N.J.S.A.
40:54-29.10: Joint library trustees
The board of trustees of such joint library shall consist of (a) the mayor or other chief executive officer of each participating municipality; (b) the superintendent of schools of the local school district of each such municipality, or, if there be no such official, one of the principals in the local school system, selected by the mayor or other chief executive officer, or, if there be neither of such officials, the president of the board of education; and (c) three citizens to be appointed by the mayor or other chief executive officer of each such municipality, at least two of whom shall be residents of the municipality. The initial appointments of such citizen members shall be for terms of three, four and five years, respectively, as they may be selected by the mayor or other chief executive officer. Thereafter, such citizen appointments shall be for terms of five years and until their successors are appointed and qualify. The original citizen appointments in any municipality having a free public library at the time for the formation of the joint library shall be made from among the appointed citizen members of the board of trustees of such library. Vacancies occurring on the board of trustees shall be filled for the unexpired term only. The mayor or other chief executive officer and the superintendent of schools or the principal, as the case may be, serving as a member of the board, may, respectively, appoint an alternate to act in his place with authority to attend all meetings of the board and in his absence, to vote on all questions before the board.
L.1959, c. 155, p. 621, s.8 eff. Sept 4, 1959. Amended by L.1986, c. 99, s.1, eff. Aug. 27, 1986.
N.J.S.A.
40:54-29.11: Termination of boards of trustees of free public libraries of participating municipalities; assets and obligations
Upon the formation of a joint free public library, the terms of office of the members of the board of trustees of any free public library of any participating municipality shall terminate. The assets and obligations of any such board of trustees shall devolve upon such municipality unless otherwise provided in the agreement.
L.1959, c. 155, p. 621, s.9, eff. Sept. 4, 1959.
N.J.S.A.
40:54-29.12: Board of trustees as body corporate; name
The board of trustees of the joint library shall be a body corporate under the name of “The trustees of the joint free public library of (insert the names of the participating municipalities, or other appropriate designation). “
L.1959, c. 155, p. 622, s.10, eff. Sept. 4, 1959.
N.J.S.A.
40:54-29.13: Board of trustees
The board of trustees shall be vested with authority to carry out the purposes of the joint library, in the manner provided for free public libraries governed pursuant to chapter 54 of Title 40 of the Revised Statutes. The powers and duties of boards of trustees of free public libraries governed by said chapter are hereby conferred and imposed upon the board of trustees of such joint library and its trustees and officers.
L.1959, c. 155, s.11; amended 1988, c. 38, s.4.
N.J.S.A.
40:54-29.13a: Joint free public library administrators, duties
39. The director or other chief administrative officer of a joint free public library serving two or more municipalities shall:
a. cause copies of the voter registration forms and instructions furnished under subsection f. of section 16 of P.L.1974, c. 30 (C. 19:31-6.4) to be displayed at the principal and any branch location of that library and to be made available to each person who, when appearing in person at such location, may wish, on a voluntary basis, to register to vote;
b. provide for the continuous supply of the forms and instructions specified in subsection a. of this section to each such principal or branch location; and
c. provide the forms and instructions specified in subsection a. of this section in both the English and Spanish languages to each library which provides services under any program administered by the library which is located in any county in which bilingual sample ballots must be provided pursuant to R.S.19:14-21, R.S.19:49-4 or section 2 of P.L.1965, c. 29 (C. 19:23-22.4).
L.1994, c. 182, s.39.
N.J.S.A.
40:54-29.14: Disbursing officer
The board of trustees of the joint library shall designate the chief financial officer of 1 of the participating municipalities as the disbursing officer for such joint library.
L.1959, c. 155, p. 622, s.12, eff. Sept. 4, 1959.
N.J.S.A.
40:54-29.15: Employees
Employees of any free public library of any participating municipality at the time of the formation of the joint library shall, upon the formation thereof, become employees of the joint library without diminution in salary.
L.1959, c. 155, p. 622, s.13, eff. Sept. 4, 1959.
