N.J. Stat. § 1:1-9 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-9
References to repealed or superseded statutes
Status: in_force

If any statute or part of any statute, which is repealed or superseded by the enactment of any statute or of the Revised Statutes or of the New Jersey Statutes, is in substance re-enacted therein, a reference in any other statute to such repealed or superseded statute or to any section or sections thereof shall be deemed to be a reference to such re-enacted statute, or to the section or sections thereof, which supersede or correspond in substance to the section or sections so referred to, as the case may be. Amended by L.1960, c. 187, p. 782, s. 9.
N.J. Stat. § 1:14-14 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 14 / Section 14-14
Duties, powers
Status: in_force

a. It shall be the duty of the commission to study and review all aspects of the statutes, legislation and decisions of the courts in this State and other states relating to business entities, including business corporations and partnerships and the issuance of ownership interests or securities thereby. In addition the commission shall study and review all aspects of the law governing non-profit corporations in this State and other states. b. The commission shall have the power to call to its assistance and avail itself of the services of employees of any State, county or municipal department, board, bureau, commission or agency as it may require and as may be available to it for its purposes, to hold public hearings from time to time, and to employ counsel, stenographic and clerical assistants and incur traveling and other miscellaneous expenses as it may deem necessary in order to perform its duties, and as may be within the limits of funds appropriated or otherwise made available to it for its purposes. L.1989,c.163,s.3.
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-11 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-11
Acts done, rights acquired, etc., under repealed acts not affected by repeal
Status: in_force

The repeal, by the enactment of a. the Revised Statutes, b. the New Jersey Statutes, or c. any other revision law, of any statute or part of any statute, shall not in any way affect, impair or invalidate any act done or right or limitation vested or accrued, or any bonds issued, or taxes or assessments of any kind levied or imposed, or any tax sale had, or in any way annul, invalidate, take away, impair, limit, disturb or affect any right, title, estate, privilege, immunity or power or conveyance in, to or of either real or personal property, acquired, given, conferred, had or made under or by virtue of, or validated by, any statute or part of any statute so repealed. Amended by L.1960, c. 187, p. 782, s. 11.
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-13 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-13
§ 1:1-13
Status: in_force

No board, commission or public body, established pursuant to any referendum or otherwise and existing at the time when the Revised Statutes shall become effective, under any statute then in force, shall be abolished by the enactment of the Revised Statutes, and the inclusion in the Revised Statutes, by compilation, revision or otherwise, of any such act of the legislature or of the substance thereof, shall not be construed to authorize or require the reestablishment or reorganization of any such board, commission or public body.
N.J. Stat. § 1:12A-3 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 12A / Section 12A-3
Terms
Status: in_force

Of the members of the commission first appointed, two shall be appointed for terms of four years and two for terms of five years. Thereafter, members shall be appointed for terms of five years. Members shall serve until the appointment and qualification of their successors. L. 1985, c. 498, s. 3, eff. Jan. 21, 1986.
N.J. Stat. § 1:6-7 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 6 / Section 6-7
§ 1:6-7
Status: in_force

If anyone shall falsely swear or affirm, in the making of the proofs required by section 1:6-4 of this title, he shall be deemed guilty of perjury.
N.J. Stat. § 1:7-5 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-5
Participation by citizens in proceedings
Status: in_force

Any citizen of the State may, when an application is presented under authority of either section 1:7-1 or section 1:7-4 of this Title, appear before the court, in defense and subpoena and examine and cross-examine witnesses. Amended by L.1948, c. 329, p. 1314, s. 5; L.1953, c. 4, p. 25, s. 8.
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-3 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-3
§ 1:1-3
Status: in_force

Definitions of words and phrases applicable to statutes generally shall not be so construed as either to limit or enlarge any provision in any treaty, compact or agreement between this state and any other state or the United States, including treaties, compacts or agreements created by, embodied in or resulting from concurrent, complementary or reciprocal legislation.
N.J. Stat. § 1:6-1 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 6 / Section 6-1
§ 1:6-1
Status: in_force

Whenever, by the constitution, notice of the intention to apply for the passage of any bill is required, such notice shall contain a correct statement of the general object of the bill, be signed by at least one of the parties intending to apply for its passage, and be published, except as required by section 1:6-3 of this title, at least one week before the introduction of such bill, and after the first day of January next preceding such introduction, in at least one of the newspapers published in each county in which the bill is, or is likely, to take effect.
N.J. Stat. § 1:6-17 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 6 / Section 6-17
Law operative only after adoption
Status: in_force

Any such private, special or local law passed pursuant to any such petition shall become operative in such municipality or county only when the same shall have been adopted by the vote of the legal voters thereof as hereinafter provided, unless otherwise prescribed in such law. L.1948, c. 199, p. 998, s. 8.
N.J. Stat. § 1:14-12 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 14 / Section 14-12
New Jersey Corporate and Business Law Study Commission
Status: in_force

a. There is created in the Legislative branch of State Government a permanent commission to be known as The New Jersey Corporate and Business Law Study Commission. b. The commission shall consist of three members who are admitted to practice law in New Jersey, and who are distinguished in the field of corporate and business law to be appointed as follows: one member shall be appointed by the Governor; one by the President of the Senate; and one by the Speaker of the General Assembly. All members shall serve for a term of three years and shall be eligible for reappointment. c. Vacancies shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment, but for the unexpired term only. d. The members of the commission shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for necessary expenses actually incurred in the performance of their duties under this act. L.1989,c.163,s.1.
N.J. Stat. § 1:12A-5 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 12A / Section 12A-5
No compensation
Status: in_force

Members of the commission shall not receive any compensation, but they shall be reimbursed for expenses incurred in the performance of their duties. L. 1985, c. 498, s. 5, eff. Jan. 21, 1986.
N.J. Stat. § 1:7-4 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-4
Application by citizens; procedure thereon
Status: in_force

Any two or more citizens of the State may, within the time prescribed by section 1:7-1 of this Title, present to the Appellate Division of the Superior Court an application, such as is authorized by said section 1:7-1 to be presented by the Attorney-General, and the court shall proceed thereon in the manner provided by sections 1:7-2 and 1:7-3 of this Title. The applicants may prosecute the application, and the Attorney-General may, if required so to do by the Governor, defend on behalf of the State. Amended by L.1948, c. 329, p. 1313, s. 4; L.1953, c. 4, p. 25, s. 7.
N.J. Stat. § 1:8-1 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 8 / Section 8-1
Appointment, powers and duties of commissioners
Status: in_force

L.1909, c. 154, p. 229 [C.S. p. 4987, s.s. 79 to 82], entitled "An act to authorize the appointment of commissioners to represent this state in the commission for the promotion of uniform legislation in the United States," approved April seventeenth, one thousand nine hundred and nine, saved from repeal. [This act authorizes the appointment of three commissioners for three-year terms, without compensation, except traveling and other expenses incurred in the discharge of their official duties, whose duties are to examine certain subjects such as marriage and divorce, et cetera, as to which uniformity of legislation in the various states is desirable, to confer as to such legislation with commissioners appointed by other states for the same purposes, to consider and draft uniform acts to be submitted for approval by the several states, to devise and recommend such other and further course of action as will tend to promote uniformity of legislation, and to make annual and other reports to the governor for transmission to the legislature.]
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-22 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-22
Statutes which became effective before September 15, 1948 relating to courts or officers existing prior thereto; effect to be given to
Status: in_force

