The Village Act of 1891 defined the form of government to consist of a five-member board of trustees to be elected to three-year staggered terms.
As of January 1, 1990, every village operating under the Village Form of government had to operate according to the laws pertaining to the Township form.
Tiny Loch Arbour was the last to do so, but in December 2011, its residents voted to change to the Walsh Act form of government with a three-member board of commissioners.
[2] Two other villages – Ridgefield Park (now with a Walsh Act form) and Ridgewood (now with a Faulkner Act Council-Manager charter) – also migrated to other, non-Village forms years earlier.
South Orange is somewhat unusual, in that it operates with a six-member Board of Trustees and a Village President elected directly by voters,[3] operating under a special charter granted by the New Jersey Legislature in 1869 that has been revised several times since, but that is largely modeled on the Village form of government.