HARRIET DERMAN, P.J.S.C.
The issue before this court is the tension between the latitude of N.J.S.A. 10:4-15 and the deadlines of N.J.S.A. 40A:16-11, and specifically whether a municipal governing body may meet belatedly to fill a partisan vacancy at a second meeting after the first meeting fails to satisfy the requirements of the Open Public Meetings Act ("OPMA"), P.L. 1975, c. 231 (c. 10:4-6 et. seq.).
After a vacancy occurred in the North...
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