Any statute, which became effective prior to September fifteenth, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight and still remains in effect and which contains any provision governing or relating to any court or officer, existing prior to said date in accordance with the Constitution of 1844, hereinafter designated, shall be given effect, on and after said date, as governing or relating to the court or officer established in accordance with the Constitution of 1947, hereinafter designated, as though the reference therein to the former court or officer were made to such latter court or officer, except as otherwise provided in this act or in the Rules made and promulgated by the Supreme Court and in cases in which the provisions of the Constitution of 1947 may be to the contrary, and any power conferred upon, jurisdiction vested in, duty provided to be performed by, limitation prescribed upon the action of, or provision governing or relating to, any such former court or officer shall, except as aforesaid, be conferred upon, be vested in, be performed by, be applicable to or govern or relate to such latter court or officer as fully as though such latter court or officer were specifically referred to therein: (a) Where the reference is to the Court of Errors and Appeals, it shall be given effect as though it were to the Supreme Court established by the Constitution of 1947, except where a right of review by the Court of Errors and Appeals, by appeal or otherwise, is provided for in such statute; (b) Where the reference is to the former Supreme Court, in respect to its appellate jurisdiction, it shall be given effect as though it were to the Appellate Division of the Superior Court, and otherwise as though it were to the Law Division of the Superior Court or a Judge of the Superior Court assigned to the Law Division thereof; (c) Where the reference is to the Court of Chancery, it shall be given effect as though it were to the Chancery Division of the Superior Court or a Judge of the Superior Court assigned to the Chancery Division thereof; (d) Where the reference is to the Prerogative Court, in respect to its appellate jurisdiction, it shall be given effect as though it were to the Appellate Division of the Superior Court, and otherwise as though it were to the Chancery Division of the Superior Court or a Judge of the Superior Court assigned to the Chancery Division thereof; (e) Where the reference is to the Circuit Court, it shall be given effect as though it were to the Law Division of the Superior Court or a judge of the Superior Court assigned to the Law Division thereof; (f) Where the reference is to the Chancellor as acting in, or constituting, the Court of Chancery, it shall be given effect as though it were to the Chancery Division of the Superior Court or to a Judge of the Superior Court assigned to the Chancery Division thereof, and otherwise as though it were to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court established by the Constitution of 1947; (g) Where the reference is to the Ordinary, as such, or as the Surrogate General or Judge of the Prerogative Court, or in terms of similar import, as acting in, or as, the Prerogative Court, in respect to his or its appellate jurisdiction, it shall be given effect as though it were to the Appellate Division of the Superior Court, and otherwise as though it were to the Chancery Division of the Superior Court or to any Judge of the Superior Court assigned to the Chancery Division thereof; (h) Where the reference is to the Chief Justice of the former Supreme Court, it shall be given the same effect as is herein provided where such reference is to a former "Supreme Court Justice;" (i) Where the reference is to a former Supreme Court Justice, as the Supreme Court Justice presiding in a circuit, or in such terms as indicate that the reference is to such former officer while performing his duty of presiding in or over the circuit of the former Supreme Court of a county, it shall be given effect as though it were to such Judge of the Superior Court as is assigned in a similar capacity in the county if any such Judge is so assigned, otherwise as though it were to a Judge of the Superior Court assigned to the Law Division thereof in the county; (j) Where the reference is to a Vice Chancellor, it shall be given effect as though it were to a Judge of the Superior Court assigned to the Chancery Division thereof; (k) Where the reference is to a Vice Ordinary, in respect to the exercise of any appellate jurisdiction or action in an appellate capacity, it shall be given effect as though it were to the Appellate Division of the Superior Court, and otherwise as though it were to a Judge of the Superior Court assigned to the Chancery Division thereof; (l) Where the reference is to a Circuit Court Judge, it shall be given effect as though it were to the Judge of the Superior Court assigned to the Law Division thereof; (m) Where the reference is to the Court of Oyer and Terminer, the Court of Quarter Sessions, the Court of Special Sessions, or the Court of Common Pleas, of any county, or to any Judge of any such court, it shall be given effect as though it were to the Law Division of the County Court of such county or to a Judge thereof; (n) Where the reference is to a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas sitting in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, in the Court of Quarter Sessions, in the Court of Special Sessions, or in the Court of Common Pleas, of any county, or to a Judge of the Court of Quarter Sessions, of the Court of Special Sessions, or of the Court of Common Pleas, of any county, it shall be given effect as though it were to a Judge of the County Court of such county; (o) Where the reference is to the Orphans' Court, or any Judge of the Orphans' Court, of any county, it shall be given effect as though it were to the Probate Division of the County Court of said county, or to a Judge of the County Court of said county; (p) Where the reference is to the Clerk of the Court of Errors and Appeals, it shall be given effect as though it were to the Clerk of the new Supreme Court; (q) Where the reference is to the Clerk of the Supreme Court, the Clerk in Chancery or the Clerk of the Court of Chancery, however described, or to the Register of the Prerogative Court, it shall be given effect as though it were to the Clerk of the Superior Court; (r) Where the reference is to the Clerk of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, the Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions, the Clerk of the Court of Special Sessions, the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, or the Clerk of the Circuit Court, of any county, it shall be given effect as though it were to the county clerk of the county; (s) Where the reference is to the Clerk of the Orphans' Court of any county, it shall be given effect as though it were to the Surrogate of the county, acting as the Clerk of the Probate Division of the County Court of the county; (t) Where the reference is to an Advisory Master in Chancery, it shall be given effect as though it were to the same or to a similar officer of the Superior Court or such officer as shall be authorized to perform the same or similar duties in the Superior Court as were performed by such officer in the Court of Chancery; (u) Where the reference is to a Master in Chancery or a Master of the Court of Chancery or to a Solicitor in Chancery, it shall be given effect as though it were to an Attorney at Law. In the event that any such statute is proceeded under pursuant to law or the Rules of the Supreme Court, in any action, cause or proceeding, on or after September fifteenth, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight, by complaint, answer, crossclaim or counterclaim, or in any other manner, in any division or part of any court other than the division hereinbefore named, such statute shall be given effect as though the appropriate division or part of said court were named herein. L.1948, c. 375, p. 1540, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 1:3-6 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-6
General control and supervision of printing
Status: in_force

The general control and supervision of the printing of the laws, resolutions and proclamations shall be in the Legislative Services Commission, and the printing shall be subject to the provisions of R.S. 52:36-3 and R.S. 52:36-4. L.1967, c. 4, s. 6, eff. Feb. 16, 1967. Amended by L.1981, c. 448, s. 6, eff. Jan. 12, 1982.
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-21 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-21
Construction and effect of statutes compiled or saved from repeal
Status: in_force

Statutes and parts of statutes included in the Revised Statutes under the titles by which they were adopted by the Legislature and the statutes contained in Appendix A (App. A:1-1 et seq.), and statutes and parts of statutes included in the Revised Statutes or in any other statute by reference to their titles or in any other manner, and designated as "saved from repeal" shall have operative force and effect only to the extent that they were operative and effective at the time of the taking effect of the Revised Statutes or of such other statute, as the case may be. Such statutes or parts of statutes shall not be deemed repealed by the enactment of the Revised Statutes or of such other statute, except so far as they are inconsistent with the provisions thereof but, in so far as they may have been so repealed or have been superseded or impliedly repealed by legislation subsequent to their enactment, they shall remain so superseded or repealed, and shall have no further or additional effect because of their inclusion in the Revised Statutes, or such other statute, as aforesaid. Amended by L.1960, c. 187, p. 783, s. 13, eff. Jan. 18, 1961.
N.J. Stat. § 1:12A-6 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 12A / Section 12A-6
Chairman
Status: in_force

The commission shall elect one member thereof as chairman, who shall serve for a term of two years. L. 1985, c. 498, s. 6, eff. Jan. 21, 1986.
N.J. Stat. § 1:17-20 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 17 / Section 17-20
Repeal
Status: in_force

Chapter 81 of the laws of 1961, is repealed. L.1964, c. 29, s. 11.
N.J. Stat. § 1:12A-9 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 12A / Section 12A-9
Annual report
Status: in_force

The commission shall report annually to the Legislature on or before February first in each year. L. 1985, c. 498, s. 9, eff. Jan. 21, 1986.
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-2b — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-2b
"Blighted area" and "renewal area"
Status: in_force

The term "blighted area" as defined and used in the statutes of this State may also be designated as a "renewal area" and the terms "blighted area" and "renewal area" may be used interchangeably in all ordinances, resolutions, determinations and official actions taken by governmental bodies and agencies in connection with projects and programs for the clearance, planning, development or redevelopment of areas pursuant to law. L.1967, c. 16, s. 1, eff. March 13, 1967.
N.J. Stat. § 1:6-9 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 6 / Section 6-9
Report by comptroller of laws on which assessments unpaid; proclamation by governor; effect
Status: in_force

The comptroller of the treasury shall, during the month of July in each year, report to the governor or person administering the government every law, with its date of approval or passage, which has become inoperative or void by reason of nonpayment of the assessment levied pursuant to section 1:6-8 of this title, and the governor or person administering the government shall, upon receiving such report, forthwith issue his proclamation under the great seal of the state, setting forth the particulars of such report. The proclamation shall be filed by the secretary of state and be printed as required in the case of other proclamations. The proclamation, or a certified copy or a duly printed copy, shall be competent evidence in any court of the state that the laws therein enumerated have become inoperative and void, and no such law shall be received in evidence as a valid and operative law, unless proof shall be made to the satisfaction of the court that the assessment was in fact paid into the treasury within the time prescribed by said section 1:6-8.
N.J. Stat. § 1:12A-7 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 12A / Section 12A-7
Employees
Status: in_force

The commission may appoint employees and consultants as may, in its judgment, be necessary, prescribe their qualifications and duties, and fix their compensation within the availability of amounts appropriated for that purpose. L. 1985, c. 498, s. 7, eff. Jan. 21, 1986.
N.J. Stat. § 1:6-12 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 6 / Section 6-12
Adoption of resolution
Status: in_force

If the clerk shall certify to the sufficiency of the petition, the said governing body or board of chosen freeholders shall, within thirty days after the filing of such petition, adopt a resolution authorizing the filing of a petition with the Legislature for the passage of a private, special or local law of the general nature described in the petition so filed with said clerk or in its discretion, adopt a resolution authorizing the submission of the proposal to file such a petition to the legal voters of the municipality or county at the next general election succeeding the adoption thereof, or if the resolution shall be adopted within ninety days next preceding such election, then at the next succeeding general election, in the case of a county or at the next succeeding general or municipal election, whichever shall occur first, in the case of a municipality. L.1948, c. 199, p. 996, s. 3.
N.J. Stat. § 1:3-1 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-1
Preparation of laws for printing.
Status: in_force

