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New Jersey Statutes 40:3-1 Definitions
For the purposes of this chapter, bonds which are payable in installments in successive years during at least three-quarters of the period covered by the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:3-2 Contracts as to bonds, notes not impaired
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require any sinking fund commission to do any act in violation of the contractual obligations of the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:3-3 When sinking fund commission to determine requirements
In the event of the failure of the Director of the Division of Local Government in the State Department of Taxation and Finance to certify ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:3-4 Sinking fund commissions; appointment, duties and powers
The sinking fund commissions of the several municipalities, counties and school districts, created and established in accordance with the provisions of the act entitled "An ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:3-5 Commission to supersede all commissions; body corporate; disbursements; investments
The organization of the sinking fund commission, as herein provided, shall be universally applicable and shall supersede all other sinking fund commissions whatsoever. The members ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:3-6 Certain officers to act when commission not functioning
Until the members of the sinking fund commission have been appointed and the organization of the commission has been perfected, the comptroller, or in municipalities ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:3-7 Foreclosure of mortgages; municipal sinking fund for school district bonds
Where the funds in the custody of any sinking fund commission superseded and terminated as provided in this chapter, are invested in mortgages upon real ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:3-8 Commissioners not to receive compensation; bonds; secretary and assistants
The members of the sinking fund commission shall receive no compensation, and shall give bond with corporate security to the municipality, county, or school district, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:3-9 Custodian of moneys and securities; investments; accounts
The sinking fund commissioners shall have sole custody and control of all sinking fund moneys, securities, books, papers and records appertaining thereto. They shall deposit ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:3-10 Sinking fund moneys; investment of
Investment of sinking fund moneys shall be restricted to unlimited obligations issued by the United States of America, or bonds of the State of New ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:3-11 Annual report; publication
The sinking fund commission shall report annually, on or before January fifteenth, to the governing body of the municipality, county or school district fully and ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:3-12 Accounts; how kept; classification of bonds; accretions; interest; losses
The sinking fund commission shall cause to be kept a separate account for each issue of term bonds and under at least the following classifications: ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:3-13 When commission may sell bonds of county, school district or municipality
When any sinking fund commission shall purchase any bonds of the municipality, county or school district for which it is constituted, as the result of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:3-14 Bonds falling due; funds transmitted for payment
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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:3-15 Commissioners may enforce payment to sinking fund of sums due
The sinking fund commission shall have power and authority to demand and enforce by appropriate legal proceedings the appropriation, collection and payment to the sinking ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:3-16 Annual sinking fund requirements; amortization basis
The annual sinking fund requirements for the uncanceled bonds of any issue of term bonds issued by any municipality, county or school district, shall not ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:3-17 Sinking fund requirements for year; how calculated
The sinking fund commission of a municipality, county or school district (where a sinking fund commission exists only for such school district) shall calculate the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:3-18 When contributions to cease
When the sinking fund of any issue of term bonds shall equal the amount of the uncanceled bonds of such issue, no further contributions shall ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:3-19 Excess accumulations, to reduce requirements of sinking fund; deficiency
When the accumulation of the sinking fund for any year shall be more than three and one-half per cent, then the amount in excess of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:3-20 Outstanding term bonds tabulated; adjustment of excesses and deficits; surpluses
If upon any tabulation heretofore made of outstanding term bonds and the calculation to determine whether the sinking fund for each issue is equal to ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:3-21 Deficiency in sinking funds; how raised
In order to bring the sinking fund for each issue of term bonds up to the proper amortization basis, the deficiency as shown by the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:3-22 Special sinking fund requirements additional to annual requirements
The special sinking fund requirements, as provided in section 40:3-21 of this title shall not take the place of the proper annual sinking fund requirements ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:3-23 Special sinking fund; distribution of
The special sinking fund shall be held intact, as such, until it shall have accumulated an amount sufficient to create or equalize the sinking fund ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:3-24 Interest on surplus; use of
The surplus in the sinking fund of any municipality, county or school district, as provided in section 40:3-20 of this Title, shall be held in ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:5-2 Contributions to first aid, ambulance and rescue squads.
40:5-2. Any county or municipality may make a voluntary contribution of not more than $70,000 annually to any duly incorporated first aid and ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:5-2.1 General conflagration; appropriations to relieve loss from
Whenever a general conflagration shall have taken place in any county, and in one or more municipalities thereof, such county shall be and is hereby ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:5-2.2 Prerequisites to county's expending money to relieve losses from general conflagration
No county shall raise or expend any moneys for the purpose aforesaid unless and until: (a) The borough, township, city, village or other municipality in ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:5-2.3 Boroughs, townships, cities, villages, etc., prerequisites to expending money to relieve loss from general conflagration
No borough, township, city, village or other municipality shall expend any moneys for the purpose aforesaid unless and until: (a) The county in which such ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:5-2.4 "General conflagration" defined
The term "general conflagration" as used herein shall be construed, for the purposes hereof, to mean and include: any monetary damage to the improved property ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:5-2.5 Raising and appropriating money to relieve loss from general conflagration by resolution
Any county, borough, township, city, village or other municipality may raise and appropriate said moneys by resolution as aforesaid, notwithstanding the provisions of sections 40:1-14 ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:5-2.6 Notes or other obligations; raising funds to relieve loss from general conflagration
Any county, borough, township, city, village or other municipality is hereby authorized to execute and deliver its note or other obligation to raise the funds ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:5-2.7 Liberal construction
This act shall be liberally construed to enable the several counties and municipalities to expeditiously relieve the loss, damage, distress and suffering caused by a ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:5-2.8 Inapplicable to conflagration occurring before April 1, 1941
This act shall not apply to any general conflagration which occurred before April first, one thousand nine hundred and forty-one. L.1941, c. 48, p. 130, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:5-2.10 Appropriations to carry out program
The board of chosen freeholders of such county or the governing body of such municipality may appropriate sufficient funds to carry out said program, when ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:5-2.10a Rate for diagnostic services and treatment; payments to county; reimbursement
The board of chosen freeholders of any county which has established and maintains a center or institution for the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:5-2.10b Runaway or homeless youth; services by private, nonprofit organization; appropriations
The governing body of a county or municipality annually may appropriate funds to a private, nonprofit organization for the purpose of providing services to runaway ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:5-2.10c Nonprofit hospital for health related community services; voluntary contributions
The governing body of a county or municipality may make voluntary contributions to a public or private nonprofit hospital for any health related service contributing ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:5-2.11 Use of parking meter revenues for off-street parking facilities.
1. The board of chosen freeholders of any county and the governing body of any municipality may by resolution appropriate and dedicate ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:5-18 Service charge for NSF checks; collection
a. The governing body of a municipality may provide, by resolution or ordinance, for the imposition of a service charge to be added to any ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:5-19 Service charge on checks returned for insufficient funds; county imposition, fee, collection
1. a. The governing body of a county may provide, by resolution or ordinance, as appropriate, for the imposition of a service charge to be ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:6A-1 Costs of assignment of counsel or other related costs for defense of indigent person; notice; filing; duration of lien; service on defendant
Whenever a county or municipality is required to pay the costs of the assignment of counsel and other related costs for the defense of an ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:6A-2 Recordation
The clerk of the superior court may provide separate books for the filing of said liens indexed in the name of the judgment debtor, or ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:6A-3 Remedies and collection of moneys due
The county or municipal counsel shall have all the remedies and may take all the proceedings for the collection of moneys due the county or ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:6A-4 Compromise and settlement of claim
The county or municipal counsel may recommend to their respective governing bodies a compromise and settlement of any claim for payment of costs incurred by ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:7-1 Liability of county or municipality; negligence of driver
A county or municipality shall be liable in damages when an officer of the county or municipality shall command the operator of a motor vehicle ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:8-1 Acquisition and use of lands for airports; lease to others
The governing body of any county and the governing body of any municipality, or either of them, may acquire by gift, grant, purchase, condemnation or ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:8-2 Municipal airports; general powers.
40:8-2. The governing body of any municipality may acquire, establish, construct, own, control, lease, equip, improve, maintain, operate and regulate airports or landing ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:8-2.1 Operation of airports as public utilities by municipalities
Any municipality is hereby authorized and empowered to maintain, operate and manage an airport as a public utility, and for that purpose keep the accounts ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:8-3 County airports; general powers.
40:8-3. The governing body of any county may acquire, by lease or purchase, and establish, construct, own, control, lease, equip, improve, maintain, operate ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:8-4 Condemnation; power of
Any real estate acquired, owned, controlled or occupied by such municipality for the purposes enumerated in section 40:8-2 of this title shall be acquired, owned, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:8-5 Condemnation; law applicable; bonds; law applicable
Private property needed by any municipality for an airport or landing field shall be acquired by purchase if the municipality is able to agree with ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:8-6 Control of airports; regulations; fees.
40:8-6. The governing body of a municipality or county which has established an airport or landing field and acquired, leased or set apart ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:8-7 Annual expenditures; taxation for
The board or body of any municipality or county having power to appropriate money therein may annually appropriate and cause to be raised by taxation ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:8-8 Airport security officers
The governing body of any county which has established an airport may, by ordinance or resolution, as appropriate, provide for the appointment of such persons ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:8-9 Applications
All applications for the position of airport security officers shall, in the first instance, be made to the chief of police of the county in ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:8-10 Police training course
Every person so appointed and commissioned shall, within 1 year of the date of his commission, successfully complete a police training course at a school ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:8-11 Powers of airport security officers
Every person so appointed and commissioned shall, while on duty, within the limits of the property under the control of the airport, possess all the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:8-12 Name plate and shields
Each airport security officer, when on duty, except when employed as a detective, shall wear in plain view a name plate and a metallic shield ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:8-13 Traffic laws; enforcement
In connection with traffic and parking violations, the airport security officer appointed pursuant to this act shall, while on duty and within the territorial limits ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:8-14 Airport security officers; weapons
County airport security officers shall be considered to be law enforcement officers for the purposes of N.J.S. 2C:39-3. L.1979, c. 332, s. 7, eff. Jan. ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:8-15 Construction of act
Nothing in this act shall be construed to limit or impair the rights of any State, county or municipal law enforcement officer in the performance ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:8A-1 Short title
This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Interlocal Services Act." L.1973, c. 208, s. 1, eff. Aug. 2, 1973. ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:8A-2 Definitions.
2. As used in this act, unless the context indicates otherwise: a. "Local unit" means a municipality, county, school ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:8C-1 Biotechnology defined
1. As used in this act: "Biotechnology" means the continually expanding body of fundamental knowledge about the functioning of biological systems from the macro level ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:8C-2 Development of biotechnology, not regulated; nonapplicability of act
2. a. A county, municipality, including a local health board, or other local subdivision shall not regulate the development of biotechnology or the use of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:9-2.1 Acquisition, improvement, operation and equipment of public transportation passenger or freight rail line
The governing body of any county or municipality may acquire, by purchase or lease, maintain, improve, equip and operate any existing public transportation passenger or ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:9-2.2 Lease or sale of space and facilities for conduct of carrier's business; contracts for conduct of other commercial activities
Any county or municipality acquiring a public passenger or freight rail line may lease or sell all or portions of space or facilities to any ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:9-2.3 Appropriation of funds; bonds or notes
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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:9A-1 Federation of city-county libraries
Any county or counties, municipality or municipalities, or any combination thereof, operating libraries pursuant to chapters 33 or 54 of Title 40 of the Revised ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:9A-2 Costs; management
Such contracts shall set forth the proportion of the cost each party thereto shall assume and specify all the details of the management of the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:9A-3 Interlibrary loan services; free use by residents
Such contracts shall provide for the establishment of interlibrary loan services among the federated libraries and the free use for reference purposes of the library ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:9A-4 Standards for libraries.
4. The State Librarian, subject to the approval of the President of Thomas Edison State College, shall formulate and promulgate standards for ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:9B-1 Establishment and maintenance of narcotic treatment programs and centers
The board of chosen freeholders of any county or the governing body of any municipality may establish and maintain a narcotic treatment program for the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:9B-2 Appropriation of funds
The board of chosen freeholders of such county or the governing body of such municipality may appropriate funds to carry out a program or programs ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:9B-3 Legislative findings
The Legislature hereby recognizes that it is the declared public policy of this State that the social and personal anguish of drug addiction is a ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:9B-4 Counties or municipalities; annual appropriations for private centers
The governing body of any county or municipality may annually appropriate funds to any approved, privately operated, nonprofit narcotic and drug abuse treatment center certified ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:9B-5 Ratification, validation and confirmation of prior appropriations
All appropriations heretofore made by any county or municipality for any of the purposes herein authorized are hereby ratified, validated and confirmed. L.1974, c. 120, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:9D-1 Definitions relative to provision of broadband telecommunications service.
1. As used in this act: "Broadband telecommunications infrastructure" means information equipment and facilities, information systems, and information technology used ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:9D-2 Authority of local unit.
2. a. Consistent with federal law, the governing body of a local unit, through the establishment of a related competitive business segment, is ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:9D-3 Responsibilities of local unit relative to provision of broadband telecommunications service.
3. If a governing body of a local unit exercises powers under subsection a. or b. of section 2 of this act, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:9D-4 Plan for proposed activities.
4. a. Prior to the exercise by the governing body of a local unit of any powers under subsections a. and b. of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:9D-5 Authority to issue revenue bonds.
5. a. The governing body of a local unit exercising powers under subsection a. or subsection b. of section 2 of this ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:9D-6 Due diligence required prior to contract.
6. The governing body of a local unit exercising powers under subsection a. or subsection b. of section 2 of this act ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:9D-7 Additional competitive contracting provisions; terms; negotiations.
7. a. In addition to the purposes set forth in section 1 of P.L.1999, c.440 (C.40A:11-4.1), a local contracting unit may use the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:9D-8 Payment of prevailing wage rate.
8. Any contract awarded in connection with any project authorized pursuant to the provisions of this act shall provide that not less ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:10-1 Acceptance of monuments; may provide site; becomes public property.
When any person or organization shall offer to any county or municipality any monument, statue, tablet or public drinking fountain already erected or ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:10-11 County, municipal appropriations for veterans' memorials
1. a. The Legislature finds and declares that it is a public purpose and in the public interest to permit local units of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:10A-1 Short title
This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Local Historians Enabling Act." L.1979, c. 59, s. 1, eff. March 27, 1979. ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:10A-2 Legislative findings
The Legislature of the State finds that a New Jersey Historical Commission, New Jersey Bicentennial Commission, New Jersey Cemetery Board, New Jersey Register of Historic ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:10A-3 Public policy
It is hereby declared as a matter of public policy that each municipality and county may participate to increase the education, appreciation and communication of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:10A-4 Local historian; establishment of position by local government; reimbursement of expenses; appointment; term
The governing body of any county or municipality may, by ordinance or resolution, as appropriate, establish the position of local historian. The local historian shall ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:10A-5 Vesting duties and responsibilities of local historian in chairperson of county cultural and heritage commission
Any county which shall have established a county cultural and heritage commission pursuant to P.L.1968, c. 31 (C. 40:33A-1 et seq.) may, in lieu of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:10A-6 Local historian of county; assistance to municipalities
Whenever the governing body of a county shall establish the position of local historian for the county as herein provided, and one or more municipalities ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:10A-7 Powers and responsibilities of local historian; annual report
A local historian shall have the following powers and responsibilities, except as otherwise provided in the ordinance or resolution creating the position: a. To carry ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:10A-8 Employment of clerical assistants
The local historian may employ such clerical assistants as may be necessary in order to carry out the duties and responsibilities set forth in this ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:10B-1 Short title
This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Historic Cemeteries Act." L.1983, c. 294, s. 1, eff. Aug. 4, 1983. ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:10B-2 Legislative findings and declarations
The Legislature finds that within the State of New Jersey, there are many historic cemeteries in which are interred the bodies of citizens who settled ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:10B-3 Historic cemeteries; restoration, maintenance or preservation by county or municipality; appropriations
The governing body of any county or municipality may provide for the restoration, maintenance and preservation of any historic cemetery located within its borders. As ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:10C-1 Establishment; duties; membership; terms; vacancies; officers and employees
A municipality or a county with an Hispanic population of 10% or more, according to the latest federal decennial census, may by resolution establish a ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:10D-1 Findings, declarations relative to protection of archaeological findings, sites.
1. The Legislature finds and declares that it is of critical importance to protect archaeological sites in New Jersey to prevent their ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:10D-2 Archaeological findings on lands owned by political subdivision protected.
