New Jersey Statutes

Titles / PUBLIC RECORDS / Sections

• Chapter 1

• 1
  Record of time of filing, entry or recording of instruments affecting real estate; effect
  
  
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• Chapter 1A

• 1.1
  Definitions.
  
  
• 1.2
  Restricted access to biotechnology trade secrets.
  
  
• 2.2
  Access to certain information by convict prohibited; exceptions.
  
  
• 3
  Access to records of investigation in progress.
  
  
• 5
  Times during which records may be inspected, examined, copied; access; copy fees.
  
  
• 6
  Proceeding to challenge denial of access to record.
  
  
• 7
  Government Records Council.
  
  
• 8
  Construction of act.
  
  
• 9
  Other laws, regulations, privileges unaffected.
  
  
• 10
  Personnel, pension records not considered public information; exceptions.
  
  
• 11
  Violations, penalties, disciplinary proceeding.
  
  
• 12
  Court rules.
  
  
• 13
  Annual budget request for the council.
  
  
• 1
  Legislative findings, declarations.
  
  
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• Chapter 1

• 16
  Social security numbers, prohibition of display, printing on certain documents publicly recorded.
  
  
• 15
  References to Bureau of Archives and History
  
  
• 2
  Instruments to be in English to be entitled to recording or filing
  
  
• 3
  Loose leaf record books in offices of county clerks, registers of deeds and mortgages and surrogates; effect
  
  
• 4
  Typewritten records in certain offices
  
  
• 5
  Photographic, data records in certain offices; effect as evidence
  
  
• 6
  Maps; requirements prerequisite to filing in certain offices
  
  
• 7
  Classified, analytical or combination indexes in certain offices
  
  
• 8
  Rerecording worn, mutilated or obscure records; reindexing; cost
  
  
• 9
  Restoration of worn maps in certain offices; expense
  
  
• 10
  Reference in warrants for cancellation or discharge of bonds or other discharges to book and page of original record
  
  
• 11
  Reproduction of public records, use as originals
  
  
• 12
  Rules, regulations; systems of recording
  
  
• 13
  Alteration, correction, revision of records; notation
  
  
• 14
  Destruction of public records under law
  
  
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• Chapter 2

• 8
  Historical records; acquisition and preservation
  
  
• 7
  Transfer of records
  
  
• 6
  Copies of records as evidence; certification; originals preserved
  
  
• 5
  Preservation and restoration of certain records
  
  
• 4
  Examination of records of counties, municipalities or public bodies and institutions; indexing and preservation
  
  
• 3
  Custody and control of records of extinct offices and bodies
  
  
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• Chapter 3

• 21
  Schedule; filing of copy; retention of original
  
  
• 22
  Liability of officials and others for destruction of public records
  
  
• 23
  Cancelled bonds and other evidences of indebtedness; destruction
  
  
• 24
  Time for destruction or other disposition of bonds and other evidences of indebtedness
  
  
• 25
  Certificate of destruction; filing; evidence
  
  
• 26
  Standards, procedures and rules
  
  
• 27
  Public records in private possession, bureau may demand
  
  
• 28
  Public records in private possession, person entitled to custody may demand
  
  
• 29
  Removal, alteration or destruction of public records with malicious intent
  
  
• 30
  Rules and regulations
  
  
• 31
  Repeal
  
  
• 32
  Inconsistency between provisions of this act and other acts
  
  
• 20
  State Records Committee; approval of schedule; regulations
  
  
• 19
  Schedules
  
  
• 8.1
  Copies of reports of audit filed with director of Division of Local Government; destruction; notice
  
  
• 8.2
  Copies of reports of audits; for years 1918 to 1940; opportunity to receive before destruction
  
  
• 9
  Removal and destruction of certain papers and records on file in offices of county clerks and registers of deeds and mortgages
  
  
• 10
  Retention of specific papers may be ordered
  
  
• 11
  Notices before destruction
  
  
• 12
  Effective date
  
  
• 13
  Papers on file over 25 years in office of county clerk; obliteration
  
  
• 14
  Effective date
  
  
• 15
  Short title
  
  
• 16
  Terms defined
  
  
• 17
  Consent of bureau to disposition or destruction of public records or documents
  
  
• 18
  Classifications and categories
  
  
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• Chapter 4

• 5
  Canceling of certification
  
  
• 4
  "Address Confidentiality Program"
  
  
• 3
  Definitions relative to protection of persons threatened by domestic violence
  
  
• 2
  Address confidentiality for victims of domestic violence
  
  
• 1
  Short title
  
  
• 6
  Use of designated address, exceptions