1:3-1. The Legislative Services Commission shall direct the Office of Legislative Services that, as soon as practicable after any law is enacted, it shall prepare the same for printing and in so doing, it shall make such corrections in the text thereof, as shall be directed by the Legislative Services Commission, and shall omit from the text thereof all material inserted therein, which is enclosed in bold-faced brackets, together with the brackets and all footnotes relating thereto, and shall cause material, appearing in the text underlined or printed in italics, to be printed in the same manner as other material is printed. In preparing the annual appropriations act for printing, the Office of Legislative Services shall include all displays of summaries of appropriations as may appear within the act and include a legend affixed to the bottom of the first page of the law indicating that material included within the displays is intended to be for the purpose of displaying summaries of the items of appropriations set forth elsewhere within that law and, while included within the text of the law, is not intended to be part of the law. The office shall cause the several acts of each year to be designated as chapters, numbered in Arabic according to the order of time when they respectively became laws; and shall cause headnotes, descriptive of the contents, to be printed at the beginning of such sections as it shall deem appropriate, and shall cause such sections of the several acts of each year to be marked with such compilation numbers as shall be appropriate in its judgment; and it shall, in like manner, cause the joint resolutions of the Senate and General Assembly and the concurrent resolutions of the Senate and General Assembly agreeing to any proposed amendment or amendments of the Constitution or providing for the publication and submission to the people of any such proposed amendment or amendments to be prepared for printing. The Office of Legislative Services, through its Legislative Counsel, is authorized to correct in the text, but not in the title, of any law, such errors in references to other laws and in punctuation and spelling, and other obvious errors in form, which will not affect the substance of the law, as shall be concurred in by the Attorney General and shall make such corrections in preparing the law for printing. The Office of Legislative Services, through its Legislative Counsel, is further authorized to correct errors caused when two or more amendments to the same section of law are enacted, at the same or different sessions of the Legislature, but such amendments inadvertently omit provisions of, and fail to refer to, one another. Only amendments that may be put into simultaneous operation may be reconciled. Corrections shall be concurred in by the Attorney General and, thereafter, the office shall prepare the law for printing. The Office of Legislative Services shall also cause the proclamations of the Governor made during the previous year, which the Governor shall direct to be printed, to be copied and prepared for printing. The Office of Legislative Services shall prepare but one index, alphabetically arranged, to all the acts and joint resolutions of the year and the proclamations of the previous year. Amended 1941, c.19; 1954, c.28, s.2; 1967, c.4, s.1; 1981, c.448, s.2; 1999, c.98, s.3.
N.J. Stat. § 1:7-7 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-7
Costs, fees and expenses of proceedings
Status: in_force

When an application presented under authority of section 1:7-4 of this Title is dismissed the court shall allow and tax the costs and necessary expenses of the Attorney-General, including a fee to the Attorney-General of not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00) in any one case, and shall order the payment thereof by such citizens, and payment thereof may be enforced by execution. Amended by L.1948, c. 329, p. 1314, s. 7; L.1953, c. 4, p. 26, s. 10.
N.J. Stat. § 1:4-1 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-1
Style of printing journal and minutes
Status: in_force

The Senate Journal, the Assembly Minutes and the minutes of the joint meetings of both Houses of the Legislature shall be printed in such style as the Senate and General Assembly shall direct. Amended by L.1981, c. 448, s. 8, eff. Jan. 12, 1982.
N.J. Stat. § 1:6-11 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 6 / Section 6-11
Petition requesting filing of petition with Legislature
Status: in_force

Whenever there shall be filed with the clerk of a municipality or the clerk of the board of chosen freeholders of a county a petition signed by at least twenty per centum (20%) or fifteen thousand, whichever is less, of the registered voters of the municipality or county requesting the filing of a petition with the Legislature for the passage of a private, special or local law regulating the internal affairs of the municipality or of the county and specifying the general nature of the law sought to be passed, the clerk shall examine the same and ascertain whether or not it is signed by the requisite number of registered voters and, within ten days after the filing thereof, shall attach his certificate thereto showing the result of such examination and submit the same to the governing body of the municipality or board of chosen freeholders of the county. L.1948, c. 199, p. 996, s. 2.
N.J. Stat. § 1:2-6 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 2 / Section 2-6
Bills not signed or vetoed by governor; indorsement and certification by governor; delivery to, indorsement and filing by secretary of state
Status: in_force

If any bill shall pass both Houses of the Legislature, and be presented to the Governor pursuant to Article V, Section I, paragraph 14, of the Constitution of this State, and the same shall not be returned to the house in which it originated within the time limited by the Constitution, whereby the same has become a law, in like manner as if the Governor had signed the same, the Governor shall indorse thereon, and sign, a certificate of the true time the same was presented to him, and deliver the same to the Secretary of State, who shall indorse thereon, and sign, a certificate of the time it was delivered to him, and file and keep the same in his office, to be there safely kept, with the other laws of the same sitting, as directed by section 1:2-5 of this Title. Amended by L.1948, c. 13, p. 61, s. 2, eff. July 4, 1948.
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-8 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-8
Inclusive references
Status: in_force

References in the Revised Statutes or in any statute to more than 1 title, subtitle, chapter, article, section or other division of the Revised Statutes or of any other statute, in series, shall be taken to include both the first and last numbers referred to. Amended by L.1960, c. 187, p. 781, s. 8.
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-16 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-16
§ 1:1-16
Status: repealed

Neither anything contained in the Revised Statutes, nor the repeal of any act, law or statute by the enactment of the Revised Statutes, shall affect, impair or render invalid any ordinance or resolution of any municipality or state, county or local agency heretofore duly adopted or enacted under or by virtue of any act or part of any act repealed by the enactment of the Revised Statutes, such ordinance or resolution being valid and in force at the time of the enactment of the Revised Statutes; and any such ordinance or resolution shall remain in force and effect, notwithstanding the enactment of the Revised Statutes and the repeal by such enactment of any such act or part thereof.
N.J. Stat. § 1:5-1 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 5 / Section 5-1
§ 1:5-1
Status: in_force

Whenever a statute shall be adopted or accepted by the voters of a county or municipality at an election, the clerk of the county or municipality, shall, within ten days after the result of the election is ascertained, make return of the fact to the secretary of state, who shall file the same in his office.
N.J. Stat. § 1:3-7 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-7
Binding and distribution of paper volumes of laws
Status: in_force

The Office of Legislative Services shall, under the direction and control of the Legislative Services Commission, cause to be bound in plain and substantial binding so many of the paper volumes of the laws as the commission shall direct. The office shall distribute them in the manner that the commission prescribes. Amended by L.1981, c. 448, s. 7, eff. Jan. 12, 1982.
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-20 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-20
§ 1:1-20
Status: in_force

The repeal by the enactment of the Revised Statutes of any act or part of any act under which any public institution or agency has been established shall not, unless such institution or agency has, prior to the effective date of the Revised Statutes, been abolished, affect the existence or continuance of such institution or agency, but the same shall be and continue in existence and be governed by the provisions of the Revised Statutes relating to and dealing therewith.
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-2.5 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-2.5
Notice or communication required to be sent, taken, or transmitted out of United States; Acts of Congress to control
Status: in_force

Whenever, by the terms of (a) any present or future statute or law of this State; (b) any present or future ordinance, rule, regulation or requirement of any State, municipal, legislative, executive, administrative or other public body, commission, bureau, agency, officer or public authority of this State; (c) any present or future rule, practice, order, judgment or decree of any court or of any judicial authority of this State; (d) any present or future charter, certificate of incorporation, by-law or resolution of any corporation organized or subject to the laws of this State; (e) any present or future contract, agreement or undertaking of any person, firm, association or corporation to which the laws of this State are applicable; or (f) as a condition precedent to the taking of any action, the granting of any relief, the holding of any meeting or the doing of anything under or pursuant to any such statute, law, ordinance, rule, regulation, requirement, practice, order, judgment, decree, charter, certificate of incorporation, by-law, resolution, contract, agreement, or undertaking; any notice or other communication is or shall be required to be sent, taken or transmitted out of the United States, then any such requirement for sending, taking or transmitting any such notice or other communication is dispensed with in so far as the sending, taking or transmitting or attempting to send, take or transmit any such notice or other communication is or shall be prohibited under any present or future Act of Congress or under any rules, regulations, proclamations or executive orders made by authority of any said Act or in so far as such sending, taking or transmitting or attempting so to do shall require the obtaining of a license or consent under any said Act or rules, regulations, proclamations or executive orders made by authority of any said Act; and any action of any kind which has been or hereafter shall be taken, any relief which has been or hereafter shall be granted, any meeting which has been or hereafter shall be held and anything which has been or hereafter shall be done without sending, taking or transmitting or attempting to send, take or transmit or without obtaining or attempting to obtain a license or consent to send, take or transmit any such notice or other communication under any said Act, rules, proclamation or executive orders made by authority of any said Act shall have the same force and effect as if such notice or other communication had been sent, taken or transmitted as provided in any such statute, law, ordinance, rule, regulation, requirement, practice, order, judgment, decree, charter, certificate of incorporation, by-law resolution, contract, agreement or undertaking. L.1942, c. 131, p. 415, s. 1, eff. May 6, 1942.
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-2.2 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-2.2
Surety; sureties
Status: in_force

When a bond, recognizance, guarantee or obligation is required or permitted to be given by any law, or by any charter, ordinance, rule or regulation of any county, municipality, school district, board, body, organization, court or public officer, with surety or sureties or security, including freehold security, for the performance of any act, duty or obligation or the refraining from the doing of any act, the same may be executed as surety or sureties by any company or corporation authorized to carry on the business specified in paragraph "g" of section 17:17-1 or authorized to transact such business in this state by section 17:32-1 of the title Corporations and Institutions for Finance and Insurance, with the operation and effect provided and prescribed by chapter 31 of said title (s. 17:31-1 et seq.).
N.J. Stat. § 1:4-5 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-5
Binding and distribution of complete journals and minutes
Status: in_force

