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Code · New Jersey · Title 40 — Animals and Livestock · Chapter 47

40:47-51. Paid fire departments in certain municipalities; fire commissioners

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L.1886, c. 42, p. 54 (C.S. p. 2380, s.s. 217 to 219), entitled "An act to enable cities and municipalities of this state to create and maintain a paid fire department," approved March first, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, saved from repeal. [This act enables municipalities not having paid fire departments before March 1, 1886, to authorize and establish the same by popular referendum and provide for the appointment and powers and duties of a board of fire commissioners.]
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