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NJ Rev Stat § 46:3-18 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3-18 - Aliens; "alien friend" defined; right to acquire, hold and transfer real estate

46:3-18. Aliens; "alien friend" defined; right to acquire, hold and transfer real estate  Alien friends shall have the same rights, powers and privileges and be subject to the same burdens, duties, liabilities and restrictions in respect of real estate situate in this State as native-born citizens. Any alien who shall be domiciled and resident in the United States and licensed or permitted by the government of the United States to remain in and engage in business transactions in the United States, and who shall not be arrested or interned or his property taken by the United States, shall be considered an alien friend within the meaning of this act. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to: a. Entitle any alien to be elected into any office of trust or profit in this State, or to vote at any town meeting or election of members of the Senate and General Assembly, or other officers, within this State, or for Representatives in Congress or electors of the President and Vice-President of the United States; or b. Prevent the sequestration, seizure or disposal by either the State or National government of any real estate or interest therein so long as the same is owned or held by any alien, made pursuant to duly enacted legislation, during the continuance of war between the United States and the government of the country of which any such alien is a citizen or subject; but any bona fide conveyance, mortgage or devise made by such alien shall be valid, if made to a citizen of the United States or to an alien friend. Amended by L.1943, c. 145, p. 395, s. 1, eff. April 8, 1943.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3-19 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3-19 - Estates, rights and interests in areas above surface of ground

46:3-19. Estates, rights and interests in areas above surface of ground  Estates, rights and interests in areas above the surface of the ground, whether or not contiguous thereto, may be validly created in persons or corporations other than the owner or owners of the land below such areas, and shall be deemed to be estates, rights and interests in lands. L.1938, c. 370, p. 940, s. 1.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3-20 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3-20 - Enjoyment, alienation, demise, etc., of areas above surface of ground

46:3-20. Enjoyment, alienation, demise, etc., of areas above surface of ground  Estates, rights and interests in such areas shall pass by descent and distribution in the same manner as estates, rights and interests in land and may be held, enjoyed, possessed, aliened, conveyed, exchanged, transferred, assigned, demised, released, charged, mortgaged or otherwise encumbered, devised and bequeathed in the same manner, upon the same conditions and for the same uses and purposes as estates, rights and interests in land, and shall be in all other respects dealt with and treated as estates, rights and interests in land. L.1938, c. 370, p. 940, s. 2.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3-21 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3-21 - Rights, burdens, restrictions, etc., pertaining to lands applicable

46:3-21. Rights, burdens, restrictions, etc., pertaining to lands applicable  All of the rights, privileges, incidents, powers, remedies, burdens, duties, liabilities and restrictions pertaining to estates, rights and interests in land shall appertain and be applicable to such estates, rights and interests in areas above the surface of the ground. L.1938, c. 370, p. 940, s. 3.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3-22 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3-22 - Application of existing laws to estates, etc., in areas above surface of ground

46:3-22. Application of existing laws to estates, etc., in areas above surface of ground  The provisions of this Title and of any other law of this State, shall be applicable to estates, rights and interests created in areas above the surface of the ground and to instruments creating, disposing of or otherwise affecting such estates, rights and interests, wherever such provisions would be applicable to estates, rights and interests in land, or to instruments creating, disposing of or otherwise affecting estates, rights and interests in land. L.1938, c. 370, p. 941, s. 4.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3-23 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3-23 - Discrimination prohibited in promise, covenant, restriction

46:3-23. Discrimination prohibited in promise, covenant, restriction  Any promise, covenant or restriction in a contract, mortgage, lease, deed or conveyance or in any other agreement affecting real property, heretofore or hereafter made or entered into, which limits, restrains, prohibits or otherwise provides against the sale, grant, gift, transfer, assignment, conveyance, ownership, lease, rental, use or occupancy of real property to or by any person because of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status or sex is hereby declared to be void as against public policy, wholly unenforceable, and shall not constitute a defense in any action, suit or proceeding. No such promise, covenant or restriction shall be listed as a valid provision affecting such property in public notices concerning such property. The invalidity of any such promise, covenant or restriction in any such instrument or agreement shall not affect the validity of any other provision therein, but no reverter shall occur, no possessory estate shall result, nor any right of entry or right to a penalty or forfeiture shall accrue by reason of the disregard of such promise, covenant or restriction. This section shall not apply to conveyances or devises to religious associations or corporations for religious purposes, but, such promise, covenant or restriction shall cease to be enforceable and shall otherwise become subject to the provisions of this section when the real property affected shall cease to be used for such purpose.  Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to bar any person from refusing to sell, rent, lease, assign, or sublease any room, apartment or flat in a dwelling or residential facility which is planned exclusively for or occupied exclusively for individuals of one sex to any individual of the opposite sex on the basis of sex. Nothing in this section shall be construed to bar any place of public accommodation which is in its nature reasonably restricted exclusively to individuals of one sex, which shall include but not be limited to any summer camp, day camp, bathhouse, dressing room, and comfort station, from refusing, withholding from, or denying to any individual of the opposite sex any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, or privileges thereof on the basis of sex.  L. 1965,c.67; amended 1987,c.357,s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3-24 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3-24 - Short title