Upon receipt of the Senate Journal and Assembly Minutes, together with the indexes thereto, the Office of Legislative Services shall cause to be bound in plain and substantial binding so many of such copies as the Senate and General Assembly shall determine, which bound copies shall be distributed by the office as directed by the Senate and General Assembly. Amended by L.1981, c. 448, s. 11, eff. Jan. 12, 1982.
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-4 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-4
Construction as continuation of heretofore existing laws
Status: in_force

The provisions of the Revised Statutes, not inconsistent with those of prior laws, and the provisions of any revision law not inconsistent with those of any of the laws revised therein, shall be construed as a continuation of such prior laws. Amended by L.1960, c. 187, p. 780, s. 4.
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-23 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-23
Statutes containing references to proceedings under former prerogative writs
Status: in_force

Where any such statute contains a reference to any proceeding under the former prerogative writs the reference shall be given effect, on and after September fifteenth, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight, as though it were to a proceeding in lieu of the prerogative writs provided for by the Rules made and promulgated by the Supreme Court. L.1948, c. 375, p. 1544, s. 2.
N.J. Stat. § 1:7-2 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-2
Summary hearing of application; witnesses; depositions; notices
Status: in_force

The court, on the application, shall inquire summarily into the circumstances and may, for that purpose, order witnesses to be subpoenaed and sworn and their depositions taken and such notice to be given of the taking of depositions and the hearing before the court, by publication or otherwise, as it deems just. Amended by L.1948, c. 329, p. 1313, s. 2; L.1953, c. 4, p. 24, s. 5.
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-15 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-15
§ 1:1-15
Status: repealed

No offense committed, and no liability, penalty or forfeiture, either civil or criminal, incurred, previous to the time of the repeal or alteration of any act or part of any act, by the enactment of the Revised Statutes or by any act heretofore or hereafter enacted, shall be discharged, released or affected by the repeal or alteration of the statute under which such offense, liability, penalty or forfeiture was incurred, unless it is expressly declared in the act by which such repeal or alteration is effectuated, that an offense, liability, penalty or forfeiture already committed or incurred shall be thereby discharged, released or affected; and indictments, prosecutions and actions for such offenses, liabilities, penalties or forfeitures already committed or incurred shall be commenced or continued and be proceeded with in all respects as if the act or part of an act had not been repealed or altered, except that when the Revised Statutes, or other act by which such repeal or alteration is effectuated, shall relate to mere matters of practice or mode of procedure, the proceedings had thereafter on the indictment or in the prosecution for such offenses, liabilities, penalties or forfeitures shall be in such respects, as far as is practicable, in accordance with the provisions of the Revised Statutes or such subsequent act.
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-27 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-27
Effective date
Status: in_force

This act shall take effect September fifteenth, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight. L.1948, c. 375, p. 1545, s. 6.
N.J. Stat. § 1:6-15 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 6 / Section 6-15
Petition; publication of notice of intention
Status: in_force

In any case in which an ordinance or resolution authorizing the filing of a petition with the Legislature for the passage of a private, special or local law, pursuant to the provisions of this act, shall be adopted, it shall be the duty of the chief executive officer of the municipality, or the presiding officer of the board of chosen freeholders of the county, to cause a petition, describing the general nature of the private, special or local law sought to be passed, to be prepared and signed by him and attested by the clerk of the municipality or of the board of chosen freeholders under the corporate seal of the municipality or county, and to cause to be published notice of the intention to apply for the passage of a bill of the general nature described in the petition pursuant to the provisions of section 1:6-1 of the Revised Statutes at the next session of the Legislature at which such application can be made after compliance with such provisions, and to cause to be prepared and introduced in the Legislature at said session a private, special or local bill, to carry out the purposes of said petition, for the action of the Legislature thereon. L.1948, c. 199, p. 997, s. 6.
N.J. Stat. § 1:2-3.2 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 2 / Section 2-3.2
Display of summaries of appropriations.
Status: in_force

1. Unless it is otherwise expressly provided, the following display, or a substantially similar display, of summaries of appropriations as may appear within an annual appropriations act shall not be deemed to be part of that act but shall be for the purpose of displaying summaries of the items of appropriations made elsewhere within that act:
(For Display Purposes Only) Summary of Appropriations - Department of [Name of Department]
Appropriations by Category:
Direct State Services..........................................$(subtotal)
Grants-in-Aid.................................................... $(subtotal)
State Aid............................................................$(subtotal)
Appropriations by Fund:
General Fund......................................................$(subtotal)
Property Tax Relief Fund................................... $(subtotal)
Casino Revenue Fund.........................................$(subtotal)
L.1999,c.98,s.1.
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-14 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-14
§ 1:1-14
Status: repealed

No action, proceeding or matter of any kind whatsoever of a civil nature begun in any of the courts of this state or before any body, board or tribunal whatsoever at the time when the Revised Statutes shall become effective or at the time any act hereafter enacted shall become effective, by virtue, or under authority, of any act or part of any act repealed by the enactment of the Revised Statutes, or by any act hereafter enacted, shall be abated or discontinued because of such repeal; but the same may and shall be prosecuted to final judgment, decree or decision in accordance with the practice and procedure in force at the time when such action or proceeding was begun, except that where the course of practice or procedure for the enforcement of a right, or the prosecution of a suit, shall be changed, actions now pending, or hereafter begun shall be conducted as near as may be in accordance with such altered practice or procedure.
N.J. Stat. § 1:2-3 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 2 / Section 2-3
§ 1:2-3
Status: in_force

No public act shall go into operation or be in force until the fourth day of July next after the passage thereof, unless otherwise specially provided for in such act.
N.J. Stat. § 1:6-19 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 6 / Section 6-19
Question
Status: in_force

There shall be printed on each official ballot to be used at such general or municipal election, the following: If you favor the proposition printed below make a cross x, plus + or check X in the square opposite the word "YES." If you are opposed thereto make a cross x , plus + or check X in the square opposite the word "NO." YES "Shall "An act (reciting title)' NO be adopted?" In any municipality or county in which voting machines are used, the question shall be placed upon the official ballots to be used upon the voting machines without the foregoing instruction to the voters and shall be voted upon by the use of such machines without marking as aforesaid. L.1948, c. 199, p. 998, s. 10.
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-3.2 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-3.2
Repeal of repealing statute
Status: in_force

The repeal of any statute or section of any statute, which statute or section repealed another statute or section of a statute, shall not of itself revive such other statute or section. L.1960, c. 187, p. 784, s. 14.
N.J. Stat. § 1:4-2 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-2
Preparation of copies of journal and minutes for printing; originals deposited with secretary of state
Status: in_force

The Secretary of the Senate shall cause to be prepared for printing copies of the Senate Journal in which shall be included the minutes of the joint meetings of the Legislature, as directed by the Senate; and the clerk of the General Assembly shall cause to be prepared like copies of the house minutes. The copies so prepared shall be delivered by the Office of Legislative Services to the person having the contract to print the same. Immediately after each copy of the Senate Journal and Assembly Minutes has been made and prepared for printing as required by this section, the originals shall be deposited in the office of the Secretary of State, there to remain and by him be kept unaltered and undefaced. Amended by L.1981, c. 448, s. 9, eff. Jan. 12, 1982.
N.J. Stat. § 1:6-10 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 6 / Section 6-10
Petition for passage of private, special local law
Status: in_force

1. The governing body of any municipal corporation formed for local government, hereinafter called a municipality, or the board of chosen freeholders of any county, may petition the Legislature for the passage of a private, special or local law regulating the internal affairs of the municipality or county, when authorized so to do by ordinance of the municipality, or by resolution of the board of chosen freeholders of the county, as the case may be, specifying the general nature of the law sought to be passed, duly adopted, after publication and opportunity afforded for public hearing upon not less than seven days' notice duly published. L.1948,c.199,s.1; amended 1993,c.93,s.3.
N.J. Stat. § 1:2-8 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 2 / Section 2-8
Certified copies of filed bills and resolutions; use as evidence; fee
Status: in_force

The secretary of state shall give copies of any law or joint resolution filed in his office pursuant to sections 1:2-5, 1:2-6 and 1:2-7 of this title to any person making application therefor, which copies, when certified by the secretary of state, under his hand and seal, to be true copies, shall be received in evidence in any court of the state, and be as good and effectual as if the originals were then and there produced and proved. The secretary of state, for furnishing copies pursuant to this section, shall receive from the person making application for such copies the fee allowed by section 22:4-1 of the title Fees and Costs.
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-24 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-24
Statutes containing references to certain summary proceedings
Status: in_force

Where any such statute contains a reference to any summary proceeding founded upon a cause of action of an equitable nature to be begun by petition the reference shall be given effect, on and after September fifteenth, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight, as though it were to a similar proceeding to be begun by complaint. L.1948, c. 375, p. 1545, s. 3.
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-5.1 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-5.1
Citation of, pleading or otherwise referring to legislation contained in Revised Statutes or New Jersey Statutes
Status: in_force

