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- New Jersey Statutes 47:1-1 Record of time of filing, entry or recording of instruments affecting real estate; effect
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 ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:1-2 Instruments to be in English to be entitled to recording or filing
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 ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:1-3 Loose leaf record books in offices of county clerks, registers of deeds and mortgages and surrogates; effect
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 ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:1-4 Typewritten records in certain offices
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 ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:1-5 Photographic, data records in certain offices; effect as evidence
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 ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:1-6 Maps; requirements prerequisite to filing in certain offices
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 ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:1-7 Classified, analytical or combination indexes in certain offices
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, ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:1-8 Rerecording worn, mutilated or obscure records; reindexing; cost
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 ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:1-9 Restoration of worn maps in certain offices; expense
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 ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:1-10 Reference in warrants for cancellation or discharge of bonds or other discharges to book and page of original record
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 ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:1-11 Reproduction of public records, use as originals
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 ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:1-12 Rules, regulations; systems of recording
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 ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:1-13 Alteration, correction, revision of records; notation
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 ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:1-14 Destruction of public records under law
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 ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:1-15 References to Bureau of Archives and History
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 ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:1-16 Social security numbers, prohibition of display, printing on certain documents publicly recorded.
1. a. No person, including any public or private entity, shall print or display in any manner an individual's Social Security number on ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:1A-1 Legislative findings, declarations.
1. The Legislature finds and declares it to be the public policy of this State that: government records shall be ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:1A-1.1 Definitions.
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 ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:1A-1.2 Restricted access to biotechnology trade secrets.
2. a. When federal law or regulation requires the submission of biotechnology trade secrets and related confidential information, a public agency shall not ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:1A-2.2 Access to certain information by convict prohibited; exceptions.
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 ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:1A-3 Access to records of investigation in progress.
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 ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:1A-5 Times during which records may be inspected, examined, copied; access; copy fees.
6. a. The custodian of a government record shall permit the record to be inspected, examined, and copied by any person during regular ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:1A-6 Proceeding to challenge denial of access to record.
7. A person who is denied access to a government record by the custodian of the record, at the option of ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:1A-7 Government Records Council.
8. a. There is established in the Department of Community Affairs a Government Records Council. The council shall consist of the Commissioner of ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:1A-8 Construction of act.
9. Nothing contained in P.L.1963, c.73 (C.47:1A-1 et seq.), as amended and supplemented, shall be construed as limiting the common law right ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:1A-9 Other laws, regulations, privileges unaffected.
10. a. The provisions of this act, P.L.2001, c.404 (C.47:1A-5 et al.), shall not abrogate any exemption of a public record or government ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:1A-10 Personnel, pension records not considered public information; exceptions.
11. Notwithstanding the provisions of P.L.1963, c.73 (C.47:1A-1 et seq.) or any other law to the contrary, the personnel or pension records ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:1A-11 Violations, penalties, disciplinary proceeding.
12. a. A public official, officer, employee or custodian who knowingly and willfully violates P.L.1963, c.73 (C.47:1A-1 et seq.), as amended and supplemented, ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:1A-12 Court rules.
13. The New Jersey Supreme Court may adopt such court rules as it deems necessary to effectuate the purposes of this act. ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:1A-13 Annual budget request for the council.
14. The Commissioner of Community Affairs shall include in the annual budget request of the Department of Community Affairs a request for ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:2-3 Custody and control of records of extinct offices and bodies
The public record office shall have general and exclusive supervision, care, custody and control of all public records, books, pamphlets, documents, manuscripts, archives, maps and ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:2-4 Examination of records of counties, municipalities or public bodies and institutions; indexing and preservation
The public record office, through its director, shall examine into the condition of the records, books, pamphlets, documents, manuscripts, archives, maps and papers, now or ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:2-5 Preservation and restoration of certain records
The public record office shall take such action as may be necessary to put the records it shall examine pursuant to section 47:2-4 of this ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:2-6 Copies of records as evidence; certification; originals preserved
Whenever a copy of any record is made in accordance with the provisions of section 47:2-5 of this title, and after it has been compared ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:2-7 Transfer of records
The officers of any state department, or of any county or municipality, or of any institution or society created under any law of this state, ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:2-8 Historical records; acquisition and preservation
The public record office may acquire, preserve, classify and collate official records, letters and other material bearing upon the history of the government and the ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:3-8.1 Copies of reports of audit filed with director of Division of Local Government; destruction; notice
