Title 40, Title 40: MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES

40:71-3. Ballot; form and content The municipal clerk shall provide ballots for each voter at such election, to be printed upon plain, substantial white paper, in substantially the following form: "To vote upon the public question printed below, if in favor thereof mark a cross (…

40:71-4. Conduct of election; results certified to clerk The election shall be held at the usual places of holding the annual election in the municipality. The polls shall remain open during the usual hours, and the election shall be conducted by the election officers, and in the…

40:71-5. Clerk to certify results; contents of certificate The municipal clerk shall certify the results of the election to the legislative body of the municipality at its first meeting thereafter, enter the same at large in its minutes and certify the same to the secretary of st…

40:71-6. Vote required for adoption If it appears by the certificate of the clerk that both the majority of the votes cast are in favor of the adoption of chapters 70 to 76 of this title (s. 40:70-1 et seq.), and that the number of votes cast in favor of such adoption is equal in…

40:71-7. If majority against adoption no petition for certain period If a majority of the votes cast are against the adoption of chapters 70 to 76 of this title (s. 40:70-1 et seq.) said chapters shall remain inoperative and no further proceedings shall be taken until after the b…

40:71-8. Corporate existence and name continued The corporate existence of any municipality adopting chapters 70 to 76 of this title (s. 40:70-1 et seq.), shall be continued and its corporate name and seal shall not be changed by such adoption, and all laws, general or special, r…

40:71-9. Elective and appointive officers' terms cease; boards abolished; exception Upon the adoption of chapters seventy to seventy-six of this Title, and the organization of the commissioners first elected, the governing body or bodies and all other boards and bodies whether St…

40:71-9.1. Boards of fire commissioners in townships Notwithstanding the provisions of section 40:71-9 of the Revised Statutes, any board of fire commissioners of any fire district in any township which has adopted or shall adopt the commission form of government may be reinstate…