(“The Legislature as well as the courts have long recognized the strong policy considerations which dictate that since the county prosecutor is charged with heavy enforcement responsibilities he must be given broad powers to appoint his own personnel.”); Mercer County Bd. of Freeholders v. Mercer County Prosecutor, 172 N.J.Super. 411, 412 A.2d 809, 810 (App.Div.1980) (New Jersey statute that permits the county prosecutor to go to the county’s assignment judge for authorization of funding in excess of that approved by the county freeholders “indicates a legislative intent to place the prosecutor in a dominant position with relation to the freeholders for the purpose of maintaining his integrity and effectiveness”); Ruvoldt v. Clark, 204 N.J.Super. 438, 499 A.2d 247, 250 (Law Div.1983) (<HOLDING>). Both the County of Monmouth and the New
holding that the county has no control over a prosecutors nonsalary expenditures that do not exceed his budget because it would be incongruous to permit county government to control the operations and functions of the prosecutor a constitutional officer entrusted with awesome duties of vast importance to the public  recognizing county officers as  those whose general authority and jurisdiction are confined within the limits of the county in which they are appointed who are appointed in and for a particular county and whose duties apply only to that county and through whom the county performs its usual political functions  holding that when a person is clothed    with public functions to be exercised in the supposed interest of the people    and where such duties are wholly performed within the limits of a county    the person lawfully filling such place is necessarily a county officer holding that the grant county prosecutor had a statutory duty to be legal advisor to the county clerk even though she was not embroiled in litigation in which the county was the real party in interest holding a county and a road district had standing to sue state highway commission and county tax collector based on their interest in and control over the public roads of the county