Municipal courts represent the last piece in the reform and restructuring of a New Jersey court system that began over 67 years ago. There are now 538 municipal courts across the state’s 565 municipalities. Now is the time to look at this court system and determine its proper place in our state court system.
Sixty-seven years ago, in 1947, our third and most recent Constitution was adopted. One of the goals at the time was to reform a court system that reflected the confusion and dysfunction of a tangled system of courts bearing titles such as the Court of Oyer and Terminer, the Court of Common Pleas, the Court of Special Sessions, the Court of Quarter Sessions, the Court of Chancery, the Prerogative Writ Court and so on. The sweeping revisions contained in Article Six of the 1947 Constitution eliminated this maze of courts and replaced it with the unified system of courts we have today. Of course, that unified system did not include incorporation of our municipal, county court and district court systems. Although our Constitution was subsequently amended to include the county and county district court system, municipal courts remain outside the system of unified courts.
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