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The '''Optional Municipal Charter Law''' or '''Faulkner Act''' ({{Cite NJSA|title=40|chapter=69A|section=1}}, et seq.) provides [[New Jersey]] [[municipalities]] with a variety of models of local government. This legislation is called the Faulkner Act in honor of the late [[Bayard H. Faulkner]], former mayor of [[Montclair, New Jersey]] and chairman of the
==Overview==
The Faulkner Act offers four basic plans ([[mayor–council government|mayor–council]], [[council–manager government|council–manager]], [[Faulkner Act (small municipality)|small municipality]], and [[Faulkner Act (mayor–council–administrator)|mayor–council–administrator]]) and two procedures by which the voters of a municipality can adopt one of these plans.<ref>{{cite web|last1=WOLFE|first1=ALBERT J.|title=A HISTORY OF MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT IN NEW JERSEY SINCE 1798|url=http://www.njslom.org/history_municipal_govt.pdf|publisher=New Jersey League of Municipalities|accessdate=16 December 2017}}</ref> The Act provides many choices for communities with a preference for a strong executive and professional management of municipal affairs. Twenty-one percent of the municipalities in New Jersey, including the six most populous cities ([[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]], [[Jersey City, New Jersey|Jersey City]], [[Camden, New Jersey|Camden]], [[Trenton, New Jersey|Trenton]], [[Paterson, New Jersey|Paterson]] and [[Elizabeth, New Jersey|Elizabeth]]) all govern under the provisions of the Faulkner Act. More than half of all New Jersey residents reside in municipalities with Faulkner Act charters.
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