New Jersey Statutes|Chapter: 20 Board of chosen freeholders

Section 40:20-1: Board of chosen freeholders

Section 40:20-1.1: Quarterly fiscal reports

Section 40:20-1.2: Grant of powers

Section 40:20-1.3: Administrative code

Section 40:20-1.4: Additional powers

Section 40:20-2: Membership; number and term; first election

Section 40:20-3: Organization

Section 40:20-5: Extension of terms

Section 40:20-6: Law applicable

Section 40:20-7: Referendum; procedure

Section 40:20-8: Submission at presidential primary

Section 40:20-9: Nonpartisan ballot box; transfers.

Section 40:20-10: Superior Court judge to resolve doubt on right to vote

Section 40:20-11: Method of voting; results returned

Section 40:20-12: Ballots; form and content; sample ballots

Section 40:20-13: Nonpartisan poll book; ballots numbered

Section 40:20-14: Submission at general election

Section 40:20-15: Ballot; form and content; counting

Section 40:20-16: Notice of election

Section 40:20-17: Eligibility of voters

Section 40:20-18: Results of election; return and canvassing.

Section 40:20-19: Certain counties governed hereby

Section 40:20-20: Membership; number; increase or decrease; proposition; submission to voters; petition; effective date

Section 40:20-20a: Terms of additional members

Section 40:20-20.4: Proposition to change term of office

Section 40:20-20.5: Election under adopted proposition

Section 40:20-21: First election; terms of members first elected

Section 40:20-22: Additional members in certain cases

Section 40:20-23: Election; term; organization

Section 40:20-25: Expiration of terms of existing members

Section 40:20-26: Terms of officers; exceptions

Section 40:20-27: Existing laws continued

Section 40:20-28: Referendum; submission to voters

Section 40:20-29: Petition for submission; sufficiency; filing

Section 40:20-30: Petition; time for filing; notice of election

Section 40:20-31: Ballot; form and content

Section 40:20-32: Conduct of election

Section 40:20-33: Vote required for adoption

Section 40:20-34: Resubmission

Section 40:20-35: Certain counties governed hereby

Section 40:20-35.1: Number of members; election; terms

Section 40:20-35.2: Organization

Section 40:20-35.3: Expiration of terms of existing members; filling of existing vacancies

Section 40:20-35.4: Compensation

Section 40:20-35.11a: Vacancy on board of chosen freeholders eligible to be filled by election; exceptions.

Section 40:20-35.11b: Selection of interim successor

Section 40:20-35.11c: Nomination of candidate from floor

Section 40:20-35.12: Vacancy in offices of all or majority of members

Section 40:20-35.13: Appointees; qualifications

Section 40:20-71: Director; selection; substitute

Section 40:20-71.1: Designation of another freeholder

Section 40:20-71.2: Appointments by county executive

Section 40:20-71.3: Veto power of director of board of chosen freeholders, certain.

Section 40:20-72: Members of boards of chosen freeholders not governed by optional county charter law; director

Section 40:20-73: Compensation of freeholders not paid an annual salary

Section 40:20-74: Salaries of freeholders not paid on per diem basis

Section 40:20-74.1: Resolution fixing compensation; publication before passage

Section 40:20-74.2: Hearing on resolution

Section 40:20-74.3: Second reading or amendment

Section 40:20-74.4: Publication of resolution upon passage

Section 40:20-74.5: Majority required for passage

Section 40:20-74.6: Compensation not changed unless fixed by resolution

Section 40:20-75: Annual meetings

Section 40:20-76: Regular meetings

Section 40:20-77: Special meetings; how called; notice

Section 40:20-78: Penalty for clerk's failure to call meeting

Section 40:20-79: Adjournment of meeting

Section 40:20-80: Committees designated

Section 40:20-81: Director to appoint members of committees

Section 40:20-82: Investigations by committees; member may administer oath

Section 40:20-83: Subpoenas; testimony

Section 40:20-84: Penalty for perjury