40:20-35 - Certain counties governed hereby - New Jersey Statutes

40:20-35.  Certain counties governed hereby
    Nothing in sections 40:20-20 to 40:20-34 of this title contained shall be construed to require a reorganization of the board of chosen freeholders of any  county in accordance with the provisions of such sections when such county has  heretofore adopted the provisions of the act entitled  "An act to reduce the  number of members of the boards of chosen freeholders in counties of this  state, and to fix the salaries and provide for the election of the members of  said boards,"  approved March twenty-sixth, one thousand nine hundred and two,  either as originally passed or as amended, and which has effected a  reorganization of its board of chosen freeholders in pursuance thereof.  In  such counties the members of such reorganized boards of freeholders shall  continue in office until the expiration of the terms for which they were  elected, and such boards so reorganized shall be subject to and be governed by  the provisions of said sections 40:20-20 to 40:20-34.

    In all counties in which there has heretofore been held an election for the  acceptance or rejection of the act entitled  "An act to reduce the number of  members of the boards of chosen freeholders in counties of this state, and to  fix the salaries and provide for the election of the members of said boards,"  approved March twenty-sixth, one thousand nine hundred and two, either as  originally passed or as amended, at which election a majority of the votes cast  for or against the law reducing the number of freeholders were in favor of the  adoption of that act, the board of chosen freeholders shall consist of the  number of members, according to population, as provided for herein, and where  no election for members of the board of chosen freeholders has been held in  such county, subsequent to the adoption of that act, the board of freeholders  of such county shall be elected at the next general election held in such  county, in the manner herein set forth, and such boards of chosen freeholders  shall be subject to and be governed by the provisions of said sections 40:20-20  to 40:20-34.

    The boards of chosen freeholders in counties which have heretofore adopted the provisions of the act entitled  "An act to reorganize the boards of chosen freeholders of the several counties of this state, reducing the membership thereof, fixing the salaries and providing for the election and terms of office  of the members, and also for the appointment and terms of office of officers  appointed by such boards (Revision 1912)," approved April first, one thousand  nine hundred and twelve, either as originally enacted or as amended, shall be  continued under the provisions of said sections 40:20-20 to 40:20-34 and  nothing in such sections contained shall require the submission of the question  of the adoption of such sections to the voters of such counties.