The legislation contained within any title, subtitle, part, chapter, article, section or group of sections of these Revised Statutes or of the New Jersey Statutes may be cited, pleaded or otherwise referred to by reference to such title, subtitle, part, chapter, article, section or group of sections of the "Revised Statutes" or the "New Jersey Statutes" containing such legislation, as the case may be; and the use of the words "Revised Statutes" or "New Jersey Statutes" shall have the same effect as if the legislative title, under which these Revised Statutes or the New Jersey Statutes were adopted and the approval date thereof had been used. In any citation the abbreviation "R.S." shall be equivalent to "Revised Statutes," and "N.J.S." shall be equivalent to "New Jersey Statutes" and sections of these Revised Statutes or the New Jersey Statutes may be cited by section number only preceded by the appropriate abbreviation. In any citation of legislation contained in the New Jersey Statutes which has been printed in the Pamphlet Laws, there shall be superadded the chapter number and year of the Pamphlet Laws in which the same was published (P.L.19 , c. ). Amended by L.1960, c. 187, p. 780, s. 5, eff. Jan. 18, 1961.
N.J. Stat. § 1:12A-1 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 12A / Section 12A-1
Law Revision Commission
Status: in_force

There is created in the Legislative Branch of State Government a commission to be known as the New Jersey Law Revision Commission. L. 1985, c. 498, s. 1, eff. Jan. 21, 1986.
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-10 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-10
Partial unconstitutionality
Status: in_force

If any title, subtitle, chapter, article or section of the Revised Statutes, or of any statute or any provision thereof, shall be declared to be unconstitutional, invalid or inoperative, in whole or in part, by a court of competent jurisdiction, such title, subtitle, chapter, article, section or provision shall, to the extent that it is not unconstitutional, invalid or inoperative, be enforced and effectuated, and no such determination shall be deemed to invalidate or make ineffectual the remaining titles, subtitles, chapters, articles, sections or provisions. Amended by L.1960, c. 187, p. 782, s. 10.
N.J. Stat. § 1:2-5 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 2 / Section 2-5
Enacted bills and resolutions; delivery to governor; signing by governor and delivery to secretary of state; filing by secretary of state
Status: in_force

On the passage of any bill, or the adoption of any joint resolution, by both Houses of the Legislature, the same shall be delivered to the Governor or person administering the government, who, if he shall approve such bill or joint resolution, shall sign and deliver the same to the Secretary of State, to be filed in his office, in such order that the laws and joint resolutions of each sitting of the Legislature shall be kept separately, according to the year in which they shall be passed, and not delivered to any person whatsoever, but safely kept by the Secretary of State in his office, and not suffered to be taken or removed therefrom on any pretext whatsoever. Amended by L.1948, c. 13, p. 60, s. 1, eff. July 4, 1948.
N.J. Stat. § 1:12A-8 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 12A / Section 12A-8
Functions; duties
Status: in_force

The commission shall promote and encourage the clarification and simplification of the law of New Jersey and its better adaption to present social needs, secure the better administration of justice and carry on scholarly legal research and work. It shall further be the duty of the commission to: a. Conduct a continuous examination of the general and permanent statutory law of this State and the judicial decisions construing it, for the purpose of discovering defects and anachronisms therein, and to prepare and submit to the Legislature, from time to time, legislative bills designed to (1) Remedy the defects, (2) Reconcile conflicting provisions found in the law, and (3) Clarify confusing and excise redundant provisions found in the law; b. Carry on a continuous revision of the general and permanent statute law of the State, in a manner so as to maintain the general and permanent statute law in revised, consolidated and simplified form under the general plan and classification of the Revised Statutes and the New Jersey Statutes; c. Receive and consider suggestions and recommendations from the American Law Institute, the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, and other learned bodies and from judges, public officials, bar associations, members of the bar and from the public generally, for the improvement and modification of the general and permanent statutory law of the State, and to bring the law of this State, civil and criminal, and the administration thereof, into harmony with modern conceptions and conditions; and d. Act in cooperation with the Legislative Counsel in the Office of Legislative Services, to effect improvements and modifications in the general and permanent statutory law pursuant to its duties set forth in this section, and submit to the Legislative Counsel and the Division for their examination such drafts of legislative bills as the commission shall deem necessary to effectuate the purposes of this section. L. 1985, c. 498, s. 8, eff. Jan. 21, 1986.
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-2.3 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-2.3
Time; standard time
Status: in_force

The standard time of this State shall be the time of the seventy-fifth meridian west from Greenwich, and wherever time is named within this State, in any manner whatsoever, it shall be deemed and taken to be such standard time, except that the standard time of this State shall be 1 hour in advance of such prescribed time from 2:00 A.M. on the last Sunday in April until 2:00 A.M. on the last Sunday in October in each year, and except where otherwise expressed. Amended by L.1946, c. 97, p. 320, s. 1; L.1947, c. 77, p. 454, s. 1; L.1955, c. 47, p. 164, s. 1, eff. June 6, 1955.
N.J. Stat. § 1:6-18 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 6 / Section 6-18
Submission of question of adoption
Status: in_force

The question of the adoption of such law shall be submitted to the legal voters of the municipality or county at the next general election succeeding the passage thereof unless the same shall be passed within twenty-five days next preceding such election, in which case it shall be submitted at the next succeeding general election, in the case of a county, or the next succeeding general or municipal election, whichever shall occur first, in the case of a municipality. L.1948, c. 199, p. 998, s. 9.
N.J. Stat. § 1:4-4 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-4
Indexes of journal and minutes; preparation; printing and delivery
Status: in_force

The Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the General Assembly, respectively, shall prepare and deliver to the printer an index of the Senate Journal and Assembly Minutes for the entire session. The printer shall print as many copies as the Senate and General Assembly direct. Amended by L.1981, c. 448, s. 10, eff. Jan. 12, 1982.
N.J. Stat. § 1:13-10 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-10
Transfer of records and property and unexpended balance of appropriations to commission
Status: in_force

All files, books, papers, records, furniture, equipment and other property of the commission constituted under this act are transferred to the Law Revision and Legislative Services Commission and the unexpended balance as of June 30, 1964 of sums appropriated, to the commission constituted under this act, are hereby appropriated to the Law Revision and Legislative Services Commission for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1964, to carry out the purposes of this act. L.1964, c. 154, s. 5.
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-2a — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-2a
"Present war" and similar phrases
Status: in_force

Unless it be otherwise expressly provided or there is something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction, the following words, phrases and clauses, namely: "present war," "present war emergency," "the existing state of war," "present defense emergency," when used or named within this State in any manner whatsoever with relation to a period of time shall mean so long as the United States of America continues in the present wars with the governments of Japan, Germany and Italy, or any of them, and until the making of a treaty or treaties of peace concluding all of said wars. L.1942, c. 72, p. 314, s. 1, eff. May 2, 1942.
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-13.1 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-13.1
§ 1:1-13.1
Status: in_force

The inclusion in the Revised Statutes of the provisions, or the substance of the provisions, of any statute, in force at the time when the Revised Statutes shall become effective, for the appointment or election of the first members of any board, commission or other public body for unequal or staggered terms, in order to accomplish the expiration of the terms of office of the various members thereof at different times, shall not be construed to require or authorize the reorganization of any such board, commission or public body or the appointment of the successors of the members of any such commission, board or public body, then in office, to such unequal terms but in every such case such members shall continue to hold their offices for the terms for which they respectively were appointed or elected and, upon the expiration of their respective terms, their respective successors in office shall be appointed for the full terms of office otherwise provided for by the Revised Statutes.
N.J. Stat. § 1:7-3 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-3
Hearings; adjudging law or resolution void
Status: in_force

After a full hearing the court may, if satisfied that the constitutional and statutory provisions relating to the enactment and approval of laws and joint resolutions have not been complied with, adjudge the law or joint resolution or any part thereof to be void. Amended by L.1948, c. 329, p. 1313, s. 3; L.1953, c. 4, p. 24, s. 6.
N.J. Stat. § 1:6-3 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 6 / Section 6-3
§ 1:6-3
Status: in_force

The notice of intention to apply for the passage of a bill to repeal the charter of any corporation, or bill to repeal the charter and dispose of the property of any corporation, shall be given by publishing the same in a daily newspaper published in Trenton, for at least six consecutive days prior to the introduction of the bill, and by serving a copy of the notice upon the president, secretary, registered agent or a director of the corporation, if such officer or agent can be found within the state, and, if no such officer or agent can be found within the state, by personal service of such copy upon them or one of them out of the state, or by mailing a copy to them or one of them, directed to the residence or post-office address of such officer or agent, if known.
N.J. Stat. § 1:14-13 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 14 / Section 14-13
Organization
Status: in_force

The commission shall organize as soon after the appointment of its members as is practicable, shall choose a chairman from among its members and shall appoint a secretary who need not be a member of the commission. L.1989,c.163,s.2.
N.J. Stat. § 1:2-7 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 2 / Section 2-7
Bills passed over governor's veto; delivery to and filing by secretary of state
Status: in_force

If any bill, passed by both houses of the legislature and presented to the governor, and returned by him with his objections to the house in which it originated, shall nevertheless afterwards become a law in the manner prescribed by the constitution, the presiding officer of the house in which such bill originated shall deliver the same to the secretary of state, who shall file and keep the same in his office, with the other laws of the same sitting, as directed by section 1:2-5 of this title.
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-19 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-19
§ 1:1-19
Status: in_force

Any corporation, association or society incorporated, organized or formed prior to the effective date of the Revised Statutes under or by virtue of any act or part of any act, the substance of which has been included, in whole or in part, in the Revised Statutes as a title, subtitle, part, chapter, article or section or sections thereof, may be referred to and shall be included within the designation or description of corporations, associations or societies incorporated, organized or formed under or by virtue of the provisions of such title, subtitle, part, chapter, article or section or sections.
N.J. Stat. § 1:12A-2 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 12A / Section 12A-2
Membership
Status: in_force

