On Tuesday, the Senate passed S-4136/A-5343, which authorizes public bodies to continue using newspapers for required public notices and legal advertisements until March 1. The Assembly is scheduled to consider it at their voting session on Thursday. It is anticipated that the Governor will sign it prior to the March 1 deadline. For more information, please review the League’s Friday Newsflash.
We continue to work on long-term solutions that will permit municipalities, counties, and school boards to publish public notices and legal advertisements on the public agencies’ websites.
As we continue to advocate for the ability for towns to publish such notices on their municipal websites, we are repeatedly asked how much municipalities are spending on publishing such notices. Please take a few minutes to complete a survey on costs from 2020 through 2024. Also, if you have not done so already, consider adopting the sample resolution supporting legislation permitting publication of legal notices on municipalities’ websites.
Contacts: Lori Buckelew, Deputy Executive Director, lbuckelew@njlm.org, 609-695-3481, x112, and Paul Penna, Director of Government Affairs, ppenna@njlm.org, 609-695-3481, x110.