New Jersey § 2a:61-1
Full text of New Jersey New Jersey Statutes § 2a:61-1, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 2a:61-1.
When any sheriff, coroner, master, executor, administrator, guardian, commissioner,
auditor or other officer or person is authorized or required by any public statute
or the direction of any court of competent jurisdiction in this State to make sales
of real estate, he shall, unless otherwise specially directed or authorized by law,
before making the sale, give notice of the time and place of the sale by public advertisement,
signed by himself, and set up in the office of the sheriff of the county or counties
where the real estate is located and at the premises to be sold, at least 3 weeks
before the time appointed for the sale. The notice need not be set up at any other place. The notice of sale shall include either a diagram of the premises or a concise statement
indicating the municipality, the tax lot and block and where appropriate, the street
and street number, and the dimensions of the premises, as well as the number of feet
to the nearest cross street. The notice of sale shall state that the diagram or concise description does not
constitute a full legal description of the premises, and shall state where the full
legal description can be found. Such officer or person shall also cause the notice to be published 4 times, at least
once a week, during 4 consecutive weeks, in two newspapers, to be by him designated, (a) both printed and published in the county where the real estate to be sold is located,
one of which shall be either a newspaper published at the county seat of the county
or a newspaper published in the municipality in the county having the largest population
according to the latest census, or (b) one printed and published in the county and one circulating in the county, if
only one daily newspaper is printed and published in the county, or (c) one published at the county seat and one circulating in the county, if no daily
newspaper is published in the county, or (d) both circulating in the county, if no newspapers are printed and published in
the county. The first publication shall be at least 21 days prior and the last publication not
more than 8 days prior to the time appointed for the sale of the real estate. Whenever, in the opinion of any such officer or person, the ends of justice shall
require it, or the sale being conducted by him will be benefited thereby, the notice
of sale may be published in three newspapers instead of two as required by the second
paragraph of this section, if there be that number printed and published in the county
where the real estate to be sold is located. The officer or person so advertising in the newspapers shall be entitled therefor,
in addition to his other fees, to the sum of $1.50, except where it is otherwise specifically
provided.
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