6. a. (1) Except as may be provided pursuant to subsection c. of this section, no person may alter, deface, destroy, disturb or ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11-17 Salaries not affected by 1930 census or reclassification act; exceptions
The promulgation or taking effect of the Federal census for the year one thousand nine hundred and thirty, or the passage of an act for ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11-17.1 Salaries not affected by 1940 census or reclassification act; exceptions
The promulgation or taking effect of the Federal census for the year one thousand nine hundred and forty, or the passage of an act for ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11-22 Pensions on death of policemen or firemen killed in line of duty; amounts
The governing body of any municipality, by ordinance, or the board of chosen freeholders of any county, by resolution, may provide in specific cases for ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11-23 Manner of payment
The pension shall be paid as follows: a. If there are a dependent widow and dependent children of the deceased member, the pension shall be ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11-24 Prospective payment with respect to members killed after January 1, 1956
In granting any pension pursuant to this act, the governing body of the municipality or the board of chosen freeholders of the county may provide ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11-25 Inclusion of necessary amounts in budget
The governing body of a municipality or the board of chosen freeholders of a county awarding any pension pursuant to this act shall include in ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-1 Short title
This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Parking Authority Law." L.1948, c. 198, p. 975, s. 1. ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-2 Declaration of necessity of legislation
It is hereby determined and declared: (a) That the greatly increased use by the public of motor vehicles of all kinds has caused serious traffic ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-3 Definitions
The following terms, wherever used or referred to in this act, shall have the following respective meanings, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-4 Creation of parking authorities
The governing body of any county or municipality may, by resolution or ordinance, as appropriate, create a public body corporate and politic and a political ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-5 Authority; commissioners; misconduct; removal
No commissioner of any authority may be an officer or employee of the municipality or county for which the authority is created; provided, however, that ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-6 Powers and purposes of authority
(1) Every parking authority shall constitute a public body corporate and politic and a political subdivision of the State with the same territorial boundaries as ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-6.1 Audit of accounts of parking authority annually; filing
It shall be the duty of every "parking authority," created pursuant to the act to which this act is a supplement, to cause an annual ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-6.2 Certified copy of bond resolution and bond proceedings; filing
Every such "parking authority" shall file a certified copy of every bond resolution as finally passed with the Director of the Division of Local Government ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-7 Right of eminent domain
An authority shall have right to acquire by the exercise of the power of eminent domain any real property which it may deem necessary for ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-7.1 Relocation or removal of public utility facilities
Whenever an authority, or any municipality or county which has acquired by purchase or condemnation real property for any project or for the widening of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-8 Bonds; power to issue.
8. Every authority shall have power to issue its bonds from time to time in its discretion for any of its corporate ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-9 Bonds; liability
Neither the commissioners of an authority nor any person executing bonds shall be liable personally on the bonds by reason of the issuance thereof. The ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-10 Bonds; provisions
Bonds of an authority shall be authorized by its resolutions and may be issued in 1 or more series and shall bear such date or ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-11 Bonds; validity
In case of any of the commissioners or officers of the authority whose signatures appear on any bonds or coupons shall cease to be such ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-12 Bonds; powers of authority
In connection with the issuance of bonds or the incurring of obligations and in order to secure the payment of such bonds or obligations, an ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-13 Rights of obligees
An obligee of an authority shall have the right in addition to all other rights which may be conferred on such obligee, subject only to ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-14 Securing bonds by mortgage or trust indenture; powers of authority after default; pledge of revenue
(1) Any bonds or any issue or issues of bonds of an authority may, in the discretion of the authority, be secured by a mortgage ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-15 Real property exempt from levy
All real property of an authority shall be exempt from levy and sale by virtue of an execution, and no execution or other judicial process ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-16 Bonds; legal investment for banks and trustees
Notwithstanding any restrictions on investments contained in any laws of this State, the State and all public officers, municipal corporations, political subdivisions, and public bodies, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-17 Contracts respecting labor and materials
Subject to any of the foregoing provisions any authority may but without intending by this provision to limit any powers of such authority enter into ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-18 Powers of authority pertaining to other governmental agencies
In addition to the powers conferred upon any authority by other provisions of this act, every authority is empowered to borrow money or accept contributions, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-19 Taxation exemption
Every parking project and all property of the parking authority are hereby declared to be public property of a political subdivision of the State and ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-20 Restriction on alteration of powers
The provisions of this act shall constitute a part of any and all contracts entered into by an authority created hereunder for the benefit and ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-21 Municipal and county co-operation
Any city, town, borough, village, township, or county, located in whole or in part within the area of operation of a parking authority organized pursuant ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-22 Municipal parking authorities
(1) The municipality for which a parking authority shall have been created shall have the power from time to time, by or pursuant to ordinance ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-22.1 Parking enforcement officer
As used in this act, a parking enforcement officer means a person appointed pursuant to this act to exercise the power and authority described in ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-22.2 Qualifications
No person may be appointed as a parking enforcement officer unless the person: a. is a resident of this State during the term of appointment; ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-22.3 Fingerprinting
Every applicant for the position of parking enforcement officer appointed pursuant to this act shall have fingerprints taken, which fingerprints shall be filed with the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-22.4 Eligibility determination
Before any parking enforcement officer is appointed pursuant to this act, the chief of police, or, in the absence of the chief, other chief law ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-22.5 Firearms banned
No parking enforcement officer may carry a firearm while engaged in the actual performance of the officer's official duties. A parking enforcement officer shall be ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-22.6 Training course
No person appointed after the effective date of this act may commence his duties as a parking enforcement officer unless that person has successfully completed ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-22.7 Waiver
The training requirements set forth in section 7 of this act may be waived by the appointing authority for any person eligible to be appointed ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-22.8 Uniform
Every parking enforcement officer prior to the commencement of his duties shall be furnished with a uniform which shall identify the officer's function. The uniform ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-22.9 Insignia
Within six months following the effective date of this act, parking authorities shall issue permanent insignia. The appointing authority may issue temporary insignia for use ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-22.10 Fees
The parking authority may charge a reasonable fee for uniforms supplied pursuant to this act; however, the appointing authority shall not charge a fee for ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-22.11 Redesignation
All persons currently employed under the supervision and direction of a parking authority as special law enforcement officers and who are exercising the power and ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-23 Aid by public bodies
(1) For the purpose of aiding and co-operating in the planning, undertaking, construction or operation of parking projects of an authority, any public body within ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-24 Termination of authority
When any authority shall have finally paid and discharged all bonds or other obligations, which together with interest due thereon, shall have been secured by ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-25 Validity of chapter
Notwithstanding any other evidence of legislative intent, it is hereby declared to be the controlling legislative intent that if any provision of this chapter, or ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:11A-26 Inconsistent laws
All general or special laws, or parts thereof, inconsistent herewith are hereby declared to be inapplicable to the exercise of the powers, duties and obligations ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:12-1 Board of recreation commissioners; appointment, terms.
40:12-1. a. The mayor or other chief executive officer of any municipality may in his or her discretion appoint not less than three ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:12-1.1 Appointment of alternate members to local boards of recreation commissioners
1. The governing body of any municipality or county may, by ordinance or resolution as appropriate, provide for the appointment to the board of recreation ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:12-2 Additional commissioners in certain municipalities
L.1930, c. 154, p. 576, entitled "A supplement to an act entitled "An act concerning playgrounds and recreation places in this state and providing for ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:12-3 Acquisition of property; costs estimated and determined
The board of recreation commissioners may acquire lands for public playgrounds and recreation places, by gift or purchase, and it shall from time to time ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:12-4 Acquisition of property; authorization; condemnation
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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:12-5 Games and exhibitions; admission fee; no charge for children
In order to provide the funds, in whole or in part, necessary to improve, maintain and police the playgrounds or recreation places under its control, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:12-6 Powers of board of recreation commissioners.
40:12-6. The board of recreation commissioners shall have full control over all lands, playgrounds and recreation places acquired or leased under the provisions ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:12-7 Appropriation for current expenses; office
The board or body having control of the finances of each county and municipality having playgrounds and recreation places shall annually fix, determine and appropriate ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:12-8 Costs and expenses; bonds; special fund
The money necessary to pay for lands purchased or condemned for such playgrounds and recreation places, and for providing and equipping the same, from time ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:12-9 Joint action by municipalities or by municipality and school district or county
Any two or more municipalities in any county or any municipality and the coterminous school district or any municipality and county may jointly acquire property ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:12-14 Joint municipal action
40:12-14. Any two or more municipalities may jointly establish, maintain, and improve, or maintain and improve if already established, a public recreation system ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:12-15 Forest reserve as public park
The governing body of any county or municipality may enter into an agreement with the board of conservation and development for the maintenance of a ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:12-15.1 Definitions relative to recreation, conservation, farmland and historic preservation
1. As used in this act: "Acquisition" means the securing of a fee simple or a lesser interest in land, including ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:12-15.2 Submission by county of proposition authorizing annual levy.
2. a. (1) The governing body of any county may submit to the voters of the county in a general or special election ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:12-15.3 Propositions deemed approved by voters of county
3. a. Any county whose voters, prior to the effective date of this act, approved pursuant to P.L.1989, c.30 (C.40:12-16 et seq.) a ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:12-15.4 Lands acquired by county held in trust
4. Lands acquired by a county using revenue raised pursuant to this act shall be held in trust and shall be used exclusively ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:12-15.5 Apportionment by county of amounts raised by taxation
5. Amounts raised by taxation for the purposes of this act shall be apportioned by the county board of taxation among the municipalities ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:12-15.6 Adoption by county of resolution authorizing distribution of monies
6. a. The governing body of any county in which the voters of the county have approved a proposition in accordance with this ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:12-15.7 Submission by municipality of proposition authorizing annual levy.
7. a. (1) The governing body of any municipality may submit to the voters of the municipality in a general or special election ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:12-15.8 Propositions deemed approved by voters of municipality
8. Any municipality whose voters, prior to the effective date of this act, approved pursuant to R.S.40:12-10 et seq. a proposition authorizing the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:12-15.9 Lands acquired by municipality held in trust
9. Lands acquired by a municipality using revenue raised pursuant to this act shall be held in trust and shall be used exclusively ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:12-15.10 Agreement with charitable conservancy, non-profit organization.
3. a. A local government unit may enter into an agreement with a charitable conservancy or other tax exempt nonprofit organization to acquire ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:12-16.1 Adoption of prioritized list of eligible farmland
7. The county agriculture development board of a county in which the voters of the county have approved, in a general or special ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:12-20 Findings, declarations relative to county, municipal parks
1. The Legislature finds and declares that county and municipal parks in the State are deteriorating due to a lack of proper maintenance, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:12-21 Definitions relative to county, municipal parks
2. As used in this act: "Improvement" means, but is not necessarily limited to, construction, reconstruction, stabilization, repair, rehabilitation, renovation, or ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:12-22 Agreements to provide for maintenance, operation or improvement
3. Any local government unit may enter into an agreement with a business entity or nonprofit organization located within or near the local ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:12-23 Provision of equipment, materials, supplies, services
4. A local government unit may provide at no cost to a participating entity such equipment, materials, supplies, or services that the local ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:12-24 Advertising, promotion
5. A local government unit may advertise and promote a park maintenance, operation, or improvement agreement program established by the local government unit ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:12-25 Public recognition of participating entity
6. A local government unit may provide for appropriate public recognition of a participating entity, including, but not limited to: a. ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:12-26 No liability in civil actions, insurance
7. a. Except where permitted by the "New Jersey Tort Claims Act," N.J.S.59:1-1 et seq., no local government unit, or any employee or ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:12-27 Participating entity, not public, State employees
8. While performing park maintenance, operation, or improvement responsibilities pursuant to a park maintenance, operation, or improvement agreement entered into in accordance with ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:12-28 Applicable laws, regulations
9. a. Nothing in this act may be construed to supersede the provisions of R.S.40:12-1 et seq., R.S.40:61-1 et seq., chapters 32 and ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:12-29 Donations, solicitation authorized
1. Subject to all relevant laws, rules or regulations, any county or municipality, or any entity or agency thereof, may solicit and accept donations, by ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:13-1 Contracts for public health service
Any county and one or more municipalities therein, and one or more school districts therein, or any of them may enter into a joint contract ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:13-2 Contract; contents
In order to provide such public health service, the joint contract between any county and one or more municipalities, or one or more school districts ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:13-3 Health society recognized as regular health organization
Where any such contract is made for such public health work by any regularly organized health society, board or association, before the making thereof as ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:13-4 Contract not to exceed three years; advertisement for bids unnecessary
The contract may be for one or more years, not exceeding three, as the governing bodies of such county, municipality and school district may provide ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14-1 Opening and keeping open waterways; bonds; control
Any county or municipality may by ordinance open or keep open any inlet, stream, canal, basin or other public waterway within the limits of or ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14-2 County or municipal appropriations to port or harbor commission
The governing body of any county or municipality may raise, appropriate, set aside and devote money or property to the use of any port, harbor, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14-3 Improvement of waterways; joint contracts.
40:14-3. Whenever any one or more counties and municipalities shall have flowing through their respective boundaries and borders, any inland waterways or navigable ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14-4 Joint action; authorization; plans and specifications.
40:14-4. Whenever the work of increasing the depth or width or both of such inland waterways or navigable stream is contemplated, each county ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14-5 Work done as local or general improvement; notice.
40:14-5. The work authorized and mentioned in chapter 14 of Title 40 of the Revised Statutes (R.S.40:14-1 et seq.) may be done either ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14-6 Work done by contract.
40:14-6. All work to be done pursuant to the provisions of chapter 14 of Title 40 of the Revised Statutes (R.S.40:14-1 et seq.), ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14-7 Bonds; law applicable
Bonds and temporary improvement notes may be issued by each or any of the counties or municipalities joining in such agreement and work, to be ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14-8 Assessments for benefits
If the work herein provided for is done as a local improvement, assessment of benefits shall be made in accordance with the provisions of chapter ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14-9 Individual powers of county or municipality unaffected
Nothing in this article contained shall deprive any county or municipality, from doing any of the work herein provided for, without joining with any other ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14-10 Freeholders may appropriate money for digging channels; bulkheads
The board of chosen freeholders of any county bordering on the ocean may, in its discretion, appropriate a sum of money, not exceeding seventy-five hundred ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14-11 Municipalities may contribute to expense
The governing bodies of any municipalities in or through which such inlet is to be opened, constructed or improved or bordering upon such inlet, may ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14-12 Money voted contingently
The moneys appropriated for such purpose by the municipality may be voted contingently upon the voting of a certain definite sum for that purpose by ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14-13 Borrowing money appropriated; expenditure
When such appropriations shall be made and the money voted, the boards of chosen freeholders and the governing bodies of the municipalities appropriating the same ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14-14 Money raised by taxation
The moneys so appropriated with a sum sufficient to meet the interest thereon shall be included in the next annual tax levy of the county ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14-15 Erosion prevention; bulkheads and structures; expense; resolution
Any county or municipality bordering on the Delaware river may, subject to the provisions of section 12:5-3 of the Revised Statutes, erect and construct bulkheads ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14-16 Authorization to establish; policy
a. Any two or more municipalities within this State, alone, or together with one or more counties, may establish a joint commission for the alleviation ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14-17 Establishment by ordinance or resolution; terms
The establishment of such joint commission shall be by ordinance, in the case of a municipality, and by resolution, in the case of a county. ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14-18 Members; appointment; term of office; alternate representatives; compensation
a. Each municipality and county shall have two members on the commission. b. Each member shall be appointed by the governing body of the municipality ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14-19 Organization; chairman; rules; records
a. The commission shall organize annually and shall elect one of its members to be its chairman. The chairman may be reelected. It may also ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14-20 Advisory members
A commission may invite, as advisory members, representatives of the Department of Environmental Protection, representatives of any county park commission of any participating county, and ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14-21 Appropriations; application for and acceptance of grants in aid; surveys and studies
a. Participating municipalities and counties are hereby authorized to make such appropriations to the commission as may be necessary for the carrying on of the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14-22 Powers and duties
a. Within the limits of the funds available to it, the commission shall have the power to employ the services of such agents, employees, workmen ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14-23 Unauthorized powers
Nothing herein contained shall authorize the acquisition by any commission organized in accordance with this act of any property or interests therein, by condemnation or ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14-24 Individual flood control action by county or municipality
The establishment of any commission in accordance with this act shall in no way impair or diminish the powers of any municipality or county to ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-1 Citation of act
This act shall be known and may be cited as the "sewerage authorities law." L.1946, c. 138, p. 639, s. 1, eff. April 23, 1946. ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-2 Declaration of policy; purpose
It is hereby declared to be in the public interest and to be the policy of the State to foster and promote by all reasonable ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-3 Definitions.
