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The Optional Municipal Charter Law or Faulkner Act (N.J.S.A 40:69A-1 [1], et seq.) provides New Jersey municipalities with a variety of models of local government. This legislation is called the Faulkner Act in honor of the late Bayard H. Faulkner, former mayor of Montclair, New Jersey, U.S., and former chairman of the Commission on Municipal Government.
The council-manager system is similar to the typical governance of a publicly traded corporation. [4] Under the form, an elected governing body, usually called a city council, board of aldermen, or similar title, is responsible for legislative functions such as establishing policy, passing local ordinances, voting appropriations, and developing an overall vision, similar to a corporate board ...
Of the 26 cities in Northern Kentucky over 1,000 population, 23 use the mayor-council form.
Opinion: Readers dig in on war, eminent domain and city elections in letters published Oct. 23-29, 2023. Letters: Letters: I’m a former mayor. Josh Mandelbaum has what it takes.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version ... Template to build lists of mayors, one template per table row. Sample: List of mayors of Solothurn.
In most New England towns, the adult voting population gathered annually in a town meeting to act as the local legislature, approving budgets and laws. Day-to-day operations were originally left to individual oversight, but when towns became too large for individuals to handle such work loads, they would elect an executive board of selected men (hence the name) to run things for them.