2020 New Jersey Revised Statutes
Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties
Section 40:76-1 - After six years may resume charter
40:76-1. After six years may resume charter
Any municipality which shall have operated for more than six years under the provisions of the act entitled "An act relating to, regulating and providing for the government of cities, towns, townships, boroughs, villages and municipalities governed by boards of commissioners or improvement commissioners" (title as amended), approved April twenty-fifth, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, or under the provisions of chapters 70 to 76 of this title (s. 40:70-1 et seq.), or both, may at a special election held not later than August fifteenth in any year, abandon such organization thereunder and may resume the form of government under the law under which it was being governed, when said act or said chapters 70 to 76 was or were adopted, subject to any amendments and supplements to said law which may have been made in the interim. The procedure shall be as hereinafter in this chapter provided.
