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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 40A:5-23

  • clerk: means the clerk of a municipality or of a board of chosen freeholders. See New Jersey Statutes 40A:1-1
  • local unit: means any county, municipality, special district or any public body corporate and politic created or established under any law of this State by or on behalf of any one or more counties or municipalities, or any board, commission, department or agency of any of the foregoing having custody of funds, but shall not include a school district. See New Jersey Statutes 40A:5-2
The judge, if he deems it advisable, may require the applicants to furnish a bond to be filed with the county clerk for the payment of the costs and expenditures of the investigation.

The costs, including witness fees and mileage, shall, by his order, be taxed to and paid by the local unit whose expenditures have been investigated.

L.1960, c. 169, s. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1962.