If any section, subsection, sentence, clause,
phrase or portion of the Charter is for any reason held invalid or
unconstitutional; such portion shall be deemed a separate, distinct
and independent provision and the invalidity thereof shall not affect
the validity of the remaining portions thereof.
A.
Submission. The question of adoption of this act shall
be submitted to the legal voters of the Township of Montville at the
next general election to be held not less than forty (40) days following
the effective date of this act.
B.
Ballots. The referendum shall be conducted at such
polling places as may be designated by the Committee by resolution.
The Committee may provide for the use of either voting machines or
paper ballots at such polling places. The public question to be submitted
to the voters shall be in the following form:
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Yes.
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Shall "An act relating to the government and
administration of the Township of Montville in the County of Morris,"
known and designated as the "Montville Township Charter 1974" be adopted?
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No.
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C.
Effective vote. If a majority of all the valid votes
cast for and against the adoption of this act at such election shall
be cast in favor of the adoption thereof, this act shall take effect
and become operative in accordance with its terms.
All proceedings of the Township Committee of
the Township of Montville, County of Morris, including the elections
and qualifications of its members, and all actions of the said Township
Committee, relating to this act, and to the petition of the Legislature
for the passage of a special act, and the time and manner of publication
of notice of intention to apply therefor, are hereby ratified, confirmed
and validated.
The act shall take effect immediately, subject to the results of the referendum herein provided. Following such referendum the Township Clerk shall forthwith file his certificate of the results of the referendum on the public question with the Secretary of State, and the Charter shall become operative on the first day of the year next following a favorable vote determined pursuant to § C-47 of this act.
