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2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:1-15 - Offenses, liabilities, penalties and forfeitures committed or incurred under repealed acts not affected by such repeal

1:1-15. Offenses, liabilities, penalties and forfeitures committed or incurred under repealed acts not affected by such repeal
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shall be commenced or continued and be proceeded with in all respects as if the act or part of an act had not been repealed or altered, except that when the Revised Statutes, or other act by which such repeal or alteration is effectuated, shall relate to mere matters of practice or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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:1-16 - Effect of Revised Statutes on ordinances and resolutions adopted or enacted under authority of pre-existing laws

1:1-16. Effect of Revised Statutes on ordinances and resolutions adopted or enacted under authority of pre-existing laws
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or state, county or local agency heretofore duly adopted or enacted under or by virtue of any act or part of any act repealed by the enactment of the Revised Statutes, such ordinance or resolution being valid and in force at the time of the enactment of the Revised Statutes; and any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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:1-17 - Revision or inclusion of referendum acts in Revised Statutes; effect

1:1-17. Revision or inclusion of referendum acts in Revised Statutes; effect
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:1-18 - Corporations, associations or societies; effect of repealer on existence, etc., thereof

1:1-18. Corporations, associations or societies; effect of repealer on existence, etc., thereof
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:1-19 - Corporations, associations or societies included in Revised Statutes

1:1-19. Corporations, associations or societies included in Revised Statutes
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:1-20 - Public institutions and agencies; effect of repealer thereon

1:1-20. Public institutions and agencies; effect of repealer thereon
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:1-21 - Construction and effect of statutes compiled or saved from repeal

1:1-21. Construction and effect of statutes compiled or saved from repeal
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:1-23 - Statutes containing references to proceedings under former prerogative writs

1:1-23. Statutes containing references to proceedings under former prerogative writs
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:1-24 - Statutes containing references to certain summary proceedings

1:1-24. Statutes containing references to certain summary proceedings
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:1-25 - Statutes containing references to "term of court"

1:1-25. Statutes containing references to "term of court"
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:1-26 - Statutes containing references to rules

1:1-26. Statutes containing references to rules
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:1-28 - Effect to be given certain statutory references upon taking effect of acts adopting new Titles 2A and 3A

1:1-28. Effect to be given certain statutory references upon taking effect of acts adopting new Titles 2A and 3A
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:2-1 - Enacting clause of laws; numbering sections; engrossing of bills

1:2-1. Enacting clause of laws; numbering sections; engrossing of bills
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:2-3.1 - Format of bills, joint resolutions for Governor's signature.

1:2-3.1 Format of bills, joint resolutions for Governor's signature.
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:2-3.2 - Display of summaries of appropriations.

1:2-3.2 Display of summaries of appropriations.
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:2-5 - Enacted bills and resolutions; delivery to governor; signing by governor and delivery to secretary of state; filing by secretary of state

1:2-5. Enacted bills and resolutions; delivery to governor; signing by governor and delivery to secretary of state; filing by secretary of state
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:2-6 - Bills not signed or vetoed by governor; indorsement and certification by governor; delivery to, indorsement and filing by secretary of state

1:2-6. Bills not signed or vetoed by governor; indorsement and certification by governor; delivery to, indorsement and filing by secretary of state
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:2-7 - Bills passed over governor's veto; delivery to and filing by secretary of state

1:2-7. Bills passed over governor's veto; delivery to and filing by secretary of state
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:2-8 - Certified copies of filed bills and resolutions; use as evidence; fee

1:2-8. Certified copies of filed bills and resolutions; use as evidence; fee
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:3-2 - Delivery to printer of true copies of laws, joint resolutions, proclamations and index, and analyses, tables and schedules

1:3-2. Delivery to printer of true copies of laws, joint resolutions, proclamations and index, and analyses, tables and schedules
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:3-3 - Superintendence of printing

1:3-3. Superintendence of printing
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:3-3.1 - Numbering of laws; first and second annual session

1:3-3.1. Numbering of laws; first and second annual session
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:3-4 - Style and contents of annual volume of laws

1:3-4. Style and contents of annual volume of laws
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:3-5 - Printing laws; contract

1:3-5. Printing laws; contract
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:3-6 - General control and supervision of printing

1:3-6. General control and supervision of printing
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:3-7 - Binding and distribution of paper volumes of laws

1:3-7. Binding and distribution of paper volumes of laws
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:4-1 - Style of printing journal and minutes

1:4-1. Style of printing journal and minutes
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:4-2 - Preparation of copies of journal and minutes for printing; originals deposited with secretary of state

1:4-2. Preparation of copies of journal and minutes for printing; originals deposited with secretary of state
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:4-4 - Indexes of journal and minutes; preparation; printing and delivery

1:4-4. Indexes of journal and minutes; preparation; printing and delivery
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:4-5 - Binding and distribution of complete journals and minutes

1:4-5. Binding and distribution of complete journals and minutes
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:4-6 - Current legislative printing; subscriptions; cost; advance copies of laws

1:4-6. Current legislative printing; subscriptions; cost; advance copies of laws
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:4-7 - General control and supervision; laws applicable

1:4-7. General control and supervision; laws applicable
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:5-1 - Acceptance filed with secretary of state

1:5-1. Acceptance filed with secretary of state
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:5-2 - Statement of adoption or acceptance published in volume of laws; effect

1:5-2. Statement of adoption or acceptance published in volume of laws; effect
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:5-3 - Format of petition for referendum

1:5-3. Format of petition for referendum
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:6-1 - Notice of application for passage in general; contents; publication

1:6-1. Notice of application for passage in general; contents; publication
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:6-3 - Notice of application for passage of bill to repeal corporate charter; publication; service on corporation

1:6-3. Notice of application for passage of bill to repeal corporate charter; publication; service on corporation
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:6-4 - Proof of publications of notices

1:6-4. Proof of publications of notices
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:6-5 - Record of proof of publication of notices

1:6-5. Record of proof of publication of notices
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:6-6 - Publication in pamphlet laws prima facie evidence of notice given

1:6-6. Publication in pamphlet laws prima facie evidence of notice given
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:6-7 - False swearing in making proofs of publications; perjury

1:6-7. False swearing in making proofs of publications; perjury
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:6-8 - Assessments on private, local and special acts; amount; time for payment; effect of nonpayment

1:6-8. Assessments on private, local and special acts; amount; time for payment; effect of nonpayment
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:6-9 - Report by comptroller of laws on which assessments unpaid; proclamation by governor; effect

1:6-9. Report by comptroller of laws on which assessments unpaid; proclamation by governor; effect
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:6-10 - Petition for passage of private, special local law

1:6-10. Petition for passage of private, special local law
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:6-11 - Petition requesting filing of petition with Legislature

1:6-11. Petition requesting filing of petition with Legislature
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:6-12 - Adoption of resolution

1:6-12. Adoption of resolution
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:6-13 - Question placed on ballot

1:6-13. Question placed on ballot
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:6-14 - Adoption of resolution after favorable vote

1:6-14. Adoption of resolution after favorable vote
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:6-15 - Petition; publication of notice of intention

1:6-15. Petition; publication of notice of intention
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:6-16 - Filing of petition and resolution with bill

1:6-16. Filing of petition and resolution with bill
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:6-17 - Law operative only after adoption

1:6-17. Law operative only after adoption
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:6-18 - Submission of question of adoption

1:6-18. Submission of question of adoption
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:6-19 - Question

1:6-19. Question
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 1 - Acts, Laws and Statutes › Section 1:6-20 - Law operative upon adoption

1:6-20. Law operative upon adoption
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.