40:69A-25.3 - Group C alternative; adoption; transitional provisions - New Jersey Statutes

40:69A-25.3.  Group C alternative;  adoption;  transitional provisions
    Whenever any municipality shall, pursuant to the authority granted in section 7 of this act, amend its charter only to include an alternative permitted under its plan of government and included in group C. of subsection b. of section 7 of this act, the transitional provisions of this section shall apply.

    a.  If the amended charter shall provide for the election of all council members for concurrent terms in a municipality where prior to the amendment council members were elected for staggered terms, at the next election at which  municipal officers are elected, and at each succeeding municipal election  thereafter until such time as it shall occur that all council members shall be  elected at the same election, council members elected at that election shall  serve for a term equal in years to the number which the council member  currently serving and having the greatest number of years remaining of his term  has yet to serve of his term.  At the election that it shall occur that all  council members shall be elected at the same time, each council member shall be  elected for the term of years provided in the amended charter.

    b.  If the amended charter shall provide for the election of council members  for staggered terms in a municipality where prior to the amendment council  members were elected for concurrent terms, the amendment to the charter shall  take effect for the next election at which municipal officers are elected in  the municipality.

     L.1981, c. 465, s. 9, eff. Jan. 9, 1982.