Every certified duplicate copy of a report of audit filed with the director of the Division of Local Government in the Department of the Treasury, ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:3-8.2 Copies of reports of audits; for years 1918 to 1940; opportunity to receive before destruction
The said director is authorized to destroy all copies of reports of audits for the years one thousand nine hundred and eighteen to one thousand ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:3-9 Removal and destruction of certain papers and records on file in offices of county clerks and registers of deeds and mortgages
Whenever papers of the character hereinafter described have been on file in the office of any county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages for ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:3-10 Retention of specific papers may be ordered
The Superior Court assignment judge or the county judge, of the county, may order the retention of specific papers included in any of the aforedescribed ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:3-11 Notices before destruction
3. None of the papers described in this act shall be removed and destroyed, or the records therein effectively obliterated, as provided herein, except on ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:3-12 Effective date
This act shall take effect July first, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-three. L.1953, c. 269, p. 1798, s. 4. ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:3-13 Papers on file over 25 years in office of county clerk; obliteration
Whenever any papers have been on file for more than twenty-five years in the office of any county clerk, pertaining to the former court of ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:3-14 Effective date
This act shall take effect July first, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-three. L.1953, c. 270, p. 1799, s. 2. ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:3-15 Short title
This act shall be known and cited as "Destruction of Public Records Law (1953)." L.1953, c. 410, p. 2061, s. 1, eff. Sept. 18, 1953. ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:3-16 Terms defined
2. As used in this act, except where the context indicates otherwise, the words "public records" mean any paper, written or printed book, document or ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:3-17 Consent of bureau to disposition or destruction of public records or documents
No person shall destroy, sell or otherwise dispose of any public record, archives or printed public documents which are under his control or in his ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:3-18 Classifications and categories
The bureau may from time to time establish specific classifications and categories for various types of the said "public records" and, in giving its consent ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:3-19 Schedules
The bureau, in co-operation with the several State departments, commissions and agencies, shall make a study of the kind and character of public records in ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:3-20 State Records Committee; approval of schedule; regulations
No such schedule shall be operative unless approved by the State Records Committee which is hereby established in the State Department of Education and which ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:3-21 Schedule; filing of copy; retention of original
Whenever any such schedule is approved by the committee, a copy thereof shall be filed with the State department, commission or agency involved and with ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:3-22 Liability of officials and others for destruction of public records
No State official, or head of a State department, commission or other agency shall be held liable on his official bond, or in the way ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:3-23 Cancelled bonds and other evidences of indebtedness; destruction
Whenever, under the laws of this State, there shall have been issued and sold by the State or by any municipality, county, or school district, ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:3-24 Time for destruction or other disposition of bonds and other evidences of indebtedness
The bureau, subject to regulations which shall be made and promulgated by the State Records Committee established by section six hereof, may give its consent ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:3-25 Certificate of destruction; filing; evidence
Whenever bonds, coupons or other evidences of indebtedness are destroyed or otherwise disposed of under the provisions of this section, a certificate of destruction shall ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:3-26 Standards, procedures and rules
12. The Bureau of Archives and History in the Department of Education, with the approval of the State Records Committee established by section six hereof, ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:3-27 Public records in private possession, bureau may demand
The bureau is empowered to demand and receive from any person any public record in private possession belonging to this State, or to any county, ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:3-28 Public records in private possession, person entitled to custody may demand
Any person who is entitled by law to the custody of public records shall demand the same from any person in whose possession they may ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:3-29 Removal, alteration or destruction of public records with malicious intent
Any person who, without the consent of the person authorized to have custody thereof, removes an official record or paper from the files of any ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:3-30 Rules and regulations
The bureau shall, with the approval of the State Records Committee established by section six hereof, make and promulgate rules and regulations for the effective ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:3-31 Repeal
Sections 47:3-1 to 47:3-6 of the Revised Statutes and "An act concerning the destruction of cancelled and redeemed acknowledgments of indebtedness, commonly known as "scrip,' ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:3-32 Inconsistency between provisions of this act and other acts
In the event of any inconsistency between the provisions of this act and the provisions of "An act concerning certain papers and records on file ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:4-1 Short title
47:4-1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Address Confidentiality Program Act." L.1997,c.369,s.1. ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:4-2 Address confidentiality for victims of domestic violence
47:4-2. The Legislature finds that persons attempting to escape from actual or threatened domestic violence frequently establish new addresses to prevent their assailants ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:4-3 Definitions relative to protection of persons threatened by domestic violence
47:4-3. As used in this act: "Address" means a residential street address, school address, or work address of a person, as ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:4-4 "Address Confidentiality Program"
47:4-4. a. There is created in the department a program to be known as the "Address Confidentiality Program." A person 18 years of ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:4-5 Canceling of certification
47:4-5. The secretary may cancel a program participant's certification if: (1) the program participant obtains a name change through an order ...
- New Jersey Statutes 47:4-6 Use of designated address, exceptions
47:4-6. A program participant may request that any State or local agency use the address designated by the secretary as the program participant's ...
Last modified: April 1, 2009
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