Legal Notice Eligibility
Legal Notice Eligibility
New Jersey P.L. 2025, c. 72 (N.J.S.A. 35:3-3) sets the criteria an online news publication must meet to publish legal notices. These are the minimum standards, and HudPost meets each one.
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1. Use a domain name that is easily recognizable as belonging to the publication.
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2. Be fully accessible and searchable by the public at all times, other than routine maintenance or circumstances outside the operator's control.
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3. Ensure legal notices comply with the requirements that would apply if they were published in a physical newspaper, as applicable.
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4. Maintain an archive for at least one year of notices that are no longer displayed.
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5. Display each legal notice for at least one week, or other time period as required by law, before archiving it.
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6. Make current and archived notices accessible by key word, party name, case number, county, or other useful identifiers.
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7. Maintain an adequate security system and a contingency plan for outages, systemic failures, and other unforeseen circumstances.
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8. Not charge a fee or require registration or a subscription to view legal notices.
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9. Maintain media liability insurance of up to $1 million.
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10. Have been in continuous operation for at least three years.
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11. Display monthly unique website visits (total, New Jersey, and by county) on the homepage with these criteria or a link to them, and meet the audience minimum for the notice: 4,000 unique monthly visits for municipal-wide notices (at least 50 percent from the municipality or within 10 miles), 50,000 for county-wide notices, 350,000 for statewide notices.
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Questions about publishing a legal notice: info@hudpost.com


