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		As a municipal corporation, the municipality has the power to sue and be sued, to acquire and dispose of property, to make contracts, to tax, and to enact ordinances-all these corporate privileges coming from the state.
		In the small municipality plan, tailored specifically to update borough and township forms in communities of fewer than 12,000 population, the mayor--either directly elected by the people or chosen by and from the council--serves as executive head of the municipality, but without veto power.
		The costs of municipal government, of schools and of a share of County costs together make up the local tax which is apportioned more or less fairly among local property owners on the basis of their property values as determined by the local assessor.
	www.aljbs.org /php/govt/municipal_gov.php (2742 words)

	Faulkner Act (New Jersey) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This legislation is called the Faulkner Act in honor of the late Bayard H. Faulkner, former mayor of Montclair and chairman of the Commission on Municipal Government.
		The Faulkner Act was created to provide municipalities with greater flexibility than provided in New Jersey's traditional forms of government (City, Township, Borough, Town and Village) and to expand on the reforms provided in the Walsh Act and the 1923 Municipal Manager Law.
		Municipalities under this plan establish three to ten executive departments, headed by a director appointed by the mayor with the consent of the council.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Faulkner_Act_(New_Jersey) (641 words)

	NJVoterInfo.org
		All municipalities have a policymaking body (council, committee, commission or board of trustees) and a mayor as formal executive (in village form the title is president).
		Municipalities may elect officials at-large, by wards or a combination of the two in either partisan or nonpartisan elections.
		There are eleven specific forms of municipal government in the statutes, seven based on historical forms of local government and four based on the Faulkner Act.
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~njvi/?p=municipal.php (549 words)

	New Jersey Citizens Guide to Government
		All municipalities have a policy-making body (council, committee, commission or board of trustees) and a mayor as formal executive (in village form the title is president).
		Municipal court judges are appointed by the local governing body and must be members of the New Jersey Bar.
		Municipal judges are permitted to practice law with the exception of criminal matters.
	www.lwvnj.org /guide/municip.shtml (751 words)

	Pennsylvania Bar Association \| 2000 Acts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Act amending the act of May 1, 1933 (P.L.103, No.69), entitled, as reenacted and amended, “An act concerning townships of the second class; and amending, revising, consolidated and changing the law relating thereto,” providing for school crossing guards; and further regulating the annual budget and uniform report forms.
		Act amending the act of March 30, 1811 (P.L.145, No.99), entitled “An act to amend and consolidate the several acts relating to the settlement of the public accounts and the payment of the public monies, and for other purposes,” authorizing voluntary early severance plans for certain employees.
		An Act authorizing the release of Project 70 restrictions imposed on a certain tract of land in Mercer County owned by the Pennsylvania Game Commission in exchange for the imposition of Project 70 restrictions on a certain tract of land in Mercer County to be conveyed to the commission.
	pabar.org /legis00acts.shtml (4124 words)

	New Jersey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Formerly, an acting governor was even more powerful as he simultaneously served as president of the senate, thus directing half of the legislative and all of the executive process.
		This was followed by the 1923 Municipal Manager Law, which offered a non-partisan council, provided for a weak mayor elected by and from the members of the council, and introduced Council-Manager government with an (ideally apolitical) appointed manager responsible for day-to-day administration of municipal affairs.
		While municipalities retain their types of government, they may have changed to one of the modern forms of government, or further in the past to one of the other traditional forms, leading to municipalities with formal names quite baffling to the general public.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Jersey (6870 words)

	NJLM - Forms of NJ Municipal Government
		The next seven forms are "optional" forms of government available for adoption, with the exception of the OMCL Small Municipality Plan (which is available only to municipalities with a population of under 12,000), by all 566 municipalities.
		Mayor is head of municipal government and sees that state laws and borough ordinances are faithfully executed.
		Mayor is head of municipal government and has all powers vested in mayor by general law.
	www.njslom.org /types.html (973 words)

	Borough mulls new form of government By linda denicola Staff Writer
		The Faulkner Act, which was enacted in 1950 and revised in 1981, is an optional municipal charter law.
		According to an overview of the types of municipal government provided by the League of Women Voters of New Jersey, the two most used forms, which are not Faulkner Act plans, are the borough and township forms.
		Since all Faulkner Act forms include a provision for initiative, referendum and recall, there would be more opportunity for direct voter involvement in local government, which would be quite suitable for a community like Roosevelt," he added.
	examiner.gmnews.com /news/2003/0529/Front_page/025.html (780 words)

	Student Voices: New Jersey: Local Government Basics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Municipal government powers include the ability to make policy decisions, levy taxes, borrow money, authorize spending, and to control the administration of the municipal government through the appointment of various department heads and other employees.
		All municipalities have a policymaking body know as a council, committee, commission or board of trustees, and a mayor (in a village, the mayor is known as the president).
		The Faulkner Act was passed in 1950 and revised in 1981.
	student-voices.org /newjersey/basics (1087 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : New Jersey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Richard Codey (Democrat) is the acting governor, because he is (and concurrently serves as) President of the State Senate.
		This was followed by the 1923 Municipal Manager Law which offered a non-partisan council, a weak mayor elected by and from among the members of the council, and introduced Council-Manager government, with an (ideally apolitical) appointed manager responsible for day-to-day administration of municipal affairs.
		While municipalities retain their type of government, they may have changed to one of the modern forms or further in the past to one of the other traditional forms, leading to municipalities with formal names quite baffling to the general public.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /New_Jersey (5318 words)

