47:3-11 - Notices before destruction - New Jersey Statutes

47:3-11.     Notices before destruction 
     3.   None of the papers described in this act shall be removed and destroyed, or the records therein effectively obliterated, as provided herein, except on sixty days' written notice to the Superior Court Assignment Judge, and to the Division of State Library, Archives and History, in the Department of Education, and said division may acquire any of said papers for inclusion in the material bearing upon the history of the Government and the people of this State in the custody of the said division. Upon any such disposition of said papers by the county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages, as provided herein, the said county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages, as the case may be, shall file with the said division, a certificate under his hand and seal, setting forth the papers disposed of and the date of disposition. A copy of every such certificate shall be retained in the office of the county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages. 

    L.1953,c.269,s.3; amended 1991,c.91,s.468.