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NJ Rev Stat § 19:34-38 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 19 - Elections|Section 19:34-38 - Certain expenditures prohibited

19:34-38. Certain expenditures prohibited  No person shall pay, lend or contribute, or offer or agree to pay, lend or contribute, any money or other valuable consideration to or for any person for any of the following: a. The doing or procuring to be done of any act forbidden to be done by the laws relating to primary or general elections; or b. The commission of any crime or offense against the elective franchise, or the encouragement or assistance of a person in the commission of a crime or offense against the elective franchise, or aiding or assisting any person charged with the commission of a crime against the elective franchise to evade arrest or to escape conviction and punishment; or c. Providing, wholly or in part, directly or indirectly, for the expense of boarding, lodging or maintaining a person in any place of domicile in any election precinct or ward or district, with the purpose of securing the vote of such person, or of inducing such person to vote for himself, or any other person at an election; or d. The hiring or employment of a person to take or maintain a place in, or to otherwise obstruct or hinder, or to prevent the forming of the line of voters awaiting their opportunity or time to enter the polling place or election booth of an election precinct; or e. In consideration of any person withdrawing as a candidate for public office or presidential elector, at any election; or f. To pay any person for loss or damage due to attendance at the polls at any primary or general or charter election, or any registry therefor, or for the purpose of such registration; or g. For any purpose in contravention of the provisions of this Title; or h. Making any payment except in the manner provided by this Title. Amended by L.1940, c. 199, p. 854, s. 10; L.1948, c. 438, p. 1705, s. 19; L.1963, c. 57, s. 1.
NJ Rev Stat § 19:34-40 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 19 - Elections|Section 19:34-40 - Receipts for certain purposes prohibited

19:34-40. Receipts for certain purposes prohibited  No person, directly or indirectly, by himself or through any other person: Voting or agreeing to vote. a. Shall receive, agree or contract for, before or during an election, any money, gift, loan or other valuable consideration, office, place or employment, for himself or any other person, for voting or agreeing to vote, or for coming or agreeing to come to the polls, or for refraining or agreeing to refrain from voting, or for voting or agreeing to vote, or refraining or agreeing to refrain from voting for any particular person or persons at any election. Voting or refraining from voting. b. Shall receive any money or other valuable thing during or after an election, because of himself, or any other person, having voted or refrained from voting for any particular person or persons at such election, or because of himself, or any other person having come to the polls or remained away from the polls at such election, or because of having induced any other person to vote or refrain from voting, or to vote or refrain from voting for any particular person or persons, or to come to or remain away from the polls at such election. Securing delegates or indorsements. c. Shall receive any money or other valuable thing before, during or after an election, because of himself, or any other person having voted to secure the election or indorsement of any other person as the nominee or candidate of any convention, organized assemblage of delegates or other body, representing, or claiming to represent, a political party or principle, or any club, society or association, or because of himself or any other person having aided in securing the selection or indorsement of any other person as a nominee or candidate as above.
NJ Rev Stat § 19:34-41 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 19 - Elections|Section 19:34-41 - Payments and bank deposits in name of another

19:34-41. Payments and bank deposits in name of another  No person shall make any payment of his money, or of the money of any other person, in connection with any nomination or election in any other name than that of the person who actually supplies such money, nor shall any person knowingly receive such money, or thing of value, and enter it in his accounts or deposit it in any bank or trust company, in any other name than the name of the person who actually supplies the same.
NJ Rev Stat § 19:34-42 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 19 - Elections|Section 19:34-42 - Demand of contributions by office holders from other office holders

19:34-42. Demand of contributions by office holders from other office holders  No holder of a public office or position shall demand payment or contribution from another holder of a public office or position for the campaign purposes of any candidate or for the use of any political party. Amended by L.1975, c. 70, s. 1, eff. April 24, 1975.
NJ Rev Stat § 19:34-42.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 19 - Elections|Section 19:34-42.1 - Annual notice

19:34-42.1. Annual notice  The Secretary of State shall, during the week of the third Monday in January of every year, send written notification to each State employee and each county and municipal clerk of the prohibitions of this act, and shall at the same time publicize such written notification. L.1975, c. 70, s. 2, eff. April 24, 1975.
NJ Rev Stat § 19:34-42.2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 19 - Elections|Section 19:34-42.2 - Violations; penalty

19:34-42.2. Violations; penalty  Section 1 of this act shall be subject to the penalty provisions of R.S. 19:34-35, but no penalty shall be imposed pursuant to any section of law amended herein for violations occurring prior to the effective date of this act. L.1975, c. 70, s. 3, eff. April 24, 1975.
NJ Rev Stat § 19:34-43 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 19 - Elections|Section 19:34-43 - Soliciting for religious and charitable organizations

