1:2-5 - Enacted bills and resolutions; delivery to governor; signing by governor and delivery to secretary of state; filing by secretary of state - New Jersey Statutes

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.