§ 80-1. Officers and employees to be residents.

Unless otherwise provided by law, all officers and employees of the Township of Independence after the effective date of this chapter shall be bona fide residents of the County of Warren or a county within the State of New Jersey adjacent to Warren County (Morris, Hunterdon and Sussex Counties). For the purpose of this chapter, a "bona fide resident" is a person having a permanent domicile within said counties and one which has not been adopted with the intention of again taking up or claiming a previous residence outside of the counties.