19:34-43. Soliciting for religious and charitable organizations  No person shall demand, solicit, ask or invite any payment or contribution for any religious, charitable or other cause or organization supposed to be primarily for the public good, from any candidate for nomination or election.
NJ Rev Stat § 19:34-44 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 19 - Elections|Section 19:34-44 - Solicitation of candidates for contributions

19:34-44. Solicitation of candidates for contributions  No person shall demand, solicit, ask or invite any candidate for nomination or election to public office or party position to subscribe for the support of any club or organization, or to buy tickets to any entertainment or ball, or to pay for space in any book, program, periodical or publication. This prohibition shall not apply to the solicitation of business advertising in periodicals in which the candidate was a regular advertiser prior to his candidacy, nor to ordinary business advertising, nor to the regular payments to any organizations, religious, charitable or otherwise, of which he was a member, or to which he was a contributor for more than six months before his candidacy, nor to any ordinary contributions at church services.
NJ Rev Stat § 19:34-45 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 19 - Elections|Section 19:34-45 - Contributions by certain corporations.

19:34-45 Contributions by certain corporations.  19:34-45. No corporation carrying on the business of a bank, savings bank, co-operative bank, trust, trustee, savings indemnity, safe deposit, insurance, railroad, street railway, telephone, telegraph, gas, electric light, heat or power, canal or aqueduct company, or having the right to condemn land, or to exercise franchises in public ways granted by the state or any county or municipality, and no corporation, person, trustee or trustees, owning or holding the majority of stock in any such corporation, shall pay or contribute money or thing of value in order to aid or promote the nomination or election of any person, or in order to aid or promote the interests, success or defeat of any political party. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any corporation carrying on the business of a co-generation facility, as defined in subsection c. of section 1 of P.L.2000, c.156 (C.54:15B-2.2), or to any corporation carrying on the business of a retail seller that extends credit, pursuant to the provisions of the "Retail Installment Sales Act of 1960" P.L.1960, c.40 (C.17:16C-1 et seq.), or to any corporation, person, trustee or trustees, owning or holding the majority of stock in either such corporation. Amended 2001, c.384, s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 19:34-46 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 19 - Elections|Section 19:34-46 - Disenfranchisement as additional penalty.

19:34-46 Disenfranchisement as additional penalty.  19:34-46. In addition to any penalties provided for violation of any of the provisions of this title, the court imposing such penalty may add thereto that such offender be thenceforth disfranchised as a voter while serving a sentence of incarceration and disqualified to hold any office of trust or profit within this state for such length of time as such court deems proper.  amended 2019, c.270, s.7.
NJ Rev Stat § 19:34-47 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 19 - Elections|Section 19:34-47 - Second offense; punishment.

19:34-47 Second offense; punishment.  19:34-47. A person who, having once been convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this title, shall again be convicted of a violation of any of its provisions, whether such conviction be for the same offense or not, shall on such second conviction, be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment, without eligibility for parole, of one year for a crime of the fourth degree, of two years for a crime of the third degree and of five years for a crime of the second degree, unless the provisions of any other law provide for a higher mandatory minimum term. Amended 2005, c.154, s.47.
NJ Rev Stat § 19:34-48 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 19 - Elections|Section 19:34-48 - Neglect of duties.

19:34-48 Neglect of duties.  19:34-48. Every person charged with the performance of any duty under the provisions of any law of this State relating to elections who willfully neglects or refuses to perform it, or who, in his official capacity, knowingly and fraudulently acts in contravention or violation of any of the provisions of such laws, shall be guilty of a crime of the third degree. Amended 2005, c.154, s.48.
NJ Rev Stat § 19:34-49 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 19 - Elections|Section 19:34-49 - Abetting violations of title.

19:34-49 Abetting violations of title.  19:34-49. Any candidate who procures, aids, assists, counsels, advises or knowingly permits any person to violate this title shall be guilty of a crime of the third degree. Amended 2005, c.154, s.49.
NJ Rev Stat § 19:34-50 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 19 - Elections|Section 19:34-50 - Committeemen acting after their election voided

19:34-50. Committeemen acting after their election voided  Any person chosen as member of the state committee, county committee, or any municipal committee of any political party who shall sit or perform any duty, or exercise any functions as a member of such committee after his election thereto shall have been declared null and void, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and each member of any such committee who shall vote to recognize any such member after such election shall have been declared null and void shall likewise be guilty of a misdemeanor.
NJ Rev Stat § 19:34-51 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 19 - Elections|Section 19:34-51 - Failure of delegate to national convention to surrender void certificate

19:34-51. Failure of delegate to national convention to surrender void certificate  Any delegate at large or district delegate to any national convention who shall fail to surrender such certificate of election forthwith after the same has been declared null and void, or who shall use such certificate of election, or who shall present such certificate of election as a credential at any such convention, or to any committee on credentials at such convention, or who shall leave the limits of this state with such certificate in his possession with intent to use the same as a credential for admission to any political convention, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
NJ Rev Stat § 19:34-52 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 19 - Elections|Section 19:34-52 - Indorsement of candidate by party committee before primary

19:34-52. Indorsement of candidate by party committee before primary  No state, county or municipal committee of any political party shall prior to any primary election indorse the candidacy of any candidate for a party nomination or position.
NJ Rev Stat § 19:34-53 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 19 - Elections|Section 19:34-53 - Failure to supply information.

