New Jersey § acts:saved-40 - (4)

§ acts:saved-40. (4)

4. That ward and election district lines of such consolidated city shall be laid out

with regard to the county lines, so that no ward or election district will lie partly

in one county and partly in another county. If the wards and election districts of such borough or other municipality at the

time of such consolidation appear to be practicable, or if the whole territory of

such borough or other municipality is such that it may be designated as a single ward

or election district, the governing body of such city may, without other formality,

by resolution, adopt such wards and election districts or the whole of such borough

or other municipality as a ward and election district, numbering the same as a ward

or wards and as an election district or districts of such city, and file a certified

copy of such resolution in the offices of the county clerks of the counties in which

such city so consolidated is located. In case it is found impracticable to adopt such wards and election districts, or

the whole territory as a ward and election district, then new wards and election districts

may be created in such city, covering such borough or other municipality consolidated

therewith, in the manner provided by the charter or general laws governing such city. Immediately after such wards are established as aforesaid, members of the common

council, aldermen and other officers and members of boards to which such wards are

entitled under the laws governing such city, shall be appointed to hold office until

the first day of January following the next election of city officers, in the manner

provided by law for the filling of vacancies in cases of like officers and members

of boards in such city.