Charter Study Commission

Charter Study Commission
New Jersey Municipal Government Flag of New Jersey
Traditional forms
Borough Township
City Town Village
Modern Forms
Walsh Act/Commission
1923 Municipal Manager
Faulkner Act Forms
Mayor-Council Council-Manager
Small Municipality
Mayor-Council-Administrator
Nonstandard Forms
Special Charter
Changing Form of Municipal Government
Charter Study Commission This box: view · talk · edit

A Charter Study Commission is one of two options available to residents of New Jersey to pursue a change in their form of government. The other option is a direct petition. The charter study commission approach is only available under the Faulkner Act.

A charter study commission can be elected, most often when residents are dissatisfied with the existing form of government, but there is no agreement as to what new form should be implemented.

A ballot question to form a charter study commission can be performed through a petition or by the existing municipal governing body enacting an ordinance to form a commission. Voters simultaneously vote yes / no to form a commission and also vote to select its members (if it passes), with the top five candidates becoming the members of the commission.

A charter study commission can recommend that the municipality change to one of the Faulkner Act forms of government, a choice that must be ratified by the voters within the municipality. The charter study commission also may recommend a Special Charter, with further action being required, but the study commission by the New Jersey Legislature to approve the recommended variant form of government.

Some municipal governments have appointed a charter study committee (in contrast to the charter study commission). A charter study committee operates on a purely advisory basis. While it may perform the same research functions as a commission, a committee cannot place its recommendations on the ballot, but must do so via the petition method.

External links


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем решить контрольную работу

Look at other dictionaries:

  • charter — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. grant, sanction, license, franchise; constitution. v. establish, license, empower; rent, lease, hire, let, book. See permission, commission, legality, security. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A written grant] …   English dictionary for students

  • US Commission on National Security/21st Century — The U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century (USCNS/21), also known as the Hart Rudman Commission or Hart Rudman Task Force on Homeland Security, was chartered by Secretary of Defense William Cohen in 1998 to provide a comprehensive… …   Wikipedia

  • Earth Charter — The Earth Charter is a declaration of fundamental values and principles from Earth Charter International that it considers as necessary for building a just, sustainable, and peaceful global society in the 21st century. Created by a large global… …   Wikipedia

  • Adelphi Charter — The Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property is the result of a project commissioned by the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures Commerce, London, UK, and is intended as a positive statement of what …   Wikipedia

  • List of organisations with a British royal charter — is an incomplete list of organisations based both on in and over the United Kingdom and throughout the world, in chronological order, that have received a royal charter from an English, Scottish, or British monarch.: See also List organisations… …   Wikipedia

  • United Nations Commission on Human Rights — The United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) was a functional commission within the overall framework of the United Nations. It was a subsidiary body of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), and was also assisted in its work by… …   Wikipedia

  • Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 — is an institution founded in 1850 to administer the international exhibition of 1851, officially called the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations, held in The Crystal Palace in London, England. The founding President of the… …   Wikipedia

  • Local government of New Jersey — The local government of New Jersey is more complex than that of most U.S. states, potentially leading to misunderstandings regarding the governmental nature of an area. With five types and eleven forms of local government (plus several non… …   Wikipedia

  • New Jersey — This article is about the U.S. state of New Jersey. For other uses, see New Jersey (disambiguation). NJ redirects here. For other uses, see Nj (disambiguation) …   Wikipedia

  • Belmar, New Jersey — Not to be confused with Bellmawr, New Jersey. For other uses, see Belmar (disambiguation). Belmar, New Jersey   Borough   …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”