40:14B-42 - Lien for service charge - New Jersey Statutes

40:14B-42.  Lien for service charge
    In the event that a service charge of any municipal authority with regard to  any parcel of real property owned by any person other than the State or an agency or subdivision thereof shall not be paid as and when due, the unpaid balance thereof and all interest accruing thereon shall be a lien on such parcel.  Such lien shall be superior and paramount to the interest in such parcel of any owner, lessee, tenant, mortgagee or other person except the lien of municipal taxes and shall be on a parity with and deemed equal to the lien on such parcel of the municipality where such parcel is situate for taxes thereon due in the same year and not paid when due.  Such lien shall not bind or affect a subsequent bona fide purchaser of such parcel for a valuable consideration without actual notice of such lien, unless the municipal authority shall have filed in the office of the collector or other officer of said municipality charged with the duty of enforcing municipal liens on real property a statement showing the amount and due date of such unpaid balance and  identifying such parcel, which identification may be sufficiently made by reference to the assessment map of said municipality.  The information shown in  such statement shall be included in any certificate with respect to said parcel  thereafter made by the official of said municipality vested with the power to  make official certificates of searches for municipal liens. Whenever such  service charge and any subsequent service charge with regard to such parcel and  all interest accrued thereon shall have been fully paid to the municipal authority, such statement shall be promptly withdrawn or canceled by the municipal authority.

     L.1957, c. 183, p. 667, s. 42, eff. Aug. 22, 1957.