2019 New Jersey Revised Statutes
Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties
Section 40:67-21 - Vacation of streets and places; recording; copy as evidence

40:67-21. Vacation of streets and places; recording; copy as evidence

Whenever any street, highway or other public place, or part thereof in any municipality shall be vacated in pursuance of proceedings, by ordinance or otherwise, authorized by law, the municipal clerk shall within sixty days after such ordinance or other proceeding becomes effective file a copy of such ordinance or other proceeding, certified by him, under the seal of the municipality, to be a true copy of such ordinance or other proceeding, together with a copy of the proof of publication thereof, if publication be required, in the office wherein conveyances of lands are recorded in the county in which the municipality is situated and such certified copy shall be recorded in a book with proper index to be provided for the purpose and entitled "vacations" . The record of any such ordinance or other proceeding, or a copy thereof, certified to be a true copy of such ordinance or other proceeding by the officer in whose office such record is kept, under the seal of the county, shall be taken and received in all courts and places as evidence of such ordinance or other proceeding and the adoption thereof.