or abolish its agencies, subject to the general mandate of performing services, whether they be performed by the agency previously established or by a new agency or another department of county government. All county offices, boards, commissions, and authorities authorized or established by statute, other than those boards and offices which are subject to the provisions of subsection b. of section 4 of this amendatory and supplementary act, and other than educational institutions authorized or established pursuant to Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes, shall be considered to be county agencies for the purposes of this section.  L. 1987, c. 236, s. 3.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:20-1.3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:20-1.3 - Administrative code.

40:20-1.3 Administrative code.  4. a. The board of chosen freeholders may adopt an administrative code organizing the administration of the county government, setting forth the duties and responsibilities and powers of all county officials and agencies, and the manner of performance needed.  b. The administrative code may require that the county board of taxation, county board of elections, jury commissioners of the county, county register of deeds, county clerk, surrogate, county superintendent of elections, and sheriff be subject to such annual budgetary procedures and requirements as may be specified therein. These procedures and requirements may include, but shall not be limited to, the preparation and submission of an annual budget in accordance with the provisions of the administrative code, and the submission of such periodic budget reports as may be provided therein. The administrative code may further provide that the county board of taxation, county board of elections, jury commissioners of the county, county register of deeds, county clerk, surrogate, county superintendent of elections, and sheriff shall be subject to such accounting controls, central purchasing practices, personnel procedures, and central data processing services as are specified in the code, or in administrative orders adopted pursuant thereto; provided, however, that nothing herein shall restrict or limit the authority of the county board of taxation, county board of elections, jury commissioners of the county, county register of deeds, county clerk, surrogate, county superintendent of elections, and sheriff as the appointing authority of their respective offices.  c. Nothing in the administrative code shall change the duties or powers of county officers whose existence is mandated by the Constitution or shall diminish the duties, responsibilities or powers of those county officers.  d. An administrative code adopted pursuant to this section shall enter into effect 30 days after its adoption, and all theretofore existing agencies shall assume the form, perform the duties, and exercise the powers granted them under the administrative code and shall do so in the manner prescribed therein. L.1987, c.236, s.4; amended 2015, c.250, s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:20-1.4 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:20-1.4 - Additional powers

40:20-1.4. Additional powers  In addition to the powers set forth in sections 3 and 4 of this amendatory and supplementary act, the board of chosen freeholders is authorized and empowered to make policy and management decisions related to those activities of any independent boards of county government or State appointed officials of county government, which are duplicative in nature or which duplicate the activities, responsibilities or duties of any other agency or department of county government.  L. 1987, c. 236, s. 5.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:20-2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:20-2 - Membership; number and term; first election

40:20-2. Membership; number and term; first election  Boards of chosen freeholders in counties of the first class governed by sections 40:20-2 to 40:20-19 of this title shall consist of nine members. They shall be elected by the voters of the county at the general election and shall hold office for three years from the annual stated meeting of the board next after their election and until their successors are elected and qualified. The first election under this section shall be held at the general election next preceding the expiration of the terms of office of the members of the board in office at the time when said sections 40:20-2 to 40:20-19 take effect in any county. At the first election in counties where the terms of office of all the members of the board expire at the same time, there shall be elected three members for one year, three members for two years and three members for three years, and the ballots shall designate which members are to serve for the terms of one, two and three years respectively. At the first election in counties where the terms of office of the members of the board expire at different times, there shall be elected three members for three years, and at succeeding elections there shall be elected three members for the term of three years. The members so elected from time to time, together with the members of the board whose terms shall not have expired, shall constitute the board of chosen freeholders until all the members thereof are elected under this section.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:20-3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:20-3 - Organization

40:20-3. Organization  The board of chosen freeholders constituted and elected under section 40:20-2 of this title shall organize at the first annual stated meeting of the board next after the election of the members thereof, and at the annual stated meeting in each year thereafter.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:20-5 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:20-5 - Extension of terms

40:20-5. Extension of terms  When the terms of office of the members of the board in any county affected by sections 40:20-2 to 40:20-19 of this title expire on any day other than at the annual stated meeting of the board the terms of office of such members are hereby extended to the annual stated meeting following the date when their terms would otherwise expire.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:20-6 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:20-6 - Law applicable

