40A:62-2 Elected officers, terms.

1. a. The mayor shall be elected by the voters of the municipality at large and shall be known as the councilman-at-large. The mayor shall serve for a term of four years.

b. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.2005, c.93).

c. The council shall consist of eight members, two elected from each of four wards. The members of council shall serve for a term of four years.

d. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection c. of this section, any town, whose council immediately prior to the effective date of P.L.1988, c.7 had a council whose method of election, composition or tenure of its membership differed in any way from the provisions set out in subsection c. of this section, shall continue to be governed by those provisions which determined the council's method of election, composition or tenure of its membership, as the case may be, until such time it wishes to adopt the provisions as set out in subsection c. of this section. Any adoption shall be by referendum of voters, after the town council shall have passed an ordinance not less than 60 days preceding any general election calling for the referendum to be placed upon the ballot. The referendum shall not be submitted to the voters more than once in any 10-year period.

e. The annual election for town officers shall be held at the same time and places as the general election. No person shall be permitted to vote at any such election unless he is an actual resident of the election district in which he offers his vote.

L.1988, c.7, s.1; amended 2001, c.118, s.2; 2005, c.93; 2009, c.339, s.5.