Legal Notices

Current Public Notices 
In accordance with New Jersey Public Law 2025, Chapter 72 (S-4654/A-5878), the Avalon Free Public Library now publishes all required public notices on this dedicated webpage.
Effective March 1, 2026, public notices that are legally required to be published will be posted here and accessible free of charge to the public.
Notices will remain publicly accessible for at least one year after posting, available in the archive linked below.

  • Beginning March 1, 2026:
    • Public entities must publish their legal notices on their website rather than in newspapers.
    • Notices must appear on the public entities' websites for at least one week and then must be archived for one year.
    • Public entities are required to send their website link to the Secretary of State for inclusion on the Secretary of State's website.
    • Public entities must advertise twice per month in an online news publication that provides information about where their legal notices can be obtained on the public entity's website.

Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 35:3-1 et seq., commencing on March 1, 2026, the Avalon Free Public Library will publish all legal notices in full on the Avalon Free Public Library’s official internet website.  The complete text of each such legal notice may be obtained or viewed by the public, free-of charge, on the Library’s official internet website at:  https://www.avalonfreelibrary.org/

In addition, the New Jersey Secretary of State has established an internet webpage, which includes hyperlinks to the current legal notices webpages of New Jersey local governmental units.  Such internet webpage is available to the public free-of-charge and can be found here: https://www.nj.gov/state/statewide-legal-notices-list.shtml

Public Notice Archive