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Township of Deerfield, NJ
Cumberland County
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All of the administrative functions, powers and duties of the Township shall be allocated and assigned among and within departments established or constituted by the chapter or any amendments and supplements thereto.
The head of each department shall be the chairman of the standing subcommittee of the Township Committee assigned to oversee the functions of that department. His term as department head and chairman of the standing subcommittee assigned thereto shall be coincidental and coterminal. The departments may be further organized into various functional units known as "divisions." The Township Committee may by resolution appoint directors to supervise within the limitations and restrictions of the provisions of this chapter; such appointments are further subject to the provisions of the Revised Statutes, Title 11, Civil Service.
Whenever a vacancy exists in any office required by this chapter to be filled by the Township Committee Chairman with the advice and consent of the Township Committee and there is no holdover incumbent, the Township Committee shall by resolution fill such vacancy for the remainder of the term of the original appointee.