Title 40, Title 40: MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES

40:54-29.9 Procedure for amendment of joint library agreement. 7. a. The joint library agreement may be amended by agreement among the parties thereto but such amendments shall not become effective until approved in each of the participating municipalities by ordinance, which ord…

40:54-3. Referendum; notice The municipal clerk shall cause public notice of such general or special election to be given by advertisement, signed by himself and set up in at least five public places in the municipality for at least ten days previous to the date of such election …

40:54-35. Library funds The governing body of any municipality may appropriate and raise such sum of money as in its judgment may be deemed necessary to aid libraries and reading rooms in serving any such municipality, whether such libraries or reading rooms be located in such mu…

40:54-4. Ballot; form and content The officer charged with the duty of preparing the ballots for such election shall cause the question to be submitted to be printed on the official ballots for such election in substantially the following form: "To vote upon the public question p…

40:54-5. Election returns The election officers of the municipality shall make a true and correct return of the result of such election in writing, under their hands, and said statement shall be entered at large upon the minutes of the governing body.

40:54-6. Vote required for adoption If a majority of the votes so counted shall be in favor of a free public library, the provisions of this article shall be deemed to have been adopted.

40:54-7. Rejection of proposition; second election Where any municipality shall vote against the establishment of a free public library such vote shall not preclude the holding of another election, general or special, to vote for or against the adoption of the provisions of this …

40:54-7.1 Dissolution of free public libraries. 1. a. Any free public library established by referendum pursuant to R.S.40:54-1 et seq., may be dissolved, provided the dissolution is approved by a majority of the legal voters of the municipality, at a general election at which th…

40:54-8 Library tax. 40:54-8. a. Within every municipality governed by this article there shall annually be raised by taxation a sum equal to one-third of a mill, unless a higher rate is approved by the voters pursuant to subsection b. of this section, on every dollar of assessab…

40:54-8.1 Limitation on increase in amount raised by taxation. 5. Any increase in the amount raised by taxation for the municipal library as required by R.S.40:54-8 shall not exceed the total amount expended by the municipality in the previous year plus 15% of the previous year's…

40:54-8.2 Preparation of ballots. 4. a. The officer charged with the duty of preparing the ballots for an election in which a proposition is to be submitted to the voters pursuant to subsection b. of R.S.40:54-8 or pursuant to subsection b. of section 7 of P.L.1959, c.155 (C.40:5…

40:54-9. Trustees; number, appointment and term; alternates Immediately upon the establishment by any municipality of a free public library under this article, a board of trustees shall be formed to consist of from seven to nine members, one of whom shall be the mayor or other ch…