New Jersey · statute · N.J. Stat. tit. 47 · 78 active provisions
All clerks, registers of deeds and mortgages and other officers who are required by law to receive and record deeds, mortgages, bills of sale and other conveyances, or who are required by law to enter, file or record judgments, decrees, mechanics' lien claims, attachments, recognizances, sheriffs' bonds or other liens…
No instrument in writing, with or without an acknowledgment, proof, affidavit or certificate attached thereto, required by law to be recorded or filed in the office of any county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages, shall be received for record or filing in any of such offices, unless such instrument, acknowledgme…
For the purpose of recording, rerecording, recopying or transcribing any or all papers, documents and instruments in writing in the offices of the county clerks and registers of deeds and mortgages and surrogates of any county of this state, loose leaf record books may be used, if, immediately upon the completion of an…
All papers, documents and instruments in writing authorized or required by law to be recorded in the office of the clerk, registers of deeds and mortgages or surrogate of any county of this state, as well as the record of such papers, documents or instruments in writing, which may be recopied, rerecorded or transcribed…
47:1-5. All papers, documents and instruments in writing authorized or required by law to be recorded, filed, registered, or indexed in the office of the Secretary of State, clerk, register of deeds and mortgages and surrogate of any county of this State, as well as the record and index of any such papers, documents or…
47:1-6. No map, plat, plan or chart of lands, required or that may be required by law to be filed, or that may be presented to the county clerk, register of deeds and mortgages or surrogate in any county of this State, shall be received for filing unless the same shall be made upon translucent tracing cloth, with fast-…
In the recording of deeds, mortgages, wills or other instruments required or authorized by law to be recorded, the clerk, register of deeds and mortgages, surrogate or other officer required to make the record, shall, in addition to the other indexes made and kept by him, make and keep such classified, analytical or co…
47:1-8. Whenever any records of any deeds, mortgages or other instruments of record in the office of any clerk or register of deeds and mortgages of any county of this State are becoming worn out, mutilated, obliterated, obscured, or in such condition that by use the same would be likely to become entirely void, lost o…
The clerks, registers of deeds and mortgages and surrogates of the several counties of this state may, whenever any of the maps on file in their respective offices shall, by public use, become so worn, torn or otherwise impaired as to be wholly or partly illegible, employ a competent person to copy, retrace, redraft or…
All warrants for the cancellation or discharge of bonds, or any other discharges, filed in any county clerk's office in this state shall, in addition to the other requirements of law, have inserted therein the book and page where the bond is recorded; and the respective county clerks may refuse to cancel or satisfy any…
5. Any public agency, the Secretary of State or the County Clerk, Register, or Surrogate of a county may copy, record, index or transcribe public records by means of photography, data processing, image processing, or other approved means, subject to compliance with the rules and regulations promulgated therefor by the…
6. a. The Division of Archives and Records Management in the Department of State, with the approval of the State Records Committee established pursuant to section 6 of P.L.1953, c.410 (C.47:3-20), shall promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to effectuate the purposes of this act and to safeguard the…
7. Whenever it shall be necessary to alter, correct or revise the record pertaining to any paper, document or instrument, or the index pertaining to the same, which shall previously have been recorded, filed, registered, or indexed, the officer responsible for maintaining such records or custodian thereof shall cause a…
9. No official responsible for maintaining public records or the custodian thereof shall destroy, obliterate or dispose of any paper, document, instrument, or index which shall have been recorded, filed, registered or indexed except as specifically permitted by law. No law, statute or regulation shall be construed to p…
10. Whenever in any law, rule, regulation, order, contract, document, judicial or administrative proceeding, or otherwise, reference is made to the Bureau of Archives and History in the Department of Education or the administrator thereof, the same shall be considered to mean and refer to the Division of Archives and R…
1. a. No person, including any public or private entity, shall print or display in any manner an individual's Social Security number on any document intended for public recording with any county recording authority. b. Whenever a document is presented for public recording with any county recording authority and that do…
2. Except as otherwise provided pursuant to sections 1 through 3 of P.L.2021, c.371 (C.47:1B-1 through C.47:1B-3), a State or local governmental agency shall not knowingly post, repost, publish, or republish on the Internet the home address of any covered person approved by the Office of Information Privacy pursuant to…
1. The Legislature finds and declares it to be the public policy of this State that: government records shall be readily accessible for inspection, copying, or examination by the citizens of this State, with certain exceptions, for the protection of the public interest, and any limitations on the right of access accord…
1. As used in P.L.1963, c.73 (C.47:1A-1 et seq.) as amended and supplemented: "Biotechnology" means any technique that uses living organisms, or parts of living organisms, to make or modify products, to improve plants or animals, or to develop micro-organisms for specific uses; including the industrial use of recombina…
2. a. When federal law or regulation requires the submission of biotechnology trade secrets and related confidential information, a public agency shall not have access to this information except as allowed by federal law. b. A public agency shall not make any biotechnology trade secrets and related confidential informa…
1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other statute or regulation to the contrary, government record as defined in section 1 of P.L.1995, c.23 (C.47:1A-1.1) shall include aggregate information regarding the total number of permits to purchase a handgun and firearms purchaser identification cards, without any persona…
1. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of P.L.1963, c.73 (C.47:1A-1 et seq.) or the provisions of any other law to the contrary, where it shall appear that a person who is convicted of any indictable offense under the laws of this State, any other state or the United States is seeking government records containing person…
3. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of P.L.1963, c.73 (C.47:1A-1 et seq.) as amended and supplemented, where it shall appear that the record or records which are sought to be inspected, copied, or examined shall pertain to an investigation in progress by any public agency, the right of access provided for in P.L.1963,…
6. a. The custodian of a government record shall permit the record to be inspected, examined, and copied by any person during regular business hours; or in the case of a municipality having a population of 5,000 or fewer according to the most recent federal decennial census, a board of education having a total district…
7. a. Notwithstanding any other law or rule or regulation to the contrary, whenever there is filed a verified complaint to the Superior Court of the county in which the request for access to government records was made under P.L.1963, c.73 (C.47:1A-1 et seq.) alleging that a requestor has sought records with the intent…