N.J.S.A.
40:54-29.16: Certification of sum needed for operation of joint library; apportionment.
14. The board of trustees of the joint library shall, not later than December 1 of each year, certify to the respective municipalities the sum required for the operation of the joint library for the ensuing year and the share of such sum to be borne by the taxpayers in each of the municipalities in accordance with the method of apportionment provided in the joint library agreement. If the governing body of any of the municipalities objects to the amount or apportionment so certified, it shall forthwith call a joint meeting of the governing bodies and the board of trustees for the purpose of adjusting and settling any differences. If the governing bodies of such municipalities cannot agree, the matter shall be referred to the Director of the Division of Local Government Services in the Department of Community Affairs for determination.
L.1959, c. 155, s.14; amended 2011, c.38, s.2.
N.J.S.A.
40:54-29.17: Raising of sum needed, quarterly payments.
15. The proportionate share of the sum so certified or agreed upon or determined in its annual budget, shall be raised by taxation, pursuant to the provisions of R.S.54:4-49, and shall be paid over to the disbursing officer of the joint library on a quarterly basis. The amount thus agreed upon shall be assessed, levied, and collected in the same manner and at the same time as other municipal purposes taxes are assessed, levied and collected. Operations under the budget and related matters shall be subject to and in accordance with rules of the Local Finance Board in the Department of Community Affairs.
L.1959, c. 155, s.15; amended 2011, c.38, s.3.
N.J.S.A.
40:54-29.18: Capital improvements; certification of sums needed; apportionment of costs
If the board of trustees shall determine that it is advisable to raise money for the acquisition of lands or a building or buildings or for the improvement of lands or erecting, enlarging, repairing, altering, furnishing, decorating or equipping a building or buildings or for other capital improvement for the purpose of a joint free public library, it shall certify to the respective municipalities the sum or sums, in addition to such moneys as it may have on hand applicable to such purposes, estimated to be necessary for such purposes, and the share of such sum or sums to be borne by each municipality in accordance with the method of apportionment provided in the joint library agreement. If the governing body of any of the municipalities objects to any of said purposes or to the amount or apportionment of said sum or sums, it shall forthwith call a joint meeting of the governing bodies and board of trustees for the purpose of adjusting or settling any differences. If the governing bodies of such municipalities cannot agree, the matter shall be referred to the Director of the Division of Local Government for determination.
L.1959, c. 155, p. 623, s.16, eff. Sept. 4, 1959.
N.J.S.A.
40:54-29.19: Appropriation for capital improvements; borrowing
Each municipality, to provide for such capital improvement, shall either:
(a) appropriate its proportionate share of the sum or sums for the purposes certified or agreed upon or determined in the same manner as other appropriations are made by it pursuant to the Local Budget Law (R.S.40:2-1 et seq.); or
(b) by ordinance appropriate such sum or sums for such purposes, pursuant to said ordinance borrow the sum or sums so appropriated and secure the repayment of the sum or sums so borrowed by the authorization and issuance of bonds or notes of the municipality pursuant to and in the manner and within the limitations prescribed by the Local Bond Law (R.S. 40:1-1 et seq.).
L.1959, c. 155, p. 623, s.17, eff. Sept. 4, 1959.
N.J.S.A.
40:54-29.20. Consent to capital improvements; expenditures
The board of trustees shall be empowered and authorized, with the consent of the governing bodies of the municipalities, to undertake the purpose or purposes for which such appropriation for capital improvement was made and to expend moneys therefor to the amount of such appropriation, in addition to other moneys available therefor.
L.1959, c. 155, p. 624, s.18, eff. Sept. 4, 1959.
N.J.S.A.
40:54-29.21: Title to realty
The title to any real estate acquired pursuant to any such appropriation shall be taken in the names of the municipalities as tenants in common, but the use and control thereof shall be in the board of trustees so long as such real estate is used for joint free public library purposes.
