5:8-118. Public question; voting instructions

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19. There shall be printed on each official ballot to be used at such election the following:

If you favor making the act entitled below operative within the State, and operative within this municipality, make a cross X, plus + or check / in the square opposite the word "Yes."

If you are opposed to making the act entitled below so operative, make a cross X, plus + or check / in the square opposite the word "No."

Yes

Shall the act entitled "An act authorizing the conducting, operating and playing of certain amusement games, whether of chance or skill, or both, where the prizes or awards to be given shall be of merchandise only, of a value to be determined by the Legalized Games of Chance Control Commission, and the charge for the privilege of playing shall be determined by the commission; providing for the licensing, regulation and control by the commission, of the conducting and operating of such games; providing restrictions as to the places where such games may be conducted and operated; providing that certain playing for money or other valuable things is not authorized; providing for the operation and inoperation of the act in any municipality when so determined by referendum vote therein; and providing for the submission of this act to the legal voters of the State for their approval or rejection before the same shall become operative within this State," become operative within this State?

The date of the approval or passage of this act, as the case may be, shall be inserted in the appropriate place after the title.

In any election district in which voting machines are used the question shall be placed upon the official ballot to be used upon the voting machines with the foregoing instructions to the voters but with instructions to vote "Yes" or "No" by the use of such machines and without marking as aforesaid.

L.1959, c. 109, p. 518, s. 19, eff. June 16, 1959; amended 2022, c.80, s.7; amended 2022, c.80, s.8.