19:34-53 Failure to supply information.  19:34-53. Any person who neglects or refuses to furnish any information required or authorized by this title or to exhibit the records, papers or documents herein authorized to be inspected, or which are required to be exhibited, shall be guilty of a crime of the fourth degree. Amended 2005, c.154, s.50.
NJ Rev Stat § 19:34-54 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 19 - Elections|Section 19:34-54 - Failure to obey subpoena or refusal to testify.

19:34-54 Failure to obey subpoena or refusal to testify.  19:34-54. Any person who shall omit, neglect or refuse to obey a subpoena attested in the name of the county clerk, municipal clerk, or county board and made returnable by such clerk or board, or refuses to testify under oath before such clerk or board, shall be guilty of a crime of the fourth degree. Amended 2005, c.154, s.51.
NJ Rev Stat § 19:34-55 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 19 - Elections|Section 19:34-55 - False statements under oath.

19:34-55 False statements under oath.  19:34-55. Any person who makes any false statement under oath before the county clerk, municipal clerk or county board shall be guilty of a crime of the fourth degree. Amended 2005, c.154, s.52.
NJ Rev Stat § 19:34-56 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 19 - Elections|Section 19:34-56 - Disobedience of subpoena, penalty

19:34-56. Disobedience of subpoena, penalty  19:34-56. Every person upon whom a subpoena issued under and by virtue of this Title shall have been served, and to whom the lawful fees shall have been paid or tendered, shall obey the command of such subpoena, under the penalty of fifty dollars ($50.00), to be sued for and recovered, with costs, in a civil action, before any court of competent jurisdiction, by the person on whose application such subpoena shall have been issued; but no person shall in any case be required to attend any such examination as a witness out of the county in which he resides.  If any person so duly subpoenaed shall neglect or refuse to obey the command of such subpoena, any judge of the Superior Court may, on due proof by affidavit of the service of the subpoena on such witness, and of the payment of his legal fees and of his refusal or neglect to obey the command of the subpoena, issue an attachment against the person to bring him before such judge; and the judge shall have power to proceed against such witness as for a contempt of court.  Amended 1953, c.19, s.54; 1991,c.91,s.258.
NJ Rev Stat § 19:34-57 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 19 - Elections|Section 19:34-57 - Subpoena to issue, expenses

19:34-57. Subpoena to issue, expenses  19:34-57. If proof be made before any judge of the Superior Court or municipal court of facts constituting probable cause for believing that this Title has been violated, and that any person other than the accused has knowledge of the circumstances connected therewith, such judge shall issue process of subpoena for the appearance of such person before him, to be examined touching the same. The lawful expenses of such subpoena and examination shall be paid by the applicant therefor, and such evidence shall be filed with the clerk of the county, to be used before the grand jury. No such process of subpoena shall be issued or served nor any such examination held on the day of election.  Amended 1953, c.19, s.55; 1991,c.91,s.259.
NJ Rev Stat § 19:34-62 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 19 - Elections|Section 19:34-62 - Prosecutor of pleas to present violations to grand jury

19:34-62. Prosecutor of pleas to present violations to grand jury  If the prosecutor of the pleas of the county shall be notified of any violation of any of the provisions of this title, he shall forthwith diligently inquire into the facts, and if there is reasonable ground for instituting a prosecution, such prosecutor of the pleas shall present the charge, with all the evidence which he can procure, to the grand jury of the county. Nothing herein contained shall justify any such prosecutor in counties of the first class in exercising the powers conferred upon the superintendent of elections in such counties.
NJ Rev Stat § 19:34-63 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 19 - Elections|Section 19:34-63 - Assistant for prosecutor; employment by citizens

19:34-63. Assistant for prosecutor; employment by citizens  Any citizen may employ an attorney to assist the prosecutor of the pleas to perform his duties under this title, and such attorney shall be recognized by the prosecutor of the pleas and the court as associate counsel in the proceedings. No prosecution, action or proceeding shall be dismissed without notice to, or against the objection of, such associate counsel until the reasons of the prosecutor of the pleas for such dismissal, together with the objections thereto of such associate counsel, shall have been filed in writing, argued by counsel and considered by the court, with such limitation as to the time of filing such reasons and objections as the court may impose.
NJ Rev Stat § 19:34-64 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 19 - Elections|Section 19:34-64 - Short title