L. 1959, c. 155, p. 624, s.19, eff. Sept. 4, 1959.
N.J.S.A.
40:54-29.22: Discontinuance of participation in joint library; notice; joint meeting of governing bodies
If the governing body of any municipality shall determine by ordinance to propose to discontinue its participation in the support, maintenance and control of the joint free public library, it shall give notice thereof to the governing body of each of the other participating municipalities and to the board of trustees. The said governing bodies and board of trustees shall hold a joint meeting as soon as practicable for the purpose of arriving at an agreement as to the method of such discontinuance, the use of the library facilities thereafter, the adjustment, apportionment, accounting for, settlement, allowance and satisfaction of the rights and liabilities in or with respect to any property, obligations or other matters or things connected with said library, and such other matters and things in connection therewith as such governing bodies shall determine. If said governing bodies shall be unable to agree, the matter shall be referred to the Director of the Division of Local Government for determination.
L.1959, c. 155, p. 624, s.20, eff. Sept. 4, 1959.
N.J.S.A.
40:54-29.23: Discontinuance.
21. When such discontinuance has been agreed upon or determined and if the governing body of the municipality proposing such discontinuance shall determine to proceed therewith,
(a) such governing body shall introduce an ordinance authorizing and directing the submission to the legal voters the question whether said municipality shall discontinue participation in the joint library pursuant to said agreement or determination, which agreement or determination may be incorporated by reference in said ordinance provided said agreement or determination shall be and remain on file in the office of the municipal clerk for public inspection;
(b) if said ordinance shall be adopted, a copy thereof and of said agreement or determination shall be filed with the Director of the Division of Local Government and the State Librarian; and
(c) the question of such discontinuance shall be submitted to the legal voters of such municipality at the next general election to be held therein not less than 40 days after the adoption of said ordinance, and said agreement or determination shall remain on file in the office of the municipal clerk for public inspection pending such election.
L.1959, c. 155, p. 625, s.21; amended 2001, c.137, s.57.
N.J.S.A.
40:54-29.24: Discontinuance; form of ballot
Such question shall be placed upon the official ballots for such election in substantially the following form:
“Shall (name of municipality submitting the question) discontinue joint participation with (name of the other participating municipality or municipalities) in the support, maintenance and control of a joint free public library pursuant to chapter (insert chapter number of this act) of the laws of 1959?”
L.1959, c. 155, p. 625, s.22, eff. Sept. 4, 1959.
N.J.S.A.
40:54-29.25: Discontinuance; effect of majority approval; participation in joint library by remaining municipalities
If at said election the question is approved in such municipality by a majority of the legal votes cast both for and against such question, the joint participation of said municipality in the support, maintenance and control of said joint free public library shall be discontinued in accordance with the agreement or determination. If more than 2 municipalities have united to participate in such joint free public library, the participation by the remaining municipalities shall continue, unless otherwise provided for in the discontinuance agreement or determination.
L.1959, c. 155, p. 625, s.23, eff. Sept. 4, 1959.
Sections 40:54-30 to 40:54-34, inclusive, of the Revised Statutes are repealed.
L.1959, c. 155, p. 626, s.24, eff. Sept. 4, 1959.
The following statute exempts library expenditures from N.J.S.A. 40A:4-45.3 which is popularly referred to as the “cap” law. There are numerous exemptions to the “cap” law. Only the sections which refer to public libraries and association libraries have been included.
TITLE 40A. MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES
CHAPTER 4. LOCAL BUDGET LAW
N.J.S.A. 40A:4-45.3: Municipalities; budget limitation exceptions.
