New Jersey Statutes 1:3-1. Preparation of laws for printing
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 1:3-1
- Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
The Office of Legislative Services, through its Legislative Counsel, is authorized to correct in the text, but not in the title, of any law, such errors in references to other laws and in punctuation and spelling, and other obvious errors in form, which will not affect the substance of the law, as shall be concurred in by the Attorney General and shall make such corrections in preparing the law for printing.
The Office of Legislative Services, through its Legislative Counsel, is further authorized to correct errors caused when two or more amendments to the same section of law are enacted, at the same or different sessions of the Legislature, but such amendments inadvertently omit provisions of, and fail to refer to, one another. Only amendments that may be put into simultaneous operation may be reconciled. Corrections shall be concurred in by the Attorney General and, thereafter, the office shall prepare the law for printing.
The Office of Legislative Services shall also cause the proclamations of the Governor made during the previous year, which the Governor shall direct to be printed, to be copied and prepared for printing.
The Office of Legislative Services shall prepare but one index, alphabetically arranged, to all the acts and joint resolutions of the year and the proclamations of the previous year.
Amended 1941, c.19; 1954, c.28, s.2; 1967, c.4, s.1; 1981, c.448, s.2; 1999, c.98, s.3.