Public Notices

Under the New Public Notices Law - P.L 2025 c.72 Below you will find a listing of all types of public notices.  

Required to display a legal notice on webpage for at least one week, or other time period as required by law, before transferring it to the archive. • Public notices are required to be archived for at least 1 year. • The archive is not required until July 1, 2026. • Archive is not subject to Records Retention Schedule nor the Destruction of Public Records Law.

On June 30, 2025, Governor Murphy signed Senate Bill No. 4654 into law, which significantly revises the State's public notice requirements. Most of the legislation's requirements become mandatory  on March 1, 2026, and are optional  until that date. 

After March 1, 2026, public entities will be required to post on their official websites all legal notices they are required to publish or advertise. Public entities will be required to submit those hyperlinks to the Secretary of State,who will post them to an Internet website containing the hyperlink locations for all New Jersey public entities (Once this is available, the link to this will be added here). Public entities may continue to use qualifying newspapers for required public notices and legal advertisements until March1,2026,regardless of format,if they choose to do so.There is no requirement to post notices in qualifying newspapers after that date.

A "legal notice" is defined as "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." This includes mandatory notices of public meetings  under  the Open Public Meetings Act.

As this is a new process, please note that several changes may be forthcoming, but will be made here on this page.

When available - all Public Notices will be found here.