In the preparation of its budget a municipality shall limit any increase in said budget to 2.5% or the cost-of-living adjustment, whichever is less, over the previous year’s final appropriations subject to the following exceptions:
a. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1990, c.89.)
b. Capital expenditures, including appropriations for current capital expenditures, whether in the capital improvement fund or as a component of a line item elsewhere in the budget, provided that any such current capital expenditure would be otherwise bondable under the requirements of N.J.S.40A:2-21 and 40A:2-22;
c. (1) An increase based upon emergency temporary appropriations made pursuant to N.J.S.40A:4-20 to meet an urgent situation or event which immediately endangers the health, safety or property of the residents of the municipality, and over which the governing body had no control and for which it could not plan and emergency appropriations made pursuant to N.J.S.40A:4-46. Emergency temporary appropriations and emergency appropriations shall be approved by at least two-thirds of the governing body and by the Director of the Division of Local Government Services, and shall not exceed in the aggregate 3% of the previous year’s final current operating appropriations.
(2) (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1990, c.89.)
The approval procedure in this subsection shall not apply to appropriations adopted for a purpose referred to in subsection d. or j. below;
d. All debt service, including that of a Type I school district;
e. Upon the approval of the Local Finance Board in the Division of Local Government Services, amounts required for funding a preceding year’s deficit;
f. Amounts reserved for uncollected taxes;
g. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1990, c.89.)
h. Expenditure of amounts derived from new or increased construction, housing, health or fire safety inspection or other service fees imposed by State law, rule or regulation or by local ordinance;
i. Any amount approved by any referendum;
j. Amounts required to be paid pursuant to (1) any contract with respect to use, service or provision of any project, facility or public improvement for water, sewerage, parking, senior citizen housing or any similar purpose, or payments on account of debt service therefor, between a municipality and any other municipality, county, school or other district, agency, authority, commission, instrumentality, public corporation, body corporate and politic or political subdivision of this State; (2) the provisions of article 9 of P.L.1968, c.404 (C.13:17-60 through 13:17-76) by a constituent municipality to the intermunicipal account; (3) any lease of a facility owned by a county improvement authority when the lease payment represents the proportionate amount necessary to amortize the debt incurred by the authority in providing the facility which is leased, in whole or in part; and (4) any repayments under a loan agreement entered into in accordance with the provisions of section 5 of P.L.1992, c.89;
k. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1987, c.74.)
l. Appropriations of federal, county, independent authority or State funds, or by grants from private parties or nonprofit organizations for a specific purpose, and amounts received or to be received from such sources in reimbursement for local expenditures. If a municipality provides matching funds in order to receive the federal, county, independent authority or State funds, or the grants from private parties or nonprofit organizations for a specific purpose, the amount of the match which is required by law or agreement to be provided by the municipality shall be excepted;
m. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1987, c.74.)
n. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1987, c.74.)
o. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1990, c.89.)
p. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1987, c.74.)
q. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1990, c.89.)
r. Amounts expended to fund a free public library established pursuant to the provisions of R.S.40:54-1 through 40:54-29, inclusive;
s. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1990, c.89.)
t. Amounts expended in preparing and implementing a housing element and fair share plan pursuant to the provisions of P.L.1985, c.222 (C.52:27D-301 et al.) and any amounts received by a municipality under a regional contribution agreement pursuant to section 12 of that act;
u. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.2004, c.74.)
v. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1990, c.89.)
w. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.2004, c.74.)
x. Amounts expended to aid privately owned libraries and reading rooms, pursuant to R.S.40:54-35;
y. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1990, c.89.)
z. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1990, c.89.)
