N.J.S.A. 42:2A (Uniform Limited Partnership Law (1976)) - contains no LLLP election or registration provisions; the only occurrence of 'limited liability limited partnership' in Title 42 is the RULLCA merger/conversion definition of foreign 'Organization' · source↗ (opens the official source)
Provenance - New Jersey fee schedule○Pending review
57 of 62 fee datums on this page are verified against the agency's own published schedule or statute (2026-09-04); the rest are marked pending review in the Status column - portal-surcharge components no official page states, values the official source contradicts (held for a correction package), or sources that could not be reached.
Values were first corroborated across independent internal records; verified cells now also carry the agency's own published schedule or statute as their authority, which is what promotion to verified requires.
Cost position
Ranked 27 of 54 on first-year state
filing cost, at $181.50 against a national median
of $185.00.
Recurring annual cost $78.
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Registered-agent statutes, quoted verbatim
The one section on this page that clears the publication gate in full. 10 citations, verified, quoted from the official code with every elision marked.
N.J.S.A. 14A:4-1
◎Verified
New Jersey Business Corporation Act (N.J.S.A. Title 14A) · applies to
corporations
Registered office and registered agent(1) Every corporation organized for any purpose under any general or special law of this State and every foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this State shall continuously maintain a registered office in this State, and a registered agent having a business office identical with such registered office. [...] (3) The registered agent may be a natural person of the age of 18 years or more, or a domestic corporation or a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this State, whether or not any such agent corporation is organized for a purpose or purposes for which a corporation may be organized under this act.
Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act (N.J.S.A. 42:2C-1 et seq.) · applies to
LLCs
Office and agent for service of process.a. A limited liability company shall designate and continuously maintain in this State: (1) an office, which need not be a place of its activity in this State; and (2) an agent for service of process. [...] c. An agent for service of process of a limited liability company or foreign limited liability company shall be an individual who is a resident of this State or other person with authority to transact business in this State.
New Jersey Business Corporation Act (N.J.S.A. Title 14A) · applies to
corp
Incorporators(1) One or more individuals or domestic or foreign corporations may act as incorporator or incorporators of a corporation by signing and filing in the office of the Secretary of State a certificate of incorporation for such corporation. Individuals acting as incorporators shall be at least 18 years of age. Incorporators need not be United States citizens or residents of this State or subscribers to shares in the corporation. [...]
Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act (N.J.S.A. 42:2C-1 et seq.) · applies to
LLCs
Formation of Limited Liability Company; Certificate of Formation.a. One or more persons may act as organizers to form a limited liability company by signing and delivering to the filing office for filing a certificate of formation. b. A certificate of formation shall state: (1) the name of the limited liability company, which complies with section 8 of this act; and [...] d. A limited liability company is formed when the filing office has filed the certificate of formation and the company has at least one member, unless the certificate states a delayed effective date pursuant to subsection c. of section 22 of this act.
New Jersey Business Corporation Act (N.J.S.A. Title 14A) · applies to
corp
Annual report to State Treasurer.(1) Every domestic corporation and every foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this State shall file in the Department of the Treasury, within the time prescribed by this section, an annual report, executed on behalf of the corporation, or executed by the registered agent, setting forth: (a) The name of the corporation and, in the case of a foreign corporation, the jurisdiction of its incorporation; (b) The address of the registered office of the corporation in this State, and the name of its registered agent in this State at such address; [...]
Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act (N.J.S.A. 42:2C-1 et seq.) · applies to
LLCs
Annual Report for Filing Office.a. Each domestic and foreign limited liability company shall file an annual report with the filing office, setting forth: (1) the name and address of the limited liability company; (2) the name and address of the registered agent of the limited liability company; and (3) the name and addresses of the managing members or managers, as the case may be.
New Jersey Business Corporation Act (N.J.S.A. Title 14A) · applies to
corp
Annual report to State Treasurer.(5) In the event a domestic corporation fails to file an annual report for two consecutive years with the State Treasurer, then, after written notice by certified mail to the corporation at its last known main business or headquarters office or at the address of its registered agent, the State Treasurer may issue a proclamation declaring that the certificate of incorporation of the corporation has been revoked and that all powers conferred by law upon it shall thereafter be inoperative and void. [...]
Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act (N.J.S.A. 42:2C-1 et seq.) · applies to
LLCs
Annual Report for Filing Office.b. If no annual report is filed as required by this section for two consecutive years: (1) the certificate of a domestic limited liability company shall be transferred to an inactive list maintained by the filing office. A limited liability company on the inactive list shall remain a limited liability company and the limited liability of its members and managers shall not be affected by its transfer to this list. [...] (2) the certificate of a foreign limited liability company may be revoked by the filing office.
New Jersey Business Corporation Act (N.J.S.A. Title 14A) · applies to
corp
Corporate name of domestic or foreign corporations(1) The corporate name of a domestic corporation or of a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this State [...] (b) Shall be such as to distinguish it upon the records in the office of the Secretary of State from the names of other for profit and nonprofit domestic corporations and for profit and nonprofit foreign corporations qualified to do business in this State [...] (d) Shall contain the word "corporation," "company," "incorporated," or shall contain an abbreviation of one of those words, or shall include the abbreviation Ltd. [...]
Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act (N.J.S.A. 42:2C-1 et seq.) · applies to
LLCs
Name.a. The name of a limited liability company shall contain the words "limited liability company" or the abbreviation "L.L.C." or "LLC". "Limited" may be abbreviated as "Ltd.", and "company" may be abbreviated as "Co.". b. Unless authorized by subsection d. of this section, the name of a limited liability company shall be distinguishable in the records of the filing office from: (1) the name of each person that is not an individual and that is incorporated, organized, or authorized to transact business in this State; and (2) each name reserved under section 10 of this act.
For LLCs, the statute makes the filing officeFiling officeThe agency that keeps the business register.Read the full entry → (State Treasurer) the fallback agent: if the company does not appoint or maintain an agent, or the agent cannot with reasonable diligence be found at its street address, process may be served on the filing office in duplicate, which forwards a copy to the company. No equivalent Secretary-of-State fallback appears in Title 14A for corporations - corporate service beyond 14A:4-2 is governed by the NJ court rules, which are outside this corpus.
Other. If the corporation does not designate a successor within 30 days after its agent resigns, it is deemed to have no registered agent or registered office in New Jersey - exposing a domestic corporation to substituted-service risk (and a foreign corporation to revocation under 14A:13-10).
No Court Access. A foreign corporation transacting business without a certificate of authority (including after revocation) cannot maintain any action in NJ courts until it obtains one; the parallel LLC rule is 42:2C-65(a).
Civil Penalty. A foreign corporation transacting business without authority forfeits $200 to $1,000 per year (up to 5 years back), recovered by the Attorney General; a foreign LLC pays $200 per year or part thereof (42:2C-66).
Dollar amounts named in the registered-agent statutes
What
Amount
Status
Corporation reinstatement filing fee after revocation by proclamation
$75
○Pending review
Corporation tax clearance filing fee on reinstatement
$20
○Pending review
Penalty for foreign corporation transacting business without certificate of authority (per calendar year, up to 5 years back)
$200-$1,000
○Pending review
LLC statement of change of registered office/agent (sec. 15) filing fee
$25
○Pending review
LLC agent's statement of resignation (sec. 16) filing fee, plus per-company fee
$25 + $10 per LLC affected
○Pending review
Fine on foreign LLC doing business without certificate of authority, per year or part thereof
$200
○Pending review
14 statutory citations and their supporting verbatim quotations sit behind this section in the record and are withheld from public display until the review pass lands, because a citation presented as authority is a verification claimed. Statutory references appearing inside the summaries above are part of the recorded text rather than an authority claim, and they are not rendered as citations, linked, or emitted in this page's structured data. How the gate works.
Governance rules
7 governance rules are recorded for New Jersey - the organizational and annual meetings, action by written consent, and whether bylaws or an operating agreement are mandatory. Each verified rule links to the statutory text it was verified against, quoted verbatim below.
