N.J. Stat. § 46:15-9: Falsifying consideration, failure to disclose new construction on deed and affidavits; penalty.

5. a. Any person who knowingly falsifies the consideration recited in a deed or in the proof or acknowledgment of the execution of a deed or in an affidavit annexed to a deed declaring the consideration therefor or a declaration in an affidavit that a transfer is exempt from recording fee is guilty of a crime of the fourth degree.

b. Any grantor conveying title to real property upon which there is new construction who fails to subscribe and append to the deed an affidavit to that effect in accordance with the provisions of subsection c. of section 2 of P.L.1968, c.49 (C.46:15-6) is guilty of a disorderly persons offense.

L.1968,c.49,s.5; amended 1991, c.308, s.4; 2004, c.66, s.5.