New Jersey § acts:saved-54 - (4)

§ acts:saved-54. (4)

4. That upon the confirmation of the said report, the same, or a certified copy thereof,

with the assessment map or maps filed therewith, shall be transmitted to the comptroller

of the city or other officer for collecting assessments, to be filed by him in his

office, and thereupon the amount of said tax, assessment and lien so fixed and certified

in respect of each and every lot or parcel of land included therein, shall immediately

become due and payable, and shall be collected by the said comptroller or said other

officer without interest, if the same be paid within sixty days after the filing of

such report with him, and if not so paid, then with interest from the date of such

filing at the rate of six per cent per annum, and if not paid within six months from

such filing, with interest at the rate of seven per cent per annum from the date of

such filing; the comptroller or said other officer shall not be required to make

any demand for the payment of said tax, assessment and lien, and if, after the expiration

of six months from the filing of the said report and assessment map, the amount therein

certified in respect of any lot or parcel of land shall not have been collected or

paid, the said comptroller or said other officer, after giving notice by advertisement

as hereinafter required, shall sell the said lot or parcel of land at public auction

to the highest bidder, but not for less than the amount due from the same, as appears

by the said report, with interest and costs; said advertisement shall include a designation

of the time and place of sale, and of the ward or wards, district or districts, in

which the property then and there to be sold is situate, and the lot and block numbers

of the same on the said assessment maps, and shall state that further particulars

of the property to be sold may be obtained at the office of the comptroller or said

other collecting officer, and it shall not be necessary in said advertisement to include

any further particulars of the property to be sold; said advertisement, in cases

where publication has not already been commenced, shall be published once in each

week for four weeks prior to said sale, in the official newspapers of such city, or,

in case such city shall not have any regularly designated official newspapers, in

two newspapers printed and circulating in the city; it shall be the duty of said

comptroller or other collecting officer, from and after the first publication of said

advertisement, to deliver to any applicant at the office, within office hours, a written

or printed list of all the parcels of property intended to be included in said sale,

but it shall not in anywise be an objection to the validity of any sale that any person

has failed for any reason to receive such list; it shall not be necessary in the

said list, or in the reports of the said commissioners hereinbefore mentioned, or

in any notice required to be given or published by any of the provisions of this act,

to state the name of the owner of the premises affected, nor to describe the premises

affected otherwise than by the said block and lot numbers on the said assessment maps;

the sale may be adjourned from time to time by the said comptroller or other collecting

officer, but it shall not be necessary to publish any notice of such adjournment or

of the continuation of the sale; affidavits of the publication of the notice of sale,

in the manner above provided, and of all other notices required by the provisions

of this act to be published, made by one of the respective publishers of said newspapers,

or by some person in the employ of such publisher having cognizance of the publication,

shall be filed in the office of the clerk, and shall thereupon become public records

and shall be prima facie evidence in all courts and places of the matters stated therein;

if any original report shall be transmitted to the comptroller, or such other officer

as aforesaid, a copy thereof, certified by such comptroller, or other officer for

collecting assessments, shall be forthwith filed in the office of the clerk of said

circuit court.