New Jersey § 47:1-8

§ 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 and mortgages of any county of this State

are becoming worn out, mutilated, obliterated, obscured, or in such condition that

by use the same would be likely to become entirely void, lost or unintelligible, and

the title to lands or other property endangered, such clerk or register of deeds and

mortgages shall, upon the order of any judge of the Superior Court , rerecord such records anew, in books to be kept in the office of such clerk or register

of deeds and mortgages, which books shall be known as the book of “rerecorded deeds,”

or otherwise, in accordance with the types of instruments so rerecorded, shall be

numbered and paged as were the old books, shall be certified by such clerk or register

of deeds and mortgages, under his hand and seal, to be true copies of the original

records, and shall be reindexed in the appropriate books of indexes of such recorded

deeds, mortgages or instruments in such counties, being marked as reindexed. The expense of such rerecording shall be paid by the county in which the same is

done, as the judge may determine and direct.