3. As used in this act, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: (1) "Municipality" shall mean ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-4.1 Name change to water reclamation authority, permitted
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, ruleor regulation to the contrary, an authority created pursuant to section 4 of P.L.1946, c.138 ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-5 Powers of sewerage authority
5. (a) The powers of a sewerage authority shall be vested in the members thereof in office from time to time. A majority of the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-6 Sewers; acquisition; operation
(a) The purposes of every sewerage authority shall be the relief of waters in or bordering the State from pollution arising from causes within the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-7 Sewerage authority a public body corporate; powers
Every sewerage authority shall be a public body politic and corporate constituting a political subdivision of the State established as an instrumentality exercising public and ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-7.1 Audit of accounts of sewerage authority annually; filing
It shall be the duty of every "sewerage authority," created pursuant to the act to which this act is a supplement, to cause an annual ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-7.2 Certified copies of bond resolutions and proceedings; filing
Every such "sewerage authority" shall file a certified copy of every bond resolution as finally passed with the Director of the Division of Local Government ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-7.3 Interest on deposits with sewerage authorities
Whenever a sewerage authority requires a person to deposit an amount of money exceeding $5,000.00 for professional services employed by the sewerage authority, for sewerage ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-7.4 Service charge by sewerage authority for returned check
1. a. A sewerage authority created pursuant to the provisions of P.L.1946, c.138 (C.40:14A-1 et seq.) may, by resolution, provide for the imposition of a ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-8 Service charges authorized.
8. (a) Every sewerage authority is hereby authorized to charge and collect rents, rates, fees or other charges (in this act sometimes referred ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-8.1 Definitions; host community benefit
1. a. As used in this act: "Residential property" means any building or part of a building used, to be used or held for use ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-8.2 Establishment of rates or schedules for senior citizens, disabled
1. Any county or municipal sewerage authority or county or municipal utilities authority may establish within its district rates or schedules which provide for a ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-8.3 Reduction in fees by sewerage authority for certain affordable housing projects.
2. a. A county, regional or municipal sewerage authority shall establish within its rates or schedules a 50% reduction in the connection fee ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-8.4 Credit provided by sewerage authority for damage caused by catastrophic event.
2. a. For a unit damaged by a catastrophic event, a county, regional or municipal sewerage authority shall provide, within two years after ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-9 Appropriations by local unit to sewerage authority; construction, financing and operation of sewage facilities by local unit
a. Any local unit shall have power, in the discretion of its governing body, to appropriate moneys for the purposes of the sewerage authority, and ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-10 Bonds; issuance authorized
For the purpose of raising funds to pay the cost of any part of its sewerage system, a sewerage authority shall have power to authorize ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-11 Resolution for issuance of bonds; ordinance; sale of bonds
(a) A bond resolution of a sewerage authority may provide for the issuance of bonds of the local unit or units in accordance with this ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-12 Funding or refunding bonds
(a) A bond resolution of a sewerage authority may provide for and authorize the issuance of bonds of the sewerage authority in accordance with this ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-13 Interim certificates or bonds
After sale of any bonds pursuant to section eleven or section twelve of this act, the sewerage authority shall have power to authorize the execution ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-14 Filing copy of bond resolution; publication of notice; objections
Any sewerage authority may cause a copy of any bond resolution adopted by it to be filed for public inspection in its office and in ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-15 Negotiability of bonds
Any provision of any law to the contrary notwithstanding, any bond or other obligation issued pursuant to this act shall be fully negotiable within the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-16 Provisions authorized in bond resolution
Any bond resolution of a sewerage authority providing for or authorizing the issuance of any bonds may contain provisions, and such sewerage authority, in order ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-17 Series of bonds; default; trustee for holders
(a) The provisions of this section shall be applicable to a series of bonds authorized or issued under this act only if the bond resolution ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-18 Receiver; powers
If a bond resolution of a sewerage authority authorizing or providing for the issuance of the bonds of any series shall contain the provision authorized ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-19 Liability on bonds; exemptions
Neither the members of the sewerage authority nor any person executing bonds issued pursuant to this act shall be liable personally on the bonds by ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-20 Real property; acquisition
Every sewerage authority is hereby empowered, in its own name but for the local unit or units, to acquire by purchase, gift, grant or devise ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-21 Interest on service charges; liens; enforcement
(a) In the event that a service charge of any sewerage authority with regard to any parcel of real property shall not be paid as ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-22 Sale or lease of property by county or municipality to sewerage authority
Any county, by resolution of its governing body, or any municipality, by ordinance of its governing body, or any other person is hereby empowered, without ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-23 Contracts for collection, treatment or disposal of sewage; powers of sewage authority
Any sewerage authority, for the carrying out and effectuation of its purposes, and (a) any of the local units or (b) any other municipality whether ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-24 Sewage and industrial wastes
In order to carry out and effectuate its purposes, any sewerage authority, subject to its contracts with the holders of any bonds, is hereby empowered ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-25 Connections with existing drains and pumping stations
(a) In order to carry out and effectuate its purposes, every sewerage authority is hereby authorized to enter upon and use and connect with any ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-26 Connections with drains serving county and other property; service charges
(a) Each county and municipality within the district, and every person owning or operating any sewer or drain or any system of water distribution serving ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-27 Mortgage or sale of property of authority; limitations; exemption
Neither the sewerage authority nor any local unit shall have power to mortgage, pledge, encumber or otherwise dispose of any part of the sewerage system, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-28 Pollution prohibited; prevention of violations
(a) No county, municipality or person shall discharge, or suffer to be discharged, directly or indirectly into any waters in or bordering a district any ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-29 Construction of other disposal plants prohibited
No sewage disposal plant or other facilities for the collection, treatment or disposal of sewage arising within a district shall be constructed unless the sewerage ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-30 Investments in sewerage authority bonds authorized
Notwithstanding any restriction contained in any other law, the State and all public officers, municipalities, counties, political subdivisions and public bodies, and agencies thereof, all ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-31 Taxation exemption
Every sewerage system and all other property of a sewerage authority are hereby declared to be public property of a political subdivision of the State ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-31.1 Eligibility for annual host municipality benefit; calculation
1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, a municipality with a population greater than 6,150 ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-31.2 Payment of benefit
2. a. An authority subject to the provisions of this act shall annually pay the appropriate municipality the full amount of the benefit ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-31.3 Benefit constitutes personal obligation of authority
3. The host municipality benefit provided for under this act shall constitute a personal obligation of the appropriate authority, and shall ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-32 Pledge of State to bondholders
The State of New Jersey does hereby pledge to and covenant and agree with the holders of any bonds issued pursuant to a bond resolution ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-33 Depositary bonds required of banking institutions
All banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks, investment companies and other persons carrying on a banking business are hereby authorized to give to any sewerage ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-34 Repeal section
Article three of chapter sixty-three of Title 40, Municipalities and Counties, of the Revised Statutes (R.S. s. 40:63-140 et seq.), is hereby repealed. L.1946, c. ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-35 Liberal construction; independent authority
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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-36 Jurisdiction, rights of State agencies unaffected.
36. Nothing herein contained shall in any way affect or limit the jurisdiction or rights of the State Department of Health and ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-37 Severability clause
If any section, subsection, clause or provision of this act shall be adjudged unconstitutional or to be ineffective in whole or in part, to the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-38 Findings, declarations relative to utility improvements for sewers
1. The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: a. It is necessary for the protection of the public health ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-39 Definitions relative to utility improvements for sewers
2. As used in sections 3 through 8 of P.L.1999, c.11 (C.40:14A-40 through C.40:14A-45), "developer" means the legal or beneficial owner or ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-40 Conditions of final site plan approval
3. a. Before recording of final subdivision plats or as a condition of final site plan approval, the sewerage authority may require and ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-41 Payments to professionals for services rendered to sewerage authority
4. a. The chief financial officer of a sewerage authority shall make all of the payments to professionals for services rendered to the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-42 Maintenance, performance guarantee; cash requirement
5. A sewerage authority shall not require that a maintenance guarantee required pursuant to section 3 of P.L.1999, c.11 (C.40:14A-40) be in ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-43 Disputes by applicant of charges made by professional; appeal
6. a. An applicant shall notify in writing the sewerage authority with copies to the chief financial officer and the professional whenever the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-44 Estimate of cost of installation of improvements
7. The cost of the installation of improvements for the purposes of section 3 of P.L.1999, c.11 (C.40:14A-40) shall be estimated by ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-45 Acceptance of performance, maintenance guarantee which is irrevocable letter of credit
8. The sewerage authority shall, for the purposes of section 3 of P.L.1999, c.11 (C.40:14A-40), accept a performance guarantee or maintenance guarantee ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-1 Citation
This act shall be known and may be cited as the "municipal and county utilities authorities law." L.1957, c. 183, p. 634, s. 1, eff. ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-2 Policy
It is hereby declared to be in the public interest and to be the policy of the State to foster and promote by all reasonable ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-3 Definitions.
3. As used in this act, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: (1) "Municipality" shall mean ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-4 Utilities authorities
a. Any governing body may, in the case of a county by resolution or ordinance duly adopted, or in the case of a municipality by ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-4.1 Name change to water reclamation authority, permitted
4. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, a utilities authority created pursuant to sections 4, 5 ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-5 Membership of joint municipal utilities authorities; staggered terms; vacancies
5. The governing bodies of any two or more municipalities, the areas of which together comprise an integral body of territory, may, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-6 Reorganization of sewerage authority
a. The governing body of any municipality which shall have created a sewerage authority may, by ordinance duly adopted, provide and determine that said sewerage ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-7 Filing of recognition ordinance or resolution
A copy of each resolution or ordinance for the creation of a municipal authority or resolution or ordinance for the reorganization of a sewerage authority ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-8 Filing of resolution appointing authority member
A copy of each resolution appointing any member of a municipal authority adopted pursuant to this act, duly certified by the appropriate officer of the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-9 Single authority
No governing body of any county which may create any municipal authority pursuant to this act or which records the reorganization of any preexisting sewerage ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-10 Limited area
In the event that prior to the creation of a municipal authority of a county the governing body of any municipality located in said county ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-11 Election of municipalities within county to become part of county district
Within 10 days after the filing in the office of the Secretary of State of a certified copy of a resolution for the creation of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-12 Separations from districts
The governing body of any municipality constituting less than the whole of the district of a municipal authority may at any time adopt an ordinance ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-13 Dissolution of authority
The governing body of any local unit which has created or caused the organization of a municipal authority pursuant to section 4 or section 6 ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-13.1 New sewerage system authorized
Notwithstanding the provisions of P.L. 1957, c. 183 (C. 40:14B-1 et seq.) or any other law to the contrary, the governing body of any municipality ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-14 Powers vested in members, quorum; minutes, approval
14. a. The powers of a municipal authority shall be vested in the members thereof in office from time to time. A majority of the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-15 Conflicting interests
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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-16 Term of member; removal; hearing
Each member of a municipal authority shall hold office for the term for which he was appointed and until his successor has been appointed and ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-17 Compensation to members
A municipal authority may reimburse its members for necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties. The resolution, ordinance or parallel ordinances for the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-18 Employees of municipal authorities
Every municipal authority, upon the first appointment of its members and thereafter on or after February 1 in each year, shall annually elect from among ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-19 Purposes, acquisition of facilities; alternative electrical energy.
19. (a) The purposes of every municipal authority shall be (1) the provision and distribution of an adequate supply of water for the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-20 Powers
Every municipal authority shall be a public body politic and corporate constituting a political subdivision of the State established as an instrumentality exercising public and ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-20.1 Interest on deposits with municipal authorities
Whenever a municipal authority requires a person to deposit an amount of money exceeding $5,000.00 for professional services employed by the municipal authority, for municipal ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-20.2 Service charge by utility authority for returned check
2. a. A utilities authority created pursuant to the provisions of P.L.1957, c.183 (C.40:14B-1 et seq.) may, by resolution, provide for the imposition of a ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-20.3 Use of municipal utilities authority funds for joint acquisition of land for recreation, conservation purposes.
1. a. A municipal utilities authority may expend any of its funds for the joint acquisition of land for recreation and conservation purposes ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-21 Water service charges.
21. a. Every municipal authority is hereby authorized to charge and collect rents, rates, fees or other charges (in this act sometimes referred ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-21.1 Hydroelectric power; sale at wholesale; authority to charge and collect rents, rates, fees or other charges
Every municipal authority is hereby authorized to charge and collect rents, rates, fees or other charges for sale of hydroelectric power at wholesale. L.1980, c. ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-22 Sewerage service charges.
22. Every municipal authority is hereby authorized to charge and collect rents, rates, fees or other charges (in this act sometimes referred to ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-22.1 Solid waste service charges
15. Every municipal authority is hereby authorized to charge and collect rents, rates, fees or other charges (in this act sometimes referred to as "solid ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-22.2 Reduced, abated rents, rates, fees for senior citizens, disabled
1. Any municipal or county authority may establish within its district rates or schedules which provide for a reduction or total abatement of the rents, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-22.3 Utilities authority, reduced fees for certain affordable housing projects.
5. a. A county, regional or municipal utilities authority shall establish within its rates or schedules a 50% reduction in the connection fee ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-22.4 Credit provided by utilities authority for damage caused by catastrophic event.
5. a. For a unit damaged by a catastrophic event, a county, regional or municipal utilities authority shall provide, within two years after ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-23 Municipal authorities
Every municipal authority shall prescribe and from time to time when necessary revise a schedule of all its service charges, which may provide a single ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-23.1 Definitions; host community benefit.
2. a. As used in this section: "Residential property" means any building or part of a building used, to be used ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-24 Appropriation of funds by local unit; construction, financing and operation of facilities by local unit
a. Any local unit shall have power, in the discretion of its governing body, to appropriate moneys for the purposes of the municipal authority, and ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-25 Bond resolution
For the purpose of raising funds to pay the cost of any part of its utility system or for the purpose of funding or refunding ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-26 Issuance of bonds
Upon adoption of a bond resolution, a municipal authority shall have power to incur indebtedness, borrow money and issue its bonds for the purpose of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-27 Sale of bonds
Bonds of a municipal authority may be sold by the municipal authority at public or private sale at such price or prices as the municipal ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-28 Publication of bond resolution; limitation on actions
Any municipal authority may cause a copy of any bond resolution adopted by it to be filed for public inspection in its office and in ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-29 Negotiability of bonds
Any provision of any law to the contrary notwithstanding, any bond or other obligation issued pursuant to this act shall be fully negotiable within the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-30 Agreements with holders of bonds
Any bond resolution of a municipal authority providing for or authorizing the issuance of any bonds may contain provisions, and such municipal authority, in order ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-31 Bond provisions
(a) If the bond resolution of a municipal authority authorizing or providing for the issuance of a series of its bonds shall provide in substance ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-32 Receivers
If the bond resolution of a municipal authority authorizing or providing for the issuance of a series of its bonds shall provide in substance that ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-33 Liability on bonds
Neither the members of the municipal authority nor any person executing bonds issued pursuant to this act shall be liable personally on the bonds by ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-34 Eminent domain
Every municipal authority is hereby empowered, in its own name but for the local unit or units, to acquire by purchase, gift, grant or devise ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-40 Additional powers
In addition to other powers conferred by this act or by any other law, and not in limitation thereof, every municipal authority, in connection with ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-41 Interest on unpaid service charges
In the event that a service charge of any municipal authority with regard to any parcel of real property shall not be paid as and ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-42 Lien for service charge
In the event that a service charge of any municipal authority with regard to any parcel of real property owned by any person other than ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-43 Failure to pay service charge; shut off of service
In the event that any service charge of any municipal authority with regard to any parcel of real property shall not be paid as and ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-44 Failure to pay sewer service charge; shut off of water
In the event that a sewer service charge of any municipal authority with regard to any parcel of real property shall not be paid as ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-45 Enforcement of service charges
The collector or other officer of every municipality charged by law with the duty of enforcing municipal liens on real property shall enforce, with and ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-46 Civil action to recover unpaid service charge
In the event that any service charge of a municipal authority shall not be paid as and when due, the unpaid balance thereof and all ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-47 Cumulative and concurrent rights and remedies
All rights and remedies granted by this act for the collection and enforcement of service charges shall be cumulative and concurrent. L.1957, c. 183, p. ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-48 Grant of utilities to authority
Any county, by resolution of its governing body, or any municipality, by ordinance of its governing body, or any other person is hereby empowered, without ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-49 Contracts for treatment and disposal of sewage or solid waste
Any municipal authority for the carrying out and effectuation of its purposes, and (a) any of the local units (b) any other municipality whether within ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-50 Effectuating terms of contracts
In order to carry out and effectuate its purposes, any municipal authority, subject to its contracts with the holders of any bonds, is hereby empowered ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-51 Connections with or closing off other public facilities
In order to carry out and effectuate its purposes, every municipal authority is hereby authorized to enter upon and connect with any existing public drains, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-52 Use of public places
In order to carry out and effectuate its purposes, every municipal authority is hereby authorized to construct, maintain and operate its utility system along, over, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-53 Availability of maps, plans, specifications, records, books and accounts
Each county and municipality within the district, and every person owning or operating any sewer or drain or any system of water distribution serving 3 ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-54 Payment of service charges owed by public bodies
Each county, municipality and other public body shall promptly pay to any municipal authority all service charges which the municipal authority may charge to it, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-55 Connections with sewerage system required
Each county, municipality and other person owning or operating any sewer or drain which serves 3 or more parcels of real property in the district ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-56 Reports by water distributors within district
Each county, municipality and other person owning or operating any system of water distribution serving 3 or more parcels of real property in the district ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-57 Stoppage of water by water distributor
Each county and municipality owning or operating any system of water distribution serving 3 or more parcels of real property in the district shall, and ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-58 Disposal or encumbrance of utility
Neither the municipal authority nor any local unit shall have power to mortgage, pledge, encumber or otherwise dispose of any part of the utility system, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-59 Exemption from levy
All property of a municipal authority shall be exempt from levy and sale by virtue of an execution and no execution or other judicial process ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-60 Discharge of sewage; discharges into sewage, solid waste or water systems; violations; injunction
(a) No county, municipality or person shall discharge or suffer to be discharged directly or indirectly into any waters in or bordering a district any ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-61 Approval of sewage disposal plants within district
No sewage disposal plant or other facilities for the collection, treatment or disposal of sewage arising within a district shall be constructed unless the municipal ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-62 Investment in bonds of authority
Notwithstanding any restriction contained in any other law, the State and all public officers, municipalities, counties, political subdivisions and public bodies, and agencies thereof, all ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-63 Tax exemptions
Every utility system and all other property of a municipal authority are hereby declared to be public property of a political subdivision of the State ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-64 Guarantee of vested rights of bondholders
The State of New Jersey does hereby pledge to and covenant and agree with the holders of any bonds issued pursuant to a bond resolution ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-65 Undertakings for deposits of municipal authority
All banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks, investment companies and other persons carrying on a banking business are hereby authorized to give to any municipal ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-66 Annual audit
Each municipal authority shall cause an annual audit of its accounts to be made, and for this purpose it shall employ a registered municipal accountant ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-67 Filing of copy of bond resolution
Each municipal authority shall file a copy of each bond resolution adopted by it with the Director of the Division of Local Government in the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-68 Construction of act.