Organizational meeting required · applies to
corporations ·
yes
an organization meeting of the board named in the certificate of incorporation shall be held, at the call of a majority of the board so named, to adopt by-laws, elect officers, authorize the issuance of shares ... [14A:6-7.1(5):] any action required or permitted to be taken pursuant to authorization voted at a meeting of the board ... may be taken without a meeting if, prior or subsequent to the action, all members of the board ... consent thereto in writing
Annual meeting required · applies to
corporations ·
yes
An annual meeting of the shareholders shall be held at such time as may be provided in the by-laws ... Failure to hold the annual meeting at the designated time ... shall not affect otherwise valid corporate acts
Action by written consent allowed · applies to
corporations ·
yes
Except as otherwise provided in the certificate of incorporation ... any action ... other than the annual election of directors, may be taken without a meeting ... upon the written consent of shareholders who would have been entitled to cast the minimum number of votes
Operating agreement required · applies to
LLCs ·
no
"Operating agreement" means the agreement, whether or not referred to as an operating agreement and whether oral, in a record, implied, or in any combination thereof, of all the members of a limited liability company, including a sole member
An action requiring the consent of members under this act may be taken without a meeting, and a member may appoint a proxy or other agent to consent or otherwise act for the member
Action by written consent allowed · applies to
LLCs ·
yes
A difference arising among members as to a matter in the ordinary course of the activities of the company may be decided by a majority of the members. ... An action requiring the consent of members under this act may be taken without a meeting
Renewable for successive 5-year periods via C-150R, $50 per name (officially confirmed); renewal window is within 3 months before, and not later than, expiration; late-renewal penalty is $50 per year of delinquency for LLCs and LPs and $25 per year for corporations. Renewals filable online.
New Jersey's general act makes it unlawful for any person to transact business under an assumed name unless a sworn certificate of the true name(s) is filed with the county clerk of each county where the business is (or will be) conducted, together with a duplicate for filing with the Secretary of State - so the mandatory filing touches both the county and state offices. Corporations are exempt from this chapter and instead register 'alternate names' with the state under their entity statutes.
N.J.S.A. 56:1-1 to 56:1-7 contain no newspaper-publication requirement - the obligation is the sworn certificate filed with the county clerk plus the duplicate for the Secretary of State.
Assumed names for registered entities
Registered entities use a separate state-level 'alternate name' system: a domestic or foreign corporation may not transact business in New Jersey under a name other than its actual name unless it first registers the alternate name by certificate with the Secretary of State; the registration runs 5 years and is renewable for successive 5-year periods (N.J.S.A. 14A:2-2.1(3)). LLCs have the same rule through N.J.S.A. 42:2C-9 (certificate of registration of alternate name with the filing office, 5-year renewable term), as do LLPs (42:1A-48) and limited partnerships. Foreign corporations blocked by a name conflict may also be authorized under an assumed name per 14A:2-2(3) (referenced in 14A:2-2.1(1)(b)).
Penalties
Conducting business contrary to 56:1-1 or 56:1-2 is a criminal offense: 'Any person conducting or transacting business contrary to the provisions of either section 56:1-1 or 56:1-2 of this title shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.' On the entity side, a corporation that used an alternate name without registering must, when it finally files, pay the regular filing fee plus an additional fee equal to the regular fee multiplied by the number of years of violation after August 1, 1974 (any part of a year counts as a full year). An LLP that used an unregistered alternate name may not maintain any action or proceeding in New Jersey courts arising out of a contract or act in which it used the alternate name until it files the certificate, and false statements or persistent failure to file carry a forfeiture of not less than $200 and not more than $500; parallel provisions apply to limited partnerships.
$50 per transaction. Online filing adds $2.50 (credit card) or $1.00 (e-check); corporations pay a $1.25 credit-card fee. Late registration: $50 for each calendar year the alternate name was used before registering. Optional expedited service: $15 per transaction (corporations, nonprofits, LPs) or $25 per filing (LLCs).
