Borough of Bergenfield, NJ
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2023-10-17
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Part I: Administrative Legislation
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Chapter 50 Officers and Employees
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Article I Elected Officials
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 2 Administrative Organization
- Ch 3 Antinepotism Policy
- Ch 5 Boards, Committees and Commissions
- Ch 9 Civil Service
- Ch 13 Court, Municipal
- Ch 15 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 17 Departments
- Ch 21 Drug and Alcohol Abuse Policy
- Ch 25 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 29 Fiscal Year
- Ch 32 (Reserved)
- Ch 34 Housing Authority
- Ch 38 Interlocal Services
- Ch 42 Length of Service Awards Program
- Ch 46 Mayor and Borough Council
- Ch 50 Officers and Employees
- Ch 50 Art I Elected Officials
- § 50-1 Elected officials.
- § 50-2 Resignation and vacancies.
- Ch 54 Ordinances, Adoption of
- Ch 56 Personnel
- Ch 65 Sexual Harassment Policy
- Ch 69 Special Improvement Districts
- Ch 73 Volunteer Ambulance Corps
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 83 Alarms
- Ch 87 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 91 Amusements
- Ch 95 Animals
- Ch 99 Auctioneers
- Ch 103 Autobuses
- Ch 107 Barbershops
- Ch 111 Bicycles
- Ch 116 Brush, Grass and Weeds
- Ch 118 Builders, Contractors and Landscapers
- Ch 120 Buildings, Moving of
- Ch 124 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 126 Buildings Unfit for Human Habitation
- Ch 127 Cannabis Tax
- Ch 128 Carnivals
- Ch 136 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 138 Cranes
- Ch 142 Disorderly Conduct
- Ch 149 Filming
- Ch 153 Firearms
- Ch 157 Fire Prevention
- Ch 161 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 165 Games of Chance
- Ch 170 Graffiti
- Ch 174 Handbills
- Ch 178 Hazardous Materials
- Ch 186 Land Development
- Ch 190 Laundromats
- Ch 198 Licensing
- Ch 200 Lightning Detection System
- Ch 194 Library
- Ch 202 Littering
- Ch 205 Loitering
- Ch 207 Marriage and Civil Union Ceremonies
- Ch 208 Massage Parlors, Rules and Regulations
- Ch 211 Motor Vehicles on Open Lots
- Ch 215 Noise
- Ch 221 Parking
- Ch 223 Parks and Playgrounds
- Ch 227 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 232 Property Maintenance
- Ch 233 Property, Abandoned
- Ch 236 Public Records, Access to
- Ch 239 Rental Property
- Ch 240 Rent Control
- Ch 241 Restricted Areas in Municipal Offices
- Ch 244 Sales, Special
- Ch 246 Salt Storage, Privately Owned
- Ch 248 Secondhand Dealers
- Ch 252 Sewers
- Ch 256 Shopping Carts
- Ch 262 Soil Removal
- Ch 266 Solid Waste
- Ch 268 Stormwater Management
- Ch 270 Street Fairs
- Ch 273 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 277 Swimming Pools
- Ch 279 Taxation
- Ch 280 Telephones, Outdoor Public
- Ch 282 Tobacco Products; Smoking
- Ch 284 Towers
- Ch 288 Trailers
- Ch 291 Trees
- Ch 295 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 297 Vehicles, Electric
- Ch 299 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 303 Vehicles for Hire
- Ch 306 Water
- Ch 310 Child-Care Centers
- Ch 312 Cosmetology
- Part III: Board of Health Legislation
- Ch 341 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 344 Sanitary Code
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Adopted 12-16-1975 by Ord. No. 1046 as Sec.
2-2 of the Revised General Ordinances]
[Amended 2-17-1981 by Ord. No. 1156]
A.
Enumerated. The elected officials of the Borough shall
consist of a Mayor and six Councilmen.
B.
Terms of office.
(1)
The term of office of all elected officers shall begin
at 12:00 noon on January 1 next after their election.
(2)
The Mayor shall hold office for four years and until
his successor has qualified. The Councilmen shall hold office for
three years and until their successors have qualified. The terms shall
be arranged so that the terms of two Councilmen shall expire at the
end of each year.
A.
Mayor and Council. Whenever the Mayor presents to
the Council his resignation from office, the resignation may be accepted
by a vote of the Council and the office of Mayor shall thereupon be
deemed vacant. Vacancies in the office of Mayor and the Borough Council
shall be filed in accordance with applicable law.
B.
Other elective offices. All vacancies in other elective
offices shall be filled by nomination by the Mayor and appointment
by him with the advice and consent of the Council, expressed by the
vote of a majority of the members of the Council present at the meeting;
provided that at least three affirmative votes shall be required for
such purpose, the Mayor to have no vote thereon except in the case
of a tie.
C.
Procedure.
(1)
All vacancies occurring in any elective office, except the office of Assessor, shall be filled by appointment until January 1, following the next annual election and until the election and qualification of a successor. The procedure for appointments and in case of the failure to make or confirm the same shall be as provided by § 50-1B.
(2)
If a vacancy occurs at so short a period of time before
the next annual election that the office cannot be filled at the election,
the vacancy shall be filled in the same manner as though it had occurred
immediately after the election, and the vacancy shall then be filled
at the next subsequent annual election for the portion of the term,
if any, as may still remain unexpired.
(3)
At the next annual election the persons elected to
fill the vacancies shall be elected for the unexpired term only.