68. This act shall be construed liberally to effectuate the legislative intent and as complete and independent authority for the performance of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-69 Severability
If any section, subsection, clause or provision of this act shall be adjudged unconstitutional or to be ineffective in whole or in part, to the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-71 Findings, declarations relative to municipal review, approval of plans for utility improvements
9. The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: a. It is necessary for the protection of the public health ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-72 Definitions relative to municipal review, approval of plans for utility improvements
10. As used in sections 11 through 16 of P.L.1999, c.11 (C.40:14B-73 through C.40:14-B-78), "developer" means the legal or beneficial owner or owners ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-73 Conditions of final site plan approval
11. a. Before recording of final subdivision plats or as a condition of final site plan approval, the municipal authority may require and ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-74 Payments to professionals for services rendered to municipal authority
12. a. The chief financial officer of a municipal authority shall make all of the payments to professionals for services rendered to the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-75 Maintenance, performance guarantee; cash requirement
13. A municipal authority shall not require that a maintenance guarantee required pursuant to section 11 of P.L.1999, c.11 (C.40:14B-73) be in ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-77 Estimate of cost of installation of improvements
15. The cost of the installation of improvements for the purposes of section 11 of P.L.1999, c.11 (C.40:14B-73) shall be estimated by ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:14B-78 Acceptance of performance, maintenance guarantee which is irrevocable letter of credit
16. The municipal authority shall, for the purposes of section 11 of P.L.1999, c.11 (C.40:14B-73), accept a performance guarantee or maintenance guarantee which ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:16-1 Construction of subtitle favorably to counties
In construing the provisions of this subtitle, all courts shall construe the same most favorably to counties. ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:16-2 Tenure of office unaffected
Nothing in this subtitle contained shall be construed to affect the term of office of any officer of the county, or any member of the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:18-1 Corporate title; boundaries unaffected
The corporate title of the several counties shall be "county of (name of county)" . The inhabitants of each of the several counties shall be ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:18-2 County vested with all property; proceedings unaffected
Every county, by its corporate name, shall succeed to and become vested with all property, real and personal, now held by the county or its ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:18-3 Corporate powers; acquisition and sale of property
Every county shall have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, have a common seal, and purchase, acquire, lease, hold, let and convey real and ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:18-4 Acts creating counties and affecting the boundaries thereof
The following acts creating counties, and establishing or otherwise affecting the boundaries thereof are hereby saved from repeal: 1. Rev.1877, pp. 198, 199, s.s. 1 ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:18-4.1 Camden, Atlantic and Gloucester counties; boundary lines
The boundary line between the counties of Camden, Atlantic and Gloucester, between the points hereinafter mentioned is hereby fixed and shall hereafter be stated and ...

New Jersey Statutes 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. ...

New Jersey Statutes 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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 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. ...

New Jersey Statutes 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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 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, ...

New Jersey Statutes 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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 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, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:19-9 Resubmission
A vote upon such question shall not be taken oftener than once in five years in the same county. ...

New Jersey Statutes 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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-1 Board of chosen freeholders
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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-1.3 Administrative code
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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-9 Nonpartisan ballot box; transfers
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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-12 Ballots; form and content; sample ballots
The ballots to be used for the submission of this question at the presidential primaries shall be provided by the same officer and in the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-13 Nonpartisan poll book; ballots numbered
There shall be provided for the use of the boards of registry and election an additional book, to be known as the "nonpartisan book" , ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-14 Submission at general election
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 an election for ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-15 Ballot; form and content; counting
The county clerk shall cause the public question to be printed on the official and sample ballots for the general election, in substantially the following ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-16 Notice of election
The county clerk and the various municipal clerks shall give notice of the election by posting and publishing notice thereof in the manner required for ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-17 Eligibility of voters
All voters qualified to vote at the general election shall be entitled to vote on the public question and the election officers shall count the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-18 Results of election; return and canvassing
The district boards of registry and elections shall make returns of the election held under sections 40:20-8 to 40:20-13 of this Title in the case ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-19 Certain counties governed hereby
Any county that shall have heretofore adopted the provisions of an act entitled "An act to reorganize the government of counties of the first class ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-20 Membership; number; increase or decrease; proposition; submission to voters; petition; effective date
The board of chosen freeholders in each county shall consist of that number of members authorized for the county immediately prior to the effective date ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-20a Terms of additional members
In any county in which 2 additional members are to be elected to the board of chosen freeholders as required by this amendatory and supplementary ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-20.4 Proposition to change term of office
Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, in any county, other than a county having adopted a form of government authorized under ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-20.5 Election under adopted proposition
In the event of a favorable vote on a proposition submitted pursuant to the provisions of section 6 of this amendatory and supplementary act, the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-21 First election; terms of members first elected
At the first election in each county adopting sections 40:20-20 to 40:20-35 of this title the members of the boards of chosen freeholders shall be ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-22 Additional members in certain cases
If any county shall become entitled to a board of chosen freeholders consisting of more members than that to which it is at the time ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-23 Election; term; organization
The chosen freeholders shall be elected by the voters of each county at the general election therein and, except as otherwise provided as to those ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-25 Expiration of terms of existing members
The terms of office of all chosen freeholders in any county then in office shall expire at the annual stated meeting next succeeding the election ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-26 Terms of officers; exceptions
40:20-26. The terms of office of all officers then holding office under appointment by the board of chosen freeholders existing in any county at the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-27 Existing laws continued
All laws, public, general, special or private, relating to boards of chosen freeholders in force in any county at the time sections 40:20-20 to 40:20-35 ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-28 Referendum; submission to voters
Except as hereinafter provided the provisions of sections 40:20-20 to 40:20-35 of this title shall be inoperative in any county until adopted by the legal ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-29 Petition for submission; sufficiency; filing
In order to require the submission of the question of the adoption or rejection of sections 40:20-20 to 40:20-35 of this title at a general ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-30 Petition; time for filing; notice of election
The petition shall be so filed at least ninety days before the general election. Notice of the submission of the question shall be included in, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-31 Ballot; form and content
The question shall be printed upon the official ballots to be used at the general election in substantially the following form: "To vote upon the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-32 Conduct of election
All elections held under the provisions of sections 40:20-20 to 40:20-35 of this title shall be conducted in accordance with the laws relating to elections, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-33 Vote required for adoption
If a majority of the votes cast on the question in any county are in favor of the adoption of sections 40:20-20 to 40:20-35 of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-34 Resubmission
In any county where the adoption of sections 40:20-20 to 40:20-35 of this title shall have been submitted to the voters for acceptance or rejection, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-35 Certain counties governed hereby
Nothing in sections 40:20-20 to 40:20-34 of this title contained shall be construed to require a reorganization of the board of chosen freeholders of any ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-35.1 Number of members; election; terms
The board of chosen freeholders in all counties governed by article 3, chapter 20 of Title 40 of the Revised Statutes as of January 1, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-35.2 Organization
(a) Each board of chosen freeholders constituted and elected under the provisions of section 1 of this act, shall organize at the first annual stated ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-35.3 Expiration of terms of existing members; filling of existing vacancies
(a) All members of existing boards of chosen freeholders in counties subject to the provisions of this act shall hold office until 12 o'clock noon ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-35.4 Compensation
Each member of a board of chosen freeholders in counties subject to the provisions of this act shall receive an annual salary in an amount ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-35.11a Vacancy on board of chosen freeholders eligible to be filled by election; exceptions.
2. a. When any vacancy occurs on the board of chosen freeholders otherwise than by expiration of term, it shall be filled by ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-35.11b Selection of interim successor
In the case of a vacancy occurring with respect to a member of the board of chosen freeholders who was elected as the candidate of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-35.11c Nomination of candidate from floor
Members of the political party's county committee who are empowered to select a candidate for the vacated office shall only nominate a candidate from the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-35.12 Vacancy in offices of all or majority of members
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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-35.13 Appointees; qualifications
Any person appointed by the board of chosen freeholders or the Governor to fill a vacancy either for the unexpired term or temporarily, shall have ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-71 Director; selection; substitute
Every board of chosen freeholders shall, at each annual meeting, elect one of its members to preside at its meetings. He shall be called the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-71.1 Designation of another freeholder
Whenever the director, president or chairperson, as the case may be, of the board of chosen freeholders in any county is specified as a member ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-71.2 Appointments by county executive
Nothing in this act shall be construed to modify the authority of any county executive to make any appointment to any county board. L. 1985, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-72 Members of boards of chosen freeholders not governed by optional county charter law; director
The salaries of the members of the boards of chosen freeholders in counties not governed by the "Optional County Charter Law," P.L.1972, c. 154 (C. ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-73 Compensation of freeholders not paid an annual salary
In counties where the members of the board of chosen freeholders are not paid an annual salary, each member shall receive not less than ten ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-74 Salaries of freeholders not paid on per diem basis
In counties where the members of the board of chosen freeholders are not compensated upon a per diem basis, and in counties not governed by ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-74.1 Resolution fixing compensation; publication before passage
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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-74.2 Hearing on resolution
At the time and place so stated in such publication, or at any other time and place to which the meeting for the further consideration ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-74.3 Second reading or amendment
At or after the hearing, the board of chosen freeholders may proceed to give the resolution a second reading or amend it, and thereupon pass ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-74.4 Publication of resolution upon passage
Upon passage, every such resolution, together with a notice of the date of passage or approval, or both, shall be published at least once in ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-74.5 Majority required for passage
No such resolution shall be passed or approved unless a majority of all the members of the board of chosen freeholders vote in favor of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-74.6 Compensation not changed unless fixed by resolution
Nothing in this act shall be construed to affect or change the amount of salary or other compensation paid, pursuant to the provisions of law ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-75 Annual meetings
40:20-75. The stated annual meeting of the boards of chosen freeholders shall be held at the place of holding the Superior Court in the respective ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-76 Regular meetings
Regular meetings of the board of chosen freeholders shall be held at such times and places as the board, by resolution, shall determine. ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-77 Special meetings; how called; notice
Special meetings shall be held on the written or printed order of the director, or of any three members of the board, specifying the business ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-78 Penalty for clerk's failure to call meeting
If the clerk upon receipt of a proper order shall refuse or neglect to call or convene any special meeting of the board, he shall ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-79 Adjournment of meeting
In case a sufficient number of the members of the board of chosen freeholders to constitute a quorum shall not attend at the time and ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-80 Committees designated
The board of chosen freeholders may by resolution designate all committees thereof, define their duties and determine the number of members of which any committee ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-81 Director to appoint members of committees
The director of the board of chosen freeholders shall name the members of all committees of the board, except where otherwise provided by law. He ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-82 Investigations by committees; member may administer oath
Whenever the board of chosen freeholders shall have appointed a committee of its members upon any matter within its jurisdiction, or to examine any officer ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-83 Subpoenas; testimony
The board of chosen freeholders and any committee thereof may subpoena witnesses and take testimony with respect to any lawful matter of inquiry by such ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:20-84 Penalty for perjury
Any person who shall willfully and corruptly testify falsely to any matter upon oath administered by any member of the committee, upon such investigation or ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-1 Books and stationery for county officers
The board of chosen freeholders may provide and furnish the books, blanks and stationery necessary for use by the courts, county clerk, surrogate, register and ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-2 Printing for county superintendent of schools
The printing required in the office of the county superintendent of schools shall be paid for as other county printing, but the sum expended for ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-3 Exhibition of county products
The board of chosen freeholders may prepare, maintain and display any exhibition of the products and industries of the county, or any poultry or agricultural ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-4 Acceptance of contributions for county improvements; agreements for
The board of chosen freeholders, when contemplating the making of any improvement or the doing of any work, may accept any sum contributed by any ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-5 Advertise advantages of county
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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-5.1 Office or department to study economic resources and encourage economic development of county; establishment
The board of chosen freeholders of any county may, by resolution, establish an appropriate office, department, committee, board or other agency having the following purposes: ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-5.2 Assignment of activities and functions
When created, the board of chosen freeholders shall assign such activities and functions to whatever county office, board, department or agency it deems feasible, whether ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-5.3 Appropriation
The board of chosen freeholders is authorized to appropriate, at its discretion, in any authorized manner, sufficient money to permit the activities and functions authorized ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-5.4 Appointment of advisory committee
The board of chosen freeholders is authorized to appoint an advisory committee or commission composed of residents of New Jersey representative of various county economic ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-5.5 Conduct of activities requiring real estate broker's license prohibited
This act shall not authorize any county agency to conduct activities requiring a license as a real estate broker. L.1962, c. 124, s. 5, eff. ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-5.6 Liberal construction
This act shall be liberally construed. L.1962, c. 124, s. 6, eff. July 25, 1962. ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6 Membership in New Jersey Association of Counties and County Officers Association of New Jersey
A county may agree to contribute and expend in any 1 year, for membership in and the service of the New Jersey Association of Counties ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.1 Summer camps for children in populous counties
The provisions of this section 40:23-6.1 of this Title shall apply to counties which have or may hereafter have a population, as ascertained by the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.2 Camp for undernourished and underprivileged children; commission or board
When the board of chosen freeholders has determined to establish a camp for undernourished and underprivileged children of the county and has acquired a site ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.3 County camp commission and managers of camp
The commission shall be composed of five citizens of the county, at least two of whom shall be women, to be appointed by the board ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.4 Members of commission; terms; vacancy
Members shall hold their offices for five years except that the first appointments shall be respectively for one, two, three, four and five years, which ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.5 No compensation to members; expenses
Members shall receive no compensation for their services but shall be allowed their actual and necessary expenses, on the approval of the commission, all of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.6 Officers
The commission shall elect from among its members a president, vice-president and secretary-treasurer. L.1940, c. 24, s. 5, eff. March 30, 1940. ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.7 Powers and duties of board of managers
The board of managers of the camp shall have charge of all matters relating to the government, discipline, contracts, and fiscal concerns of the camp, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.8 Equipment and maintenance of camp
The commission shall so equip and maintain the camp as to provide proper heat and all furniture, materials and supplies, recreational, medical and otherwise, as ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.9 Meetings of commission; budget
The commission shall meet regularly once each month and at other times as may be necessary or as may by rule be provided. The commission ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.10 Appropriations
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. ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.11 Bills and accounts including salaries and wages
The commission shall certify all bills and accounts including salaries and wages and transmit them to the board of chosen freeholders of the county which ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.12 Employees and assistant employees
The commission shall appoint such employees and assistant employees as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter. L.1940, c. 24, s. ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.13 Employees subject to rules and regulations
Employees shall be subject to such rules and regulations in the discharge of their duties as may be made by the commission. L.1940, c. 24, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.14 Tenure of employees
All employees of the commission shall hold their office or employment at the pleasure of the commission. L.1940, c. 24, s. 13, eff. March 30, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.15 Salaries of employees
The commission shall fix the salaries of all employees within the limits of the appropriation made therefor by the board of chosen freeholders and such ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.16 Secretary to commission
The commission may appoint a secretary who shall be responsible for the keeping of all minutes and records of the commission. The secretary shall also ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.17 Care and treatment of veterans in county hospitals
Boards of chosen freeholders are authorized to enter into contracts with the United States Government, or any of its agencies through the proper Federal officials, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.18 Necessary funds; appropriation
To meet any necessary expenses incurred by any board of chosen freeholders under the provisions of this act, it shall be lawful for such board ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.19 Use of funds not otherwise dedicated; borrowing money
If, during the fiscal year in which this act shall be adopted, upon the commencement of the care and treatment of such soldiers, sailors, marines ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.20 Counties over 400,000 other than counties of first class; no fee for building permit for county buildings
No county having a population in excess of four hundred thousand inhabitants other than a county of the first class, or the board of chosen ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.22 Museum facilities and services; maintenance and support
The board of chosen freeholders of any county or the governing body of any municipality may provide by contract, and appropriate funds for the support ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.23 Distribution of federal surplus food commodities; contracts for sharing cost
Every board of chosen freeholders is authorized to enter into a contract or contracts with the municipalities within such county for sharing the cost of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.24 Appropriating or raising funds for surplus food distribution
It shall be lawful for each such board of chosen freeholders to appropriate and raise funds annually for the purposes aforesaid in the same manner ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.25 Payment of costs of surplus food distribution by board of freeholders
Nothing in this act shall be construed as requiring, in the absence of any such contract, any such board of chosen freeholders to pay any ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.26 Contracts with municipalities for services or facilities by counties over 500,000 population
The board of chosen freeholders of any county having a population in excess of 500,000, by resolution, may provide for the entering into a contract ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.27 Term of contract; advertisement for bids
Any such contract shall be and remain in force for such term not exceeding 10 years as shall be provided therein and no provision of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.28 Contract; required provisions
Any such contract by any county and 1 or more municipalities shall provide in detail the extent, manner and type of services or facilities to ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.29 Appropriation of funds; purchase or lease of machinery and equipment; acquisition of lands
Any county and municipality entering into a contract authorized by this act may appropriate the necessary funds to provide for the carrying out thereof. Any ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.30 Establishment and maintenance of program for rehabilitation of youthful offenders in counties of first class over 800,000 population
The board of chosen freeholders of any county of the first class having a population in excess of 800,000 may establish and maintain a program ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.31 Appropriation of funds
The board of chosen freeholders of such county may appropriate funds to carry out a program established and maintained pursuant to this act. L.1964, c. ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.32 Construction of additional entrances and exits to highway projects
The board of chosen freeholders of a county or the governing body of a municipality is authorized to contract with the New Jersey Highway Authority ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.33 Appropriation of funds to pay for additional entrances and exits to highway projects
The board of chosen freeholders or the governing body of a municipality entering into a contract pursuant to section 1 of this act is authorized ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.38 Legislative intent
The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: (a) There are nearly 700,000 people over the age of 65 in this State, and that these citizens, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.39 Establishment of county office on aging by resolution
The board of chosen freeholders of any county may be resolution establish a county office on aging. L.1970, c. 248, s. 2, eff. Jan. 1, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.40 Powers and duties
Each county office on aging shall have the power and duty and it shall be the function of said office to: (a) Maintain a central ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.41 Executive director; appointment; qualifications
The board of chosen freeholders shall appoint an executive director, who shall be a person qualified by training and experience to direct the work of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.42 Receipt and expenditure of moneys
The board of chosen freeholders may receive and expend moneys from the State, Federal Government or private individuals, corporations or associations thereof, to meet the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.43 Appropriations and payments of state aid
There shall be appropriated and paid annually to each county office on aging, subject to the approval of the Commissioner of the Department of Community ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.44 Rules and regulations by director of division on aging
The Director of the Division on Aging shall issue and promulgate rules and regulations for the proper control and management of activities of the county ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.45 Lands of county or county park commission; use as training grounds for firemen or police
The board of chosen freeholders of any county or county park commission may, by resolution, make available any lands owned or leased by said county ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.46 Operation and improvement of properties for training purposes; appropriation and expenditure of funds
The board of chosen freeholders or county park commission may from time to time raise, appropriate and expend such sums of money as it may ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.47 Office of consumer affairs; establishment by county or municipality; employees
A county, by resolution or ordinance, as the case may be, or a municipality, by ordinance, may create and establish an office of consumer affairs ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.48 Powers
Offices created hereunder shall have the following powers: a. Those powers granted to the Attorney General by P.L.1960, c. 39 (C. 56:8-1 et seq.) and ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.49 Office of consumer affairs in county or municipality established prior to and in conformity with this act; validation of acts and proceedings
All acts and things done or authorized by any county or municipality within the powers granted by this act prior to its enactment are hereby ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.50 Surplus and surface waters on railroad property; construction of works to control by county
Whenever a railroad company shall not properly construct and maintain on its property in any county any structures, ditches, watercourses, dykes, dams, and such other ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.52 Acceptable forms of payment for road opening permits.
1. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, whenever the governing body of any county shall require the provision of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-6.53 Contract for collection of delinquent fees, fines.
37. The governing body of any county may enter into a contract with a private agency or firm for the purpose of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-7 Power to raise money by taxation
The board of chosen freeholders may raise by taxation, in the method prescribed by law, all money necessary to pay for any improvement or property ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-8 Appropriations to Civil War organizations; purposes
Any county may make appropriations to a post of the Grand Army of the Republic, and if there be no such post in the county ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-8.1 Appropriations for observance of Memorial Day
It shall be lawful for the board of chosen freeholders of any county, and they are hereby authorized and empowered so to do, to make ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-8.2a Junior college; appropriations in counties over 300,000
It shall be lawful for the board of chosen freeholders of a county having a population in excess of 300,000 and they are hereby authorized ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-8.3 Protecting roads against erosion by tidewater
Any county of the sixth class may expend any sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00), in any one year, for the protection of county ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-8.4 Blood and its derivatives; contributions for collection and distribution authorized
Boards of chosen freeholders are authorized to contribute funds, in amounts to be determined by such boards, for the establishment, equipment, maintenance and conduct of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-8.5 Appropriations for blood collection purposes; borrowing money
It shall be lawful for such boards to appropriate and raise funds annually for the purposes aforesaid, in the same manner as appropriations are made ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-8.6 Appropriations annually for expenses
To meet any necessary expenses incurred by any board of chosen freeholders under the provisions of this act, it shall be lawful for such board ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-8.7 Appropriations during year when blood collection act is adopted--borrowing money
If, during the fiscal year in which this act shall be adopted, upon the establishment of such program, any board of chosen freeholders shall have ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-8.8 Appropriations annually for children's homes, etc.
The board of chosen freeholders of any county of this State wherein any child or children shall have been or may hereafter be lawfully committed ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-8.9 Volunteer fire companies; appropriation to aid; uniforms
The board of chosen freeholders of any county may raise, appropriate and expend such sums of money not exceeding $10,000.00 in any 1 year, as ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-8.11 Mentally retarded, brain injured or mentally ill persons; appropriation to aid
The board of chosen freeholders of any county may appropriate annually to any approved, privately operated, nonprofit organization whose services are nonsectarian, funds for the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-8.13 County firemen's association; contribution
The board of chosen freeholders of any county may contribute to a county firemen's association within the county a sum not to exceed $25,000.00 in ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-8.14 Nonprofit child care centers or committees or councils coordinating child care; annual appropriation of funds by counties or municipalities
The board of chosen freeholders of any county and the governing body of any municipality may appropriate annually funds for the support of nonprofit child ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-8.15 Contract as basis for appropriation
Any appropriation made pursuant to section 1 shall be made pursuant to a contract between the governing body of said county or municipality and the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-8.16 County facilities leased by nonprofit or charitable association; reimbursement of costs of renovation
Any county may appropriate an amount not to exceed $250,000.00 for payment to a nonprofit or charitable association of all or part of any costs ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-8.17 Private nonprofit camps for emotionally maladjusted or physically undernourished children; authorization for appropriations
The governing body of any county or municipality may appropriate annually to any privately-operated, nonprofit organization, whose services are nonsectarian and interracial, funds for the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-8.18 Community action programs defined
As used in this act: "Community action programs" are programs operated within counties or municipalities by public, or private nonprofit, agencies or organizations and established ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-8.19 Appropriation and distribution by county or municipality to agency or organization maintaining community action programs
The governing body of any county or municipality may annually appropriate and distribute to any public, or private nonprofit, agency or organization funds to defray ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-8.20 Continuance after expiration of authorizing legislation
Such appropriation and distribution may at the discretion of the governing body continue beyond the expiration of the Federal "Economic Opportunity Act of 1964" or ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-8.21 Cooley's anemia; promotion of public awareness, referral service for testing and expenses incidental to diagnosis and treatment; appropriations
The governing body of a county may appropriate not more than $5,000.00 each year to promote public awareness among prospective parents as to the necessity ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-8.22 National burn victim foundation; contributions by counties or municipalities
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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-8.23 Legislative findings
The Legislature finds and declares that private, nonprofit organizations which provide certain services relating to burn treatment, rehabilitation, research and prevention contribute significant and necessary ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-8.24 Burn prevention and treatment, private, nonprofit organizations; contributions
The board of chosen freeholders of any county, or the governing body of any municipality, of this State may annually raise and appropriate an amount ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-8.25 Center for performing and visual arts; appropriation of funds
The governing body of any county may appropriate funds to any privately operated, nonprofit organization approved by the governing body whose services are nonsectarian, in ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-8.26 Tay-Sachs disease; county aid
A county may appropriate not more than $5,000.00 each year to promote public awareness among prospective parents as to the necessity of testing for Tay-Sachs ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-8.27 Legislative findings
The Legislature hereby finds that there is a need for improved planning and coordination among public and private agencies, organizations and institutions providing health and ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-8.28 County aid to health, welfare councils
The governing body of any county may annually appropriate such sums as it deems necessary to any private, nonprofit health and welfare council engaged in ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-8.29 Appropriations by county authorized
1. The governing body of any county may annually appropriate funds in support of the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Foundation in support of the development, construction ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-9 Depositories for moneys
The governing body of any county may direct by resolution that all moneys belonging to the county, except such as may be subject to the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-11 Judiciary fund for salaries of court and probate clerks
The board of chosen freeholders shall provide in its annual budget of appropriations, a "judiciary fund" from which shall be paid the salary or compensation ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-12.1 Definitions
As used in this act: "Farmland" means land that qualifies for valuation, assessment, and taxation pursuant to the "Farmland Assessment Act of 1964," P.L. 1964, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-12.2 Farm loan program
The governing body of any county may, by ordinance or resolution, establish a low-interest loan program for the purpose of assisting persons in purchasing farmland ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-12.3 Bonds authorized
For the purpose of funding a farm loan program authorized pursuant to section 2 of this act, the county is authorized, by bond ordinance, to ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-13 Official newspapers
The board of chosen freeholders may by resolution designate an official newspaper or newspapers in which shall be published all advertisements and notices required by ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-14 Public works jointly constructed and maintained; county and municipal co-operation
The board of chosen freeholders of any county may by contract, join with the governing body of any municipality within the county or adjoining it, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-15 Ballot; form and content
The proposition to be submitted in accordance with the provisions of section 40:23-14 of this title shall be in substantially the following form: "Shall the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-16 Contents of joint contract; amendments
Any contract so entered into shall set forth the proportion of the cost each party thereto shall assume and shall specify all the details of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-17 Acquisition of property; officers and employees
For the purpose of carrying into execution any such contract, any county, as a party thereto, may acquire real estate as tenants in common by ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-18 Costs and expenses; appropriations; bond issues
The board of chosen freeholders may raise and disburse all necessary money, either by taxation or the issuance of bonds in the manner provided by ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-19 Use of municipal sewer by county
The board of chosen freeholders may contract with any municipality or municipalities for the use of municipal sewers for the disposal of sewage from any ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-20 Resolution by board of freeholders; exceptions
The board of chosen freeholders may by resolution provide for the regulation and inspection of wires, conductors and appliances for the purpose of utilizing electrical ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-21 Contents of resolution; fees fixed
The proposed resolution shall prescribe the method of location, arrangement, installation and use of the wires and appliances, and shall fix the powers and duties ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-22 Inspectors; appointment, compensation and qualifications
The board of chosen freeholders providing by resolution for the inspection of electrical wires, appliances and currents for furnishing light, heat and power pursuant to ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-23 Inspection; certificate by inspector
After the passage of such resolution no person shall put in use any electrical wires, appliances and currents for the purposes set forth in section ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-24 Companies to supply current upon certificate; enforcement
Upon the passage of the resolution provided for in section 40:23-20 of this title no person engaged in the business of furnishing electricity for light, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-25 Article inapplicable in certain cases
The board of chosen freeholders shall not exercise jurisdiction under the provisions of this article in any city, the governing body of which may have ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-26 Sale of personal property and surplus output of county institutions
The board of chosen freeholders may sell, convey and deliver any goods, chattels, personal property, materials or equipment and any surplus product or output of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-27 Advertisement for bids where value exceeds $1,000
Whenever it is reasonably apparent that the value of such personal property, except live stock, about to be disposed of at any one time or ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-27.3 Sale of unneeded building to municipality for municipal purposes
Any building or structure owned by a county which is no longer required for county purposes and which must be razed or relocated to permit ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-28 Freeholders to furnish crushed stone to municipalities
In counties of the second, third and fifth classes in which there is a stone quarry and a stone crusher operated in connection therewith, owned ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-29 Maximum amount to be furnished by county
The quantity to which all such municipalities shall be entitled, and which the board of chosen freeholders shall be required to furnish and deliver, shall ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-30 Stone furnished on request
The board of chosen freeholders shall cause to be furnished and delivered, free on board at the quarry, to any such municipality, upon the written ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-31 Reapportionment of unclaimed stone
If the proper authorities of any municipality shall fail to demand in writing of the board of chosen freeholders or the chairman of the committee ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-32 Purposes for which stone may be used
The stone so furnished and delivered shall be used for and applied to the purposes set forth in section 40:23-28 of this title and for ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-33 Selling or otherwise disposing of stone a misdemeanor; exception
If any person shall sell, or offer to sell, any of such stone or dispose of the same for any other purpose than as provided ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-47 Findings, declarations
1. The Legislature finds and declares that it is necessary for the health, safety and welfare of the residents of this State that a standard, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-48 Definitions
2. As used in this act: "Building" means a house, residence, dwelling, store or other structure used for residential, commercial or public purpose which has ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-49 9-1-1 locatable mailing address system
3. The governing body of the county shall, by resolution, establish a 9-1-1 locatable mailing address system within the county. The county governing body shall ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-50 Guidelines for implementation of act
4. The guidelines for the implementation of this act shall include, but shall not be limited to, the following: a. Municipalities shall have one correct ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-51 Completion of review required
5. The governing body of the county shall require municipalities within the county to complete the review required under section 3 of this act and ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-52 Use of municipal names
6. Beginning on the effective date of this act and pending compliance with the provisions of this act by all of the municipalities in Burlington ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-53 Report
7. Within one year of the establishment of the system by the board of freeholders, the board of freeholders shall provide a report to the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-54 Criminal history record check requested by county, authority for.
33. a. A county may enact an ordinance or resolution, as appropriate, providing that an authorized county official or officer may request a ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:23-55 Definitions; impoundment of shopping carts by county.