Term: N.J.S.A. 56:1-1 to 56:1-7 state no expiration or renewal cycle for the county/SOS trade-name certificate (the 5-year renewable term applies only to entity alternate-name registrations)
Namerestrictions: ch. 1 bars no particular words; name-content limits appear only in the entity alternate-name statutes (e.g., N.J.S.A. 14A:2-2.1(2) cross-referencing 14A:2-2(1)(c)), and the corporate (14A) alternate-name filing-fee schedule was not extracted (the Title 42 schedule prints $50.00 for LLP/LP alternate-name certificates)
County filing offices and fees
21 county records held for New Jersey
County
Fee
Detail
Status
Atlantic
50
Trade Name Certificate $50.00; Trade Name Amendment $50.00; Trade Name Dissolution $25.00. Check/money order payable to Atlantic County Clerk's Office, Mas
◎Verified
Bergen
50.0
statutory county clerk fee (individual / partnership trade-name certificate) fixed by N.J.S.A. 22A:2-29 (County clerk, deputy clerk of Superior Court, fees) - &
◎Verified
Burlington
50
$50 fee payable by cash, money order, or credit/debit card in person; by mail certified check or money order only (no personal/business checks). Signatures nota
◎Verified
Camden
57
Trade Name Registration $57.00; Trade Name Dissolution $25.00; Certified copy $4.00; Camden County Search $3.00; Non-Business Corporation (Church) $25.00; Amend
◎Verified
Cape May
50
$50 filing fee; $54 with 2 copies returned to the business. Visa/MasterCard, cash, check or money order. Clerk's office acknowledges (notarizes) at filing
◎Verified
Cumberland
50
$50 filing fee, cash only; three original certificates, notarized or witnessed by an attorney. $3.00 convenience fee for card payments at the mall office.
◎Verified
Essex
54
New Trade Name Certificate $54.00, US Postal money order only, four notarized originals submitted, two true copies returned; Trade Name Dissolution $27.00 (thre
◎Verified
Gloucester
50
$50 fee (cash, money order, Visa, MasterCard, Discover; no checks); four identical notarized forms; clerk notarizes trade name forms for $1; certified copy and
$50 to register a Trade Name ($52 if notarized at the clerk's office); Dissolution $25 ($27 with clerk notarization). Cash, money order or V/MC/D only.
◎Verified
Mercer
50
Business Trade Name Certificate $50.00; Discharge $25.00; Amendment $50.00. Checks not permitted for trade names (cash, credit card, or money order). All partie
◎Verified
Middlesex
50
$50 for a new certificate (mail-in, notarized, three copies with original signatures); Copy $2; Certified Copy $12; Dissolution $25.
◎Verified
Monmouth
54
$54.00 non-refundable fee for a Certificate of Trade Name (cash, money order, MasterCard, Visa or Discover); notarized in the Clerk's office; two recorded
◎Verified
Morris
52
New Trade Name recording $52.00; Amendment $57.00; Cancellation $27.00. Cash, business checks, certified checks or money orders; no personal checks or credit ca
◎Verified
Ocean
50.0
statutory county clerk fee (individual / partnership trade-name certificate) fixed by N.J.S.A. 22A:2-29 (County clerk, deputy clerk of Superior Court, fees) - &
◎Verified
Passaic
50
Certificate of Trade Name $50.00 (credit/debit card or money order to Passaic County Clerk); Dissolution $25.00; Change of Address $5.00; clerk notarization at
◎Verified
Salem
50
Trade Names & Amendments $50, cash or money order only, form prepared in the office; Trade Name Dissolutions $25; notary $5.
◎Verified
Somerset
50
Filing $50.00 (cash, credit, check or money order to Somerset County Clerk); Discharge $25.00. Online kiosk application, then printed, signed and notarized.
◎Verified
Sussex
50
$50.00 by mail (US Postal money order only, four notarized copies, SASE for two returned certificates); $50.00 in person (cash or money order), clerk notarizes
◎Verified
Union
54
○Pending review
Warren
52
Mail-in total $52 (money order or certified check, two notarized originals); in person with clerk notarization total $55 (cash only). Dissolution $27 by mail /
◎Verified
Common questions
Where is a trade name certificate filed in New Jersey?
For individuals and partnerships, in the office of the county clerk of each county where the business is (or will be) conducted, together with a duplicate that the county clerk forwards to the Secretary of State for filing and indexing (N.J.S.A. 56:1-2, 56:1-3). Both offices keep alphabetical indexes of the filings.
Do New Jersey corporations and LLCs file the county trade-name certificate?
