The governing body of any county or municipality may, by resolution or ordinance, as appropriate, create a public body corporate and politic and a political subdivision of the State to be known as the “Parking Authority of the ,” inserting all or any significant part of the name of the municipality or county creating such authority. The creating resolution or ordinance, as the case may be, may provide that no real property shall be acquired by the power of eminent domain without the consent of the governing body. Such authority shall constitute an agency and instrumentality of the municipality or county creating it. Thereupon the governing body shall, by resolution or ordinance, as appropriate, appoint five persons as commissioners of the authority. The commissioners who are first appointed shall be designated to serve for terms of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 years, respectively, from the date of their appointment, but thereafter commissioners shall be appointed as aforesaid for a term of 5 years, except that all vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired term.

The governing body of any county, or of any municipality with a population of 35,000 or more, may by resolution or ordinance, as appropriate, provide for the appointment of two additional commissioners who shall serve 1- and 2-year terms, respectively, from the date of their appointment, but thereafter, such commissioners shall be appointed as aforesaid, and in the case of a municipality which has adopted a “Mayor-Council Plan” of government pursuant to the provisions of the “Optional Municipal Charter Law,” P.L.1950, c. 210 (C. 40:69A-1 et seq.), the mayor shall appoint the two additional commissioners, to terms of five years, except that all vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired term.

No municipality the area of which has been included (with its consent) within the area of operation of a parking authority created by a county shall thereafter create a parking authority.

Upon the creation of any such authority, the clerk shall certify a copy of the ordinance or resolution creating the parking authority, and also a copy of the resolution or ordinance appointing the first commissioners thereof, which documents shall be filed with the clerk of the county and be recorded in records of certificates of incorporation, and the clerk of the county shall cause duplicate certified copies of said documents to be filed forthwith with the Secretary of State.

L.1948, c. 198, p. 978, s. 4. Amended by L.1953, c. 153, p. 1367, s. 1; L.1954, c. 138, p. 624, s. 3; L.1958, c. 22, p. 58, s. 2, eff. April 22, 1958; L.1978, c. 144, s. 1 eff. Nov. 22, 1978; L.1981, c. 462, s. 33; L.1982, c. 151, s. 1, eff. Oct. 13, 1982; L.1983, c. 99, s. 1, eff. March 11, 1983.