A state appeals court on Monday undid a judge’s efforts to mitigate a conflict posed by a Wildwood policeman serving on his city’s governing body and ordered the official to pick one job or the other.
The trial judge’s solution — that both jobs could be held if the official recused from voting on certain topics — dilutes the statutory authority conferred by the Legislature on the governing body, the appeals court said in City of Wildwood v. DeMarzo, A-5250-08.
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