5:8-47 - Submission of question of rescinding adoption - New Jersey Statutes

5:8-47.  Submission of question of rescinding adoption    If in any municipality in which the provisions of this act shall have become  operative in the manner hereinbefore provided, there shall be filed with the  clerk of the municipality a petition signed by at least 15% of the qualified  legal voters of the municipality, as evidenced by the total number of votes  cast at the then next preceding general election in such municipality,  requesting that there shall be submitted to the voters of the municipality the  question of rescinding the adoption of the provisions of this act by the  municipality, the said question shall be submitted to the legal voters of the  municipality at the next general election succeeding the forty-fourth day  following the date of the filing of said petition.

     L.1954, c. 6, p. 44, s. 24.  Amended by L.1955, c. 160, p. 693, s. 13.