40:44-10.Ā  Application to and governance of municipalities divided into wards
This act shall apply to and govern any municipality having adopted a charterĀ  or form of government, or ordinance, providing that the municipality shall beĀ  divided into wards, or other similar representation districts, for the purposeĀ  of the election or appointment of any municipal officers.Ā  It shall constituteĀ  the exclusive method whereby the boundaries of wards, or other similarĀ  representation districts, in municipalities shall be fixed and determined, andĀ  to this end all acts or parts of acts, whether of a general or specialĀ  character, which conflict or are incompatible with its provisions areĀ  superseded to the degree of the conflict or incompatibility.Ā  Nothing in thisĀ  act shall be sufficient in itself to authorize any municipality to divide intoĀ  wards or other similar representation districts, nor to increase or decreaseĀ  the number of its wards or similar representation districts.

L.1981, c. 496, s. 2, eff. Jan. 12, 1982.
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