43:18-2. Procedure

For the purpose of forming such a corporation, the health officer or other chief officer or person in charge of such employees, shall notify every employee of the local board or department of health to attend a meeting to be held not less than five days after the giving of the notice, to consider the formation of a corporation in accordance with this chapter. The notice shall be in writing and specify the time and place of the meeting of the employees. If two-thirds of the employees present at the meeting vote in favor of forming the corporation they shall adopt a resolution to that effect and choose a name for the corporation. They shall organize by electing three persons selected from the employees of such board or department, who, together with the executive head of the board or department having charge or control of the public health in the city, and the health officer or other chief officer or person in charge of the employees, the latter two being ex-officio members, shall constitute a board of trustees. The first trustees created hereunder shall prepare and sign a certificate reciting the adoption of the resolution by the employees as hereinbefore directed, the name adopted, the appointment of trustees, the organization and the name of officers and execution of the certificate, for the purpose of forming a corporation under this chapter, for the purposes herein set forth, which certificate shall be recorded in the office of the clerk of the county wherein the corporation is organized, and filed in the office of the commissioner of banking and insurance, at Trenton. Thereupon such trustees, their associates and successors, shall be a corporation with all the powers incident thereto.