19:34-64. Short title  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Fair Campaign Practices Act." L.1975, c. 190, s. 1, eff. Aug. 16, 1975.
NJ Rev Stat § 19:34-65 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 19 - Elections|Section 19:34-65 - Person performing function in campaign of candidate for purpose of impeding campaign

19:34-65. Person performing function in campaign of candidate for purpose of impeding campaign  No person shall perform any function in the campaign of a candidate for public office or party position for the purpose of impeding the campaign of such candidate while concealing that he is actually acting under the instructions of, or on behalf of, another candidate or such other candidate's paid or volunteer campaign staff. L.1975, c. 190, s. 2, eff. Aug. 16, 1975.
NJ Rev Stat § 19:34-66 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 19 - Elections|Section 19:34-66 - Knowing production, transmittal or dissemination of mass communication which appears to originate from or be on behalf of campaign of candidate for purpose of impeding campaign

19:34-66. Knowing production, transmittal or dissemination of mass communication which appears to originate from or be on behalf of campaign of candidate for purpose of impeding campaign  No person shall knowingly produce, transmit or disseminate any election advertisement, literature or other mass communication in any medium, including but not limited to newspapers, magazines, printed circulars, television, radio, movies, telephone, telegraph, billboards and signs, which purports to or appears to originate from, or be on behalf of, the campaign of a candidate for public office or party position, for the purpose of impeding the campaign of such candidate while failing to reveal specifically in such communication that he is acting under the instructions of, or on behalf of, another candidate or such other candidate's paid or volunteer campaign staff; provided, however, that this section shall not apply to any owner, manager, editor, publisher, reporter or employee of any newspaper, magazine, periodical or other publication or of any radio or television station who, in the course of his duties, publishes or broadcasts any such advertisement, literature or mass communication. L.1975, c. 190, s. 3, eff. Aug. 16, 1975.
NJ Rev Stat § 19:34-67 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 19 - Elections|Section 19:34-67 - Payment of or lending money or other valuable consideration to person to induce violation of act

19:34-67. Payment of or lending money or other valuable consideration to person to induce violation of act  No person shall, directly or indirectly, by himself or through any other person acting in his behalf, knowingly give, lend, or agree, offer or promise to give or lend, any money or other valuable consideration, office, place, employment or thing to any person to induce him to violate section 2 or section 3 of this act. L.1975, c. 190, s. 4, eff. Aug. 16, 1975.
NJ Rev Stat § 19:34-68 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 19 - Elections|Section 19:34-68 - Violators; disorderly persons

19:34-68. Violators; disorderly persons  Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be a disorderly person. L.1975, c. 190, s. 5, eff. Aug. 16, 1975.
NJ Rev Stat § 19:36-1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 19 - Elections|Section 19:36-1 - Time and place of meeting.

19:36-1 Time and place of meeting.  19:36-1. The electors of president and vice president shall convene at the State House at Trenton, or in another State building within the State House Complex at Trenton, or the War Memorial at Trenton, on the day appointed by congress for that purpose, at the hour of three o'clock in the afternoon of that day, and constitute an electoral college. In any year in which, on July 20, the "Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote" is in effect in states cumulatively possessing a majority of the electoral votes, and the State of New Jersey remains a member of that agreement, the electors for president and vice president shall be those electors certified as the elector slate in accordance with section 1 of P.L.2007, c.334 (C.19:36-4). Amended 2007, c.334, s.4; 2008, c.103, s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 19:36-2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 19 - Elections|Section 19:36-2 - Vacancies; filling.

19:36-2 Vacancies; filling.  19:36-2. a. When a vacancy shall happen in the college of electors, or when an elector shall fail to attend, by the hour of three o'clock in the afternoon of the day fixed by congress for the meeting of the college of electors, at the place of holding such meeting, those of such electors who shall be assembled at the hour and place shall immediately proceed to fill by a majority of votes such vacancy. b. If the members of the electoral college shall have been nominated and elected as representing different political parties, any vacancy occurring shall be filled by the elector or electors representing the same political party as the absent elector; and if there shall be no elector present representing the same political party as the absent elector, then such vacancy shall be filled by a majority of the electors present, who shall choose some person of the political party which the absent elector represents. c. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections a. and b. of this section, in any year in which, on July 20, the "Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote" is in effect in states cumulatively possessing a majority of the electoral votes, and the State of New Jersey remains a member of that agreement, any vacancy in the college of electors shall be filled in accordance with the provisions of section 1 of this act, P.L.2007, c.334 (C.19:36-4). Amended 2007, c.334, s.5.