Bayard H. Faulkner

Bayard H. Faulkner

Bayard Hilton Faulkner (1894 – 1983) was a former mayor of Montclair, New Jersey, USA, and chairman of the 1950 Commission on Municipal Government. The legislation crafted by this commission to update and reform New Jersey's municipal law is commonly called the Faulkner Act, named in his honor. [ [http://www.njslom.org/history_municipal_govt.pdf A HISTORY OF MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT IN NEW JERSEY SINCE 1798] p. 23, accessed May 21, 2006]

This commission was responsible for drafting Optional Municipal Charter Law provides New Jersey municipalities with a variety of additional models of local government, beyond the traditional forms (City, Township, Town, Borough and Village), and the two reform-era forms (Walsh Act and the 1923 Municipal Manager Law).

Faulkner is buried in Mount Hebron cemetery, Upper Montclair, New Jersey.

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* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10723 Photograph of the grave of Bayard Hilton Faulkner and Eleanor Ross Faulkner]


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