N.J. Stat. § App.A:3-3: Authorization by resolution; referendum

3. Any municipality may authorize any public works project by resolution of its governing body. Such resolution shall be published in full at least once in a newspaper published in the municipality, or, if there be no such newspaper, in a newspaper published in the county and circulating in the municipality. Such resolution shall be subject to referendum in the manner or mode of procedure in which an ordinance of a municipality is subject to referendum, as prescribed in an act entitled "An act concerning municipalities," being chapter one hundred and fifty-two of the laws of one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

(L.1933, c. 428, s. 3, p. 1149.)