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• New Jersey Public Records Laws Section 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 Public Records Laws Section 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 Public Records Laws Section 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 Public Records Laws Section 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 Public Records Laws Section 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 ...
• New Jersey Public Records Laws Section 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 ...
• New Jersey Public Records Laws Section 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 Public Records Laws Section 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 ...
• New Jersey Public Records Laws Section 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 Public Records Laws Section 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 ...
• New Jersey Public Records Laws Section 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 Public Records Laws Section 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 Public Records Laws Section 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 Public Records Laws Section 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 Public Records Laws Section 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 Public Records Laws Section 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 any ...
• New Jersey Public Records Laws Section 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 readily accessible for inspection, copying, ...
• New Jersey Public Records Laws Section 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 ...
• New Jersey Public Records Laws Section 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 have access ...
• New Jersey Public Records Laws Section 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 ...
• New Jersey Public Records Laws Section 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 ...

Last modified: October 22, 2006