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Someone with a good knowledge of New Jersey geography and local government needs to attend to this page to turn it from a skeleton to a highly useful summary. Nyttend ( talk) 14:15, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
Cerra, Michael F. "Forms of Government", from the New Jersey State League of Municipalities, is a wonderful source summarizing the various forms and providing references to other primary sources. I've already referenced it regarding Loch Arbour as the only village form, but this can be used elsewhere. Alansohn ( talk) 22:25, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
I think this may be the best place to discuss what it means to be an unincorporated community in New Jersey. Perhaps we can base this on an old revision of Unincorporated community (New Jersey) (beware redirect). Or do people think that would be out-of-scope for this article, since it is specifically non-government? -- ChrisRuvolo ( t) 00:14, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Would one call
Greenwich_Village an "unincorporated community"? No, indeed the Greenwich Village article on Wikipedia calls it "is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan, New York City". Hence, should not
Colonia,_New_Jersey be referred to as a neighborhood in northwestern
Woodbridge_Township,_New_Jersey?
160.93.7.5 (
talk) 18:46, 9 January 2017 (UTC)NJ_Man
"New Jersey counties have powers that are intermediate between the broad powers of counties in Pennsylvania and the limited powers of counties in New York." Not questioning the idea that New Jersey's counties have powers between the powers of Pennsylvania and New York counties, but do Pennsylvania counties really have broad powers? From what I understand, they don't even have the authority to operate police departments, except for a sheriff's office that doesn't really have much of any police powers. Nyttend ( talk) 17:12, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello, New Jersey! To defuse the edit war that has started at Category:County government in the United States, I'd appreciate some additional input on the topic of whether U.S. counties are (1) a level of local government or (2) an arm of state government. Discussion thus far is on my User talk page at User_talk:Orlady#County_government, but we could move it to a content-oriented talk page if desired. -- Orlady ( talk) 00:17, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
I have posted this issue to WikiProject United States, and WikiProject Politics. Please take your input to one or the other so I don't have to have 50 discussions. Greg Bard ( talk) 01:31, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
What is the difference, and what criteria are used to determine type? ZFT ( talk) 05:40, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
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The article in its second paragraph is super explicit about the different between "type" and "form,"...yet the box directly to the right list the "typs" as "traditional forms" when it should probably simply read "types." More than that it mentions the five types but then talks of 12 forms...but later in the article it mentions the six standard forms (most common), and the "special charter" form for a total of seven "regular" types. The box on the right breaks up the six standard forms into "modern" and "Faulkner Act" forms. I guess what I'm saying is that whoever did this needs to streamline this and keep some kind of consistency. Sure, there are exceptional forms, and there may very well be 12 forms in all, but the uncommon forms probably should be listed in a catch-all seperate section. -- Criticalthinker ( talk) 10:42, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
While the article makes clear the different types of municipalities and forms of government, it does not discuss what each type is responsible for (maintenance of roads, schools, water/sewer, police/fire, ect). Does the state regulate different types of municipalities differently? Do different classes have different powers devolved to them? Thanks! – Zfish118⋉ talk 18:12, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
I've read both the pages for Faulkner Act (mayor–council–administrator) and Faulkner Act (council–manager), and can't quite tell the difference. So, council-manager is quite common all around the country, and is easily understood. The mayor is part of the council and ceremonial head, but with no power to choose department heads, veto, etc. But how does "mayor-council-administrator" differ? It also appears to be a "weak mayor" form. Is the only difference that the mayor may be elected at-large as opposed to being required to be chosen amongst council members in a council-manager system? Or are there other differences, too? In a mayor-council-administrator form, can the mayor make appointments, vote, veto...? -- Criticalthinker ( talk) 10:17, 28 January 2020 (UTC)