2. a. As used in this section: "Shopping cart" means a push cart of the type or types which are commonly ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:24-1 Ordinances in effect in 1918 to continue until altered
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, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:24-1.1 Members of board in military service; vote required for adoption
Whenever any member of the governing body of any county is in the active military or naval service of the United States or of this ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:24-2 Penalties for violation of resolutions
The board of chosen freeholders may prescribe penalties for the violation of any resolution it may have authority to pass, either by imprisonment in the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:24-3 Resolutions providing penalty; publication
All resolutions of the board of chosen freeholders, providing a penalty for violation thereof, shall be published at least once in a newspaper circulating in ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:24-4 Proceedings against persons violating resolutions
Proceedings against any person violating any such resolution of the board of chosen freeholders shall be as in the case of disorderly persons. Amended by ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:24-5 Who may serve warrant or other process
Any constable or police officer may serve any warrant or other process issuing out of the court, to apprehend any person for the violation of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:24-6 Arrest without warrant
Every police officer shall, and any other person may, apprehend without warrant or other process any person violating in his presence or view any of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:24-7 Conviction; penalty; imprisonment on default of fine
The court before which any violator of any such resolution is convicted may impose any fine or term of imprisonment not exceeding the maximum fixed ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:24-8 Fines paid to county treasurer
All fines collected under this chapter shall be paid to the treasurer of the county for the use of the county. ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:24-9 Court defined; jurisdiction
40:24-9. The word "court" as used in this chapter means and includes the Superior Court, municipal court and any judge having the powers of a ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:27-1 Planning board; members; appointment and term; expenses
The board of chosen freeholders may create a county planning board of not less than five nor more than nine members. The members of such ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:27-1.1 Alternate members; appointment; resolution
The board of chosen freeholders may, by resolution, provide for the appointment of alternate members to the county planning board in accordance with the following: ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:27-2 Duties of board; master plan; municipal co-operation
The county planning board shall make and adopt a master plan for the physical development of the county. The master plan of a county, with ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:27-3 Employees; experts; master plan part of improvement; bonds
The county planning board may employ experts and pay for their and such other expenses as may be deemed necessary for the making of the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:27-4 Hearing before plan adopted; notice of hearing; resolution; vote required; municipal master plan, official map or ordinance
a. Before adopting the master plan or any part thereof or any amendment thereof the board shall hold at least one public hearing thereon, notice ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:27-5 Adding to county map; changes submitted to board; map considered binding
The board of chosen freeholders in any county after receiving the advice of the county planning board is hereby empowered to adopt and establish and ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:27-6 Buildings and highways; permits; hearing; penalty; enjoining construction
No building shall be erected in the bed of any highway adopted and shown as a part of the official county map unless a permit ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:27-6.1 Definitions
As used in this act and in chapter 27 of Title 40 of the Revised Statutes, unless the context otherwise requires: "County master plan" and ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:27-6.2 Review and approval of all subdivisions of land; procedures; engineering and planning standards
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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:27-6.3 Submission of subdivision application to board for review and approval; report to municipal authority
Each subdivision application shall be submitted to the county planning board for review and, where required, approval prior to approval by the local municipal approving ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:27-6.4 Review of subdivision application; withholding of approval
The county planning board shall review each subdivision application and withhold approval if said proposed subdivision does not meet the subdivision approval standards previously adopted ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:27-6.5 Certification of subdivision plat; acceptance for filing
The county recording officer shall not accept for filing any subdivision plat unless it bears the certification of either approval or of review and exemption ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:27-6.6 Review and approval of site plans for land development along county roads or affecting county drainage facilities
The governing body of any county having a county planning board may provide for the review of site plans for land development along county roads ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:27-6.7 Report of approval or disapproval to local authority; time limit; extension
The municipal or other local agency or individual with authority to approve the site plan or issue a building permit shall defer action on any ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:27-6.8 Resolution vesting power to review and approve subdivisions and site plans with director
The county planning board may by resolution vest its power to review and approve subdivisions, pursuant to the provisions of sections 4 through 6 of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:27-6.9 Appeal by aggrieved persons; hearing; decision
If said action is taken by the planning director and a committee of the board, said applicant may file an appeal in writing to the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:27-6.10 Filing copy of planning and zoning ordinances with boards; notice of proposed revision of ordinance
In order that county planning boards shall have a complete file of the planning and zoning ordinances of all municipalities in the county, each municipal ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:27-6.11 Application to board of adjustment involving land fronting county road, adjoins other county lands or is within 200 feet of municipal boundary; notice
The county planning board shall be notified of any application to the board of adjustment under Revised Statute 40:55-39 in such cases where the land ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:27-6.12 Continuation of board's authority to review and approve land subdivision
Any county planning board exercising the authority of review and approval of land subdivision pursuant to the provisions of chapter 27 of Title 40 of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:27-6.13 Notice of hearing on granting variance or establishing or amending official municipal map; contents
Whenever a hearing is required before a zoning board of adjustment or the governing body of a municipality in respect to the granting of a ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:27-8 Existing boards continued in conformity with this chapter
County planning boards lawfully in existence on June eighth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five, if continued after January first, one thousand nine hundred and ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:28-1 Lands and buildings for airport purposes; acquisition
Any county may acquire by gift, grant, purchase, condemnation, or any other lawful manner real estate for airport purposes and erect and maintain thereon buildings ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:28-2 Lease of airport to state
Any county acquiring or maintaining real estate for airport purposes may lease the same or part thereof for such term of years as may be ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:28-3 Power to construct, operate, lease and regulate airports
Any county which has acquired lands for airport purposes may: Buildings. a. Construct thereon buildings for the purpose of providing storage space or hangars for ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:28-4 Bonds for airport purposes; maturity
In addition to the powers conferred by the provisions of article 1 of chapter 1 of this title (s. 40:1-1 et seq.), relative to the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:29-1 Appropriation to assist federal government in building bulkheads
The board of chosen freeholders of any county bordering upon the Atlantic ocean, may appropriate and pay out of the county treasury into the treasury ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:29-10 Beach protection; municipal co-operation
The board of chosen freeholders of any county and the governing body of any municipality bordering on the Atlantic ocean in any such county may ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:29-11 Approval of plans; county to control work
The plans and specifications for the erection, construction or repair of any such works, seawalls, bulkheads, jetties and other devices shall first be approved by ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:32-2.1 Acquisition and maintenance of lands and interests for park, recreation, welfare and hospital purposes
The board of chosen freeholders of any county is authorized and empowered to acquire by gift, grant, contribution, devise, bequest or condemnation, lands and interests ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:32-2.2 Resolution of board; title
Such acquisition shall be by resolution of the board, and title thereto shall be taken in the name of the county of (here insert name ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:32-2.3 Lands, buildings and structures
After such acquisition the board may erect, construct, and maintain on such lands, buildings and structures and the administration and maintenance thereof shall be in ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:32-2.4 Budget; limitations on appropriation
The board shall annually include in its budget the amount of money deemed necessary for maintaining any of the public parks, public welfare projects or ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:32-2.5 Use of federal funds
In any county in which lands and interests therein have been acquired as in this act provided, it shall be lawful for the board of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:32-2.6 Constabulary; establishment; members
Any county maintaining any public park or public recreation area as authorized by the act hereby supplemented, except for counties with county park commissions, may ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:32-2.7 Arrests without warrant
The members and officers of the park police may arrest on view and without warrant, and conduct before the municipal court of the municipality in ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:32-6 Acquisition and preservation of historical buildings and data
Any county may acquire, by gift or purchase, any real estate or any interests therein, together with any and all buildings thereon within the limits ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:32-7.6 Counties not having park commission; acquisition of golf course and other recreational facilities
The board of chosen freeholders of any county in which a park commission shall not have been established may lease, or may acquire, in fee ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:32-7.7 Maintenance, improvement and operation; buildings, structures and equipment
The board of chosen freeholders may preserve, care for, lay out, construct, maintain, improve, and operate any land or real estate it may acquire for ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:32-7.8 Taxes and bonds
The money necessary to pay for the lands, rights, or interest therein acquired for a public golf course and for such other recreational, playground, or ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:32-7.9 Supervision and control
The board of chosen freeholders may assign general supervision and control over the maintenance, operation and regulation of any such public golf course, and of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:32-7.10 Appropriation by board of chosen freeholders
The board of chosen freeholders may annually appropriate money to be raised by taxation to develop, maintain, and operate a public golf course and all ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:32-7.11 Fees, rents and charges
The board of chosen freeholders may establish, charge, and collect reasonable fees, rents or other charges for admission to, use or enjoyment of any property ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:32-7.12 Rules and regulations
The board of chosen freeholders may by resolution make, alter, amend, and repeal rules and regulations for the supervision, regulation and control of all activities ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:32-7.13 Actions for violations; enforcement of rules
The municipal court of the municipality in which the public golf course or other county recreational, playground or public entertainment facility is located shall have ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:32-7.14 Fines and penalties; disposition
All moneys collected either as fines or penalties for violation of a rule or regulation shall be forwarded by the clerk of the court to ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:32-7.15 Lease of lands and buildings acquired for public golf course and other recreational purposes
Whenever a board of chosen freeholders which shall have established a public golf course and related recreational facilities pursuant to this act, deems it to ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:32-7.16 Bids for leases
Any lease executed hereunder shall be upon competitive bids following public advertisement therefor, in a newspaper circulating in the county, at least once, not less ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:32-7.17 Power conferred as additional
The power conferred in this act is in addition to those given by any other law or laws. L.1958, c. 94, p. 541, s. 12. ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:32-7.18 County golf courses
Any county which has received federal or State funds for the acquisition or development of public golf courses and which offers reduced senior citizen rates ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:32-14 Veterans' housing projects; acquisition and use
The board of chosen freeholders of any county is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire by purchase, gift, grant, contribution, devise, bequest, relinquishment or transfer, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:32-15 Resolution; title
Such acquisition shall be authorized by resolution of the board, and title to such lands and other property shall be taken in the name of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:32-16 Operation and use of veterans' housing projects
After such acquisition the board may operate, maintain, regulate and use such lands and buildings and structures thereon, and improve and equip the same, for ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:32-17 Leases
After such acquisition, the board may from time to time lease such lands with the improvements, equipment, furnishings and other property thereon, or any part ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:32-18 Disposition of property when no longer needed for housing purposes
When the board shall by resolution determine that it would be advantageous to the county to use any or all of such lands or other ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:32-19 Appropriation for operating
The county may appropriate, and the board shall annually include in the budget, the amount of money deemed necessary for operating, maintaining, improving and regulating ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-1 County library; establishment
The board of chosen freeholders of every county shall, in the manner hereinafter in this article provided, establish a free public library to be known ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-2 Referendum
No such library shall be established until assented to by the legal voters of the county at any election at which the question of the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-3 Petition for submission
At the request in writing of not less than three hundred qualified voters of the county, the board of chosen freeholders shall submit, at any ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-4 Ballot; form and content
The board of chosen freeholders shall cause the question to be printed upon the ballots to be used at such election, in substantially the following ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-5 Results canvassed and returned; vote required for adoption
The result of the election shall be returned and canvassed in the same manner and at the same time as other elections. If a majority ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-5.1 Establishment by resolution in counties under 150,000
The board of chosen freeholders of any county with a population of less than 150,000 which, on the effective date of this act, has not ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-6 Establishment, maintenance of libraries.
40:33-6. Upon the adoption of the provisions of this article the board of chosen freeholders may contract with an existing library, or library ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-7 County library commission
a. Should the governing body not enter into the contract provided for in R.S. 40:33-6, it shall within 60 days after this article becomes operative, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-8 County library commission.
40:33-8. The county library commission shall organize by the election of a chairman, and shall adopt rules and regulations for the establishment and ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-8.1 Purchases not requiring advertisements for bids
The county library commission of any county or the board of trustees of any regional library established by 2 or more counties may, within the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-8.2 Free county library administrators, duties
36. The director or other chief administrative officer of each free county library shall: a. cause copies of the voter registration forms and instructions furnished ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-9 Appropriations for establishment and maintenance; amount
Upon the adoption of the provisions of this article, the board of chosen freeholders shall determine a sum sufficient for the establishment and, annually thereafter, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-10 Borrowing money in anticipation of library taxes; tax notes
The board of chosen freeholders may borrow money, in anticipation of the receipt of taxes levied for county library purposes, not in excess of the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-12 County treasurer custodian of library funds; payment of bills
The county treasurer shall be the custodian of the county library tax collected and of all other funds or moneys of the commission, and upon ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-13 Participation by municipalities
When any municipality, maintaining a public library and situate in a county which has adopted a county library system under the provisions of this article, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-13a Withdrawal from county system
Any municipality which is a member of a county library system not exempted as provided hereafter, may withdraw from that system by resolution of the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-13b Withdrawal from county library system
Any municipality which is a member of a county library system pursuant to R.S. 40:33-1 on the effective date of this amendatory and supplementary act ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-13.1 Contracts with other municipalities for additional library service
The governing body of any municipality which forms part of a county library system may, by resolution, contract with any other municipality which maintains a ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-13.2 Use of money received under contract
The governing body of such other municipality may, by resolution, enter into contract as provided in this act and all sums of money paid under ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-13.2a Authority to acquire real property or other interest; maintaining facilities; bonds; ad valorem taxes
Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the board of chosen freeholders of any county is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire real property or ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-13.2b Agreements with respect to provision, leasing, use, operation or maintenance; payments on account
Said board of chosen freeholders and any county library commission, governing body of any municipality or board of trustees of any free public library in ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-13.2c Employee of county library system formerly employee of municipal free public library; classified service
Any former employee of a municipal free public library who has become an employee of a county library system pursuant to an agreement providing for ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-13.2d Short title
This act shall be known and may be cited as the "County Library Reorganization Law." L.1981, c. 489, s. 1, eff. Jan. 12, 1982. ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-13.2e County library study commission; establishment; petition; members; chairman; reimbursement of expenses
The governing body of any county which has established a county library as provided in chapter 33 of Title 40 of the Revised Statutes may, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-13.2f County library commission; duties
It shall be the duty of the county library study commission to study the county library system, assess its needs, and evaluate its ability to ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-13.2g Offices; expenses; payment; employees, consultants and clerical staff; report of findings and recommendations; referendum question on reorganization of system
a. The governing body of the county shall provide the county library study commission with such offices as may be necessary for the conduct of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-13.2h Question of reorganization; form on ballot; publication of report; vote necessary
The question of the reorganization of the county library system shall be submitted to the voters in substantially the following form: "Shall the county library ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-13.2i "Branch Development Option."
6. The option for reorganization of the county library system provided in this section shall be known as the "Branch Development Option" ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-13.2j "Service Contract Option."
7. The option for reorganization of the county library system provided in this section shall be known as the "Service Contract Option" ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-13.2k "Tax Base Sharing Option."
8. The option for reorganization of the county library system provided in this section shall be known as the "Tax Base Sharing ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-13.2l . County with tax base sharing option; exclusion of appropriations as county tax levy under Cap Law
For the first 2 years following the reorganization of a county library system pursuant to section 8 of this act, any appropriation made by the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-13.2n Rules, regulations.
11. The State Librarian, with the approval of the President of Thomas Edison State College is authorized to promulgate, pursuant to the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-13.3 Establishment by joint agreement
Any 2 or more counties may, by joint agreement adopted by similar resolutions of their boards of chosen freeholders, provide for the establishment and maintenance ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-13.4 Provisions of agreement
The regional library agreement shall provide for: (a) the establishment and maintenance of a regional library upon the approval of such agreement by such counties ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-13.5 Amendment of regional library agreement; filing copy.
3. The regional library agreement may, from time to time, be amended or supplemented by the adoption of similar resolutions by all ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-13.6 Resolution; public inspection; publication
Upon the introduction of a resolution approving such agreement, or any amendment or supplement thereto, such resolutions, agreement, amendment, or supplement shall be and remain ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-13.7 Board of trustees; membership; appointment; vacancies; compensation
The regional library shall be under the management and control of a board of trustees to be designated as "the trustees of the (names of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-13.8 Organization of board; officers; term of office
The board of trustees shall organize annually and elect, from among its members, a president and vice-president. It shall also appoint a treasurer and secretary. ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-13.9 Boards as body public and corporate; powers
The board of trustees shall be a body public and corporate and may: (a) sue and be sued; (b) adopt a corporate seal; (c) hold ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-13.9a Regional library administrators, duties
37. The director or other chief administrative officer of each regional library established under the provisions of P.L.1962, c.134 (C.40:33-13.3 et seq.) shall: a. cause ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-13.10 Annual reports
The board of trustees shall make annual reports to the boards of chosen freeholders of the participating counties, to the governing bodies of such municipalities ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-13.11 Proposal of sum required for operation and expenses; objections; determination
The board of trustees shall annually, not later than November 1, propose to the boards of chosen freeholders of each of the participating counties the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-13.12 Assessment and levy of taxes
Each board of chosen freeholders shall certify to its county board of taxation the sum to be provided by that county as certified or determined ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-13.13 Duties of treasurer; annual audit
The treasurer of the board of trustees shall receive and hold, in behalf of the board, all funds of the library and shall pay out ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-13.14 Agreements with municipalities not served by regional library.
