New Jersey Statutes Title 43. Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation 43 § 17-44

At each annual convention of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association, there shall be elected, by ballot, a president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, first assistant secretary, second assistant secretary, executive committee and such other officers as the constitution and by-laws adopted by the New Jersey State Firemen's Association require. The president, secretary and other officers and such other persons or committees as the constitution and by-laws of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association provide, shall constitute the executive committee of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association. The president and secretary, after each election, shall file with the Commissioner of Banking and Insurance a sworn statement of the fact of the election and of the names of the officers so elected. The first certificate filed after March twenty-fifth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, which contained a reference to the act entitled “An act concerning firemen's relief associations,” approved March twenty-fifth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five (L.1885, c. 122, p. 144), stated the intention to incorporate thereunder and had thereon an impression of the common seal of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association shall be deemed to be the certificate of incorporation of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association.

The executive committee of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association has the power to adopt and revise the constitution and by-laws from time for time in accordance with R.S. 43:17-35.

At each annual convention the New Jersey State Firemen's Association may adopt for its use and government any amendment submitted by any local association or the executive committee to amend the constitution and by-laws as seem best for its uses and purposes.