{"data":{"id":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-22a-4-12","jurisdiction":"us-nj","citation":"N.J. Stat. § 22A:4-12","heading":"Searches","body":"Fees for the services enumerated herein shall be as follows:\nIn Superior Court\nThe clerk shall receive for a search for judgments and all other records which may become a lien upon real estate, for each name, each year, each book, six cents ($0.06).\nFor stating a judgment, five cents ($0.05).\nFor every other search, for each name, each year, each book, two cents ($0.02).\nFor drawing certificate and seal, twelve cents ($0.12).\nFor copies or abstracts of judgments or other records included in such certificate, for each folio, eight cents ($0.08).\nThe fee for a search and certificate shall in no case be less than twenty-five cents ($0.25).\nCounty Clerks and Registers of Deeds and Mortgages\nCounty clerks and registers of deeds and mortgages shall receive for a search of all records except those enumerated hereunder, for each name, each year, each book, four cents ($0.04).\nFor a search of the records of assignments of mortgages, for each name, each  year, each book, five cents ($0.05).\nFor a search of mechanic's lien claims, for each name, each book, each year,  six cents ($0.06).\nFor a search of the records of registered mortgages, for each name, each year, each book, seven cents ($0.07).\nFor each search of the records of physician's lien claims, which shall include cost of search and certificate thereof, fifty cents ($0.50).\nFor each search of the records of hospital lien claims which shall include cost of search and certificate thereof, fifty cents ($0.50).\nFor copies of abstracts of all deeds, mortgages, judgments or other records  included in a search certificate, for each folio, eight cents ($0.08).\nFor drawing a certificate and seal for a search, twenty cents ($0.20).\nL.1953, c. 22, p. 437, s. 11.","path":["TITLE 22A FEES AND COSTS"],"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":"f8b15312ac990b140c603e670d20a1c947260c2c1a5a70435c257f0e9d7e7c32","source_id":"us-nj","stale":true,"prev":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-22a-4-11","next":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-22a-4-14"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}