12. The board of trustees may enter into agreements with the governing body of any municipality which is not then served by ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-13.15 Disposition of revenues
Money paid to the regional library for lost or damaged books or other library materials, for use of "pay" or "rental" collections and for the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-13.16 County library commission; termination; assets and obligations
Upon the establishment of a regional library, the terms of office of all members of any county library commission of any participating county shall terminate. ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-13.17 Regional library as "public agency or organization" within Public Employees' Retirement Act
Any regional library established pursuant to this act shall be deemed a "public agency or organization" as that term is used in the Public Employees' ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-13.18 Withdrawal of participating county
If the board of chosen freeholders of any participating county shall determine by resolution to withdraw its participation in the support, maintenance and control of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-14 Law library; maintenance; purchase of books; annual expenditures limited
40:33-14. The board of chosen freeholders may maintain at the courthouse a law library for the use of the courts held in the county, and ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-15 Morris County; reorganization of free county library; resolution
Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the board of chosen freeholders of any county having a population of not less than 350,000 nor more ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-16 Definitions
As used in this act: a. "First level services" means services provided by a free county library which are coextensive with those provided by free ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-17 County library commission; members
The "county library commission" in such counties shall consist of seven members. On or before the effective date of such reorganization, the board of chosen ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-18 Proposal of operational amount for ensuing calendar year
The county library commission in such counties shall annually, not later than November 1, propose to the board of chosen freeholders the total sum required ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-19 Funding county library services
Following the passage of a resolution to reorganize the free county library pursuant to the provisions of this act and annually thereafter, the board of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-20 Municipalities; continuation of receipt of services from free county library; exceptions
Municipalities receiving benefits from the free county library prior to the adoption of a resolution by the board of chosen freeholders to reorganize the free ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-21 Report on effectiveness of second level services
Within 18 months following the reorganization of the free county library pursuant to this act, after consultation with all the libraries in the county, the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-22 Application of provisions on free county libraries
All free county libraries reorganized pursuant to the provisions of this act shall be governed by the provisions of article 1, chapter 33, Title 40 ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33-23 Consideration of increase in county tax levy to fund second level services for purposes of calculating permissible expenditures
In the first year in which a free county library is reorganized pursuant to the provisions of this act, the amount which the county tax ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33A-1 Creation; membership; terms; vacancies; compensation
The board of chosen freeholders of any county is authorized to create, by resolution, a county cultural and heritage commission to be composed of not ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33A-2 Organization; chairman
The commission shall organize as soon as may be following appointment of its members, and annually thereafter, by election of a chairman from among its ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33A-3 Responsibility of commission
A county cultural and heritage commission shall be responsible for the development of county programs to promote public interest in local and county history, in ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33A-4 Museum and cultural programs; exhibits and displays
The commission, as from time to time authorized by the board, may establish museum and cultural programs, exhibits and displays including the fine and performing ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33A-5 Funds
The board is authorized to include funds for the work of the commission in its annual budget and to make appropriations to the commission therefor. ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33A-6 Gifts, grants and bequests; solicitation and acceptance; deposit; budgeting, expenditure and accounting
a. A county cultural and heritage commission created pursuant to the provisions of P.L.1968, c. 31 (C. 40:33A-1 et seq.) may, in the name of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33B-1 Short title
This act shall be known and may be cited as the "County Historical Commission Act." L. 1987, c. 255, s. 1. ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33B-2 Findings, declarations
The Legislature finds and declares that this generation is obligated to future generations to maintain our historical and cultural heritage by preserving historic buildings which ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33B-3 Definitions
As used in this act: a. "Commission" means a county historical commission established pursuant to this act. b. "Historic building" means a building or complex ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33B-4 County historical commission
a. The governing body of any county, by ordinance or resolution, as appropriate, may establish a county historical commission. b. The commission shall consist of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33B-5 Powers of commission
The commission has the power to: a. Develop standards for the designation of any property, or improvement thereto, as an historic building; b. Designate any ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33B-6 Appeal
Any designation effectuated or regulation promulgated pursuant to this act shall be subject to an appeal thereof to the governing body of the county by ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33B-7 Bonds; revenue
The governing body of any county in which a county historical commission is established pursuant to this act is authorized to issue bonds for the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33B-8 Application for funds
a. A county historical commission may, in the name of the county and with the approval of the county governing body, apply for and accept ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33B-9 Powers to county cultural and heritage commission
The governing body of any county in which there is established a county cultural and heritage commission pursuant to P.L. 1968, c. 31 (C. 40:33A-1 ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:33B-10 Approval of commissioner
Any rule, regulation, ordinance, resolution or standard adopted or promulgated pursuant to this act and applying to an historic building which is included in the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:34-1 Erection and maintenance
The board of chosen freeholders may construct and maintain, or contribute funds towards the construction and maintenance of such statues, monuments or other memorials in ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:34-2 Referendum
The board of chosen freeholders may, at any general election, submit the question of whether or not it shall appropriate funds towards the construction of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:34-3 Proposition printed on ballot; ballot; form and content
Upon the adoption of a resolution for the submission of the question at such election the clerk of the board of chosen freeholders shall certify ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:34-4 Vote required for adoption
If a majority of the legal voters voting on the question shall vote YES, the board of chosen freeholders may proceed to accept the same ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:34-5 Powers conferred deemed additional
Nothing in sections 40:34-2 to 40:34-5 of this title contained shall limit or restrict any power conferred upon the board of chosen freeholders by any ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:34A-1 Counties; authorizations; acquisition of property; construction of facility; raising money; issuance of debt obligations; operation of facility
Every county is hereby authorized and empowered, subject to the approval of the municipality in which the parking facility is to be located, to acquire ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:34A-2 Establishment as part of county's public parking system; municipal public utility of county
Said board by resolution may determine and establish that any one or more or all of such off-street parking facilities shall be part of the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:34A-3 Limitation on period of usefulness
The period of usefulness of every off-street parking facility for any purpose under the local bond law, whether with respect to original acquisition or construction ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:34A-4 Exemption from taxes and special assessments
Every off-street parking facility is hereby declared to be devoted to an essential public and governmental function and purpose and shall be exempt from all ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:34A-5 Municipalities; powers
Every municipality shall have the power from time to time, by or pursuant to ordinance duly adopted or by instruments or other action authorized by ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:34A-6 Municipalities; authorization; validity and binding effect of obligations and pledges; use by county as security for its bonds or notes
Every municipality which shall make any contract, covenant or agreement with a county or pledge to a county pursuant to this act is hereby authorized ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:34A-7 Municipalities; cooperation with county; acquisition of property; provision of services
For the purpose of aiding and cooperating in the planning, undertaking, construction or operation of an off-street parking facility of a county, any municipality in ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:34A-8 Authority of municipality to incur expense
In connection with any public improvements made by any municipality in exercising the powers herein granted or referred to, such municipality may incur the entire ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:34A-9 Counties; authorization and power for agreements with other governmental agencies
Every county is hereby authorized and empowered to enter into agreements of any nature whatsoever with the United States of America or the State of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:35-1 Purposes for which plants may be erected
The board of chosen freeholders may erect, equip and maintain plants for lighting county roads, and supplying light, heat and general power for buildings and ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:35-2 Operation and supervision
Such plants shall be operated and maintained at the expense of the county, and shall be supervised by a committee consisting of members of the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:35-3 Contracts for services instead of building plants
If the board of chosen freeholders shall deem it more advantageous to the county, it may contract with any person for the lighting of any ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:35A-1 Establishment of service and operation of system; resolution or ordinance
The governing body of any county may by resolution or ordinance, as the case may be, provide for the establishment of a public transportation service ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:35A-2 Contract with public or private entity
Any county operating or providing for the operation of a transportation service and system pursuant to this act may contract with any public or private ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-1 Shade tree commission; freeholders' powers
40:37-1. The board of chosen freeholders of any county may, by resolution, establish and appoint a board of shade tree commissioners to consist of not ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-2 Commissioners' term lengths; alternates
40:37-2. Of the commissioners first appointed, if the commission is to consist of five members, one shall serve for one year, one for two years, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-3 Organization; officers; salary of secretary
The shade tree commission shall organize within 30 days after the appointment of its total membership for the remainder of the then current calendar year, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-4 Commissioners serve without compensation; expenses
The shade tree commissioners shall serve without compensation, but with the consent of the board of chosen freeholders, shall be entitled to be reimbursed for ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-5 Powers; regulations; trees on highways; parks
Except as hereinafter provided, the shade tree commission may exercise exclusive control over the regulation, planting and care of shade and ornamental trees and shrubbery ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-6 Regulations for protection of trees and shrubbery; penalties
The shade tree commission, with the consent of the board of chosen freeholders may make rules and regulations for the protection and care of the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-7 Enforcement of rules and regulations; jurisdiction of courts
Any court within the county having jurisdiction over proceedings for the violation of municipal ordinances in any municipality within the county, shall have jurisdiction in ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-8 Copy of rules as evidence
A copy of any rule or regulation of the shade tree commission, certified to under the hand of the secretary or chairman, shall be taken ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-9 Disposition of fines
All moneys collected by the county shade tree commission, either as fines or penalties for violation of a rule or regulation of the commission, shall ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-10.1 Estimated expenditures; purposes; annual appropriation
During the month of December in each year the commission shall certify to the board of chosen freeholders of the county the estimated sum necessary ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-10.2 Immunity from liability for death, injury
7. Nothing in this article contained shall be construed to make any shade tree commission or a member thereof, or any volunteer participating ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-11 Limitation of powers
Except with the consent of the agencies hereinafter named, the powers and duties provided for in this article for a county shade tree commission shall ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-11.1 Contract with federal agency for occupation and use of property by federal government or agency
Any county park commission may enter into negotiations and may contract with the United States or with any board, body, commission, department or agency thereof ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-11.2 Contract with municipality or administrator of Public Housing and Development Authority for use of lands for veterans' emergency housing
The county park commission in any county may contract with any municipality in such county, or with the Administrator of the Public Housing and Development ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-11.3 Gifts or trust funds for park purposes; investment
Whenever any county park commission receives any gift of funds for park purposes, or is the recipient of any trust funds for such purposes, the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-11.4 Capital improvement fund; investment of moneys
Whenever proceeds from the sale of lands, or moneys otherwise received, are required by law to be set aside by a county park commission as ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-11.5 Indemnification of park police for costs of defense of civil and criminal actions
Whenever a member or officer of a county park police system is a defendant in any action or legal proceeding arising out of or incidental ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-11.6 Abolition of county park police force
a. When the governing body of a county abolishes a county park commission, the governing body may, in its discretion, abolish any county park police ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-12 Appropriations for park purposes; referendum; petition
This section and sections 40:37-14 and 40:37-15 of this title shall remain inoperative in any county until adopted by a majority of the votes cast ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-13 Certain counties governed hereby
In counties wherein the legal voters have heretofore adopted the provisions of an act entitled "A supplement to the act entitled "An act in relation ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-14 Amount to be raised annually; determination
The board of chosen freeholders in any county in which a county park system shall have been adopted or created, and in which the provisions ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-15 Money paid to park authorities
The amount so declared and raised by taxation shall be paid over to and expended by the commission, board, or other authority in the county, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-15.2 Counties having park system established by referendum pursuant to section 40:37-96
The board of chosen freeholders in any county having a county park system established by referendum pursuant to the provisions of R.S. 40:37-96, and in ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-16 Money for construction or improvement of county parks
In ordering in each year the amount of money to be raised for county purposes the boards of chosen freeholders may, in their discretion, order ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-17 Acquisition of lands in adjoining county contiguous to county park
Whenever any public park has or shall have been established in any county along or contiguous in part to any line dividing the county in ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-17.1 Joint development and operation of park and recreational facilities by adjoining counties
The county park commissions of any two or more adjoining counties may by joint agreement provide for the joint development and operation of park and ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-18 Rules and regulations effective throughout park; arrests; prosecutions
Whenever by virtue of section 40:37-17 of this Title any park commission or other body has or shall have established any public park which is ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-19 Commissioners; terms; powers and duties; vacancies
In any county having a population of more than one hundred and fifty thousand, the board of chosen freeholders may elect five persons, to be ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-20 Assistants; limitation of expenditures
The commissioners provided for in section 40:37-19 of this title may employ such assistants as they may deem necessary and may expend such sums therefor ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-21 Commissioners; appointment; terms; powers and duties; vacancies
In any county having a population of more than two hundred thousand, the Superior Court assignment judge of the county may appoint five persons to ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-22 Assistants; compensation and expenses
The commissioners may employ such assistants as they deem necessary and expend such sums therefor and in the discharge of their duties, including the actual ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-23 Recreation building
The commissioners appointed under section 40:37-21 of this title may construct and maintain in any such park located in any city of the second class ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.1 Applicable to all counties; inoperative until approved by voters
The provisions of this act shall apply to all counties, but shall remain inoperative in any county until submitted to and approved by the voters ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.2 Park commission
In any county which has adopted or shall adopt the provisions of this act, the board of chosen freeholders shall by resolution passed by the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.3 Commissioners; term
The commissioners first elected shall hold office for the term of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 years respectively, as indicated and fixed by the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.4 Officers; appointees; term; compensation
The commission shall annually choose from among its members a president and vice-president, and shall elect a secretary and such other officers and appoint employees ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.4a Counties of second class between 460,000 and 525,000; tenure of employees
Any full-time employee appointed to office, position or employment by a county park commission in any county of the second class having a population of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.5 Powers of commission; records; meetings
The commission may sue and be sued, use a common seal, make by-laws and carry out the objects of this act as hereinafter set forth. ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.6 President; vice-president; secretary; duties; disbursements
The president shall preside at all meetings of the commission, and shall, with the treasurer, sign all checks, drafts, notes, requisitions of funds, contracts and ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.7 Appointments of commission; approval by board of chosen freeholders
All appointments of officers and employees to be made by the park commission except its president, vice-president and secretary shall be made with the approval ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.8 Adverse interest of officer or employee; misdemeanor
It shall be a misdemeanor for any member of the park commission or any officer or employee appointed by it, to be interested directly or ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.9 Office; expenditures; limitation; appropriation of moneys from revenue producing facilities
The board of chosen freeholders shall provide the commission with a suitable office and upon the establishment of the commission may make available for expenditures ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.10 Moneys required to be raised by taxation; bonds
The commission may draw the moneys provided and made available by the board of chosen freeholders for the purposes of this act on requisition duly ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.10a Issuance of bonds or other obligations of county pursuant to Local Bond Law; limitation on amount
In any county which has adopted the provisions of the act of which this act is a supplement, the board of chosen freeholders, in addition ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.10b Submission of act to voters
The provisions of this act shall remain inoperative in any such county until submitted to and approved by the legal voters of the county as ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.10c Ballots
Whenever the board of chosen freeholders of the county shall pass a resolution authorizing the submission of the question of the adoption or rejection of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.10d Operative upon approval of voters by majority vote
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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.10e Issuance of bonds or other obligations of county pursuant to Local Bond Law; limitation on amount
In any county which has adopted the provisions of the act of which this act is a supplement and in which bonds for county park ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.10f Submission of act to voters
The provisions of this act shall remain inoperative in any such county until submitted to and approved by the legal voters of the county as ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.10g Ballots
Whenever the board of chosen freeholders of the county shall pass a resolution authorizing the submission of the question of the adoption or rejection of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.10h Operative upon approval of voters by majority vote
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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.10i Bonds or other obligations; issuance; amount
Any county which shall have heretofore adopted or which shall hereafter adopt the provisions of P.L.1970, c. 148 shall be authorized to issue bonds or ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.10j Additional bonds or obligations; issuance for land, improvements or payment of notes; limitations
In any county which has adopted the provisions of the act of which this act is a supplement and in which bonds for county park ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.10k Submission to and approval by voters
The provisions of this act shall remain inoperative in any such county until submitted to and approved by the legal voters of the county as ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.10l Public question; submission to voters
Whenever the governing body of the county shall pass a resolution authorizing the submission of the question of the adoption or rejection of this act ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.10m Majority vote to adopt; operative effect
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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.10n Additional bonds, obligations for land and improvements for county parks
The governing body of any county having adopted the provisions of P.L.1946, c.276 (C.40:37-95.1 et seq.) may provide, in accordance with the provisions of this ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.10o Submission of question to voters
Whenever the governing body of a county subject to the provisions of this act shall adopt a resolution authorizing submission of the question of adoption ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.10p Adoption of law
If a majority of all the votes cast both for and against adoption of the law are cast in favor of its adoption, the law ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.11 Depositories
The commission may select a depository or depositories wherein all public moneys and other funds of the commission shall be deposited, any bank organized under ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.12 Records; annual statements; audits
The commission shall at all times keep or cause to be kept full and accurate accounts of its receipts and expenditures, and of its resources ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.13 Powers of commission.
