New Jersey § 52:16a-98
Full text of New Jersey New Jersey Statutes § 52:16a-98, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 52:16a-98.
a. The Division of Elections in the Department of Law and Public Safety, transferred
to the Department of Law and Public Safety pursuant to Governor Whitman's Reorganization
Plan No. 004-1998 effective May 29, 1998, together with all of the division's functions,
powers and duties, is transferred to and constituted as the Division of Elections
in the Department of State. b. Effective with the enactment of P.L.2007, c. 254 ( C.52:16A-98 et al.), the Secretary of State shall be the chief election official of this State
and any references to the Attorney General relative to any elections matter appearing
in the statutory law shall be a reference to the Secretary of State, unless the context
or language of the statute provides otherwise. c. All responsibility for the budget, fiscal and personnel matters of the Division
of Elections is transferred to the Department of State. d. Whenever in any rule, regulation, order, contract, document, judicial or administrative
proceeding or otherwise, reference is made to the Division of Elections in the Department
of Law and Public Safety, the same shall mean the Division of Elections in the Department
of State. e. All transfers directed by this act shall be made in accordance with the “State
Agency Transfer Act,” P.L.1971, c. 375 ( C.52:14D-1 et seq. ).
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