Title 40, Title 40: MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES

40:80-13. Educational system unaffected The system of public education in any municipality adopting this subtitle shall not be affected thereby.

40:80-14. Sinking fund commissions unaffected Nothing in this subtitle shall impair the operation of chapter 3 of this title (s. 40:3-1 et seq.).

40:80-15. No proceedings to adopt other government within four years No municipality governed by the municipal manager form of government shall, within four years after the adoption thereof, take proceedings for the adoption of any other law prescribing a form of government.

40:80-2. Clerk to call election; notice Upon the filing of such petition or request in writing with the municipal clerk, he shall forthwith call an election, to be held on the fourth Tuesday following the date of the filing of the petition with him, but such special election shal…

40:80-3. Ballot; number, form and content The municipal clerk shall provide double the number of ballots as there were voters registered for the last preceding general election in such municipality, to be printed upon plain, substantial white paper, in substantially the following…

40:80-4. Place of holding election The election shall be held at the usual place or places for holding the general election, if the same is practicable. If not practicable, the municipal clerk shall provide a suitable voting place in each election district in such municipality.

40:80-5. Election agents; designated by petition Two agents for each election district may be designated by a petition signed by legal voters of the municipality equal in number to at least three per centum (3%) of the number of persons who voted in the municipality at the last p…

40:80-6. Time polls to be open; election officers; report The polls shall remain open from seven o'clock in the forenoon until nine o'clock at night, and the election shall be conducted by the same election officers and in the manner prescribed by the laws regulating elections, a…

40:80-7. Clerk to certify result The municipal clerk, within five days after the election, shall certify the results thereof to each member of the governing body of such municipality, enter the same at large in the minute books of said body and certify the same to the secretary o…

40:80-8. Vote required for adoption If it appears that both the majority of the votes cast are for the adoption of this subtitle, and that the number of votes cast for the adoption of this subtitle is equal in number to at least thirty per cent of the number of persons voting in …

40:80-9. If majority against adoption no petition for two years If a majority of the votes cast are against the adoption of this subtitle no other petition for its adoption shall be filed in such municipality within two years thereafter, after which date, upon the presentation of…