40:75-27. Recall procedure
Any commissioner may be removed by means of a recall after he has been in office one year. The procedure to effect the recall of an incumbent of the office of commissioner shall be as follows:
A recall petition signed by at least twenty-five per centum (25%) of the registered voters of the municipality, shall be filed by the agent or agents designated in the petition with the municipal clerk, demanding the recall of the commissioner sought to be removed. The petition shall be as follows:
"RECALL PETITION.
To the clerk of the ........ (insert name of municipality).
You are hereby requested to call a recall election for the recall of ..................... (insert name of incumbent to be recalled), a commissioner of .............................. (insert name of municipality), for the following reasons ........................................... (insert reasons), and for so doing this recall petition shall be your sufficient warrant.
................. (insert name) is hereby designated as our agent to file this petition.
Signed:
Name Street Address
................................. .................................
................................. .................................
State of New Jersey )
) ss.
County of ........................ )
........................... , being duly sworn according to law, says: That he is one of the signers of the above petition, 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 ................. , 19 ..... ."
Amended by L.1950, c. 65, p. 117, s. 1, eff. April 25, 1950; L.1984, c. 129, s. 1, eff. Aug. 20, 1984.
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