New Jersey § acts:saved-40 - (20)

§ acts:saved-40. (20)

20. That this act shall take effect immediately, but its provisions shall remain inoperative

in any town in this state until assented to by a majority of the legal electors thereof

voting at an election to be held in said town, at any time to be fixed by the board

of commissioners or other legislative body of said town, of which election the town

clerk of said town shall cause public notice of the time and place of holding the

same to be given by advertisements signed by himself, and set up in at least five

public places in said town, and published in one or more newspapers printed therein,

for at least six days previous to the day of such election; and said clerk shall

provide for each elector voting at such election, ballots, to be printed or written,

or partly printed and partly written, on which shall be either the words “for the

adoption for this town of the provisions of an act entitled ‘An act to enable towns

to supply the inhabitants thereof with pure and wholesome water’,” or “against the

adoption for this town of the provisions of an act entitled ‘An act to enable towns

to supply the inhabitants thereof with pure and wholesome water’;” that the polls

for such election shall be held at the usual places of holding the annual charter

election in said town, and shall be opened at one o'clock in the afternoon and closed

at six o'clock in the afternoon, and such election shall be conducted by the proper

election officers of said town for the time then being, and in the manner as may then

be prescribed by the ordinance of said town regulating elections therein, and such

officers shall return to the board of commissioners or other legislative body of said

town a true and correct statement, in writing, under their hands, of the result of

said election, the same to be entered at large upon the minutes of said body.