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40:76-3.  Petition; form and content
    The petition shall be in substantially the following form:

    "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 ..... "