46:3-24. Short title  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Solar Easements Act." L.1978, c. 152, s. 1.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3-25 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3-25 - Solar easements; creation in writing; recording

46:3-25. Solar easements; creation in writing; recording  Any easement obtained for the purpose of exposure of a solar energy device shall be created in writing and shall be subject to the same conveyancing and instrument recording requirements as other easements. L.1978, c. 152, s. 2.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3-26 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3-26 - Contents

46:3-26. Contents  Any instrument creating a solar easement shall include, but the contents shall not be limited to: a. The vertical and horizontal angles, expressed in degrees, at which the solar easement extends over the real property subject to the solar easement. b. Any terms or conditions or both under which the solar easement is granted or will be terminated. c. Any provisions for compensation of the owner of the property benefiting from the solar easement in the event of interference with the enjoyment of the solar easement or compensation of the owner of the property subject to the solar easement for maintaining the solar easement. L.1978, c. 152, s. 3.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3-27 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3-27 - Conveyance or reservation of mineral rights; exclusion of water rights

46:3-27. Conveyance or reservation of mineral rights; exclusion of water rights  Every deed or other instrument which conveys or reserves mineral rights in any land shall, unless otherwise expressly provided therein, be construed to exclude any and all water rights or consideration thereof from any conveyance or reservation of mineral rights. L.1981, c. 542, s. 1, eff. Jan. 12, 1982.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3-28 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3-28 - Declarations, findings relative to private transfer fees.

46:3-28 Declarations, findings relative to private transfer fees.  1. The Legislature declares that the public policy of this State favors the marketability of real property and the transferability of interests in real property free of title defects or unreasonable restraints on alienation. The Legislature finds that private transfer fee obligations impair the marketability and transferability of real property by constituting an unacceptable restraint on alienation regardless of the duration of the obligation to pay a private transfer fee, the amount of a private transfer fee, or the method by which any private transfer fee is created or imposed. The Legislature declares that a private transfer fee obligation shall not run with the title to property or bind subsequent owners of property under common law or equitable principles. L.2010, c.102, s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3-30 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3-30 - Private transfer fee obligation shall not run with title to real property; exceptions.

46:3-30 Private transfer fee obligation shall not run with title to real property; exceptions.  3. a. A private transfer fee obligation recorded or entered into in this State on or after the effective date of P.L.2010, c.102 (C.46:3-28 et seq.) shall not run with the title to real property and is not binding on or enforceable at law or in equity against any subsequent owner, purchaser, or mortgagee of any interest in real property as an equitable servitude or otherwise. Any private transfer fee obligation that is recorded or entered into in this State on or after the effective date of P.L.2010, c.102 (C.46:3-28 et seq.) is void and unenforceable.  b. This section shall not apply to a private transfer fee obligation recorded or entered into in this State before the effective date of P.L.2010, c.102 (C.46:3-28 et seq.). This subsection does not mean that a private transfer fee obligation recorded or entered into in this State before the effective date of P.L.2010, c.102 (C.46:3-28 et seq.) is presumed valid and enforceable. L.2010, c.102, s.3.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3-31 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3-31 - Liability for damages.

46:3-31 Liability for damages.  4. Any person who records or enters into an agreement imposing a private transfer fee obligation in their favor after the effective date of P.L.2010, c.102 (C.46:3-28 et seq.) shall be liable for both any and all damages resulting from the imposition of the private transfer fee obligation on the transfer of an interest in the real property, including, without limitation, the amount of any transfer fee paid by a party to the transfer, and all attorneys fees, expenses and costs incurred by a party to the transfer or mortgagee of the real property to recover any private transfer fee paid, or in connection with an action to quiet title. Where an agent acts on behalf of a principal to record or secure a private transfer fee obligation, liability shall be assessed to the principal, rather than the agent. L.2010, c.102, s.4.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3-32 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3-32 - Disclosure of existence of private transfer fee obligation.