No - N.J.S.A. 56:1-5 exempts corporations from the county certificate act. Instead, a corporation may not transact business under a name other than its actual name unless it registers the 'alternate name' with the Secretary of State under N.J.S.A. 14A:2-2.1; that registration is effective for 5 years and renewable for successive 5-year periods. LLCs follow the same pattern under N.J.S.A. 42:2C-9.
What happens if a business operates under an assumed name in New Jersey without filing?
Under the general act, conducting business contrary to N.J.S.A. 56:1-1 or 56:1-2 is a misdemeanor (N.J.S.A. 56:1-4). On the entity side, a corporation that used an unregistered alternate name owes back filing fees multiplied by the years of violation (14A:2-2.1(5)), and an LLP cannot maintain a court action arising from business done under the unregistered name until it files (42:1A-48(g)).
Does filing a New Jersey trade-name or alternate-name certificate give exclusive rights to the name?
No. The corporate alternate-name statute states that nothing in it shall be construed 'to grant to the registrant of an alternate name any right in the name as against any prior or subsequent user' (N.J.S.A. 14A:2-2.1(4)(a)), and the county/SOS certificate is a disclosure filing whose certified copies serve only as presumptive evidence of the facts stated (N.J.S.A. 56:1-3).
New Jersey Division of Taxation (Department of the Treasury)
Division of Taxation CBT pages and CBT-100/CBT-100S return instructions; the annual report is DORES (a different Treasury division) · source↗ (opens the official source)
Basis of the tax
income-based (entire net income allocable to NJ) with a gross-receipts-scaled statutory minimum tax
N.J.S.A. 54:10A-5; 2024 CBT-100 instructions Lines 2a (rate on taxable net income) and 2b (minimum tax by NJ gross receipts) · source↗ (opens the official source)
Due date
CBT return and payment due the 15th day of the month following the month the federal return is originally due (calendar-year C corp: May 15; calendar-year S corp: April 15). Estimated installments 15th day of 4th/6th/9th/12th months if liability > $1,500 (gross receipts >= $50M: 4th/6th/12th). NJ-1065 per-owner fee: 15th day of the 4th month after year end (April 15 calendar), no extension of time to pay
false for LLCs default-taxed as partnerships/disregarded - no entity-level franchise tax; TRUE if the LLC elects corporate federal taxation (pays CBT as a corporation). Franchise-analog: LLCs/partnerships with MORE THAN TWO owners and NJ-source income (or loss) pay a $150-per-owner Gross Income Tax act filing fee, capped at $250,000, plus a 50% prepayment of next year's fee (Form NJ-1065)
The tax does not reach LLCs - a positive finding in the record.
Stored as a delta against the federal baseline:
2 days this state closes that the
federal government does not, and 0 federal
holidays its filing office works through.
New Jersey 2026 closure delta
Date
Day
Filing office
2026-04-03
Good Friday
Filing office closed
2026-11-03
Election Day
Filing office closed
Provenance - New Jersey 2026 closures◎Verified
Citation withheld: this record did not clear the publication gate.
New Jersey observed status strings and their verdict
Observed status
Verdict
Confidence
(BLANK)
Unresolved - do not automate on this
medium
ACTIVE
In good standing
high
ACTIVE (WITHDRAWAL PENDING)
Not in good standing
high
ACTIVE - 2024 AR LATE
In good standing
high
ACTIVE / 2025 AR DQ
In good standing
high
ACTIVE- 2024 AR LATE
In good standing
high
ACTIVE- 2025 AR PD
In good standing
high
ANNUAL REPORT REINSTATEMENT
Unresolved - do not automate on this
low
CANCELED
Not in good standing
high
CANCELLED
Not in good standing
high
DEFAULT
Not in good standing
high
DISSOLUTION/WITHDRAWAL PROCEEDINGS PENDING
Not in good standing
high
DISSOLVED
Not in good standing
high
DISSOLVED AFTER COMMENCING BUSINESS
Not in good standing
high
DISSOLVED BEFORE COMMENCING BUSINESS
Not in good standing
high
DISSOLVED WITHOUT ASSETS
Not in good standing
high
EXPIRED TERM OF INCORPORATION
Not in good standing
medium
EXPUNGED
Not in good standing
high
EXPUNGED - FAILURE TO PROVIDE HOME STATE GOOD STAN
Not in good standing
high
EXPUNGED - FAILURE TO PROVIDE HOME STATE GOOD STANDING
Not in good standing
high
EXPUNGED FOR NON-PAYMENT OF CHECK
Not in good standing
high
FILED
Unresolved - do not automate on this
low
FILED IN <YEAR>
Unresolved - do not automate on this
medium
INACITVE
Unresolved - do not automate on this
low
INACTIVE
Not in good standing
high
INC."