aa. Extraordinary expenses, approved by the Local Finance Board, required for the implementation of an interlocal services agreement;
bb. Any expenditure mandated as a result of a natural disaster, civil disturbance or other emergency that is specifically authorized pursuant to a declaration of an emergency by the President of the United States or by the Governor;
cc. Expenditures for the cost of services mandated by any order of court, by any federal or State statute, or by administrative rule, directive, order, or other legally binding device issued by a State agency which has identified such cost as mandated expenditures on certification to the Local Finance Board by the State agency;
dd. Expenditures of amounts actually realized in the local budget year from the sale of municipal assets in extraordinary cases and with the permission of the Local Finance Board;
ee. Any local unit which is determined to be experiencing fiscal distress pursuant to the provisions of P.L.1987, c.75 (C.52:27D-118.24 et seq.), whether or not a local unit is an “eligible municipality” as defined in section 3 of P.L.1987, c.75 (C.52:27D-118.26), and which has available surplus pursuant to the spending limitations imposed by P.L.1976, c.68 (C.40A:4-45.1 et seq.), may appropriate and expend an amount of that surplus approved by the director and the Local Finance Board as an exception to the spending limitation. Any determination approving the appropriation and expenditure of surplus as an exception to the spending limitations shall be based upon:
1) the local unit’s revenue needs for the current local budget year and its revenue raising capacity;
2) the intended actions of the governing body of the local unit to meet the local unit’s revenue needs;
3) the intended actions of the governing body of the local unit to expand its revenue generating capacity for subsequent local budget years;
4) the local unit’s ability to demonstrate the source and existence of sufficient surplus as would be prudent to appropriate as an exception to the spending limitations to meet the operating expenses for the local unit’s current budget year; and
5) the impact of utilization of surplus upon succeeding budgets of the local unit;
ff. Newly authorized operating appropriations for the municipal court or violation’s bureau when approved by the vicinage Presiding Judge of the Municipal Court after consultation with the mayor and governing body of the municipality;
gg. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.2004, c.74.)
hh. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.2004, c.74.)
ii. Subject to the approval of the Local Finance Board, expenditures related to the cost of conducting and implementing a total property tax levy sale pursuant to section 16 of P.L.1997, c.99 (C.54:5-113.5);
jj. Amounts expended for a length of service award program pursuant to P.L.1997, c.388 (C.40A:14-183 et al.);
kk. Amounts expended to provide municipal services or reimbursement amounts to multifamily dwellings for the collection and disposal of solid waste generated by the residents of the multifamily dwellings. This subsection shall cease to be operative at the end of the first local budget year in which the municipality has fully phased in its reimbursement amount expenses;
ll. Amounts expended by a municipality under an interlocal services agreement entered into pursuant to the “Interlocal Services Act,” P.L.1973, c.208 (C.40:8A-1 et al.) entered into after the effective date of P.L.2000, c.126 (C.52:13H-21 et al.). The governing body of the municipality that will receive the service may choose to allow the amount of projected annual savings to be added to the amount of final appropriations upon which its permissible expenditures are calculated pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1976, c.68 (C.40A:4-45.2);
mm. Amounts expended under a joint contract pursuant to the “Consolidated Municipal Service Act,” P.L.1952, c.72 (C.40:48B-1 et seq.) entered into after the effective date of P.L.2000, c.126 (C.52:13H-21 et al.). The governing body of each participating municipality may choose to allow the amount of projected annual savings to be added to the amount of final appropriations upon which its permissible expenditures are calculated pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1976, c.68 (C.40A:4-45.2);
nn. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.2004, c.74.)
oo. Amounts appropriated in the first three years after the effective date of P.L.2003, c.92 (C.18A:7F-5b et al.) for liability insurance, workers’ compensation insurance and employee group insurance;
pp. Amounts appropriated in the first three years after the effective date of P.L.2003, c.92 (C.18A:7F-5b et al.) for costs of domestic security preparedness and responses to incidents and threats to domestic security;
qq. Amounts required to be paid by a municipality pursuant to the provisions of section 4 of P.L.2007, c.311 (C.13:1E-96.5).
In the first full year when an existing appropriation or expenditure that is subject to budget limitations is made an exception to budget limitations, a municipality shall deduct from its final appropriations upon which its permissible expenditures are calculated pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1976, c.68 (C.40A:4-45.2), the amount which the municipality expended for that purpose during the last full budget year, or portion thereof, in which the purpose so excepted was funded from appropriations in the municipal budget.
In the first full year when an existing appropriation or expenditure that is not subject to budget limitations is made subject to budget limitations, a municipality shall add to its final appropriations upon which its permissible expenditures are calculated pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1976, c.68 (C.40A:4-45.2), the amount which the municipality expended for that purpose during the last full budget year, or portion thereof, in which the purpose so excepted was funded from appropriations in the municipal budget.
