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A1156
ASSEMBLY, No. 1156
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
222nd LEGISLATURE
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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman JOE DANIELSEN
District 17 (Middlesex and Somerset)
SYNOPSIS
���� Provides for mayor to retain appointing authority
under certain circumstances.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative
Counsel.
��
An Act
concerning mayoral appointing authority and amending P.L.1950, c.201.
����
Be It Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New
Jersey:
���� 1.��� Section 9-7 of P.L.1950,
c.210 (C.40:69A-87) is amended to read as follows:
���� The mayor shall preside at all
meetings of the municipal council and shall have a voice and vote in its
proceedings.�
[
He
]
The mayor
shall fill vacancies occurring in the trustees of the public library
[
and
]
,
in
the board of education where the municipality is operating under chapter 6 of
Title 18 of the Revised Statutes
, and, when a mayor is elected at-large by
the voters of the municipality at the regular municipal election or general
election, when such appointing authority is prescribed by general law
for
such terms of office as are provided by law. All bonds, notes, contracts and
written obligations of the municipality shall be executed on its behalf by the
mayor or, in the event of
[
his
]
the
mayor�s
inability to act, by such councilman as the municipal council shall
designate to act as mayor during his absence or disability.� The powers and
duties of the mayor shall be only such as are expressly conferred upon
[
him
]
the mayor
by this article.
(cf: P.L.1950, c.210, s.9-7)
���� 2.��� Section 9-18 of
P.L.1950, c.210 (C.40:69A-98) is amended to read as follows:
���� ��� Any provision of general
law conferring the appointing power or other power upon the mayor or other
executive head of the municipality shall be construed as meaning the municipal
manager in a municipality governed under this article, and the appointments or
the power exercised by the municipal manager in accordance with such provision
shall be classified and given the same force and effect as if executed by the
official named therein, except that members of the board of education
[
and
]
,
of
the trustees of the public library,
and when a mayor is elected at-large by
the voters of the municipality at the regular municipal election or general
election,
whenever required to be appointed by any such provision by any
board or official of the municipality, shall be appointed under this article by
the mayor, and except that the mayor shall serve as the fifth member of the
board of school estimate pursuant to N.J.S. 18A:22-1.
(cf: P.L.1981, c.68, s.1)
���� 3.��� This act shall take
effect immediately.
STATEMENT
���� This bill explicitly provides
that under a council-manager form of government, when the mayor is elected
at-large by the voters of the municipality at the regular municipal election or
general election, the mayor would retain appointing authority that is
prescribed by general law.