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CHAPTER 72 AN ACT concerning publication of required legal notices, supplementing Title 35 of the Revised Statutes, and amending various parts of the statutory law. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: C.35:3-1 Definitions. 1. As used in P.L.2025, c.72 (C.35:3-1 et al.): "Electronic format" means an Internet website and other technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities that is operated by or for a newspaper for publication. "IP address" means an Internet Protocol address. "Legal notice" means any resolution, official proclamation, notice, or advertisement of any sort, kind, or character, including proposals for bids on public work and otherwise, required by law or by the order or rule of any court to be published by a public entity, corporation, an individual, or any other entity. "Local government unit" means a county, municipality, or other political subdivision of the State, or any agency, board, commission, utilities authority or other authority, or other entity thereof, or a person who is a local government unit officer or employee. "Online news publication" means a news publication in electronic format that contains news on matters of public concern and has published news predominantly in the English language at least once per week for at least one year continuously. "Print newspaper" means a news publication in print form that contains news on matters of public concern and has published news predominantly in the English language at least once per week for at least one year continuously. "Public entity" means the State, any State agency, and any local government unit, district, public authority, public agency, and any other political subdivision or political body in the State. "Secretary" means the Secretary of State. "State agency" means any of the principal departments in the Executive Branch of the State Government and any division, board, bureau, office, commission, or other instrumentality within or created by a department and, to the extent consistent with law, any interstate agency to which New Jersey is a party and any independent State authority, commission, instrumentality, or agency. A local government unit shall not be deemed an agency or instrumentality of the State. C.35:3-2 Public entities to publish, advertise legal notices on

uthority, commission, instrumentality, or agency. A local government unit shall not be deemed an agency or instrumentality of the State. C.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 officia l 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