New Jersey § acts:saved-54 - (4)

§ acts:saved-54. (4)

4. 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 town collector

or other officer of the town 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 town collector 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 town collector 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 town collector 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 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 town collector 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 shall be published once in each week

for four weeks prior to said sale, in two newspapers published in the county in which

the town is situated and circulating in the town; it shall be the duty of said town

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

advertisement, to deliver to any applicant at his 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,

except as in this act otherwise specially provided, 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 town collector 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 town clerk and shall thereupon become public records and shall

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

if any original report shall be transmitted to the town collector or such other officer

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

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

circuit court; it shall not be necessary to advertise and sell at the same time all

the lots and parcels of land in the town subjected to the provisions of this act,

but any lot or parcel, or number of lots or parcels, may be advertised and sold at

any time.