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2018 New Jersey Revised Statutes
Title 40 - MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES
Chapter 20 - Board of chosen freeholders
- Section 40:20-1 - Board of chosen freeholders
- Section 40:20-1.1 - Quarterly fiscal reports
- Section 40:20-1.2 - Grant of powers
- Section 40:20-1.3 - Administrative code
- Section 40:20-1.4 - Additional powers
- Section 40:20-2 - Membership; number and term; first election
- Section 40:20-3 - Organization
- Section 40:20-5 - Extension of terms
- Section 40:20-6 - Law applicable
- Section 40:20-7 - Referendum; procedure
- Section 40:20-8 - Submission at presidential primary
- Section 40:20-9 - Nonpartisan ballot box; transfers.
- Section 40:20-10 - Superior Court judge to resolve doubt on right to vote
- Section 40:20-11 - Method of voting; results returned
- Section 40:20-12 - Ballots; form and content; sample ballots
- Section 40:20-13 - Nonpartisan poll book; ballots numbered
- Section 40:20-14 - Submission at general election
- Section 40:20-15 - Ballot; form and content; counting
- Section 40:20-16 - Notice of election
- Section 40:20-17 - Eligibility of voters
- Section 40:20-18 - Results of election; return and canvassing.
- Section 40:20-19 - Certain counties governed hereby
- Section 40:20-20 - Membership; number; increase or decrease; proposition; submission to voters; petition; effective date
- Section 40:20-20a - Terms of additional members
- Section 40:20-20.4 - Proposition to change term of office
- Section 40:20-20.5 - Election under adopted proposition
- Section 40:20-21 - First election; terms of members first elected
- Section 40:20-22 - Additional members in certain cases
- Section 40:20-23 - Election; term; organization
- Section 40:20-25 - Expiration of terms of existing members
- Section 40:20-26 - Terms of officers; exceptions
- Section 40:20-27 - Existing laws continued
- Section 40:20-28 - Referendum; submission to voters
- Section 40:20-29 - Petition for submission; sufficiency; filing
- Section 40:20-30 - Petition; time for filing; notice of election
- Section 40:20-31 - Ballot; form and content
- Section 40:20-32 - Conduct of election
- Section 40:20-33 - Vote required for adoption
- Section 40:20-34 - Resubmission
- Section 40:20-35 - Certain counties governed hereby
- Section 40:20-35.1 - Number of members; election; terms
- Section 40:20-35.2 - Organization
- Section 40:20-35.3 - Expiration of terms of existing members; filling of existing vacancies
- Section 40:20-35.4 - Compensation
- Section 40:20-35.11a - Vacancy on board of chosen freeholders eligible to be filled by election; exceptions.
- Section 40:20-35.11b - Selection of interim successor
- Section 40:20-35.11c - Nomination of candidate from floor
- Section 40:20-35.12 - Vacancy in offices of all or majority of members
- Section 40:20-35.13 - Appointees; qualifications
- Section 40:20-71 - Director; selection; substitute
- Section 40:20-71.1 - Designation of another freeholder
- Section 40:20-71.2 - Appointments by county executive
- Section 40:20-71.3 - Veto power of director of board of chosen freeholders, certain.
- Section 40:20-72 - Members of boards of chosen freeholders not governed by optional county charter law; director
- Section 40:20-73 - Compensation of freeholders not paid an annual salary
- Section 40:20-74 - Salaries of freeholders not paid on per diem basis
- Section 40:20-74.1 - Resolution fixing compensation; publication before passage
- Section 40:20-74.2 - Hearing on resolution
- Section 40:20-74.3 - Second reading or amendment
- Section 40:20-74.4 - Publication of resolution upon passage
- Section 40:20-74.5 - Majority required for passage
- Section 40:20-74.6 - Compensation not changed unless fixed by resolution
- Section 40:20-75 - Annual meetings
- Section 40:20-76 - Regular meetings
- Section 40:20-77 - Special meetings; how called; notice
- Section 40:20-78 - Penalty for clerk's failure to call meeting
- Section 40:20-79 - Adjournment of meeting
- Section 40:20-80 - Committees designated
- Section 40:20-81 - Director to appoint members of committees
- Section 40:20-82 - Investigations by committees; member may administer oath
- Section 40:20-83 - Subpoenas; testimony
- Section 40:20-84 - Penalty for perjury
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