N.J. Stat. tit. 40, ch. 73

in effect

N.J. Stat. § 40:73-1 Qualifications sole test for election, appointment

All officers and employees shall be elected or appointed with reference to their qualifications and fitness, for the good of the public service and without reference to their political faith or party affiliations. No officer or candidate for office in any such municipality shall directly or indirectly give or promise any person any office, position, employment, benefit or anything of value for the purpose of influencing or obtaining the political support, aid or vote of any person, under the penalty of being disqualified to hold the office to which he may have been elected or appointed. Amended 2003, c.78.

N.J. Stat. § 40:73-2 No officer or employee to be interested in contracts

No officer or employee, elected or appointed in any such municipality shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract or job for work or materials, or the profits thereof, or services to be furnished or performed for the municipality, and no such officer or employee shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract or job for work or materials or the profits thereof, or services to be furnished or performed, for any person operating interurban railway, street railway, gas works, waterworks, electric light or power plant, heating plant, telegraph line, telephone exchange, or other public utility within the territorial limits of the municipality.

N.J. Stat. § 40:73-3 No officer or employee to receive free service; exceptions

No such officer or employee shall accept or receive, directly or indirectly, from any person operating within the territorial limits of said municipality any interurban railway, street railway, gas works, waterworks, electric light or power plant, heating plant, telegraph line, telephone exchange, or other business using or operating under a public franchise, any frank, free pass, free ticket, or free service or accept or receive directly or indirectly, from any such person any other service upon terms more favorable than is granted to the public generally, but such prohibition of free transportation shall not apply to policemen or firemen in uniform. Nor shall any free service to city officials heretofore provided by any franchise or ordinance be affected by this section.

N.J. Stat. § 40:73-4 Certain acts forbidden; penalties

For the violation of the provisions of section 40:73-2 or section 40:73-3 of this title the offender shall be punished as now or may be hereafter provided by law or ordinance.

N.J. Stat. § 40:73-5 Appointments in second-class cities in certain years; restriction

No subordinate board, department, body, office, position or employment shall be created and no appointments made to membership on any subordinate board, department or body, or to any office, employment or position including the position of patrolman and fireman by any board of commissioners or any member thereof in any city of the second class governed by the commission form of government hereunder, between the first Tuesday in May and the third Tuesday in May in any year in which an election of a board of commissioners for that city shall be held.

N.J. Stat. § 40:73-6 Salaries of officers and employees; exceptions

The salary or compensation of all officers and employees of the municipality shall be fixed by the board of commissioners, and shall be payable monthly, or at shorter periods as it shall determine. The salary or compensation of any member of the police or fire departments shall not be fixed at a less amount than that received by said member at the time of the adoption of chapters 70 to 76 of this title (s. 40:70-1 et seq.).

N.J. Stat. § 40:73-8 Application of laws relating to municipal boards of recreation commissioners

Provisions of law of a general character relating to municipal boards of recreation commissioners shall be applicable to municipalities governed by commission government. L.1971, c. 5, s. 2, eff. Jan. 15, 1971.

N.J. Stat. § 40:73-9 Borough under 5000; tax collector or treasurer; waiver of residency requirements

In any borough governed under the commission form of government law and having a population of less than 5,000 inhabitants, any person holding the office of borough tax collector, borough treasurer or both borough tax collector and borough treasurer need not be a resident of the borough notwithstanding the residency requirements prescribed by N.J.S. 40A:9-1 or by any other law. Any waiver of residency requirements for any of the aforesaid offices shall be contingent upon the adoption of a municipal ordinance to that effect. L.1973, c. 43, s. 1, eff. Feb. 27, 1973.

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