| Well, it could be because the process is insanely cumbersome ... here's the law, first passed in 1978.
state code
I do not think that any municipality has ever gone through with this process. I assume the new ordinances Joe Roberts has referenced are intended to streamline this process.
Look, I understand the original poster was only suggesting consolidating the administration of a particular service -- tax collection -- from the municipality to the state, but it's really the KEY function of the municipality! Everything else flows from tax revenues, all the other services, all the potential benefits. |
| We went from 567 "political units" to 566 on July 7, 1997, when Warren County's Pahaquarry Township (pop. 20) was dissolved and incorporated into Hardwick Township.
We have 616 "school districts because every township, even if it does not have a school, has a school board and administrator, to raise revenue and oversee children going out of district. The additional 50 districts are the various regional districts (Southern Ocean, Hunterdon Central, etc.) and county authorities overseeing trade schools and the like. The one truly consolidated district I know of is West Windsor-Plainsboro, which is one school district / one board across two municipalities and that crosses county lines, but is a total anomaly that came of the two town's heterogenous natures and proximities, and the shared experience of sending kids to distant High Schools in an era when buses and roads weren't all that good. (WW to Princeton, Plainsboro to Jamesburg, as best as I can recall). The consolidation took place before WWII, I think, but that's easy to check. |
