Borough (New Jersey)

New Jersey Municipal Government Traditional forms Borough Township City Town Village Modern Forms Walsh Act/Commission 1923 Municipal Manager Faulkner Act Forms Mayor-Council Council-Manager Small Municipality Mayor-Council-Administrator Nonstandard Forms Special Charter Changing Form of Municipal Government Charter Study Commission This box: view • talk • edit A borough (sometimes abbreviated Boro on road signs) in the context of New Jersey local government refers to one of five types and one of eleven forms of municipal government. Though it is now the most common form of government in New Jersey, by 1875 only 17 boroughs had been created, all by special acts of the legislature. The Borough Act of 1878 allowed any township (or portion thereof) with a land area of no more than four square miles and a population not exceeding 5,000, to establish itself as an independent borough through a petition and refe... (see more)