46:3-32 Disclosure of existence of private transfer fee obligation.  5. Prior to closing on any sale of real property, the seller shall furnish to any purchaser a written statement disclosing the existence of any private transfer fee obligation. This written statement shall include a description of the private transfer fee obligation and include a statement that private transfer fee obligations are subject to prohibitions under P.L.2010, c.102 (C.46:3-28 et seq.). L.2010, c.102, s.5.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3A-1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3A-1 - Survey, after approval and record, bars proprietors and successors from demands

46:3A-1. Survey, after approval and record, bars proprietors and successors from demands  Any survey, made of lands within either the eastern or western division of the proprietors of the State of New Jersey, and inspected and approved by the general proprietors, or council of proprietors of such division, and, by their order or direction, entered upon the record in the office of the secretary of state or in the surveyor general's office in such division, shall, from and after such record is made, preclude and forever bar such proprietors and their successors from any demand thereon, any plea of deficiency of right or otherwise, notwithstanding. L.1951, First Sp.Sess., c. 352, p. 1463, s. 1.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3A-2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3A-2 - Newly-made partial surveys made without notice to possessor to be of no avail

46:3A-2. Newly-made partial surveys made without notice to possessor to be of no avail  Because of the fact that many ancient surveys of land, fairly made, have not, by reason of the neglect of officers or because of some casualty, been put on record, or, if recorded, the record has been destroyed by fire or lost, by reason whereof, and because of the natural decay of marked lines and corners, the ancient metes and bounds cannot, except by testimony and reputation, be clearly ascertained, and it has been found, on running the lines of many of such surveys, that they include more land or extend farther than their strict length of chain, large measures having been formerly allowed, even by the proprietors, as an encouragement to locations, thus making it possible for persons other than the owners and possessors of the lands included in such surveys to take advantage of such owners and possessors (who, supposing their titles to be indefeasible, have not resurveyed, covered and secured the lands included in their surveys), by confining their holdings to the net length of chain, thereby making vacancies of valuable improved parts, upon some of which buildings have been erected, and such persons, on causing surveys to be made of such overplus, have procured or may procure such overplus surveys to pass the council of proprietors, without legal preference or due notice to the owners and possessors of the lands covered by the ancient surveys, no such newly-made partial survey, lying within the council of proprietors, or which may be returned to the council, or made on any lands, improved or unimproved, within what has been usually taken and deemed to be the ancient reputed boundary of such lands, shall be recorded or be of any avail to any person so surveying, unless it shall be made to appear, by the testimony of at least two good and sufficient witnesses, that the possessor, holding such lands by survey, deed or otherwise, has been duly notified, at least six months previous to the making of such survey, of the intention to make the same, and has refused or neglected to resurvey and cover such overplus lands. L.1951, First Sp.Sess., c. 352, p. 1464, s. 2.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3A-3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3A-3 - Perfection of title to overplus land under ancient survey

46:3A-3. Perfection of title to overplus land under ancient survey  3. If the council of proprietors shall refuse or neglect to give preference to any prior survey, legally made, or to the possessor of any tract of land, enabling him to cover with rights, and secure the overplus lands which may be found within his ancient bounds, on his making a resurvey of his lands within six months after the notice given to him as required by section two of this act, such possessor, or any person legally authorized on his behalf, may cause a resurvey to be made, agreeably to the ancient reputed lines and boundaries, either by a deputy surveyor or by a person who understands the art of surveying, and appropriate so many rights thereon as will be sufficient to include the overplus.  When the surveyor or person making the survey herein provided for shall have satisfied a judge of the Superior Court in the county wherein the affected lands are situate that the survey so made by him is just, according to the best of his knowledge, such survey may be produced to the clerk of the county or counties wherein such lands are situate, who shall on the receipt thereof, record the same in the book directed to be kept in the respective counties by the act entitled "An act for the limitation of suits at law respecting titles to land," passed at Burlington the fifth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven. Thereupon the survey, so made and recorded, shall give to the owner and possessor of the lands covered thereby an absolute title in fee.  L.1951,c.352,s.3; amended 1991,c.91,s.454.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3A-4 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3A-4 - Construction of sections 46:3A-2, 46:3A-3