Unresolved - do not automate on this
low
MERGED
Not in good standing
medium
NON SOS
Unresolved - do not automate on this
medium
NOT FILED
Unresolved - do not automate on this
medium
NOT SOS FILED
Unresolved - do not automate on this
low
NOT YET FILED
Unresolved - do not automate on this
medium
PENDING
Unresolved - do not automate on this
medium
PENDING DISSOLUTION
Unresolved - do not automate on this
medium
PENDING REINSTATEMENT
Unresolved - do not automate on this
medium
PENDING WITHDRAWAL
Unresolved - do not automate on this
medium
REINSTATED FOR TAXES
In good standing
medium
REINSTATEMENT PROCEDURES PENDING
Not in good standing
medium
REVOKED
Not in good standing
high
REVOKED FOR NOT FILING ANNUAL REPORT FOR 2 CONSECU
Not in good standing
high
REVOKED FOR NOT FILING ANNUAL REPORT FOR 2 CONSECUTIVE YEARS
Not in good standing
high
REVOKED PRIOR TO ORDERING SERVICES
Not in good standing
high
REVOKED STATUS
Not in good standing
high
REVOKED- PRIOR TO ORDERING SERVICES
Not in good standing
high
TERMINATED
Not in good standing
high
TERMINATION
Not in good standing
high
TERMINATION OR DISSOLUTION
Not in good standing
high
TERMINATION/DISSOLUTION
Not in good standing
high
TERMINATION/DISSOLUTION OF LLC
Not in good standing
high
UNKNOWN
Unresolved - do not automate on this
medium
WINDING UP
Not in good standing
high
WITHDRAWAL
Not in good standing
high
WITHDRAWAL PENDING
Not in good standing
high
WITHDRAWN
Not in good standing
high
XCB
Unresolved - do not automate on this
low
Restricted entity-name words
2 restricted entity-name word entries
are recorded for New Jersey,
the rest requiring an agency's consent or licensure before the word may appear in a name.
Governing law: N.J.S.A. 14A:2-2 (corporate name); 14A:2-2(1)(c) incorporates by reference any word 'the use of which is prohibited or restricted by any other statute of this State'.
New Jersey restricted entity-name words
Treatment
Word or phrase
Authority
Citation
Status
Consent required
blind / handicapped (or any term, imprint, stamp, label or symbol suggesting such impairments)
New Jersey Attorney General (or designee); approval attached to the certificate of incorporation
N.J.S.A. 14A:2-2.2 - 'No corporation ... shall use the words blind, or handicapped ... as part of its name unless the approval of the Attorney General, or his designee, is attached to the certificate of incorporation'
◎Verified
License required
bank, banker, banking, trust, savings
Commissioner of Banking and Insurance (may waive on application under stated conditions)
pending review
○Pending review
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● accepted · ○ not accepted · ? unknown or conditional (hover for the recorded condition). Channel data covers 54 jurisdictions (2026-08-15 wave). Source links render on verified rows only.
Contact the filing office
Verified against the agency's own contact page
2026-08-13 - office hours: Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m..
Source links render on verified rows only.
NJ Dept. of the Treasury, Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services/Corp. Filing Unit, PO Box 308, Trenton, NJ 08646-0308
Courier / walk-in
33 W. State Street, 5th Floor, Trenton, NJ 08608-1214
The Corp. Filing Unit's dedicated PO box for mail work and the 5th-floor State Street counter for expedited/courier work (never USPS overnight, per the form instructions); 609-292-9292 is the line the instructions themselves designate
Purposed contact channels, New Jersey
Kind
Value
What it is for
Purpose
Source
phone
609-292-9292
DORES customer service (business filing questions)
Division of Revenue & Enterprise Services (UCC Help page footer)
UCC
pending review
UCC records
Where to search New Jersey's UCC (Article 9) financing statements, on what terms, and what the office charges to file one. Verified against the filing office's own pages 2026-09-11. UCC division contacts are listed with the other filing-office contacts above.