13. The commission may: a. Acquire, maintain and make available to the inhabitants of the county, public parks, playgrounds ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.13a County park commissions
For purposes of P.L. 1985, c. 439 (C. 40A:14-146.8 et seq.), regarding the appointment of special law enforcement officers, county park commissions shall be entitled ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.14 Right to acquire real estate and other property; grants by franchise, lease or contract
With the approval of the board of chosen freeholders of the county, the commission may acquire by gift, purchase or condemnation, such real estate and ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.15 Power of eminent domain
Whenever the commission shall have determined to take and acquire any real estate or any right or interest therein for any public park or place ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.16 Surveys; maps
Before proceeding to purchase or condemn real estate for a public park or place, the commission shall determine the location and quantity of the same ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.17 Real estate owned by municipality; conveyance to county
The governing body of any municipality may without the payment of consideration, convey to the county wherein such municipality is located, for park purposes, any ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.18 Roadways; parkways; grade; alteration
The commission may within such park or parks or other places not only lay out and open roadways, parkways, and boulevards as herein provided, but ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.19 Sale of land not required for park purposes; auction
If all the members of the park commission shall by resolution determine that any real estate or part thereof acquired in pursuance of this act ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.20 Vacation of roadways and other ways
The commission may by a four-fifths vote and with the approval of the board of chosen freeholders of the county vacate or surrender any roadways, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.21 Rules and regulations; protection of parks; penalties
The commission may make, alter, amend and repeal rules and regulations for the protection, regulation and control of such parks, and the roads, driveways, sidewalks, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.22 Adoption of act; referendum; notice
Whenever the board of chosen freeholders shall, not later than sixty days before the next ensuing general election, pass a resolution authorizing the submission of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.23 Ballots
The county clerk shall cause the question to be printed upon the sample and official ballots for the general election in substantially the following form: ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.24 Adoption by majority vote; commissioners appointed within 90 days
If upon the canvass of the vote at such election it shall appear that a majority of those voting for or against the question so ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.25 Existing laws relating to county park systems, etc., not repealed
Nothing herein contained shall repeal any existing law relating to the establishment of county parks or be construed to apply to any county which, prior ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.26 Office and expenses of commission
The board of chosen freeholders shall provide the commission, established pursuant to the act to which this act is a supplement, with a suitable office ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.27 Application of act
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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.28 Submission of adoption of act to voters
The question of the adoption of the provisions of this act, in the form set forth in section 4 hereof, shall be submitted to the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.29 Ballots
There shall be printed on each official ballot to be used at such election, the following: If you favor the proposition printed below make a ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.30 Adopted law immediately operative
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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.31 Funds for land and improvements; limitation upon obligations
In addition to any other funds or moneys provided for the purposes of the act to which this act is a supplement, the board of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.32 Application of act
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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.33 Submission of adoption of act to voters
The question of the adoption of the provisions of this act, in the form set forth in section 4 hereof, shall be submitted to the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.34 Ballots
There shall be printed on each official ballot to be used at such general election, the following: If you favor the proposition printed below make ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.35 Adopted act immediately operative
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 ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.36 Disposition of lands by county park commission; resolution
Whenever by resolution a county park commission, established and operating in a county of the first class pursuant to subdivision C of article 4 of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.37 Certification of resolution
A copy of said resolution shall be certified to the board of chosen freeholders of the county. L.1956, c. 87, p. 180, s. 2. ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.38 Use of proceeds
The proceeds of the sale of such lands, after payment of the reasonable costs of the sale, shall be set aside by the commission as ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.39 Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately but no sale and conveyance shall be made pursuant to this act after January 1, 1957. L.1956, c. 87, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.40 Park police system
The county park commission may establish a constabulary to preserve order in the parks, parkways, playgrounds and recreation places under its control, and to secure ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.41 Powers of park police.
1. The chief and officers of the park police may arrest on view and without warrant, and conduct before the municipal court ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.42 Governing body control of county parks
It is lawful for the governing body of any county of the second class having a population in excess of 425,000, but less than 450,000, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.43 Advisory commission
The governing body of any county acting pursuant to section 1 of this act may appoint a county park advisory commission to be composed of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.44 Former commissioners
It is the intent of this act that members of any former county park commission in office in the county on the date the certificate ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.45 Property transfers
Whenever the county governing body acts pursuant to section 1 of this act, all moneys, files, books, papers, records, equipment and other property, real or ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.46 Employee rights unimpaired
Whenever the county governing body acts pursuant to section 1 of this act, all employees employed by or on behalf of any former county park ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.47 Succession of rights, duties
Whenever the county governing body acts pursuant to section 1 of this act, it shall succeed to all the rights, powers, duties and obligations of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.48 Rules, regulations
Whenever the county governing body acts pursuant to section 1 of this act, it shall prescribe rules and regulations for the administration, regulation and control ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-95.49 Limited applicability
The provisions of this act shall not apply to any county governed by the provisions of the "Optional County Charter Law," P.L. 1972, c. 154 ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-96 Counties governed hereby; referendum; exception
The provisions of sections 40:37-96 to 40:37-174 of this title shall apply to counties having a population of more than two hundred thousand inhabitants, but ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-97 Commission; appointment; number
In any county having a population of more than 200,000, which is governed by sections 40:37-96 to 40:37-174 of this Title, the board of chosen ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-97.1 Continuation of incumbent commissioners in office
Members of any county park commission governed by sections 40:37-96 to 40:37-174 of the Revised Statutes in office on the effective date of this act ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-98 Commissioners; terms; vacancies
The commissioners first appointed in any county shall hold office for the term of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 years respectively, as indicated and ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-99 Commission a body politic; compensation and expenses; oaths
The persons so appointed when duly qualified, constituting the board of park commissioners, and their successors, shall be a body politic, with power to sue ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-100 Powers of other park commissioners cease on appointment of commissioners
Upon the appointment of commissioners in any county under sections 40:37-96 to 40:37-174 of this title the commissioners appointed in any such county under section ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-101 Establishment and location of parks; acquisition of property; rules and regulations
The commission may acquire, maintain and make available to the inhabitants of the county wherein it is appointed, and to the public, parks and open ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-101.1 Counties over 200,000 having park commission; annual appropriation for maintenance of parks in certain cases; limitation
In any county having a population of more than two hundred thousand and having a county park commission, the members of which shall be appointed, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-101.2 Manner of appropriating, paying over and expending funds
The funds so raised and appropriated shall be raised and appropriated in the same manner as the funds for any other department of government in ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-101.3 Adoption of sections 40:37-12, 40:37-14 and 40:37-15 not to be submitted within five years after rejection
The question of the adoption or rejection of sections 40:37-12, 40:37-14 and 40:37-15 of the Revised Statutes shall not be submitted to the voters of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-101.4 Additional lands; acquisition after lands valued at 35% of tax ratables have been acquired
When any park commission established pursuant to the provisions of subdivision C of article five of chapter thirty-seven of Title 40 of the Revised Statutes ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-101.5 Assessor's certificate that value of lands acquired exceeds 35% value of ratables
The assessor of any municipality, in which any such park commissioners shall have acquired lands exceeding in area thirty-five per centum (35%) of the total ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-101.6 Appropriation to municipality in lieu of taxes
The county board of taxation shall in each year calculate the sum of money in which the municipality would have derived during said year as ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-102 Surveys and maps of parks; records
Before proceeding to purchase or condemn real estate for a public park or place, the commission shall determine the location and quantity of the same ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-103 Condemnation for parks; law applicable
Whenever the commission shall have determined to take and acquire any real estate or any right or interest therein for any public park or place ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-104 Construction of roadways; acquisition of real estate; exemption from taxation
The commission may connect any road, park or public open space with any other park or public open space, and with any municipality in the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-105 Survey and map of roadways and boulevards; records
Before laying out and opening any roadway, parkway or boulevard, the commission shall cause a survey to be made and a map thereof to be ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-106 Construction and improvement of roadways and paths
The commission may: a. Construct and maintain along, across, upon and over any of the real estate acquired by it under sections 40:37-96 to 40:37-174 ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-107 Commission may establish grades; pavement and improvement of roadways
The commission may not only lay out and open roadways, parkways and boulevards, connecting parks and open spaces as herein provided, but may also establish ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-108 Lines of frontage on new parkways
The commission may also determine, in the case of a new parkway or boulevard laid out and opened by it, the lines for the frontage ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-109 Condemnation for roadways; commissioners appointed; benefits assessed
Whenever the commission shall determine to open and lay out a boulevard, parkway or roadway, or make any improvement thereof which shall require the condemnation ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-110 Commissioners; appointment; duties; oaths
At the time and place specified in the notice provided for in section 40:37-109 of this Title the judge shall appoint three disinterested freeholders resident ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-111 Hearing and notice; view premises; report
The commissioners so appointed shall fix a time and place when they will hear the persons interested in the property to be taken, and in ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-112 Court to hear objections to report; confirmation
Upon receipt of any such report, signed by the commissioners, or any two of them, the court shall cause such notice to be given as ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-113 Rules of procedure
The Supreme Court may make such rules for the regulation of the practice and procedure under sections 40:37-96 to 40:37-174 of this Title as it ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-114 Compensation of commissioners; expenses; inclusion in cost of improvement
The court shall, upon application, by the county park commissioners or on its behalf, fix and determine the compensation to be paid the commissioners so ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-115 Benefits assessed deducted from damages awarded
Whenever damages are awarded under the provisions of section 40:37-111 of this title to an owner of real estate, and benefits are assessed against the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-116 Award collected by suit
Any person to whom an award shall be made may, subject to the deduction of benefits assessed, sue for and collect or obtain payment of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-117 Assessments a lien; collection; action at law
The county park commissioners may collect the assessments for benefits either by a civil action in the name of the commission against the person from ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-118 Improvement of parkways and boulevards already established; assessments for benefits; appointment of commissioners
Whenever the county park commission shall determine to make any improvement of any parkway, boulevard or part thereof, theretofore laid out or opened by it, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-119 Assessments a lien until paid
All assessments for benefits made under sections 40:37-96 to 40:37-174 of this title shall remain liens upon the real estate benefited, from the confirmation thereof ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-120 Sale of lands for unpaid assessments; notice and publication
If any assessment shall remain in arrears for more than six months after confirmation, suit may be brought for its collection with interest and costs, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-121 Sale for term of years
At the sale, the real estate shall be publicly sold to the person who will take the same for the shortest period of time, not ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-122 Adjournment of sale; notice
The commission may adjourn a sale from time to time by making proclamation thereof, and proceed therewith on the adjourned day. ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-123 Certificate of sale; issuance; assignability; recording
The commission shall make and deliver to a purchaser at such sale who shall have made payment, a certificate of sale, signed by its officers ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-124 Redemption of property sold
The owner of any real estate so sold, his legal representatives, or any mortgagee or judgment creditor, having a legal or equitable interest therein may, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-125 Time for redemption; declaration of sale; contents; filing
If at the expiration of three years no such redemption as is provided for in section 40:37-124 of this title is made, the commission shall, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-126 Effect of declaration of sale; liability for waste
The declaration of sale shall be presumptive evidence in all courts and places that the sale and proceedings were regular and according to law, and ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-127 Redemption by mortgagee; notice to mortgagee; rights after redemption
No mortgagee whose mortgage shall have been recorded or registered before the sale shall be divested of his rights in and to the real estate ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-128 Unsold land struck off to commission
Real estate which is not bid off and sold when offered for sale or resale, according to the provisions of sections 40:37-96 to 40:37-174 of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-129 Freeholders to borrow money upon requisition of park commission; bonds; limitation
To meet the expenses incurred under the provisions of sections 40:37-96 to 40:37-174 of this title in addition to the sum of money received from ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-130 Additional bond issues
The following supplements to the act entitled "An act to establish public parks in certain counties in this state and to regulate the same," approved ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-130.1 Additional bond issue for county parks and parkways; total amount; disposition of proceeds
To meet the further expenses to be incurred by counties of the first class or by counties of the second class having a population of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-130.2 Additional bond issue; parks and parkways
To meet the further expenses to be incurred by counties of the first and second class, under the provisions of R.S. 40:37-96 to 40:37-174, to ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-131 Bond; issuance; law applicable; how paid
Such bonds shall be issued in accordance with the provisions of article 1 of chapter 1 of this title (s. 40:1-1 et seq.). The interest ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-131.1 Additional bonds; issuance; maximum amount; proceeds
To meet the further expenses to be incurred by counties of the first class under the provisions of sections 40:37-96 to 40:37-174 of the Revised ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-131.2 Additional bonds; issuance; maximum amount; proceeds
To meet the further expenses to be incurred by counties of the first class under the provisions of sections 40:37-96 to 40:37-174 of the Revised ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-132 Amount collected from benefit assessment applied to payment of bonds
Upon the receipt of moneys collected from benefit assessments the park commissioners shall turn over the sum so collected to the officer, board or body ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-132.1 Moneys received for lands transferred by counties of first class for state highway purposes
When, in any county of the first class in which there is a county park commission governed by and acting under the provisions of sections ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-132.2 Moneys received for lands transferred by counties for state highway purposes; release for specific purposes
When, in any county having a county park commission governed by the provisions of R.S. 40:37-96 to 40:37-174, inclusive, the park commission has heretofore transferred ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-133 Lands used only for park purposes; railroads excluded; exceptions
All real estate taken or held under sections 40:37-96 to 40:37-174 of this title for the purpose of public parks shall be forever kept open ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-134 Rules and regulations; notice; penalties; disposition of
The commission may make rules and regulations for the government and use of the parks, open spaces, boulevards, parkways and roadways, and enforce the same ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-135 Control of streets or parks transferred to county park commission
Any county board having control of any street, avenue or road within the county, and any municipality within the county or any board in such ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-136 Return of control of street to municipality; consent required
Whenever a municipality has, prior to March nineteenth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, transferred to the county park commission the care, custody and control ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-137 Return of control of streets to county or municipality
When any county or municipal board having control of any street, avenue or road within the county has, prior to April twentieth, one thousand nine ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-138 Return of park lands to city of the first class
When any city of the first class has, prior to March twenty-ninth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, transferred to the county park commission the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-139 Dedication of park lands for public street in certain cases
When, in any city of the first class, any real estate owned by or under the care, custody and control of the county park commission ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-140 Dedication of lands for street upon request
When the governing body of any county or municipality shall request the park commission to dedicate real estate owned by, or under the care, custody ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-141 Copy of resolution and a map filed
A copy of the resolution of the park commission and of the resolution of the county or municipality, and a map of so much of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-142 Conveyance of park lands for school purposes in certain cases
When land acquired prior to April twentieth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, for a public park by the commission surrounds on three sides land ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-143 Improvement and care of connecting parkways
When a portion of a contemplated parkway for the connection of two established parks or reservations is already a street, avenue or way, the care, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-144 Contracts for elimination of grade crossings
The commission may enter into contracts with any municipality within which are located lands of the commission, and with any railroad company whose road divides ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-145 Use of park property for sewers and wells; contracts
The county park commission may contract with any county, municipality, joint outlet sewerage commission, district sewerage board or district water supply commission for the crossing, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-146 Exchange of real estate for park improvement
For the purpose of straightening or rendering symmetrical the boundary or boundaries of any park or parkway owned by, or under the care, custody or ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-146.1 Sale of real estate at private sale
Any real estate or part thereof heretofore or hereafter acquired by a county park commission governed by sections 40:37-96 to 40:37-174 of the Revised Statutes ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-146.2 Sale of real estate separated by highway construction from main park; option to purchase by political entities
Whenever a tract of land not exceeding 2 acres and comprised within the established limits of any one county park under the supervision and control ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-146.3 Leases of lands or concessions to highest responsible bidder; term; conditions
a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary, a county park commission established pursuant to R.S. 40:37-96 et seq. may lease park lands ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-147 Use of parks for games and other purposes
It shall be lawful to be present at and take part in, in county parks owned, maintained and operated by counties under authority of sections ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-147.1 Charges for admission to or use of recreational facilities
Whenever any county park commission shall have constructed and maintained, or shall construct and maintain, an indoor or outdoor recreation center or centers and other ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-148 Officers and employees; appointment and compensation
The commission shall annually choose from among its members a president, vice president and treasurer, and appoint a clerk or secretary and such other officers ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-148.1 Allocation of offices, positions or employments to classified service without examination; exceptions
All offices, positions or employments held with any county park commission in a county of the first class created or existing pursuant to sections 40:37-96 ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-148.2 Passaic county; tenure of employees
Any full-time employee appointed to office, position or employment, pursuant to the provisions of R.S. 40:37-148, by a county park commission in any county of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-151 Office; records; open to public inspection
The commission shall have a suitable office where its maps, plans, documents, records and accounts shall be kept, open to public inspection at such times ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-152 Rules and regulations; penalties for violations
The commission may: a. Make, alter, amend and repeal rules and regulations for the protection, regulation and control of the parks and parkways, and the ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-153 Enforcement of rules and regulations; jurisdiction
40:37-153. The rules and regulations provided for in section 40:37-152 of this Title shall be enforced in the same manner as municipal ordinances, in a ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-154 Park police; establishment; rules and regulations
The commission may appoint and establish a constabulary to preserve order in the parks and parkways under its control, and to secure the enforcement of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-154.1 Vacancies in park police system caused by entry into armed forces during war; substitutes
Whenever one or more vacancies occur in the park police system established by the park commission of any county having a population of more than ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-155 Powers of park police.
40:37-155. The members and officers of the park police may arrest on view and without warrant, and take before a court having local ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-156 Park police; removal; trial; proceedings
40:37-156. No member or officer of the police force or police department shall be removed except after trial and conviction by the park commission, or ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-156a Review of conviction
40:37-156a. Any member or officer of any such police force or police department not operating under the provisions of subtitle three of Title 11 of ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-157 Park police pension fund; establishment
In all counties governed by sections 40:37-96 to 40:37-174 of this title, there may be established a park police pension or retirement fund, which shall ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-158 Control of fund; bond of treasurer; investments
The park police pension fund in each county shall be managed and controlled by the park commission of that county. The secretary of the commission ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-159 Source of pension fund; assessment of members of force
The commission shall monthly pay to the treasurer of the fund all moneys collected in payment of fines imposed upon members of the police force, ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-160 Additional annual payment to fund
On January 1 each year there shall also be added to the fund such sum as the commission shall determine, on the basis of actuarial ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-161 Return of assessments in certain cases; widow's pension
If any member of the police force, who is a member of said fund, in good standing shall voluntarily retire therefrom and his resignation be ...

New Jersey Statutes 40:37-162 Beneficiaries; amount of pension
Each of the persons hereinafter specified shall be entitled to receive a pension for life from the fund established under section 40:37-157 of this Title, ...

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