The commission shall consist of: a. The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, or its successor, who shall serve while chairman of that committee; b. The chairman of the Assembly Judiciary, Law, Public Safety and Defense Committee, or its successor, who shall serve while chairman of that committee; c. The Deans, or their designees, of Rutgers Law School, Newark; Rutgers Law School, Camden; and Seton Hall Law School; and d. Four attorneys admitted to the practice of law in this State, two to be appointed by the President of the Senate, no more than one of whom shall be of the same political party, and two to be appointed by the Speaker of the General Assembly, no more than one of whom shall be of the same political party. L. 1985, c. 498, s. 2, eff. Jan. 21,1986.
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-2 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-2
Words and phrases defined.
Status: in_force

1:1-2. Unless it be otherwise expressly provided or there is something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction, the following words and phrases, when used in any statute and in the Revised Statutes, shall have the meaning herein given to them. Affirmation; affirmed. See "Oath; sworn," infra, this section. Assessor. The word "assessor," when used in relation to the assessment of taxes or water rents or other public assessments, includes all officers, boards or commissions charged with the duty of making such assessments, unless a particular officer, board or commission is specified. Census. When used with reference to the population of this State, or of any subdivision thereof, the word "census" means the latest Federal census effective within this State. Certified mail. The words "certified mail" include private express carrier service, provided that the private express carrier service provides confirmation of mailing. For purposes of this definition, confirmation of mailing may be by electronic means, and shall include, at a minimum, confirmation of fact of mail, time of mailing, date and time of delivery, attempted delivery, signature, or other similar information for confirmation or proof associated with the delivery service. Collector. The word "collector," when used in relation to the collection of taxes or water rents or other public assessments, includes all officers charged with the duty of collecting such taxes, water rents or assessments, unless a particular officer is specified. Folio; sheet. A sheet or folio shall consist of 100 words, and in all cases where an entry of any writing or copy is to be paid for, the sheet or folio shall consist of 100 words. Freeholder; chosen freeholder. The words "freeholder" and "chosen freeholder," when used in relation to county government, mean a member of the board which manages, controls, and governs the property, finances, and affairs of a county, and in which the executive and legislative powers of the county or solely the legislative powers of the county are vested, and designated as a "county commissioner." Gender. See "Number; gender," infra, this section. General election. The words "general election" shall be taken to mean the annual election to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November and in any statute in which it is provided that any public officer shall be elected, or any public question shall be voted upon, at an election at which members of the General Assembly are to be voted for or elected, or words to that effect, shall be taken to mean, and shall be construed to be the equivalent of a provision, that said public officers shall be elected, or that said public question shall be voted upon, "at a general election." He. "Number; gender," infra, this section. Inhabitants. See "Population; inhabitants," infra, this section. It. See "Number; gender," infra, this section. Magistrate. The word "magistrate" includes any judge, municipal magistrate or officer or other person having the powers of a committing magistrate. Masculine. See "Number; gender," infra, this section. Month; year. The word "month" means a calendar month, and the word "year" means a calendar year. Municipality; municipal corporation. The words "municipality" and "municipal corporation" include cities, towns, townships, villages and boroughs, and any municipality governed by a board of commissioners or an improvement commission. Neuter. See "Number; gender," infra, this section. Number; gender. Whenever, in describing or referring to any person, party, matter or thing, any word importing the singular number or masculine gender is used, the same shall be understood to include and to apply to several persons or parties as well as to one person or party and to females as well as males, and to bodies corporate as well as individuals, and to several matters and things as well as one matter or thing. Oath; sworn. The word "oath" includes "affirmation;" and the word "sworn" includes "affirmed." Other property. See "Property; other property," infra, this section. Person. The word "person" includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. Personal property. "Personal property" includes goods and chattels, rights and credits, moneys and effects, evidences of debt, choses in action and all written instruments by which any right to, interest in, or lien or encumbrance upon, property or any debt or financial obligation is created, acknowledged, evidenced, transferred, discharged or defeated, in whole or in part, and everything except real property as herein defined which may be the subject of ownership. Plural. See "Number; gender," supra, this section. Population; inhabitants. The word "population," when used in any statute, shall be taken to mean the population as shown by the latest Federal census effective within this State, and shall be construed as synonymous with "inhabitants." Property; other property. The words "property" and "other property," unless restricted or limited by the context to either real or personal property, includes both real and personal property. Real estate; real property. The words "real estate" and "real property," include lands, tenements and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interests therein. Registered mail. The words "registered mail" include "certified mail". Revised Statutes. The words "Revised Statutes" mean the Revised Statutes of 1937, unless some other revision is expressly indicated or referred to. Revision law. The words "Revision law" mean any statute which is expressed in its title or body to be a revision of any part of the statutory law. She. See "Number; gender," supra, this section. Sheet. See "Folio," supra, this section. Ship. The word "Ship" includes vessels, steamers, canal boats and every boat or structure adapted to navigation or movement from place to place, upon the ocean, lakes, rivers or artificial waterways, either by its own power or otherwise. Singular. See "Number; gender," supra, this section. State. The word "State" extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. Sworn. See "Oath; sworn," supra, this section. Taxing district. The words "taxing district," when used in a law relating to the assessment or collection of taxes, assessments or water rates or water rents, include every political division of the State, less than a county, whose inhabitants, governing body or officers have the power to levy taxes, assessments or rates. Territory. The word "territory" extends to and includes any territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. United States. The words "United States" extend to and include every State, territory and possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. Year. See "Month; year," supra, this section. amended 1948, c.4; 1953, c.4, s.1; 1955, c.226; 1960, c.187, s.1; 2015, c.251; 2020, c.67.
N.J. Stat. § 1:6-13 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 6 / Section 6-13
Question placed on ballot
Status: in_force

If the resolution so adopted shall provide for submission of said proposal to the voters of the municipality or of the county, there shall be printed on every ballot to be used at such general or municipal election, the following: If you favor the proposition printed below make a cross X, plus + or check / in the square opposite the word "YES." If you are opposed thereto make a cross X, plus + or check / in the square opposite the word "NO." YES "Shall the proposal to petition the Legislature for the passage of a special law entitled 'An act NO (reciting title)' be adopted?" In any municipality or county in which voting machines are used, the question shall be placed upon the official ballots to be used upon the voting machines without the foregoing instructions to the voters and shall be voted upon by the use of such machines without marking as aforesaid. L.1948, c. 199, p. 996, s. 4.
N.J. Stat. § 1:10-1 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-1
Commission established; members; powers and duties
Status: in_force

L.1925, c. 73, p. 244, entitled "An act to provide for the revision and consolidation of the public statutes of this state," approved March twelfth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, saved from repeal. [This act provides for the appointment by the chancellor of three commissioners, who shall be counselors at law, to revise, simplify, arrange and consolidate all the public acts of the state; states the powers and duties of the commissioners in respect of such revision; provides for the submission by the commissioners to the legislature of a printed copy of the public acts revised by them; requires the commissioners, after the laws revised by them have been submitted to and approved by the legislature, to prepare the same for the press, with the proper references and notes; provides for the distribution of the statutes so revised; authorizes the commissioners to select a chairman; provides for the compensation of the commissioners and of the persons employed by them; provides for the filling of vacancies in the membership of the commission; and makes a preliminary appropriation.]
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-2.1 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-2.1
§ 1:1-2.1
Status: in_force

Every instrument, to which it is required or permitted by law that a seal be attached, shall be deemed to be sealed when there is affixed thereto, or printed, impressed or marked thereon a scroll or other device by way of a seal, and no such instrument shall be impeached or questioned for lack of a wax seal. This section shall apply to sealings by corporations as well as individuals; but any sealing required or permitted by law of a public officer, board, body or commission having an official seal shall be by the impress of such official seal.
N.J. Stat. § 1:6-16 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 6 / Section 6-16
Filing of petition and resolution with bill
Status: in_force

The original of the petition for the passage of such a law, together with a duly certified copy of the ordinance or resolution authorizing the filing of the same, shall be presented and filed with the bill when the bill is introduced and, after final vote upon the bill, shall be filed and deposited in the office of the Secretary of State with the proof of publication of the notice of intention to apply for the passage of the bill. L.1948, c. 199, p. 998, s. 7.
N.J. Stat. § 1:6-4 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 6 / Section 6-4
§ 1:6-4
Status: in_force

Proof of the publications required by sections 1:6-1 and 1:6-3 of this title shall be by oath or affirmation in writing, made by the publisher, or his authorized agent, of every newspaper in which publication was made. The proof shall contain a copy of the published notice, and shall be presented with the bill when introduced, and, after final vote on the bill, shall be filed and deposited by the officers of the legislature in whose hands it may be in the office of the secretary of state, there to remain.
N.J. Stat. § 1:6-20 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 6 / Section 6-20
Law operative upon adoption
Status: in_force

If at such election a majority, of all the votes cast both for and against the adoption of such law, shall be cast in favor of the adoption thereof, the same shall immediately become operative in the municipality or county voting thereon. L.1948, c. 199, p. 999, s. 11.
N.J. Stat. § 1:2-2 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 2 / Section 2-2
§ 1:2-2
Status: in_force

Arabic numerals shall be used to designate the numbers of the chapters of the several laws in the order in which they are enacted.
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-7 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-7
References to titles, subtitles, chapters, articles and sections
Status: in_force

