NEW JERSEY CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE IV
LEGISLATIVE
Art. IV §1 ¶1 | LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY AND BICAMERAL STRUCTURE
Art. IV §1 ¶2 | ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR LEGISLATIVE MEMBERSHIP
Art. IV §1 ¶3 | LEGISLATIVE TERMS AND ANNUAL SESSIONS
Art. IV §1 ¶4 | GOVERNOR’S AUTHORITY TO CALL SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS
Art. IV §2 ¶1 | SENATE COMPOSITION AND APPORTIONMENT
Art. IV §2 ¶2 | SENATE ELECTION PROCESS AND TERM DURATIONS
Art. IV §2 ¶3 | GENERAL ASSEMBLY STRUCTURE AND ASSEMBLY DISTRICT FORMATION
Art. IV §2 ¶4 | ELECTION AND TERMS OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEMBERS
Art. IV §3 ¶1 | LEGISLATIVE APPORTIONMENT COMMISSION AND MEMBERSHIP
Art. IV §3 ¶2 | CERTIFICATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF REDISTRICTING PLANS
Art. IV §3 ¶3 | PROCEDURES FOR RESOLVING APPORTIONMENT DEADLOCKS
Art. IV §3 ¶4 | TIMELINE ADJUSTMENTS FOR LATE CENSUS DATA
The Senate and Assembly districts certified to the Secretary of State by the previous Apportionment Commission for the previous decade shall remain in effect in that year ending in one and in the year ending in two, and shall be used for legislative elections in those years.
For the election of members of the Senate and General Assembly occurring in November of that year ending in one, members shall be elected by the legally qualified voters of their district as drawn by the previous Apportionment Commission for the previous decade, for terms beginning at noon of the second Tuesday in January next following their election and ending at noon of the second Tuesday in January two years thereafter.
Art. IV §4 ¶1 | LEGISLATIVE VACANCY PROCEDURES AND INTERIM APPOINTMENTS
Art. IV §4 ¶2 | QUORUM RULES AND MEMBER ATTENDANCE ENFORCEMENT
Art. IV §4 ¶3 | HOUSE RULES, LEADERSHIP, AND DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS
Art. IV §4 ¶4 | LEGISLATIVE JOURNALS AND RECORDED VOTES
Art. IV §4 ¶5 | ADJOURNMENT LIMITS AND INTER-HOUSE COORDINATION
Art. IV §4 ¶6 | BILL READINGS AND EMERGENCY PASSAGE PROCEDURES
Art. IV §4 ¶7 | LEGISLATIVE COMPENSATION AND LEADERSHIP ALLOWANCES
Art. IV §4 ¶8 | ADJUSTMENTS TO LEGISLATIVE SALARIES OVER TIME
Art. IV §4 ¶9 | LEGISLATIVE PRIVILEGES AGAINST ARREST AND DEBATE PROTECTIONS
Art. IV §5 ¶1 | LEGISLATIVE RESTRICTIONS ON HOLDING ADDITIONAL STATE OFFICES
Art. IV §5 ¶2 | AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH LEGISLATIVE ASSISTANCE COMMITTEES
Art. IV §5 ¶3 | VACANCY PROVISIONS FOR MEMBERS ACCEPTING FEDERAL OR STATE POSITIONS
Art. IV §5 ¶4 | PROHIBITION ON OFFICE-HOLDERS SERVING IN THE LEGISLATURE
Art. IV §5 ¶5 | LIMITS ON LEGISLATIVE APPOINTMENTS TO EXECUTIVE AND JUDICIAL ROLES
Art. IV §6 ¶1 | ORIGINATION OF REVENUE BILLS IN THE LEGISLATURE
Art. IV §6 ¶2 | MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY OVER ZONING AND LAND USE
Art. IV §6 ¶3 | GOVERNMENT ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY FOR PUBLIC USE
Art. IV §6 ¶4 | EMERGENCY MEASURES FOR GOVERNMENT CONTINUITY
(2) to adopt such other measures as may be necessary and proper for insuring the continuity of governmental operations.
Art. IV §7 ¶1 | LEGISLATIVE PROHIBITION ON GRANTING DIVORCES
Art. IV §7 ¶2 | REGULATION AND AUTHORIZATION OF GAMBLING ACTIVITIES
B. It shall be lawful for the Legislature to authorize, by law, bona fide veterans, charitable, educational, religious or fraternal organizations, civic and service clubs, senior citizen associations or clubs, volunteer fire companies and first-aid or rescue squads to conduct games of chance of, and restricted to, the selling of rights to participate, and the awarding of prizes, in the specific kinds of games of chance sometimes known as raffles, conducted by the drawing for prizes or by the allotment of prizes by chance, when the entire net proceeds of such games of chance are to be devoted to educational, charitable, patriotic, religious or public-spirited uses, and in the case of bona fide veterans' organizations and senior citizen associations or clubs to the support of such organizations, in any municipality, in which such law shall be adopted by a majority of the qualified voters, voting thereon, at a general or special election as the submission thereof shall be prescribed by law and for the Legislature, from time to time, to restrict and control, by law, the conduct of such games of chance;
C. It shall be lawful for the Legislature to authorize the conduct of State lotteries restricted to the selling of rights to participate therein and the awarding of prizes by drawings when the entire net proceeds of any such lottery shall be for State institutions and State aid for education; provided, however, that it shall not be competent for the Legislature to borrow, appropriate or use, under any pretense whatsoever, lottery net proceeds for the confinement, housing, supervision or treatment of, or education programs for, adult criminal offenders or juveniles adjudged delinquent or for the construction, staffing, support, maintenance or operation of an adult or juvenile correctional facility or institution;
D. It shall be lawful for the Legislature to authorize by law the establishment and operation, under regulation and control by the State, of gambling houses or casinos within the boundaries, as heretofore established, of the city of Atlantic City, county of Atlantic, and to license and tax such operations and equipment used in connection therewith. Any law authorizing the establishment and operation of such gambling establishments shall provide for the State revenues derived therefrom to be applied solely for the purpose of providing funding for reductions in property taxes, rental, telephone, gas, electric, and municipal utilities charges of eligible senior citizens and disabled residents of the State, and for additional or expanded health services or benefits or transportation services or benefits to eligible senior citizens and disabled residents, in accordance with such formulae as the Legislature shall by law provide. The type and number of such casinos or gambling houses and of the gambling games which may be conducted in any such establishment shall be determined by or pursuant to the terms of the law authorizing the establishment and operation thereof.
