Title 40, Title 40: MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES

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 municipal authority for review of applications for developmen…

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 cash or that more than 10% of a performance guarantee pursuant to that se…

40:14B-76. Disputes by applicant of charges made by professional; appeal 14. a. An applicant shall notify in writing the municipal authority with copies to the chief financial officer and the professional whenever the applicant disputes the charges made by a professional for serv…

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 the municipal authority engineer or by the applicant's engineer based on documented co…

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 is an irrevocable let…

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 local unit, may be filed in the office of the Secretary of State. A c…

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 authority or county sewer authority as a municipal authority pursuant to this act, shall therea…

40:15A-1 Definitions relative to Yellow Dot programs. 1. For the purposes of this act: "Emergency responder" means a municipal, county, or State law enforcement officer or firefighter or other person who has been trained to provide emergency medical first response services in a p…

40:15A-2 "Yellow Dot Program," establishment permitted. 2. a. The local governing body of any county or municipality in this State may establish a "Yellow Dot Program." The purpose of a "Yellow Dot Program" is to provide emergency responders with critical health and emergency con…

40:15A-3 Program materials. 3. a. In implementing a Yellow Dot Program and designing program materials, a local governing body shall give consideration to the program materials used by similar programs in the State and other states. The local governing body may also consult with …

40:15A-4 Availability of program materials; fee. 4. a. Any local governing body that establishes a Yellow Dot Program pursuant to this act shall make program materials available for pick up at convenient and accessible locations by any person interested in becoming a program part…

40:15A-5 Immunity from liability for certain civil damages. 5. An emergency responder is not liable for any civil damages as a result of any acts or omissions undertaken in response to incomplete, incorrect, or outdated information provided on any health information card if the r…

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.

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 board of chosen freeholders, nor shall any provision hereof, whether fixing or providing for the fixing of a …

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 a body politic and corporate and shall be known by its corporate title. The boundaries of t…

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 board of chosen freeholders under the corporate name as heretofore existing…

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 personal property for the use and benefit of the county.

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 to 9 (C.S. pp. 1676 to 1678, s.s. 1 to 9), ent…

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 described as follows: Beginning at a point in …

40:18-4.2. Annexation to borough of Matawan, Monmouth county, of part of township of Madison, Middlesex county All that part of the township of Madison, in the county of Middlesex, and bounded as follows: Beginning at a concrete monument set by A. T. McMichael, surveyor, November…

40:18-4.3. Monmouth and Middlesex counties; boundary lines The boundary line between the county of Middlesex and the county of Monmouth at this place be, and the same hereby is, made and established as courses one (1), two (2), three (3), and four (4) of the description set forth…

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.

40:19-2. Resolution; submission to voters In order to effect the change, the board of chosen freeholders shall adopt a resolution that the county seat shall be changed to a municipality other than that in which it is then located, designating the other municipality by name. The r…

40:19-3. Petition for resolution; resolution on initiative of board If a petition signed by at least twenty per cent of the legal voters of the county shall be presented to the board, requesting such a change of the county seat from one municipality to another therein named, the …

40:19-4. Referendum Upon the passage of the resolution, the clerk of the board of chosen freeholders shall forthwith transmit a certified copy thereof to the proper officer, notifying him that a vote is desired upon the question. Such officer shall, in the manner and form provide…

40:19-5. Ballot; form and content The question shall be printed upon the ballots to be used at the election in substantially the following form: "To vote upon the public question printed below, if in favor thereof mark a cross (X) or plus (+) in the square at the left of the word…

40:19-6. Submission at general election; law applicable The question shall be voted upon at said next general election, and the votes shall be canvassed, and the result determined and announced in the manner provided by the laws relating to elections.

40:19-7. Vote required for adoption; board to provide accommodations If a majority of the legal voters voting at the election shall vote YES the board of chosen freeholders shall thereupon provide suitable lands and buildings necessary for the accommodation of the courts and offi…

40:19-8. Courts and county officers established in new county seat After the acquisition and furnishing of such buildings, the courts of the county and all the county officers shall be established therein. Amended by L.1953, c. 37, p. 637, s. 22, eff. March 19, 1953.

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

40:19A-1. Counties of third class; establishment of offices outside county seat and county jail The governing body of any county of the third class may, by resolution or ordinance, as appropriate, provide for the establishment and maintenance of any of the county offices at any l…

40:20-1 Board of county commissioners. 40:20-1. The property, finances, and affairs of every county shall be managed, controlled, and governed by a board elected therein, to be known as "the board of county commissioners of the county of ..................... (specifying name of …

40:20-1.1. Quarterly fiscal reports Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary, all boards, bodies or commissions appointed by the board of chosen freeholders of a county and receiving funds or using funds made available by said freeholder board, shall render quart…

40:20-1.2. Grant of powers The grant of powers under this amendatory and supplementary act is intended to be as broad as is consistent with the Constitution of the State of New Jersey and with general law relating to local government. The grant of powers shall be construed as lib…

40:20-1.3 Administrative code. 4. a. The board of chosen freeholders may adopt an administrative code organizing the administration of the county government, setting forth the duties and responsibilities and powers of all county officials and agencies, and the manner of performan…

40:20-1.4. Additional powers In addition to the powers set forth in sections 3 and 4 of this amendatory and supplementary act, the board of chosen freeholders is authorized and empowered to make policy and management decisions related to those activities of any independent boards…

40:20-10. Superior Court judge to resolve doubt on right to vote 40:20-10. If any voter is not entitled or doubts his right to vote under sections 40:20-2 to 40:20-19 of this Title he may apply to a judge of the Superior Court for a certificate entitling him to vote. The judge sh…

40:20-11. Method of voting; results returned The ballot of each legal voter who shall desire to vote hereunder as well as for presidential delegates, shall be deposited in the primary box in which he is qualified to vote after his primary ballot shall have been cast. The ballot o…

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 same manner as the primary ballots and shall be distributed to the different election boar…

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" , and a record shall be kept therein of each voter who votes in the nonpartisan box, with the num…

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 members of the general assembly, on petition signed by at least one thousand legal voters of the coun…

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 form: "To vote upon the public question printed below, if in favor thereof, mark…

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 posting and publishing notices of general elections. Amended by L.1948, c. 5, p. 51, s. 1, eff. Apr…

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 number of votes cast for or against it.

40:20-18 Results of election; return and canvassing. 40:20-18. 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 of elections held on primary election for the general election day, in…

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 in this state," approved March twenty-sixth, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, and is…