	Chester Township Municipal Government
		As a corporation, a municipality has the power to sue and be sued, to acquire and dispose of property, to make contracts, to tax, and to enact ordinances.
		In 1958, Chester Township changed its form of government from the Township Form to a Faulkner Act form, Small Municipality, Plan C. Its structure includes four Councilmen and a Mayor, all elected at large (not from wards) for three year terms.
		The Mayor is responsible for the budget, enforcing the charter (State law) and all ordinances (local laws), and the preparation of an annual report for the Council and residents.
	www.chestertownship.org /municipal.cfm (750 words)

	North Jersey Media Group providing local news, sports & classifieds for Northern New Jersey!
		Statewide, 84 of New Jersey's 566 municipalities are non-partisan.
		Municipal governments' option to be non-partisan is included in a state law commonly referred to as the Faulkner Act.
		Small municipality: This is reserved for communities with fewer than 12,000 residents.
	www.northjersey.com /page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk1MDImZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTY4MzE4ODQmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkz (1271 words)

	MINUTES FOR THE BUSINESS MEETING
		Casey has also been a consultant to municipalities that are establishing charter commissions and looking for a person to consult with when they are going through their study.
		Now the Faulkner Act came along in 1950, the first form that was proposed there was the Mayor-Council form and the attempt here was to create a strong Mayor and to balance that with a Council that had the checks and balances over the Mayor.
		The third form that the Faulkner Act made available was a Small Municipality Mayor-Council Plan; nineteen places are using it - forget about it because your over 12,000 in population you can’t use it.
	www.ringwoodnj.net /cspecialminutes7-18-05.htm (10094 words)

	Old Bridge Township, New Jersey - Faulkner Act
		New Jersey's Optional Municipal Charter Law (NJSA 40:369A-1 et seq.) popularly known as the Faulkner Act, became law on June 8, 1950, Chapter 210 of the Laws of 1950.
		The clerk and the tax assessor are subject to the same general administrative procedures and requirements as the other departments in areas such as budgeting, purchasing, personnel practices, and data processing services, but beyond those areas, in the general practice and conduct of their duties, they do not answer to the mayor.
		Each department of the municipal government is headed by a director who is appointed by the mayor with the advice and consent of council.
	www.oldbridge.com /content/42/58/284.aspx (844 words)

	TYPES AND FORMS OF NEW JERSEY MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The next seven forms are "optional" forms of government available for adoption, with the exception of the OMCL Small Municipality Plan (which is available only to municipalities with a population of under 12,000), by all 567 municipalities.
		Mayor is head of municipal government and sees that state laws and borough ordinances are faithfully executed.
		Mayor is head of municipal government and has all powers vested in mayor by general law.
	rcomm.net /hillside-nj.com/public_html/types.htm (1005 words)

	West Paterson's Governing Body
		The Borough of West Paterson was chartered by the State of New Jersey to function under a variation of the Faulkner Act, Small Municipality Plan C of the Option Municipal Charter Law form of government.
		The Council may adopt the municipal budget proposed by the Mayor, but revisions may be required by a majority of the governing body before final approval.
		The Municipal Clerk and Borough Attorney must be present at “regular” meetings.
	www.westpaterson.com /government.html (314 words)

	Revista Envío - Is National Sovereignty Possible In These Times of Globalization?
		Harold Faulkner explains that the “new imperialism” that emerged after the end of that war wasn’t aimed at acquiring and physically controlling new territories, but rather at developing the US power of legal transnational regulation.
		They express the municipalities’ legitimate interests and act as their voice to make their approaches and their development and autonomy proposals known to the international cooperation organizations, national states and United Nations.
		She explains the reasons behind this as follows: “The weakness of the reflections by important sectors of the Left on the model of society being sought is linked to a pragmatic and in some ways opportunist approach to the struggle over government.
	www.envio.org.ni /articulo/3197 (7245 words)

	Faulkner Act (small Municipality) info here at en.89-of-100.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Faulkner Act, or Optional Municipal Charter Law, provides for New Jersey municipalities to affiliate a Small Municipality sculpture of government.
		Unlike the supplementary Faulkner Act city hall of municipal government, the Small Municipality Plan is achievable only to municipalities with a population of devicing 12,000.
		As in outright Faulkner Act municipalities, citizens in the OMCL Small Municipality conformity funk the go of initiative referendum, point that asked for ordinances can be introduced pronto by the regular national after disposition by the parochial governing body.
	en.89-of-100.info /Faulkner_Act_(Small_Municipality) (587 words)

	Local Reform - Common Cause
		Further, legislation giving municipalities and counties clear and broad enabling authority to continue to adopt their own strong pay-to-play reforms was signed into law.
		Without legislation allowing municipalities to enact bans that are more strict than the state's, the state law will supersede the local legislation adopted by some of New Jersey's municipalities and counties.
		The Faulkner Act, adopted by the state in 1950, allows citizens to directly introduce legislation without action by the local governing body through initiative and referendum.
	www.commoncause.org /site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=998735 (11743 words)

