{"data":{"id":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-40-20-27","jurisdiction":"us-nj","citation":"N.J. Stat. § 40:20-27","heading":"Existing laws continued","body":"All laws, public, general, special or private, relating to boards of chosen  freeholders in force in any county at the time sections 40:20-20 to 40:20-35 of  this title take effect therein shall apply to the boards of chosen freeholders  elected under the provisions thereof, so far as they shall not be inconsistent  with the provisions thereof and the boards of chosen freeholders elected  thereunder shall be vested with all the powers, authority, rights and  privileges and shall have imposed upon them all the duties which are vested in  or imposed upon the boards of chosen freeholders then existing.\nAll such laws in force or in anywise applicable to the boards of chosen freeholders existing at the time such change takes effect shall be continued in  force and made applicable to the boards of chosen freeholders elected under the  provisions of said sections 40:20-20 to 40:20-35 except so far as they may be  inconsistent with the meaning thereof.","path":["TITLE 40 MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES"],"source_url":"https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/statutes/STATUTES-TEXT.zip","current_through":"P.L.2025, c.405, and J.R.22","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T17:54:13Z","sha256":"48c5bc9a60208d32b1d9ed2b62dd23976c229492adee29277139addd7fc3f54a","source_id":"us-nj","stale":true,"prev":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-40-20-26","next":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-40-20-28"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}