2013 New Jersey Revised Statutes
Title 54 - TAXATION
Section 54:4-74 - Payment of State and county taxes by municipality.

54:4-74 Payment of State and county taxes by municipality.

54:4-74. The governing body of each municipality shall cause to be paid to the treasurer of the county, in four installments, the amount of county taxes required to be assessed and raised in such municipality, on the fifteenth day of the month in which each installment of taxes shall become payable, except, that in those years when the third installment has been determined by the tax collector to be due after August 10, the installment shall be due no later than five days after the twenty-fifth day from when the tax bill was mailed or otherwise delivered pursuant to subsection a. of R.S.54:4-64, but no later than September 15. The amount to be payable as each of the first two installments shall be one-quarter of the total tax finally levied against the municipality for the preceding year, and the amount to be payable for the third and fourth installments shall be the full tax as levied for the current year, less the amount charged as the first and second installments. The amount thus found to be payable as the last two installments shall be divided equally for and as each installment. The governing body of each municipality shall cause to be paid to the county treasurer on December fifteenth of each year all of the taxes required to be assessed and raised by taxation in such taxing district for State school and other State purposes.

Amended 2007, c.62, s.36.