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18A:54-29.3.  County vocational school districts including cities, annual or  special appropriations, apportionment
    The board of chosen freeholders of any county of the second class having a population of not less than 375,000 nor more than 425,000 inhabitants and which  has created a county vocational school district subsequent to July 1, 1962, may  provide that the amounts (other than amounts to be raised for interest and  redemption of bonds or notes issued by the county for purposes of such county  vocational school district) to be raised for annual or special appropriations  for such county vocational school district are to be apportioned on the basis  of (1) the apportionment valuations, as defined in section 54:4-49 of the  Revised Statutes, of the municipalities in such county, or (2) the average  daily enrollment of pupils from municipalities within such county during the  preceding school year, or (3) any combination or percentage of either of the  aforesaid, as shall be determined by said board of chosen freeholders prior to  October 1 for and with respect to the school year commencing on July 1 next  succeeding said date.  Determination as to any basis as aforesaid shall be made  by resolution of such board of chosen freeholders, if such board, after  consideration of the vocational school needs of such county and of the  municipalities therein and of the costs and expenses of such county vocational  school district and of the financial resources and abilities of such county and  of the municipalities therein, shall find that such basis is in the best  interests of the county and of such county vocational school district and the  municipalities therein.  Any basis so established shall continue without change  for a period of five school years, unless prior to the end of such period the commissioner, upon the request of the board of chosen freeholders or of the board of education of the county vocational school district, shall determine that some other or different basis, as herein permitted or provided for, shall  be in the best interest of such county, such county vocational school district  and the municipalities therein, and is a basis which could have been  established by the board of chosen freeholders of such county.  Until any other  basis shall have been established, the basis referred to as above shall be  applicable to such county vocational school district.  Where average daily  enrollment of the preceding school year is to be used as the whole or any part  of a basis for apportionment of amounts to be raised for annual or special appropriations, the commissioner shall certify to the county vocational school district and to the county board of taxation, from the latest official statistics then available or estimates thereof, the average daily enrollment to  be used until such time as actual average daily enrollment statistics shall be  available and certified by the commissioner as aforesaid.  No amount to be  raised for annual or special appropriations for the county vocational school  district shall be so appropriated except with the concurrence and consent of  the board of chosen freeholders if the basis for raising such annual or special  appropriations of the county vocational school district shall require that more  than 50% of such basis shall be such apportionment valuations.
 
L.1967, c.271.