N.J.S.A. 35:3-2 — Public entities to publish, advertise legal notices on official Internet website.

35:3-2 Public entities to publish, advertise legal notices on official Internet website. 2. a. After March 1, 2026, whenever a public entity is required by law or by order or rule of any court to publish or advertise a legal notice, the public entity shall publish or advertise the legal notice on the public entity's official Internet website. The public entity's official Internet website shall be accessible and available to the public free of charge. A direct hyperlink to legal notices published on the public entity's official Internet website shall be conspicuously placed on the website's homepage. b. No later than March 1, 2026, the Secretary of State, with support from the Office of Information Technology and any other State agency the secretary deems necessary, shall establish an Internet webpage on which shall be included hyperlinks to the legal notices webpage of each public entity created pursuant to subsection a. of this section. The legal notices hyperlink webpage established by the secretary shall be accessible and available to the public free of charge and shall be accessible by direct hyperlink conspicuously placed on the Secretary of State's Internet homepage. Each public entity shall submit the hyperlink to the Secretary of State and provide any updates thereto prior to effectuation. c. No later than March 1, 2026, a public entity shall maintain an Internet archive of legal notices that are no longer displayed, which shall be kept for at least one year. The archive shall not be subject to any records retention schedule adopted by the State Records Committee nor to the "Destruction of Public Records Law (1953)," P.L.1953, c.410 (C.47:3-15 et seq.). A public entity shall display a legal notice on its legal notices Internet webpage for at least one week, or other time period as required by law, before transferring the publication to the public entity's Internet archive. A local government unit shall initially publish an Internet archive no later than July 1, 2026 and shall maintain the archive thereafter. d. A local government unit may, in addition to the publication on its official Internet website pursuant to subsection a. of this section, publish or advertise a legal notice separately on an eligible online news publication that meets the criteria of subsection b. of section 3 of P.L.2025, c.72 (C.35:3-3). The local government unit shall provide a notice in a prominent location on its official Internet website if it publishes or advertises its legal notices in an online news publication and shall publish a hyperlink to the online news publication. L.2025, c.72, s.2.

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