[First Reprint] ASSEMBLY, No. 5151 STATE OF NEW JERSEY 221st LEGISLATURE INTRODUCED DECEMBER 12, 2024
[First Reprint]
ASSEMBLY, No. 5151
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
221st LEGISLATURE
INTRODUCED DECEMBER 12, 2024
Sponsored by: Assemblyman REGINALD W. ATKINS District 20 (Union) Assemblywoman LINDA S. CARTER District 22 (Somerset and Union) Assemblywoman BARBARA MCCANN STAMATO District 31 (Hudson) Co-Sponsored by: Assemblywoman Reynolds-Jackson SYNOPSIS Allows public bodies to continue using newspapers for required public notices and legal advertisements until certain specified date regardless of format. CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT As reported by the Assembly Appropriations Committee on December 16, 2024, with amendments.
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman REGINALD W. ATKINS
District 20 (Union)
Assemblywoman LINDA S. CARTER
District 22 (Somerset and Union)
Assemblywoman BARBARA MCCANN STAMATO
District 31 (Hudson)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman Reynolds-Jackson
SYNOPSIS
Allows public bodies to continue using newspapers for required public notices and legal advertisements until certain specified date regardless of format.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Assembly Appropriations Committee on December 16, 2024, with amendments.
An Act allowing publication of required public notices and legal advertisements in certain newspapers for extended period 1[without regard to] regardless of1 format. Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. 1a.1 Notwithstanding any law, rule, regulation, or municipal ordinance to the contrary, a newspaper utilized 1or permitted to be utilized1 by a 1person for the purpose of complying with any legal requirement, or a1 public body, as defined in section 3 of the "Open Public Meetings Act," P.L.1975, c.231 (C.10:4-8), from January 1, 2024 through December 31, 2024 for the purpose of complying with 1R.S.35:1-2.2 or1 any 1other1 requirements for issuing or publishing a public notice or legal advertisement, including 1, but not limited to,1 for providing adequate notice of a meeting, 1[and designated as an official newspaper,] the solicitation of bids, qualifications, or proposals, or the publication of any ordinances, synopses, or summaries of official documents,1 shall be deemed eligible for the same purposes from January 1, 2025 to March 1, 2025 1[regardless of physical or digital format for] if1 the newspaper's publication 1is in print or electronic format. The price to be paid for publishing all public notices or legal advertisements in print or electronic format as described in this section shall not exceed the rates established pursuant to R.S.35:2-1. A fee shall not be charged, and registration shall not be required, for viewing public notices or legal advertisements published in an electronic format1. 1b. For the purposes of this section, "electronic format" means an Internet website and other technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities that is operated by or for a newspaper for publication.1 2. This act shall take effect 1[on December 31, 2024] immediately1.
An Act allowing publication of required public notices and legal advertisements in certain newspapers for extended period 1[without regard to] regardless of1 format.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. 1a.1 Notwithstanding any law, rule, regulation, or municipal ordinance to the contrary, a newspaper utilized 1or permitted to be utilized1 by a 1person for the purpose of complying with any legal requirement, or a1 public body, as defined in section 3 of the "Open Public Meetings Act," P.L.1975, c.231 (C.10:4-8), from January 1, 2024 through December 31, 2024 for the purpose of complying with 1R.S.35:1-2.2 or1 any 1other1 requirements for issuing or publishing a public notice or legal advertisement, including 1, but not limited to,1 for providing adequate notice of a meeting, 1[and designated as an official newspaper,] the solicitation of bids, qualifications, or proposals, or the publication of any ordinances, synopses, or summaries of official documents,1 shall be deemed eligible for the same purposes from January 1, 2025 to March 1, 2025 1[regardless of physical or digital format for] if1 the newspaper's publication 1is in print or electronic format. The price to be paid for publishing all public notices or legal advertisements in print or electronic format as described in this section shall not exceed the rates established pursuant to R.S.35:2-1. A fee shall not be charged, and registration shall not be required, for viewing public notices or legal advertisements published in an electronic format1.
1b. For the purposes of this section, "electronic format" means an Internet website and other technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities that is operated by or for a newspaper for publication.1
2. This act shall take effect 1[on December 31, 2024] immediately1.