Article XI, § V

1. For the purpose of electing senators in 1967 and until the 1970 decennial census of the United States for New Jersey shall have been received by the Governor, the forty senators are hereby allocated among fifteen Senate districts, as follows: First District - the counties of Gloucester, Atlantic and Cape May, two Senators; Second District - the counties of Salem and Cumberland, one senator; Third District - the county of Camden, three senators; Fourth District - the counties of Burlington and Ocean, two senators; Fifth District - the county of Monmouth, two senators; Sixth District - the county of Mercer, two senators; Seventh District - the county of Middlesex, three senators; Eighth District - the county of Somerset, one senator; Ninth District - the county of Union, three senators; Tenth District - the county of Morris, two senators; Eleventh District - the county of Essex, six senators; Twelfth District - the county of Hudson, four senators; Thirteenth District - the county of Bergen, five senators; Fourteenth District - the county of Passaic, three senators; and Fifteenth District - the counties of Sussex, Warren and Hunterdon, one senator. 2. For the purpose of electing members of the General Assembly and the senators from Assembly districts where so required in 1967 and until the 1970 census of the United States for New Jersey shall have been received by the Governor, the Assembly districts shall be established by an Apportionment Commission consisting of ten members, five to be appointed by the chairman of the State committee of each of the two political parties whose candidates for Governor receive the largest number of votes at the most recent gubernatorial election. Each State chairman, in making such appointments, shall give due consideration to the representation of the various geographical areas of the State. Such Apportionment Commission shall be appointed no earlier than November 10 nor later than November 15, 1966, and their appointments shall be certified by the Secretary of State on or before December 1, 1966. The Commission, by a majority of the whole number of its members, shall certify the establishment of Assembly districts to the Secretary of State on or before February 1, 1967. 3. If such Apportionment Commission fails so to certify the establishment of Assembly districts to the Secretary of State on or before the date fixed or if prior thereto it determines that it will be unable so to do, it shall so certify to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, and he shall appoint an eleventh member of the Commission. Such Commission, by a majority of the whole number of its members, shall within one month after the appointment of such eleventh member certify to the Secretary of State the establishment of Assembly districts. 4. The Assembly districts so established shall be used thereafter for the election of members of the General Assembly and shall remain unaltered until the following decennial census of the United States for New Jersey shall have been received by the Governor.