{"data":{"id":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-40-20-71.3","jurisdiction":"us-nj","citation":"N.J. Stat. § 40:20-71.3","heading":"Veto power of director of board of chosen freeholders, certain.","body":"1. a. The director of the board of chosen freeholders is authorized and empowered, with the consent of a majority of the members of the board, but not otherwise, to veto any action taken by any county authority or any member thereof at a meeting of a county authority.  No action taken at a meeting by members of any county authority shall be effective if the director of the board of chosen freeholders returns to the authority a copy of the minutes with a veto of any action taken by the authority or any member thereof at a meeting of the authority or until 10 days after a copy of the minutes shall have been delivered to each member of the board of chosen freeholders.\nb.\t\"County authority\" in this section means a body, public and corporate, created by a county pursuant to any law authorizing that creation, which law provides that the public body so created has at least the following powers:\n(1)\tTo adopt and use a corporate seal;\n(2)\tTo sue and be sued;\n(3)\tTo acquire and hold real or personal property for its purposes; and\n(4)\tTo provide for and secure the payment of its bonds or other obligations, or to provide for the assessment of a tax on real property within its district, or to impose charges for the use of its facilities or any combination thereof.\nL.2010, c.52, s.1.","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":"0e7d8c6d8b83515e78836cf4e3e7d05e09765d8a6bd44c2314f65035510b7eb1","source_id":"us-nj","stale":true,"prev":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-40-20-71.2","next":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-40-20-72"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}