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Statutes > New-jersey > Title-40a > Section-40a-4 > 40a-4-840A:4-8. Public hearing; time and place
40A:4-8. The public hearing shall be held at the time and place specified in the advertisement thereof, but may be adjourned from time to time until the hearing is closed.
The budget shall be read, at the public hearing in full, or it may be read by its title, if
1. At least one week prior to the date of the hearing, a complete copy of the approved budget,
a. shall be made available for public inspection, in the case of a county budget, in each free public library, if any, in each municipality of the county and in the free county libraries or regional libraries of the county or, in the case of a municipal budget, in the free public library, if any, of the municipality and in the free county libraries or regional libraries located in the municipality or, if no county libraries or regional libraries are located in the municipality, the county or regional library of the county in which the municipality is located, and the public officer delegated the responsibility for delivering copies of the approved budget to such libraries shall forward to the governing body an attestation that each such delivery was made, and
b. is made available to each person requesting the same, during said week and during the public hearing, and
2. The governing body shall, by resolution passed by not less than a majority of the full membership, determine that the budget shall be read by its title and declare that the conditions set forth in subsections 1.a. and 1.b. of this section have been met.
After closing the hearing, the governing body may adopt the budget, by title without amendments, or may approve amendments as provided in N.J.S.40A:4-9 before adoption.
L.1960, c.169, s.1; amended 1964,c.78,s.2; 1995,c.259,s.9.