All references in the Revised Statutes or in any other statute to titles, subtitles, chapters, articles or sections are to the titles, subtitles, chapters, articles or sections of the Revised Statutes, or of such other statute, as the case may be, unless they are otherwise designated in such statute and such references to titles, subtitles, chapters or articles, without further description or limitation as to sections, shall be construed to refer to all the sections contained within the titles, subtitles, chapters or articles or statute to which such references are made. Amended by L.1960, c. 187, p. 781, s. 7.
N.J. Stat. § 1:3-3.1 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3.1
Numbering of laws; first and second annual session
Status: in_force

Every bill and joint resolution enacted into law during the first annual session of a Legislature shall be numbered and printed as a public law of that legislative year. Every bill and joint resolution introduced in the first annual session of a Legislature and enacted into law after the convening of the second annual session of the same Legislature shall be numbered and printed as a public law of the legislative year of the second annual session. L.1970, c. 1, s. 1, eff. Jan. 26, 1970.
N.J. Stat. § 1:3-4 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-4
Style and contents of annual volume of laws
Status: in_force

The laws enacted at each session of the Legislature shall be printed in the same general style as heretofore, subject to such modifications and modernization as the Legislative Services Commission, through the Office of Legislative Services, shall from time to time direct. Preceding the first chapter of the pamphlet laws, there shall be printed the legislative list of members' names arranged by Senate and General Assembly districts. Following the last chapter of the pamphlet laws, there shall be printed first, the joint resolutions of the Senate and General Assembly arranged in numerical order, and such proclamations of the Governor made during the previous year as are to be printed with the laws. Amended by L.1967, c. 4, s. 4, eff. Feb. 16, 1967; L.1981, c. 448, s. 5, eff. Jan. 12, 1982.
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-26 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-26
Statutes containing references to rules
Status: in_force

Where any such statute contains a reference to the Rules of the Court of Chancery, the Rules of the Prerogative Court, the Rules of the former Supreme Court or the Rules of the Orphans' Courts or to a Rule or Rules of any of such courts, by any other designation, the reference shall be given effect on and after September fifteenth, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight, as though it were to the Rules or a Rule made and promulgated by the Supreme Court governing the practice and procedure in the court succeeding to the jurisdiction of the court referred to in such statute, if any such Rule is appropriate to the subject matter of such reference. L.1948, c. 375, p. 1545, s. 5.
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-17 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-17
§ 1:1-17
Status: in_force

The inclusion in the Revised Statutes, by revision, compilation or otherwise, of the substance of acts of the legislature, which, for their operative force and effect, depend upon the adoption thereof or of any proposal thereunder by the voters of the state or any political subdivision or district thereof, and commonly known as referendum acts, shall not be construed to require the resubmission of any such act or proposal to any body of voters who had adopted any such act or proposal prior to the effective date of the Revised Statutes, and any and all such acts so adopted prior to the effective date of the Revised Statutes shall be and remain valid and operative as revised, compiled or otherwise included in the Revised Statutes, and the adoption of any such proposal shall be and remain valid and operative in like manner.
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-25 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-25
Statutes containing references to "term of court"
Status: in_force

When any such statute contains a reference to a "term of court" or to "terms of court" the reference shall be given effect, on and after September fifteenth, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight, as though it were to a stated session or stated sessions of such court. L.1948, c. 375, p. 1545, s. 4.
N.J. Stat. § 1:12A-4 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 12A / Section 12A-4
Vacancies
Status: in_force

Vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired terms in the same manner as the original appointments were made. L. 1985, c. 498, s. 4, eff. Jan. 21, 1986.
N.J. Stat. § 1:2-3.1 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 2 / Section 2-3.1
Format of bills, joint resolutions for Governor's signature.
Status: in_force

1. Every bill and every joint resolution which has passed the Legislature shall be presented to the Governor in the same text as that in which it passed the Legislature and it shall be acted upon by the Governor accordingly but any bill or joint resolution in which material enclosed in bold-faced brackets is included shall, if it becomes law, be construed as though the material so included was omitted therefrom and no material so included shall be or constitute any part of the statute so enacted but a legend shall be affixed to the bottom of the first page of the bill or joint resolution indicating that material so included is intended to be omitted from the bill or joint resolution, when it becomes law. In addition, every annual appropriations bill which has passed the Legislature that may include one or more displays of summaries of items of appropriations as may appear within the bill shall not, if the bill becomes law, be construed as though the material so included within any display of summaries of items of appropriations constitutes any part of the act and a legend shall be affixed to the bottom of the first page of the bill indicating that material included within any display is intended to be for the purpose of displaying summaries of the items of appropriations set forth elsewhere within that act and, while included within the text of the law, is not intended to be part of the law. L.1954,c.28,s.1; amended 1999, c.98, s.2.
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-18 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-18
Corporations, associations or societies; effect of repealer on existence, etc., thereof
Status: in_force

The repeal by the enactment of the Revised Statutes or of any statute of any other statute or part thereof, under or by virtue of which any corporation, association or society, of whatsoever nature, was incorporated or formed and is in existence at the time when the Revised Statutes or such repealing statute, as the case may be, became or becomes effective, shall not be construed to work a dissolution of any such existing corporation, association or society; but the charter, certificate of incorporation or articles of association and the rights, powers, privileges, duties, obligations of and limitations upon any such existing corporation, association or society shall, unless otherwise provided in the Revised Statutes, or such repealing statute, continue as though the Revised Statutes, or such repealing statute, had not been enacted, and every such existing corporation, association or society shall remain and continue to be liable on its bonds and other obligations issued and outstanding on the date when the Revised Statutes became, or such repealing statute becomes effective. Amended by L.1960, c. 187, p. 783, s. 12, eff. Jan. 18, 1961.
N.J. Stat. § 1:4-6 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-6
Current legislative printing; subscriptions; cost; advance copies of laws
Status: in_force

a. Any person desiring a complete set of the bills and resolutions introduced in any year in the Legislature, together with the usual index slips, daily memoranda, advance parts of the Journal of the Senate and Minutes of the Assembly and advance copies of laws, may file an application therefore with the Office of Legislative Services, accompanying the application with payment of an annual subscription fee in an amount to be fixed from time to time by the Legislative Services Commission. Upon receipt of the application and fee, the Office of Legislative Services shall cause the name and address of the applicant to be added to the printer's mailing list of members of the Legislature, and thereafter during the year such bills and resolutions, slips, daily memoranda, advance parts of the Journal and Minutes and advance copies of laws shall be mailed by the printer to such applicant as and when the same are mailed to members of the Legislature. b. Any person desiring an advance copy of each law, to be published and distributed prior to the printing of the annual edition of the laws as provided in R.S. 1:3-1, may file an application therefor with the Office of Legislative Services accompanying the application with payment of an annual subscription fee to be fixed by the Legislative Services Commission in the manner provided in subsection a. of this section. Amended by L.1953, c. 116, p. 1302, s. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1954; L.1972, c. 175, s. 1; L.1981, c. 448, s. 12, eff. Jan. 12, 1982.
N.J. Stat. § 1:6-6 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 6 / Section 6-6
§ 1:6-6
Status: in_force

The publication in the pamphlet laws published by the state of any law, as to which notice of intention to apply for its passage is required by the constitution, shall be prima facie evidence that the notice required by the constitution has been given in the manner required by this chapter.
N.J. Stat. § 1:6-8 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 6 / Section 6-8
§ 1:6-8
Status: in_force

Each private, local or special act or supplement thereto constitutionally enacted by the legislature, except such as refer to benevolent, religious, charitable or educational institutions shall be assessed the sum of twenty-five dollars, and, until such assessment is paid into the state treasury, no such act shall have the force and effect of law; and if any person interested in any such act fails to pay the assessment thereon before the first day of July next ensuing the passage thereof, the same shall cease, and be inoperative and void, to all intents and purposes as though the same had not been passed.
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-1 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-1
§ 1:1-1
Status: in_force

In the construction of the laws and statutes of this state, both civil and criminal, words and phrases shall be read and construed with their context, and shall, unless inconsistent with the manifest intent of the legislature or unless another or different meaning is expressly indicated, be given their generally accepted meaning, according to the approved usage of the language. Technical words and phrases, and words and phrases having a special or accepted meaning in the law, shall be construed in accordance with such technical or special and accepted meaning.
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-3.1 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-3.1
Definition applicable to amendment of, or supplement to, statute
Status: in_force

Any definition contained in any statute shall be applicable to any amendment of, or supplement to, such statute. L.1960, c. 187, p. 780, s. 2.
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-6 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-6
Outlines, analyses and headnotes not part of statutes
Status: in_force

In the construction of the Revised Statutes, or of any statute or any part thereof, no outline or analysis of the contents of any title, subtitle, chapter, article or other part thereof, no cross reference or cross reference note and no headnote or source note to any section thereof shall be deemed to be a part of the Revised Statutes or such statute. Amended by L.1960, c. 187, p. 781, s. 6.
N.J. Stat. § 1:3-3 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3
Superintendence of printing
Status: in_force

The Legislative Services Commission, through the Office of Legislative Services, shall direct and superintend the printing of the laws, joint resolutions and proclamations. Amended by L.1967, c. 4, s. 3, eff. Feb. 16, 1967; L.1981, c. 448, s. 4, eff. Jan. 12, 1982.
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-28 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-28
Effect to be given certain statutory references upon taking effect of acts adopting new Titles 2A and 3A
Status: in_force

