Bill Text: NJ A2079 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires notice of sheriff's sale of goods to be published in newspapers and on county sheriff websites.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-11 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee [A2079 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2010-A2079-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman JOSEPH CRYAN
District 20 (Union)
SYNOPSIS
Requires notice of sheriff's sale of goods to be published in newspapers and on county sheriff websites.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning notice of certain sales of goods and chattel by county sheriffs and amending N.J.S.2A:17-33.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. N.J.S.2A:17-33 is amended to read as follows:
a. No sale of goods or chattels shall be made by virtue of any execution without previous notice of the date, time [and], place, and nature of the intended sale, given by the officer making the levy, by advertisements, signed by the officer and posted at least [5] five days before the date and time appointed for the sale in the office of the sheriff of the county or counties where the property is situate. [The notice need not be posted at any other place.]
b. In addition to being posted in the office of the sheriff as required by subsection a. of this section, this notice of the intended sale also shall be published two times, at least once a week, during two consecutive weeks, in two newspapers, to be designated by the sheriff, as follows:
(1) both printed and published in the county where the goods or chattels are to be sold, one of which shall be either a newspaper published at the county seat of the county or a newspaper published in the municipality in the county having the largest population according to the latest census; or
(2) one printed and published in the county and one circulating in the county, if only one daily newspaper is printed and published in the county; or
(3) one published at the county seat and one circulating in the county, if no daily newspaper is published in the county; or
(4) both circulating in the county, if no newspapers are printed and published in the county.
c. In addition to being posted in the office of the sheriff as required by subsection a. of this section, this notice of the intended sale also shall be electronically published on the official Internet website of the sheriff at least five days before the date and time appointed for the sale.
(cf: P.L.1951, c.344, s.2A:17-33)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill would require notice
of sheriff's sales to be published in
local newspapers and on official sheriff's office Internet websites.
Under current law, notice of the time and place of the sale of goods pursuant to a writ of execution issued by a court must be posted by the sheriff in the sheriff's office at least five days in advance of the sale. No further notice is required.
Under the bill, notice of the date, time, place and nature of a sheriff's sale would have to be published twice in two newspapers published or circulating in the county, at least once a week, during two consecutive weeks.
The bill also requires the notice of a sheriff's sale to be posted on the official Internet website of the sheriff at least five days before the sale.
