2A:53-2. Naturalization not to be granted within 30 days of an election
No person shall be naturalized or admitted to be a citizen of the United States by any such court within 30 days next preceding any national, state, municipal, general, special, local or charter election.
An applicant who may become eligible to citizenship during such period of 30 days, shall not be prevented from receiving a certificate of naturalization and citizenship on the proper day during such period, if the application shall have been made and allowed prior to the commencement of the period of 30 days.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.