	Sandy Hook Bay Marina
		A monument bearing a plaque to Captain Joshua Huddy now stands in a small park which bears his name at the foot of Water Witch Avenue in the Highlands near the spot where he was hanged.
		In January of 1920 the Volstead Act was passed as a means of enforcing the 18th Amendment prohibiting the "manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors." This Prohibition Amendment was the culmination of an anti-liquor fight begun by the American Temperance Society in 1815.
		The idiosyncrasies of the clam are as well-known to Parkertowners as are the whims of a child to its parents.
	www.sandyhookbaymarina.com /historic.html (16203 words)

	RICHARD BOZUNG et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. LOCAL AGENCY FORMATION COMMISSION OF VENTURA COUNTY
		All parties to this litigation -- except Kaiser -- agree that pertinent sections of both the 1970 and the 1972 legislation and of the Guidelines are relevant to a proper determination of the central issue, the applicability of CEQA to Knox-Nisbet.
		The Knox-Nesbit Act (Gov. Code, § 54773 et seq.) was designed to curb the wasteful duplication of services resulting from indiscriminate formation of municipalities and special districts and from haphazard annexation of territory to existing local agencies.
		These were: (1) shortsighted municipal annexations, often motivated by a desire to bring within the city a high tax base area and resulting in odd and irrational municipal boundary configurations; (2) the proliferation of special districts to service unincorporated areas; and (3) municipal incorporations benefiting special interests or "defensively" initiated.
	ceres.ca.gov /ceqa/cases/bozung_010775.html (10909 words)

	Vote Yes Question 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This was a time when a small number of services were needed and the limited functions of the township could be performed by the occasional get to gethers of the town's citizens.
		The function of the township committee under the Township Act of 1798 was to supervise the expenditure of township funds between town meetings 1.
		Of course there are more munipalities from the big cities you have heard about to municipalities with slightly larger populations than Hillsborough who run their governments with wards such as Wayne, Old Bridge, and Piscatawy.
	www.hillsborough-watchdog.org /q3 (1259 words)

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		Professor Johanson testified that sometimes the votes of student members of the committee are aberrant departures from the admissions decisions norm, noting that Carvell received no votes from non-student members of the admissions committee.
		We therefore reverse the court's grant of that injunction and remand for further proceedings on the injunction issue consistent with this opinion.
		As the district court acted within its discretion in all rulings on attorneys' fees, we affirm those rulings in all respects.
	www.nacua.org /NACUAResourcePages/Docs/AffirmativeAction/hopwood.txt (7668 words)

	National service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In Singapore, the National Service (Amendment) Act was passed on March 14, 1967, under which all able-bodied male citizens between 18-21 years of age are required to serve in the military for two years.
		The City of Egg Harbor City is governed by a Faulkner Act (New Jersey) form of Government and follows the Faulkner Act (Small Municipality) Plan (N.J.S.A. The elected officials that head the government are comprised of a mayor and nine council members.
		The book discusses the ramifications of small mistakes or faults like forgetting pair of socks on the floor just before bedtime, burning your toast at tea, or even small things such as asking a teacher if you could go to the toilet at the "wrong time".
	national.service.en.reee.org (8836 words)

	Central Arkansas Planning and Development Disrict \| About CAPDD
		The District is governed by a Board of Directors comprised of each respective County Judge, the Mayor from the largest city, and a representative of the business and minority community from each of the designated counties.
		Every incorporated municipality within the designated counties are members of the Central Arkansas Planning and Development District.
		These are Act 749, which established recycling goals for the state, Act 751 which banned the disposal of yard waste in landfills, and Act 752 which mandated regional management of solid waste.
	www.capdd.org /about/capdd.html (760 words)

	Belmar, NJ - Belmar's Form of Government (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In July of 1990, the voters of Belmar overwhelmingly passed a referendum changing Belmar‘s form of government from a 3-person, non-partisan Commission form of government under the Walsh Act to the Small Municipality Plan form of government under the Faulkner Act.
		Under the version of the Small Municipality Plan form applicable to Belmar, the Council consists of 4 members who are elected for staggered, 3-year terms at partisan (November) elections, and the Mayor, who is directly elected by the voters for a 4-year term.
		The Mayor serves as the chief executive officer of the municipality, and oversees the day-to-day operations of the Borough.
	www.belmar.com /?Section_ID=436 (287 words)

	October 1, 1996
		And indeed it has been hidden and hidden with Court assistance with respect to the restriction of her testimony which was done during the trial.
		That point which shows that a third person was somewhere around at the time or in close proximity to Faulkner's death was never before disclosed to the defense and that evidence came out in the course of the prosecution witness, Detective Edward D'Amato testifying.
		Relief Act hearing last summer and to preserve her testimony for the record as well with regard to what she would have said since we are here on this matter if she had been called at such a hearing.
	www.justice4danielfaulkner.com /pcra/96-10-01.html (16500 words)

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