New Jersey § 38:23a-1

§ 38:23a-1.

Any oath, affirmation or affidavit, required or authorized to be taken or made in

any suit or legal proceeding in this State or for any lawful purpose whatever, by

any person in the military, naval or air force service of the United States or the

spouse of any such person, or by any person who, is serving as a merchant seaman outside

the limits of the United States included within the 48 States and the District of

Columbia or, is outside said limits by permission, assignment or direction of any

department or official of the United States Government in connection with any activity

pertaining to the prosecution of any war in which the United States is then engaged,

or, in time of emergency, for use within this State or any acknowledgment or proof

of any deed or other instrument, relating to real or personal property within this

State, by any such person or the spouse of any person in such military, naval or air

force service, in order to entitle such deed or instrument to be recorded or filed

in any public office of this State, may be taken or made before any commissioned officer

of the United States Army, Navy, Air Force or Marine Corps and the recital that he

is such commissioned officer, including a recital of his rank and official designation

as such and that the person taking or making such oath, affirmation or acknowledgment

or making any such proof is in the military, naval or air force service of the United

States or is the spouse of any such person or is serving as a merchant seaman outside

the limits of the United States included within the 48 States and the District of

Columbia or is outside said limits by permission, assignment or direction of any department

or official of the United States Government in connection with any activity pertaining

to the prosecution of any war in which the United States is then engaged, or in time

of emergency, in the jurat or certificate of such oath, affirmation, affidavit, acknowledgment

or proof over his signature as such commissioned officer shall be sufficient proof

that the person before whom the same is taken or made is such an officer and that

such person taking or making such oath, affirmation, affidavit or acknowledgment or

making such proof is in the military, naval or air force service of the United States

or is the spouse of any such person or is serving as a merchant seaman outside the

limits of the United States included within the 48 States and the District of Columbia

or is outside said limits by permission, assignment or direction of any department

or official of the United States in connection with any activity pertaining to the

prosecution of any war in which the United States is then engaged, or in time of emergency

at the time of the taking or making the same and such oath, affirmation, affidavit,

acknowledgment or proof when so taken or made and certified shall have the same force

and effect as though taken or made before any other officer of this State authorized

to take oaths, acknowledgments and proofs and any such deed or instrument when so

acknowledged or proved, if otherwise sufficient, shall be entitled to recording or

filing in any public office of this State without any other or additional certificate

of the authority of such officer to take the acknowledgment or proof of the execution

thereof. Any such certificate of acknowledgment shall be valid and sufficient to all intents

and purposes, if it certifies that the party making such instrument appeared before

such officer and acknowledged the same to be his act and deed; and any affidavit

of proof by a witness, made before such officer shall be sufficient to all intents

and purposes if the affiant swears that the party making such instrument executed

and delivered the same as his act and deed. The failure to state the place of execution of any such deed or other instrument

or of any such oath, affirmation, affidavit, acknowledgment or proof shall not invalidate

the same deed or other instrument or said oath, affirmation, affidavit, acknowledgment

or proof. As used in this act the term “ in time of emergency ” shall mean and include any time after June 23, 1950, and prior to the termination,

suspension or revocation of the proclamation of the existence of a national emergency

issued by the President of the United States on December 16, 1950, or termination

of the existence of such national emergency by appropriate action of the President

or Congress of the United States.