ASSEMBLY, No. 601
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 1996 SESSION
By Assemblyman LUSTBADER
An Act concerning registration of certain federal liens, amending P.L.1965, c.123 and supplementing chapter 16 of Title 46 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. (New section) This act applies to liens arising from the federal "Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980," Pub.L.96-510 (42 U.S.C.§9601 et seq.), and to other federal liens, notice of which under any Act of Congress or any regulation adopted pursuant thereto, are required or permitted to be filed in such filing or recording office as a state may designate; provided, however, that the provisions of this act shall not apply to filing notice of federal tax liens pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C.§1 et seq., and which are subject to R.S.46:16-13.
2. (New section) Notices of liens upon real property for obligations payable to the United States and certificates and notices affecting the liens shall be filed in the office of the county recording officer of the county or counties wherein the property subject to such liens is situated.
3. (New section) Certification of notices of liens, certificates, or other notices affecting federal liens by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States or his delegate, or by any official or entity of the United States responsible for filing or certifying of notice of any other lien, entitles them to be filed and no other attestation, certification, or acknowledgement is necessary.
4. (New section) a. If a notice of federal lien, a refiling of a notice of federal lien, or a notice of revocation of any certificate is presented to the county recording officer, he shall endorse thereon his identification and the date and time of receipt and forthwith file it alphabetically or enter it in an alphabetical index showing the name and address of the person named in the notice, the date and time of receipt, the title and address of the official or entity certifying the lien, and the total amount appearing on the notice of lien.
b. If a refiled notice of federal lien referred to in subsection a. of this section or any certificate of release, nonattachment, discharge or subordination is presented for filing to the county recording officer, he shall permanently attach the refiled notice of the certificate to the original notice of lien and enter the refiled notice or the certificate with the date of filing in any alphabetical lien index on the line where the original notice of lien is entered.
c. Upon request of any person, the filing officer shall issue his certificate showing whether there is on file, on the date and hour stated therein, any notice of lien or certificate or notice affecting any lien filed under this act, naming a particular person, and if a notice or certificate is on file, giving the date and hour of filing of each notice or certificate. The fee for a certificate is $8. Upon request, the filing officer shall furnish a copy of any notice of federal lien, or notice or certificate affecting a federal lien, for a fee of $2 per page.
5. (New section) The fee for filing and indexing each notice of lien or certificate or notice affecting the lien is:
a. For a lien on real estate, $8;
b. For a lien on tangible and intangible personal property, $8;
c. For a certificate of discharge or subordination, $8;
d. For all other notices, including a certificate of release or nonattachment, $5.00.
The officer shall bill the district directors of internal revenue or other appropriate federal officials on a monthly basis for fees for documents filed by them.
6. Section 2 of P.L.1965, c.123 (C.22A:4-4.1) is amended to read as follows:
2. County clerks and registers of deeds and mortgages, in counties having such offices, shall charge for the services herein enumerated the following fees:
Fee
For recording veteran's discharge papers . . . . No fee
For recording any instrument:
First page . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $15.00
Each additional page or part thereof . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 2.00
Each rider, insertion, addition, or any map,
plat or sketch filed or recorded
pursuant to paragraph (c) of section
2 of P.L.1957, chapter 130 (C.48:3-17.3) . . . . . . . . . $ 2.00
For entering the marginal notation of an
order judgment, statement or warrant
discharging, annulling a notice of
lis pendens and for filing such order,
judgment or statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 3.00
For preparing and transmitting to the assessor,
collector, or other custodian of the
assessment map of any taxing district,
the abstract of an instrument evidencing
title to realty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 3.00
For entering the marginal notation of a
discharge or release of a New Jersey
building and loan or savings and loan
mortgage and forwarding abstract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 3.00
For entering the marginal notation of a
discharge, assignment, postponement or
release of a mortgage, other than
building and loan and savings and
loan mortgages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 3.00
For the cancellation of any mortgage . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 8.00
For a marginal notation of the discharge of
a mortgage in counties where mortgages
are indexed under a system requiring a
duplication of indices and description . . . . . . . . . . . $ 3.00
For filing and recording notice of federal tax
lien or other federal lien or certificate
discharging such lien . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 8.00
For filing each map, plat, plan or chart (except
when presented by the State or its agencies
or filed pursuant to paragraph (c) of section
2 of P.L.1957, c.130 (C.48:3-17.3)) . . . . . . . . . . . . . $18.00
For recording tax sale certificate, except by
municipalities, or a redemption or
assignment of tax sale certificate,
first page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $15.00
Each additional page or part thereof . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 2.00
Certified copy of veteran's discharge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1.00
For indexing any recorded instrument in excess
of 10 parties, per each name in excess
of 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 0.30
For recording tax sale certificate, lien, deed,
or related instrument by a municipality . . . . . . . . . . $ 3.00
(cf: P.L.1985, c.422, s.5.)
7. This act shall take effect immediately.
Adopts the Uniform Federal Lien Registration Act.