New Jersey Acts Saved from Repeal ACTS SAVED 40 § 37-232(4)

2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that no bonds shall be issued in any county pursuant to this act until this act shall have been accepted by the voters of said county by a majority of the votes cast for or against the same, on the day when primary election is held in said county, and the question of the acceptance or rejection of this act shall be submitted to the voters of such county at any such primary election whenever the park commission and the board of chosen freeholders of such county shall, by resolution, determine. The said park commission shall, within thirty days before the date of such primary election, file a copy of such resolution with the clerk of the board of chosen freeholders of said county. Upon receipt of said resolution, the clerk of the board of chosen freeholders of said county shall forthwith call a meeting of said board of chosen freeholders of said county to receive such resolution and the said board of chosen freeholders of said county shall within five days after receipt thereof act thereon, and if said board of chosen freeholders assent thereto, by resolution adopted by a majority of said board of chosen freeholders, it shall file a copy of said resolution of said park commission and a copy of its resolution assenting thereto with the county clerk of such county and it shall be the duty of such county clerk at least ten days before any such election, to give notice by publication in two or more newspapers published and circulating in the county, that submission of the question of the acceptance or rejection of this act will be made at the ensuing primary election, stating briefly the question to be submitted as herein provided, and it shall be the duty of the said clerk to provide ballots sufficient in quantity for the legal voters of said county, not less than two to each legal voter as the number of voters appears by the last preceding election, and make distribution thereof as far as practicable in the manner provided by law for the distribution of other ballots at such elections; such ballots shall be separate and distinct ballots, one of which shall contain the following: “For the issuance of bonds not exceeding three million five hundred thousand dollars, for the further acquisition, development and improvement of parks and parkways in the county of (insert name of county)”, and the other ballot shall contain the words: “Against the issuance of bonds not exceeding three million five hundred thousand dollars, for the further acquisition, development and improvement of parks and parkways in the county of (insert name of county)”, and an equal number of each kind of ballots shall be printed and distributed; and the legal voters of said county may at such election decide upon the acceptance or rejection of this act by the use of such ballots; such ballots shall be cast at such election, separate and distinct from other ballots used at such election, and shall not, except as herein provided, be regulated by the laws regulating ballots used in the election of public officers; such ballots, however, shall be deposited when offered without being inclosed in an envelope by any legal voter, in the ballot boxes used at such election, and all ballots so cast for or against this act shall be counted and the result thereof returned by the election officers holding such election as herein provided, and the acceptance or rejection of this act shall be determined by the result of such election, and if there shall be found on a canvass of all the votes cast to be made as herein provided, a majority of ballots in favor of this act, then this act, but not otherwise, shall take effect immediately in such county; the return and certificate of the result of the votes cast in every election district or voting precinct in such county for or against the acceptance of this act shall be filed forthwith after the close of the said election by the officers conducting the same, with the clerk of the county wherein such election is held, and it shall be the duty of such clerk to tabulate the said returns and canvass all votes so cast in all the election districts in said county and certify upon such tabulated statement the number of votes cast for the acceptance of this act, the number of votes cast against the acceptance of this act, and he shall file such tabulated statement with his certificate thereon in his office, thereto to remain of record; and it shall be the duty of the said clerk within five days after the filing of such tabulated statement and certificate in case the same shall show that this act has been accepted in such county, to deliver a certified copy of said tabulated statement and certificate to the clerk of the board of chosen freeholders of such county, and a like tabulated statement and certificate to the secretary of the county park commission.