56:8-208 Definitions relative to deed procurement services.
1. As used in this act:
"Deed" means a written instrument entitled to be recorded in the office of a county recording officer which purports to convey or transfer title to a freehold interest in any lands, tenements, or other realty in this State by way of grant or bargain and sale thereof from the named grantor to the named grantee. A leasehold interest for 99 years or more or a proprietary lease of a cooperative unit and any assignment of a proprietary lease of a cooperative unit, shall be treated as a "freehold" for the purpose of this act. Instruments providing for common driveways; for exchanges of easements or rights-of-way; for revocable licenses to use, to adjust, or to clear defects of or clouds on title; to provide for utility service lines such as drainage, sewerage, water, electric, telephone, or other such service lines; or to quitclaim possible outstanding interests, shall not be "deeds" for the purposes of this act.
"Deed procurement services" means the provision by a non-governmental entity of one or more copies of deeds for lands, tenements, or other realty in this State to a property owner, for a fee in excess of the amount authorized under Title 22A of the New Jersey Statutes that the county clerk's office assesses for providing copies of deeds, and not in relation to the transfer or sale of, or the mortgage origination, mortgage servicing, mortgage refinancing, property tax servicing, or other action initiated by or on behalf of the owner with respect to, such lands, tenements, or realty.
"Director" means the Director of the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety. L.2017, c.251, s.1.
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