New Jersey § acts:saved-40 - (1)

§ acts:saved-40. (1)

1. Whenever within a term of two years prior to the passage of this act any public street

or highway, public square or public place, in any municipality of this state has been

vacated in pursuance of proceedings, by ordinance or otherwise, authorized by any

law of this state, a copy of such ordinance or other proceeding by which such public

street, highway, public square or public place has been vacated within such term shall

be certified, at the request of any person, to be a true copy of such ordinance or

other proceeding by the clerk of such municipality under the corporate seal thereof,

and thereupon such certified copy may be filed by any such person in the office of

the county, in which such municipality is situate wherein the public record of deeds

of conveyance of land is made and kept--that is to say, in the office of the county

clerk or the register of deeds, as the case may be; which certified copy shall thereupon

be recorded in such office in a book to be provided for that purpose, with a proper

index; which book shall be entitled “Vacations”. Such record, or a copy thereof, certified to be a true copy by such county clerk

or register of deeds, as the case may be, under the seal of the county, shall be taken

and received in all courts and places as evidence of such ordinance or proceedings

and the adoption thereof.