(2) the specific kind, restrictions and control of wagering at those gambling establishments on the results of those races. The State's share of revenues derived therefrom shall be applied for services to benefit eligible senior citizens as shall be provided by law; and
Art. IV §7 ¶3 | RESTRICTIONS ON BILLS OF ATTAINDER AND EX POST FACTO LAWS
Art. IV §7 ¶4 | SINGLE-SUBJECT RULE FOR LEGISLATIVE ACTS
Art. IV §7 ¶5 | REQUIREMENTS FOR AMENDING AND REFERENCING EXISTING LAWS
Art. IV §7 ¶6 | STANDARD FORMAT FOR LEGISLATIVE ENACTMENTS
"Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey."
Art. IV §7 ¶7 | LIMITATIONS ON GENERAL LAWS CONTAINING PRIVATE OR LOCAL PROVISIONS
Art. IV §7 ¶8 | NOTICE REQUIREMENTS FOR PRIVATE AND SPECIAL LEGISLATION
Art. IV §7 ¶9 | PROHIBITED CATEGORIES OF PRIVATE AND SPECIAL LEGISLATION
(2) Changing the law of descent.
(3) Providing for change of venue in civil or criminal causes.
(4) Selecting, drawing, summoning or empaneling grand or petit jurors.
(5) Creating, increasing or decreasing the emoluments, term or tenure rights of any public officers or employees.
(6) Relating to taxation or exemption therefrom.
(7) Providing for the management and control of free public schools.
(8) Granting to any corporation, association or individual any exclusive privilege, immunity or franchise whatever.
(9) Granting to any corporation, association or individual the right to lay down railroad tracks.
(10) Laying out, opening, altering, constructing, maintaining and repairing roads or highways.
(11) Vacating any road, town plot, street, alley or public grounds.
(12) Appointing local officers or commissions to regulate municipal affairs.
(13) Regulating the internal affairs of municipalities formed for local government and counties, except as otherwise in this Constitution provided.
Art. IV §7 ¶10 | PROCESS FOR ENACTING SPECIAL LAWS FOR MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES
Art. IV §7 ¶11 | BROAD INTERPRETATION OF MUNICIPAL AND COUNTY POWERS
Art. IV §7 ¶12 | PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF SEX OFFENDER INFORMATION
Art. IV §7 ¶13 | CANNABIS REGULATION AND TAXATION FRAMEWORK
(2) The receipts from retail purchases of cannabis or products created from or which include cannabis shall only be subject to the tax imposed under the "Sales and Use Tax Act," P.L.1966, c.30 (C.54:32B-1 et. seq.), as amended and supplemented, or any other subsequent law of similar effect; provided, however, that a municipality, subject to authorization by law enacted by the Legislature, may adopt an ordinance to impose an additional municipal tax on the sale, or any other form of transfer, of cannabis or products created from or which include cannabis by an authorized party located in a municipality. The municipal tax rate shall not exceed two percent of the receipts from each sale of cannabis or products created from or which include cannabis by an authorized party or the equivalent value from any other form of transfer by an authorized party.
"Cannabis" means all parts of the plant Genus Cannabis L., whether growing or not, the seeds thereof, and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the plant or its seeds. "Cannabis" does not include: cannabis dispensed and consumed for medical purposes pursuant to any law enacted by the Legislature; hemp or hemp products subject to regulation under the "New Jersey Hemp Farming Act," P.L.2019, c.238 (C.4:28-6 et al.), or any successor enactment thereto; or unregulated cannabis, referred to as marijuana, and products created from or which include marijuana.
Art. IV §8 ¶1 | OATH OF OFFICE FOR MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of Senator (or member of the General Assembly) according to the best of my ability."Members-elect of the Senate or General Assembly are empowered to administer said oath or affirmation to each other.
Art. IV §8 ¶2 | OATH OF OFFICE FOR LEGISLATIVE OFFICERS
"I do solemnly promise and swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully, impartially and justly perform all the duties of the office of ................, to the best of my ability and understanding; that I will carefully preserve all records, papers, writings, or property entrusted to me for safekeeping by virtue of my office, and make such disposition of the same as may be required by law."
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