5:8-116 - Petition; number of signers; question - New Jersey Statutes

5:8-116.     Petition; number of signers; question
    Upon a petition signed by qualified voters of any municipality equal in number to at least 15% of the total number of votes cast therein at the latest preceding general election for members of the General Assembly and filed with the clerk of the municipality at least 60 days before such election, the governing body of the municipality shall provide for the submission to the legal voters of the municipality at such general election, the question of whether this act shall become operative or cease to be operative in such municipality, as the case may be.  If, upon such submission of the question, the majority of all the valid votes cast on the question shall be in favor of having this act inoperative in the municipality, then this act shall, 60 days thereafter, become inoperative in the municipality. The question shall be deemed to be a public question and shall be submitted to the voters as in the case of other public questions.  The question shall be stated as follows:

                  Shall the act entitled "An act  authorizing the

                  conducting, operating and playing of certain amusement

     Yes.         games,  whether of chance or skill, or both, where the

                  prizes or awards to be given  shall be of merchandise

                  only, of a retail value not in excess of $15.00, and

                  the charge for the privilege of playing shall not

                  exceed $0.25; providing for  the licensing, regulation

                  and control by a commissioner, of the conducting and

                  operating of such games; providing restrictions as to

     No.          the places where such  games may be conducted and

                  operated; providing that certain playing for money

                  or other valuable things is not authorized; providing

                  for the operation and  inoperation of the act in any

                  municipality when so determined by referendum  vote

                  therein; and providing for the submission of this act

                  to the legal voters  of the State for their approval

                  or rejection before the same shall become operative

                  within this State,"  become  ....................

                  (insert operative or inoperative) in this municipality?

   In the blank space set forth in the above box, the word "operative" or "inoperative"  shall be inserted in the question when it is submitted to the voters of the municipality according to whether this act became operative by reason of the vote on the question submitted to all the voters of the State as to whether this act should become operative.  If a majority of the voters in the municipality who voted on the said general public question was in the affirmative and, thereby, under the provisions of this act, municipal licenses are authorized, then the word  "inoperative"  should be included in the above blank space, but if this act does not become operative in the municipality because a majority of the votes cast therein on the general public question was  in the negative, then the word "operative"  should be inserted in the above-mentioned blank space.  If this act shall have become operative in any municipality by reason of a referendum vote therein, as herein provided, and a further referendum is authorized to determine the question of whether this act shall become inoperative notwithstanding such previous approval by the voters, then the word  "inoperative"  should be inserted in the above blank space.

   L.1959, c. 109, p. 516, s. 17.