Any reference to a section or sections of Title 2 or Title 3 of the Revised Statutes as amended and supplemented, included in any other title of the Revised Statutes as amended and supplemented, or in any other statute which became effective prior to the effective date of the adoption of Title 2A, Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice, as revised in one thousand nine hundred and fifty-one and Title 3A, Administration of Estates--Decedents and Others, as revised in one thousand nine hundred and fifty-one, and still remains in effect, shall be given effect on and after the date of the adoption of the said supplements to the Revised Statutes, consisting of Title 2A, Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice, as revised in one thousand nine hundred and fifty-one, and Title 3A, Administration of Estates--Decedents and Others, as revised in one thousand nine hundred and fifty-one, as though the reference therein were made to the section or sections of the said Titles 2A and 3A which contains the statutory material formerly included in the said section or sections of Titles 2 and 3 of the Revised Statutes as amended and supplemented, and that for the purpose of determining the said corresponding sections, reference may be made to the said distribution tables. Where the statutory material formerly included in Titles 2 and 3 of the Revised Statutes as amended and supplemented, is not included in the said Titles 2A and 3A and, therefore, not enacted in the said revisions of one thousand nine hundred and fifty-one, references thereto in any other title of the Revised Statutes as amended and supplemented, or in any other statute which so became effective and remains in effect, shall cease to be operative and shall be deemed to be superseded. L.1951, First Sp.Sess., c. 346, p. 1459, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-3.3 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-3.3
Reference to revised statute
Status: in_force

Any reference in any statute to any other statute, which is revised by a revision law, shall, after the effective date of such revision law, be construed to be a reference to the section or sections, if any, of the revision law corresponding in substance to, or superseding, the section or sections of the statute so revised and so referred to. L.1960, c. 187, p. 784, s. 15.
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-12 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-12
§ 1:1-12
Status: in_force

No office, position or employment, created and existing at the time when the Revised Statutes shall become effective, under or by virtue of any statute then in force, shall be abolished nor shall the tenure, term or salary of any incumbent thereof be in any manner affected by the enactment of the Revised Statutes; but such office, position or employment shall continue and be held in all other respects subject to the provisions relating thereto contained in the Revised Statutes.
N.J. Stat. § 1:7-1 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-1
Direction by governor to attorney general to institute proceeding; application by attorney general
Status: in_force

If, at any time within one year after any law or joint resolution has been filed with the Secretary of State pursuant to sections 1:2-5, 1:2-6 or 1:2-7 of this Title, the Governor has reason to believe that any such law or joint resolution was not duly passed by both houses of Legislature, or approved by the Governor or otherwise made effective as law in the manner required by the Constitution, he may direct the Attorney-General to apply to the Appellate Division of the Superior Court, to have the law or joint resolution adjudged void. Thereupon the Attorney-General shall prepare, sign and prosecute the application. Amended by L.1948, c. 329, p. 1312, s. 1; L.1953, c. 4, p. 24, s. 4, eff. March 19, 1953.
N.J. Stat. § 1:3-5 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-5
Printing laws; contract
Status: in_force

The printer having the contract to print the laws shall print the acts of the Legislature and such other material as required to be published therewith in such manner and quantity as shall be provided in his contract. Amended by L.1967, c. 4, s. 5, eff. Feb. 16, 1967.
N.J. Stat. § 1:6-14 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 6 / Section 6-14
Adoption of resolution after favorable vote
Status: in_force

If, at such election, a majority of all of the votes cast both for and against the adoption of such proposal shall be cast in favor of the adoption thereof, it shall be the duty of said governing body or board of chosen freeholders to adopt a resolution authorizing the filing of a petition with the Legislature for the passage of a private, special or local law of the general nature described in the petition within thirty days after the holding of such election. L.1948, c. 199, p. 997, s. 5.
N.J. Stat. § 1:7-6 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-6
Judgment of invalidity; copy for and proclamation by governor; operation and effect
Status: in_force

If in any application authorized in this chapter, the court shall adjudge any law or joint resolution, or any part thereof, to be void, the clerk of the court shall thereupon make a true copy of the judgment, certify the same under his hand and seal of the court and deliver the copy to the Governor or person administering the government, who shall issue his proclamation under the great seal of the State, setting forth such judgment. The proclamation shall be filed, published and printed with the laws as other proclamations are required to be filed, published and printed, and shall be judicially noticed and received in evidence in all courts of the State in the same manner and to the same extent that the law or joint resolution therein specified would have been if such judgment had not been made. No law or joint resolution, or part thereof, adjudged void shall, after the entry of such judgment as provided in this chapter, be judicially noticed or received in evidence by any of the courts of the State. Amended by L.1948, c. 329, p. 1314, s. 6; L.1953, c. 4, p. 25, s. 9.
N.J. Stat. § 1:3-2 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-2
Delivery to printer of true copies of laws, joint resolutions, proclamations and index, and analyses, tables and schedules
Status: in_force

The Office of Legislative Services shall deliver a true copy of each law and joint resolution filed with the Secretary of State, prepared in accordance with the provisions of R.S. 1:3-1, to the printer having the contract to print the laws. The office shall also furnish to such printer copies of such proclamations of the Governor to be printed with the laws, and copy for the index prepared by it pursuant to R.S. 1:3-1, together with such analyses, tables and schedules indicating changes made in the statute law since the enactment of the Revised Statutes as it shall determine are appropriate, which shall be printed and distributed as part of the pamphlet laws. Amended by L.1939, c. 379, p. 913, s. 1, eff. Nov. 18, 1939; L.1967, c. 4, s. 2, eff. Feb. 16, 1967; L.1981, c. 448, s. 3, eff. Jan. 12, 1982.
N.J. Stat. § 1:2-4 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 2 / Section 2-4
§ 1:2-4
Status: in_force

All the laws heretofore printed, and all that may hereafter be printed by authority of this state, shall be received in evidence before any court in this state, anything in any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
N.J. Stat. § 1:5-2 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 5 / Section 5-2
Statement of adoption or acceptance published in volume of laws; effect
Status: in_force

Whenever a statute shall be adopted or accepted by the voters of the state, or a proposed statute shall become effective by action of the voters of the state, and whenever the clerk of a county or municipality shall make return as required by section 1:5-1 of this title, the secretary of state shall publish in the volume of laws enacted by the next ensuing legislature a statement setting forth the title of the act, the year of its enactment, its chapter number in the printed volume of laws and the date when it was adopted, accepted or made effective. The statement published by the secretary of state pursuant to this section shall be prima facie evidence of the fact that such statute has been adopted, accepted or made effective, and of the date when it was adopted, accepted or made effective.
N.J. Stat. § 1:1-5 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-5
§ 1:1-5
Status: in_force

The classification and arrangement of the several sections of the Revised Statutes have been made for the purpose of convenience, reference and orderly arrangement, and therefore no implication or presumption of a legislative construction is to be drawn therefrom.
N.J. Stat. § 1:2-1 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 2 / Section 2-1
Enacting clause of laws; numbering sections; engrossing of bills
Status: in_force

All laws of this State shall begin in the following style: "Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey" , after which shall follow the sections numbered consecutively 1, 2, 3, et cetera, with the Arabic numerals, each number being followed immediately by the significant words of the section, without the prefix of the word "that" or the words "and be it enacted" , or any other formal prefix whatsoever. The Legislature shall see that all bills are engrossed in conformity to the provisions of this section and R.S. 1:2-2. Amended by L.1981, c. 448, s. 1, eff. Jan. 12, 1982.
N.J. Stat. § 1:6-5 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 6 / Section 6-5
§ 1:6-5
Status: in_force

The secretary of state shall, after the adjournment of each legislature, record, in well-bound books to be provided by him for that purpose, every proof of the publication of notice of application for the passage of bills required by this chapter that relates to any such bills as have become laws. Such books or certified copies of their contents shall be received in evidence in any place and for any purpose for which the original proof would be received, the same as the original thereof.
N.J. Stat. § 1:4-7 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-7
General control and supervision; laws applicable
Status: in_force

The general control and supervision of the printing of the Senate Journal, the Assembly Minutes and the current legislative printing shall be in the Legislative Services Commission, and the printing shall be subject to the provisions of R.S. 52:36-3 and R.S. 52:36-4. Amended by L.1981, c. 448, s. 13, eff. Jan. 12, 1982.
N.J. Stat. § 1:5-3 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 5 / Section 5-3
Format of petition for referendum
Status: in_force

4. a. Whenever a petition is circulated within a county, municipality, school district, or special district for the purpose of gathering the signatures of registered voters in order to place a referendum question on the ballot in any election, each page of the petition shall be arranged to contain, in addition to such other content relative thereto required by law, double spacing between the signature lines of the petition so that each signer thereof is afforded sufficient space to provide his or her printed name, address and signature. b. Upon the enactment of this act, the Attorney General shall notify in writing each county and municipal clerk and the secretary of the board of education of each school district in the State of the provisions of subsection a. of this section and thereafter shall repeat such notification as periodically as the Attorney General deems necessary. L.2001, c.211, s.4.
N.J. Stat. § 1:14-15 — NJ Code / Title 1 / Chapter 14 / Section 14-15
Annual report; recommended legislation
Status: in_force

The commission shall file annually with the Governor and the Legislature a report containing its findings and recommendations, accompanying its report with any proposed legislation which it may desire to recommend for enactment. L.1989,c.163,s.4.