46:3A-4. Construction of sections 46:3A-2, 46:3A-3  Nothing contained in either section two or section three of this act shall be construed or taken to authorize any person to make any survey within the certain or reputed bounds of any survey or resurvey made and entered on record pursuant to the provisions of the act mentioned in said section three, any large or overplus measure therein contained, notice given as required by said section two, deficiency of rights or other plea to the contrary notwithstanding. L.1951, First Sp.Sess., c. 352, p. 1465, s. 4.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3A-5 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3A-5 - Certificate acknowledging line, corners and boundaries; recording; evidence; notice

46:3A-5. Certificate acknowledging line, corners and boundaries; recording; evidence; notice  A certificate, executed by the owners of adjoining lands, certifying that any line, corners and boundaries are allowed and acknowledged by them to be the true boundary between their lands, shall be as fully conclusive and binding as to the parties thereto, their heirs, successors and assigns as though such boundary had been fixed by them by deed or otherwise, and any such certificate, when duly acknowledged or proved, may be recorded in the office of the county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages, as the case may be, of the county in which such lands lie, and, when so recorded, the record thereof shall be receivable in evidence and shall be notice in the same manner and to the same effect as though their respective deeds had been so acknowledged or proved and recorded. L.1951, First Sp.Sess., c. 352, p. 1466, s. 5.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3A-6 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3A-6 - Construction as continuation of prior statutes

46:3A-6. Construction as continuation of prior statutes  The provisions of this act shall be construed as a continuation of the prior similar statutory provisions. L.1951, First Sp.Sess., c. 352, p. 1466, s. 6.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3A-7 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3A-7 - Effective date

46:3A-7. Effective date  This act shall take effect immediately but shall remain inoperative until the repeal of sections 2:25-4, 2:25-5, 2:25-6, 2:25-7 and 2:25-8 of the Revised Statutes. L.1951, First Sp.Sess., c. 352, p. 1466, s. 7.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3B-1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3B-1 - Short title

46:3B-1. Short title  This act shall be known and may be cited as "The New Home Warranty and Builders' Registration Act." L.1977, c. 467, s. 1.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3B-2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3B-2 - Definitions relative to new home warranties

46:3B-2. Definitions relative to new home warranties  2. As used in this act: a. "Department" means the Department of Community Affairs. b. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Community Affairs. c. "Warranty" means the warranty prescribed by the commissioner pursuant to P.L.1977, c.467 (C.46:3B-1 et seq.). d. "New home" means any dwelling unit not previously occupied, excluding dwelling units constructed solely for lease.  e. "Owner" means any person for whom the new home is built or to whom the home is sold for occupation by him or his family as a home and his successors in title to the home or mortgagee in possession. Owner does not mean any development company, association or subsidiary company of the builder or any person or organization to whom the home may be sold or otherwise conveyed by the builder for subsequent resale, letting or other purpose.  f. "Builder" means any individual corporation, partnership or other business organizations engaged in the construction of new homes.  g. "Major construction defect" means any actual damage to the load bearing portion of the home including damage due to subsidence, expansion or lateral movement of the soil (excluding movement caused by flood or earthquake) which affects its load bearing function and which vitally affects or is imminently likely to vitally affect use of the home for residential purposes.  h. "Warranty date" means the first occupation or settlement date, whichever is sooner.  i. "Approved claim" means, for the purposes of P.L.1991, c.202 (C.46:3B-13 et al.), a claim examined and approved by the commissioner in accordance with section 3 of P.L.1991, c.202 (C.46:3B-15). j. "Approved method" means, for the purposes of P.L.1991, c.202 (C.46:3B-13 et al.), a method of remediation approved by the commissioner in accordance with section 3 of P.L.1991, c.202 (C.46:3B-15).  k. "Fund" means the new home warranty security fund established in the department pursuant to section 7 of P.L.1977, c.467 (C.46:3B-7).  l. "Warranty guarantor" means, for the purposes of P.L.1991, c.202 (C.46:3B-13 et al.), (1) the new home warranty program established in the department pursuant to P.L.1977, c.467 (C.46:3B-1 et seq.) or (2) any alternate new home warranty security program approved pursuant to section 8 of P.L.1977, c.467 (C.46:3B-8).  m. "Board" means the Board of Trustees established pursuant to section 2 of P.L.2001, c.147 (C.46:3B-7.2). L.1977,c.467,s.2; amended 1991, c.202, s.7; 2001, c.147, s.4.