{"data":{"id":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-17-16c-52","jurisdiction":"us-nj","citation":"N.J. Stat. § 17:16C-52","heading":"Payment in full of retail installment contract","body":"52.  Upon payment in full by the retail buyer of the time balance and other amounts lawfully due under a retail installment contract, the holder shall:\n(a)  Return to the retail buyer either the original instruments evidencing indebtedness or constituting security under a retail installment contract, which were signed by the retail buyer or his sureties or guarantors in conjunction with such contract or a copy thereof, excepting such instruments as are filed or recorded with a public official and retained in the files of such official;\n(b)  Release all security interest in the goods or in any collateral security to the obligation of the retail buyer under such contract;\n(c)  Deliver to the retail buyer such good and sufficient assignments and certificates of title as may be necessary to vest the retail buyer with complete evidence of title.\nL.1960,c.40,s.52; amended 1995,c.33,s.2.","path":["TITLE 17 CORPORATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS FOR FINANCE \t\t\tAND INSURANCE"],"source_url":"https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/statutes/STATUTES-TEXT.zip","current_through":"P.L.2025, c.405, and J.R.22","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T17:54:13Z","sha256":"c0a4719d5f7aff4a6a18299a4926e48c66202759268d8ec045898eedcf6f2491","source_id":"us-nj","stale":true,"prev":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-17-16c-51","next":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-17-16c-53"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}