2016 New Jersey Revised Statutes
Title 1 - Acts, Laws And Statutes
Section 1:5-3 - Format Of Petition For Referendum

NJ Rev Stat § 1:5-3 (2016) What's This?

1:5-3. Format of petition for referendum
4. a. Whenever a petition is circulated within a county, municipality, school district, or special district for the purpose of gathering the signatures of registered voters in order to place a referendum question on the ballot in any election, each page of the petition shall be arranged to contain, in addition to such other content relative thereto required by law, double spacing between the signature lines of the petition so that each signer thereof is afforded sufficient space to provide his or her printed name, address and signature.

b.Upon the enactment of this act, the Attorney General shall notify in writing each county and municipal clerk and the secretary of the board of education of each school district in the State of the provisions of subsection a. of this section and thereafter shall repeat such notification as periodically as the Attorney General deems necessary.

L.2001, c.211, s.4.


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