New Jersey § acts:saved-54 - (36)

§ acts:saved-54. (36)

1. Whenever any town, township, borough or other municipality, except a city, of this

state shall have purchased any lot or tract of land, under the procedure of the act

to which this is a supplement, or any supplement or amendment of the same, and the

space of six months has elapsed since the time of the said purchase, and no person

or persons have made application to the said municipality to purchase the same from

the said municipality for such a price as would be in accordance with the terms and

provisions of said act of which this is a supplement, then, and in that event, it

shall be lawful for the tax collector of the said municipality to advertise such lots

or tracts of land for sale at public auction, which said advertisement shall be printed

once a week, and for four successive weeks, in a newspaper printed and circulating

in said municipality, if there be such a newspaper, and, if no newspaper be printed

in said municipality, then in a newspaper printed in the county in which said municipality

is situated, and circulated in said municipality. The said advertisement shall contain a description of each lot or tract of land

so advertised for sale by its lot and block number, on the official maps of the municipality,

if there be an official map, and also a description of the same by metes and bounds. The said advertisement also shall state the name of the former owner or owners of

the said lots or tracts of land, if the same can be ascertained prior to the sale

of the same and the purchase by the municipality.