New Jersey § acts:saved-40 - (4)

§ acts:saved-40. (4)

2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that no bonds shall be

issued in any county pursuant to this act until this act shall have been accepted

by the voters of said county by a majority of the votes cast for or against the same,

on the day when primary election is held in said county, and the question of the acceptance

or rejection of this act shall be submitted to the voters of such county at any such

primary election whenever the park commission and the board of chosen freeholders

of such county shall, by resolution, determine. The said park commission shall, within thirty days before the date of such primary

election, file a copy of such resolution with the clerk of the board of chosen freeholders

of said county. Upon receipt of said resolution, the clerk of the board of chosen freeholders of

said county shall forthwith call a meeting of said board of chosen freeholders of

said county to receive such resolution and the said board of chosen freeholders of

said county shall within five days after receipt thereof act thereon, and if said

board of chosen freeholders assent thereto, by resolution adopted by a majority of

said board of chosen freeholders, it shall file a copy of said resolution of said

park commission and a copy of its resolution assenting thereto with the county clerk

of such county and it shall be the duty of such county clerk at least ten days before

any such election, to give notice by publication in two or more newspapers published

and circulating in the county, that submission of the question of the acceptance or

rejection of this act will be made at the ensuing primary election, stating briefly

the question to be submitted as herein provided, and it shall be the duty of the said

clerk to provide ballots sufficient in quantity for the legal voters of said county,

not less than two to each legal voter as the number of voters appears by the last

preceding election, and make distribution thereof as far as practicable in the manner

provided by law for the distribution of other ballots at such elections; such ballots

shall be separate and distinct ballots, one of which shall contain the following:

“For the issuance of bonds not exceeding three million five hundred thousand dollars,

for the further acquisition, development and improvement of parks and parkways in

the county of (insert name of county)”, and the other ballot shall contain the words:

“Against the issuance of bonds not exceeding three million five hundred thousand dollars,

for the further acquisition, development and improvement of parks and parkways in

the county of (insert name of county)”, and an equal number of each kind of ballots

shall be printed and distributed; and the legal voters of said county may at such

election decide upon the acceptance or rejection of this act by the use of such ballots;

such ballots shall be cast at such election, separate and distinct from other ballots

used at such election, and shall not, except as herein provided, be regulated by the

laws regulating ballots used in the election of public officers; such ballots, however,

shall be deposited when offered without being inclosed in an envelope by any legal

voter, in the ballot boxes used at such election, and all ballots so cast for or against

this act shall be counted and the result thereof returned by the election officers

holding such election as herein provided, and the acceptance or rejection of this

act shall be determined by the result of such election, and if there shall be found

on a canvass of all the votes cast to be made as herein provided, a majority of ballots

in favor of this act, then this act, but not otherwise, shall take effect immediately

in such county; the return and certificate of the result of the votes cast in every

election district or voting precinct in such county for or against the acceptance

of this act shall be filed forthwith after the close of the said election by the officers

conducting the same, with the clerk of the county wherein such election is held, and

it shall be the duty of such clerk to tabulate the said returns and canvass all votes

so cast in all the election districts in said county and certify upon such tabulated

statement the number of votes cast for the acceptance of this act, the number of votes

cast against the acceptance of this act, and he shall file such tabulated statement

with his certificate thereon in his office, thereto to remain of record; and it shall

be the duty of the said clerk within five days after the filing of such tabulated

statement and certificate in case the same shall show that this act has been accepted

in such county, to deliver a certified copy of said tabulated statement and certificate

to the clerk of the board of chosen freeholders of such county, and a like tabulated

statement and certificate to the secretary of the county park commission.