SENATE COMMUNITY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
STATEMENT TO
SENATE, No. 181
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
DATED: MAY 2, 1996
The Senate Community Affairs Committee reports favorably Senate Bill No. 181.
This bill would authorize a municipality to enact an ordinance requiring owners of real estate to register their actual residential address with a municipality if the owners did not reside at the residence, in the case of residential property, or did not conduct business at the location, in the case of commercial property. The objective of this bill is to assist municipalities in locating absentee owners of real property.
Under this bill, a municipality could require an owner to supply it with his residential street address, including the street name, rural delivery route, and any post office box which may be part of the address. The bill defines "street address" to mean the address at which the person actually resides.
The bill would include all types of real estate, including commercial or residential, improved or unimproved lots, single family homes, multiple dwellings, and property held in any manner, including fee simple, condominium, or cooperative forms of ownership.
The municipal clerk would have the option of sending a copy of any address registered to the appropriate county clerk's office for additional filing and indexing.
This bill was prefiled for introduction in the 1996 session pending technical review. As reported, the bill includes the changes required by technical review which has been performed.