Rutgers Law

New Jersey Statutes, Title: 40, MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES

    Chapter 20: Board of chosen freeholders

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

          
1. a. The director of the board of chosen freeholders is authorized and empowered, with the consent of a majority of the members of the board, but not otherwise, to veto any action taken by any county authority or any member thereof at a meeting of a county authority. No action taken at a meeting by members of any county authority shall be effective if the director of the board of chosen freeholders returns to the authority a copy of the minutes with a veto of any action taken by the authority or any member thereof at a meeting of the authority or until 10 days after a copy of the minutes shall have been delivered to each member of the board of chosen freeholders.

b. "County authority" in this section means a body, public and corporate, created by a county pursuant to any law authorizing that creation, which law provides that the public body so created has at least the following powers:

(1) To adopt and use a corporate seal;

(2) To sue and be sued;

(3) To acquire and hold real or personal property for its purposes; and

(4) To provide for and secure the payment of its bonds or other obligations, or to provide for the assessment of a tax on real property within its district, or to impose charges for the use of its facilities or any combination thereof.

L.2010, c.52, s.1.



This section added to the Rutgers Database: 2012-09-26 13:37:51.

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