New Jersey § 2c:7-4
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§ 2c:7-4.
a. Within 60 days of the effective date of this act, the Superintendent of State Police,
with the approval of the Attorney General, shall prepare the form of registration
statement as required in subsection b. of this section and shall provide such forms
to each organized full-time municipal police department, the Department of Corrections,
the Administrative Office of the Courts and the Department of Human Services. In addition, the Superintendent of State Police shall make such forms available
to the Juvenile Justice Commission established pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1995, c. 284 ( C.52:17B-170 ). b. The form of registration required by this act shall include: (1) A statement in writing signed by the person required to register acknowledging
that the person has been advised of the duty to register and reregister imposed by
this act and including the person's name, social security number, age, race, sex,
date of birth, height, weight, hair and eye color, address of legal residence, address
of any current temporary residence, date and place of employment ; and any anticipated or current school enrollment, including but not limited to
enrollment at or employment by any institution of higher education ; (2) Date and place of each conviction, adjudication or acquittal by reason of insanity,
indictment number, fingerprints, and a brief description of the crime or crimes for
which registration is required; and (3) Any other information that the Attorney General deems necessary to assess risk
of future commission of a crime, including criminal and corrections records, nonprivileged
personnel, treatment, and abuse registry records, and evidentiary genetic markers
when available. c. Within three days of receipt of a registration pursuant to subsection c. of section
2 of this act, 1 the registering agency shall forward the statement and any other required information
to the prosecutor who shall, as soon as practicable, transmit the form of registration
to the Superintendent of State Police, and, if the registrant will reside in a different
county, to the prosecutor of the county in which the person will reside. The prosecutor of the county in which the person will reside shall transmit the
form of registration to the law enforcement agency responsible for the municipality
in which the person will reside and other appropriate law enforcement agencies. The superintendent shall promptly transmit the conviction data and fingerprints
to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. d. The Superintendent of State Police shall maintain a central registry of registrations
provided pursuant to this act. 1
N.J.S.A. § 2C:7-2.
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