5:8-71 - Resubmission if majority against question - New Jersey Statutes

5:8-71.  Resubmission if majority against question
    In event that in any municipality a majority of all the votes cast both for  and against the question shall be cast against the question at any election at  which said question is submitted, said question may again be submitted to the  legal voters of the municipality at a general election held not earlier than  the date upon which the third general election, following the date of the  election at which the question was submitted, is to be held, if there shall be  filed with the clerk of the municipality not less than 45 days prior to such  general election a petition requesting the submission of the same 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 held  therein.

     L.1954, c. 5, p. 29, s. 22.  Amended by L.1955, c. 161, p. 705, s. 14.