UCC records - New Jersey◎Verified
Filing office
New Jersey Department of the Treasury, Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services (DORES) - Uniform Commercial Code (not the Secretary of State)
Yes per the UCC Search Manual: both search types allow "copies of filings (images of original filings and changes/amendments)"; the search forms offer output types "Status Report", "Copies Only", "Status Report with Copies" (non-certified) and "Certified Certificate", "Copies Only", "Certified Certi
$25 per UCC-1 filing; filed online through the state portal, which adds a $5 portal administration fee
Filing channels
online only - paper is not accepted (since 2015-07-01); Portal: New Jersey UCC online filing service at njportal.com/UCC (DORES). Since July 1, 2015 all UCC filings must be submitted electronically under readopted N.J.A.C. 17:33; paper filings from non-exe
Filing expedite
Expedited service fee of $15 per filing, applying only to over-the-counter transactions. Online filings appear in the search database the next business day.
UCC-3 amendments, as the office states the fees
$25 for every UCC-3 (amendment, continuation, termination, assignment, partial release), plus the $5 portal administration fee when filed online; terminations are not free
Effective for
5 years from filing - N.J.S.A. 12A:9-515(a)
Bulk data
bulk data by quote only - quoted per request: DOR/BSSB calculates total cost from the statutory per-record fee x volume and writes back with cost + timeframe before work proceeds (17:34-3.2(b)-(c)); bulk = not less than 500 re
Whether New Jersey requires a general state-level business license, and on what terms. A "None" is a verified finding cited to the agency's own pages, not a gap. Which of the state's filings ask for an industry code is in the next section.
State business license - New Jersey◎Verified
General state license
None - the state issues no general business license; licensing is occupation-specific and local
Where a new business registers
New Jersey Department of the Treasury, Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services (DORES) - business registration (NJ-REG), no general license agency page↗ (opens the official source)
city licenses - Every municipality (City, Township, Borough, etc.) has a Land Use/Zoning Ordinance which regulates the kinds of business activities that are permitted within a designated zone and places restrictions on building on land parcels including building setbacks, building heights, signage, and various othe
Which of New Jersey's business filings ask the filer for an industry classification, and in what form. "No industry information" is a positive finding cited to the form. Where the state uses its own category list and the list was captured, it is expandable below. The NAICS and SIC reference lists are on their own page.
Industry code on New Jersey filings, 5 of 6 rows verified
New Jersey has 21 county-equivalents: 21 countyies. Names and codes are the U.S. Census Bureau's (2020 national county codes); county seats and official sites are not yet published here.
All 21 county-equivalents
New Jersey county-equivalents
Name
Type
FIPS
Note
Atlantic County
county
34001
Bergen County
county
34003
Burlington County
county
34005
Camden County
county
34007
Cape May County
county
34009
Cumberland County
county
34011
Essex County
county
34013
Gloucester County
county
34015
Hudson County
county
34017
Hunterdon County
county
34019
Mercer County
county
34021
Middlesex County
county
34023
Monmouth County
county
34025
Morris County
county
34027
Ocean County
county
34029
Passaic County
county
34031
Salem County
county
34033
Somerset County
county
34035
Sussex County
county
34037
Union County
county
34039
Warren County
county
34041
Other records held
Other records held for New Jersey
Record
Value
Status
Change of registered agent
$25
○Pending review
Who must be named in public filings
CORP: annual report must list directors and officers plus registered office/agent and main/HQ office (N.J.S.A. 14A:4-5(1)) - directors and officers are forced onto the public record annually. NONPROFIT: trustees' and officers' names and addresses (15A:4-5(a)). LP: annual report is name + registered agent ONLY - no part
○Pending review
These come from a research pass its own author graded CANDIDATES. They are shown because they are useful and withheld from every ranking on this site because they are not ratified.