{"data":{"id":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-40-76-21","jurisdiction":"us-nj","citation":"N.J. Stat. § 40:76-21","heading":"Ballot; number, form and content","body":"The municipal clerk shall provide ballots for each voter at such special election, to be printed on plain, substantial, white paper. The number of ballots to be provided by the clerk for each voting district in the municipality shall be at least fifteen per cent more than the total number of persons that voted in such district at the last preceding general election. The ballot shall be in substantially the following form:\n\"To vote upon the public question printed below, if in favor thereof mark a  cross (X) or plus (+) in the square at the left of the word YES, and if opposed thereto mark a cross (X) or plus (+) in the square at the left of the word NO.\n\" \"Shall the ........................(name\nof municipality) abandon its government under\n[ ] YES          chapters 70 to 76 of the title  Municipalities\nand Counties of the Revised Statutes (s. 40:70-1\net seq.),  commonly known as the  \"Walsh Act\",\nand resume the form of government under\n[ ] NO           the law under which it was operating at the\ntime when such commission form of  government\nwas adopted, subject to any amendments and\nsupplements to such laws  which have been\npassed in the interim?' \"","path":["TITLE 40 MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES"],"source_url":"https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/statutes/STATUTES-TEXT.zip","current_through":"P.L.2025, c.405, and J.R.22","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T17:54:13Z","sha256":"d84549a9634ef7b2f4b0f8839ffd85b5187d3c9df6a8da510bdfa81ad4a6e021","source_id":"us-nj","stale":true,"prev":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-40-76-20","next":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-40-76-22"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}