New Jersey Statutes 40:76-3. Petition; form and content
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 40:76-3
- person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- sworn: includes "affirmed. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
“To the clerk of ……………………… (insert name of municipality). You are hereby requested to call a special election, which shall not be held later than August the fifteenth in any year for the purpose of submitting the following proposition to the voters of ………………………….. (insert name of municipality): (here insert proposition as set forth in section 40:76-2 of this title); and for so doing this petition shall be your sufficient warrant.
………………………. (insert name) is hereby designated as our agent or one of our agents to file this petition.
………………………. (insert name) is hereby designated as our agent or one of our agents to file this petition.
………………………. (insert name) is hereby designated as our agent or one of our agents to file this petition.
Signed.
Name. Street Address.
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State of New Jersey, ) ss.
County of ………………….. )
………………….. , being duly sworn according to law, says: That he is the person who procured the signatures on this sheet, and that he knows that the signatures thereon are in the handwriting of the signers, and to the best of his knowledge and belief are the signatures of the persons purporting to sign the same.
Subscribed and sworn to before
me this ……. day of ……….., A.D. 19 ….. ”