L.1976, c.68, s.3; amended 1977, c.10, s.1; 1980, c.66; 1981, c.56, s.1; 1983, c.49, s.5; 1985, c.22; 1985, c.82, s.1; 1987, c.74, s.2; 1988, c.66; 1989, c.3, s.17; 1989, c.100, s.19; 1990, c.89, s.2; 1990, c.95, s.3; 1992, c.89, s.6; 1993, c.269, s.16; 1994, c.72, s.6; 1997, c.99, s.9; 1997, c.388, s.12; 2000, c.26, s.4; 2000, c.126, s.19; 2001, c.25, s.5 2001, c.342, S.10; 2003, c.92, s.1; 2004, c.74, s.3; 2007, c.311, s.17.
EDITORIAL NOTE
Under various forms of government in New Jersey, the mayor has the authority to appoint many municipal officials including the Library Board of Trustees. Under other forms of government in New Jersey, the mayor may also have the power to appoint municipal officials, but the officials so appointed are not specifically named in law. The following four statutes specify the power of the mayor to appoint the Board of Trustees under these specific forms of government.
TITLE 40. MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES
CHAPTER 69A – ELECTION ON QUESTION WHETHER CHARTER COMMISSION SHALL BE ELECTED
ARTICLE 9. COUNCIL-MANAGER PLAN A
N.J.S.A.
40:69A-87: Duties of mayor
The mayor shall preside at all meetings of the municipal council and shall have a voice and vote in its proceedings. He 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 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 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 by this article.
L.1950, c. 210, p. 486, s. 9-7, eff. June 8, 1950.
N.J.S.A.
40:69A-98: Laws conferring powers upon mayor or other executive head construed as meaning municipal manager
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, 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.
L.1950,c. 210,p. 490, s. 9-18, eff. June 8, 1950. Amended by L. 1981, c. 68, s.1, eff. March 18, 1981.
CHAPTER 81. MEMBERS; NUMBER; INCREASE OR DECREASE BY INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM
N.J.S.A.
40:81-8: Mayor; powers and duties
The mayor shall preside at all meetings of the municipal council and shall have a voice and vote in its proceedings, but shall not have the power of veto. He shall fill vacancies occurring in the trustees of the public library for such terms of offices 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 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 by this subtitle.
CHAPTER 82. MUNICIPAL MANAGER; APPOINTMENT; SALARY
N.J.S.A.
40:82-5. Power of appointment
In any act or ordinance a provision conferring the power of appointment 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 subtitle, 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, whenever required to be appointed by any such provision by any board or official of the municipality, shall be appointed under this subtitle by the mayor.
EDITORIAL NOTE
The following statute concerns the funding of association libraries by a municipality. The operation and structure of association libraries are governed by the provisions of N.J.S.A. Title 15A.
CHAPTER 54. ESTABLISHMENT; CHAPTER APPLICABLE TO LIBRARIES ESTABLISHED UNDER OTHER LAWS
ARTICLE 3. AID TO PRIVATELY OWNED LIBRARIES AND READING ROOMS
N.J.S.A.
40:54-35. Library funds
The governing body of any municipality may appropriate and raise such sum of money as in its judgement may be deemed necessary to aid libraries and reading rooms in serving any such municipality, whether such libraries and reading rooms be located in such municipality or in an adjoining municipality; provided, the person or corporation owning or controlling any library and reading room receiving and accepting such aid shall keep the same open free to the use of the public at such reasonable hours as meets the approval of the governing body of such municipality.
Amended by L.1938, c. 68, p. 179, s.1; L.1941, c. 199, p. 589, s.1; L.1943, c. 24, p. 58, s.1; L.1947, c. 219, p. 880, s.1; L.1956, c. 78, p. 165, s.1, eff. June 7, 1956.
Last Updated: October 2023.
