SENATE, No. 3957 STATE OF NEW JERSEY 221st LEGISLATURE INTRODUCED DECEMBER 12, 2024
SENATE, No. 3957
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
221st LEGISLATURE
INTRODUCED DECEMBER 12, 2024
Sponsored by: Senator PAUL A. SARLO District 36 (Bergen and Passaic) Senator NICHOLAS P. SCUTARI District 22 (Somerset and Union) Senator ANTHONY M. BUCCO District 25 (Morris and Passaic) 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 introduced.
Sponsored by:
Senator PAUL A. SARLO
District 36 (Bergen and Passaic)
Senator NICHOLAS P. SCUTARI
District 22 (Somerset and Union)
Senator ANTHONY M. BUCCO
District 25 (Morris and Passaic)
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 introduced.
An Act allowing publication of required public notices and legal advertisements in certain newspapers for extended period regardless of format. Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. Notwithstanding any law, rule, regulation, or municipal ordinance to the contrary, a newspaper utilized by a 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 any requirements for issuing or publishing a public notice or legal advertisement, including for providing adequate notice of a meeting, and designated as an official newspaper, shall be deemed eligible for the same purposes from January 1, 2025 to March 1, 2025 regardless of physical or digital format for the newspaper's publication. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. STATEMENT This bill provides that a newspaper utilized by a 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 any requirements for issuing or publishing a public notice or legal advertisement, including for providing adequate notice of a meeting, and designated as an official newspaper, is deemed eligible for the same purposes from January 1, 2025 to March 1, 2025 regardless of physical or digital format for the newspaper's publication.
An Act allowing publication of required public notices and legal advertisements in certain newspapers for extended period regardless of format.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Notwithstanding any law, rule, regulation, or municipal ordinance to the contrary, a newspaper utilized by a 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 any requirements for issuing or publishing a public notice or legal advertisement, including for providing adequate notice of a meeting, and designated as an official newspaper, shall be deemed eligible for the same purposes from January 1, 2025 to March 1, 2025 regardless of physical or digital format for the newspaper's publication.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill provides that a newspaper utilized by a 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 any requirements for issuing or publishing a public notice or legal advertisement, including for providing adequate notice of a meeting, and designated as an official newspaper, is deemed eligible for the same purposes from January 1, 2025 to March 1, 2025 regardless of physical or digital format for the newspaper's publication.