40:44-10 - Application to and governance of municipalities divided into wards - New Jersey Statutes

40:44-10.  Application to and governance of municipalities divided into wards
    This act shall apply to and govern any municipality having adopted a charter  or form of government, or ordinance, providing that the municipality shall be  divided into wards, or other similar representation districts, for the purpose  of the election or appointment of any municipal officers.  It shall constitute  the exclusive method whereby the boundaries of wards, or other similar  representation districts, in municipalities shall be fixed and determined, and  to this end all acts or parts of acts, whether of a general or special  character, which conflict or are incompatible with its provisions are  superseded to the degree of the conflict or incompatibility.  Nothing in this  act shall be sufficient in itself to authorize any municipality to divide into  wards or other similar representation districts, nor to increase or decrease  the number of its wards or similar representation districts.

     L.1981, c. 496, s. 2, eff. Jan. 12, 1982.