40:20-6. Law applicable  All laws, public, general, special or private, relating to the board of chosen freeholders in any county in force when sections 40:20-2 to 40:20-19 of this title become operative in such county, shall apply to the board of chosen freeholders constituted or elected under the provisions of said sections 40:20-2 to 40:20-19 so far as the same shall not be inconsistent with the provisions thereof, and the board of chosen freeholders of any county constituted or elected hereunder shall be vested with all the powers, authority, rights and privileges and shall have imposed upon it all the obligations and duties which are vested in or imposed upon the board of chosen freeholders of such county when said sections 40:20-2 to 40:20-19 take effect therein, except where inconsistent with the provisions thereof. All such laws in force or in anywise applicable to the board of chosen freeholders of such county when said sections 40:20-2 to 40:20-19 take effect therein are hereby continued in force and made applicable to the board of chosen freeholders of such county constituted or elected hereunder except so far as the same may be inconsistent with the terms and meaning hereof.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:20-7 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:20-7 - Referendum; procedure

40:20-7. Referendum; procedure  The provisions of sections 40:20-2 to 40:20-19 of this title shall remain inoperative in any county of the first class until assented to by a majority of the legal voters thereof voting for and against the same, at an election to be held in such county as hereinafter in sections 40:20-8 to 40:20-18 of this title provided.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:20-8 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:20-8 - Submission at presidential primary

40:20-8. Submission at presidential primary  The question of the adoption or rejection of sections 40:20-2 to 40:20-19 of this title may be submitted to the voters at a primary election for presidential delegates to be held as provided by Title 19, Elections, when a petition therefor, signed by at least one thousand legal voters of the county, shall have been filed with the county clerk at least twenty days before the election. The general laws relating to elections shall be applicable, as far as practicable, to this election.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:20-9 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:20-9 - Nonpartisan ballot box; transfers.

40:20-9 Nonpartisan ballot box; transfers.  40:20-9. The election provided for in section 40:20-8 of this title shall be deemed, so far as the question of the acceptance or rejection of sections 40:20-2 to 40:20-19 of this title is concerned, to be a special election, and shall be conducted by the county and district boards of registry and election in the same manner as other elections. Notice of the election shall be given at the time and in the manner required for the primary election held on the same day, and the same boxes shall be used for the purposes of this election as are to be used for the purposes of the primary election, except that there shall be provided in each polling place, in addition to the boxes provided by law, a box to be known as the "nonpartisan box". Any person entitled to vote at the primary election for the general election, and any person who would be entitled to vote at the primary if he were a member of one of the two political parties for which primary boxes are provided, may vote hereunder on that day. Transfers shall be issued as provided by the laws relating to elections. amended 2011, c.134, s.58.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:20-10 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:20-10 - Superior Court judge to resolve doubt on right to vote

40:20-10. Superior Court judge to resolve doubt on right to vote  40:20-10. If any voter is not entitled or doubts his right to vote under sections 40:20-2 to 40:20-19 of this Title he may apply to a judge of the Superior Court for a certificate entitling him to vote.  The judge shall hear the matter in a summary manner and if he finds that the applicant is a legal voter of the county, he shall issue a certificate under his hand, addressed to the board of registry and election of the election district in which the voter resides, directing it to permit the applicant to vote hereunder.  The certificate shall be returned by the board with its other returns. Amended 1953,c.37,s.23; 1991,c.91,s.377.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:20-11 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:20-11 - Method of voting; results returned

40:20-11. Method of voting; results returned  The ballot of each legal voter who shall desire to vote hereunder as well as for presidential delegates, shall be deposited in the primary box in which he is qualified to vote after his primary ballot shall have been cast. The ballot of every voter who shall not desire to vote in any of the primary boxes, or who is not qualified to vote in any of the primary boxes, shall be placed in the nonpartisan box and counted by the members of the board of registry and election. The ballots in all the primary boxes and in the nonpartisan box, upon the question of the acceptance or rejection of sections 40:20-2 to 40:20-19 of this title shall be counted by the members of the board of registry and election, who shall also ascertain the number of votes in all the boxes in the election district, the number in favor of acceptance, and the number in favor of rejection, and shall place these facts in their return of the result of the election.