STATE STATUTES & CODES

NEW JERSEY STATUTES AND CODES

Section 40:20

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

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