3. Bills
New Jersey Legislative Index.
Location: Social Science Reference Center (SSRC) KFN1810 .N482
Lists Senate and Assembly bills and resolutions with indexes by subject and sponsoring legislator.
Texts of bills are at the State Library and at Rutgers University Law
Library Newark from the 1830s.
State Capital Universe
(1991-) allows tracking of a bill's status or searching and retrieval of a bill text.
From the 1996-1997 session forward, bill texts can be found on
the web site of the Legislature.
4. Hearings
Transcripts of legislative hearings in Princeton's collection can be found through the
catalog.
Texts of hearings from 1996 can also be found on the
New
Jersey Legislature's web site.
5. Chapter Laws
Laws of New Jersey
Location: Law Cases and Statutes (LAW). Firestone 7787.07
Contains the laws as passed in each legislative session from 1819 (with some missing volumes).
Earlier volumes from 1776 are kept in Rare Books (Ex).
Electronic version of the chapter laws, arranged chronologically and by subject with links to the
originating bill, on the
New Jersey Legislature web site.
6. Law Codes
New Jersey Statutes Annotated. N.J.S.A. West Publishing.
Location: Law Cases and Statutes (LAW). Firestone KFN1830 1937 .A42
Laws organized by title (topic). Updated by pocket parts.
Lexis-Nexis Academic
provides a searchable version of NJSA.
Electronic version of the Code on
New Jersey Legislature's web site.
7. Executive Orders
New Jersey Digital Legal Library (from 1941 to 1990 by governor)
Executive Orders, State of New Jersey (from 1990)
Westlaw Campus New Jersey Administrative Code (from 1994).
8. Regulations
New Jersey Register
Location: Social Science Reference Center (SSRC). Firestone KFN2240 .A86q
Compilation of regulations issued by the State's departments and agencies, from 1969 on.
The Rutgers College of Pre-N.J.A.C. Rules and Regulations
Location: Social Science Reference Center (SSRC). Firestone KFN1801 .R88 1981a
A guide to the Rutgers-Newark Law Library collection of Administrative rules and regulations issued prior to the public of the
New Jersey Administrative Code in 1969.
9. Code of Regulations
New Jersey Administrative Code
Location: Architecture Library (UES): Reference KFN1835 1995 .A22q
Arrangement of rules and regulations issued by 19 titles (in 12 volumes).
Westlaw Campus allows electronic searching of the New Jersey Administrative Code.
10. Court Decisions
New Jersey Reports. West Publishing.
Location: Law Cases and Statutes (LAW). Firestone 7785.674
From vol. 1, 1949.
New Jersey Superior Court Reports. West Publishing.
Location: Law Cases and Statutes (LAW). Firestone 7785.672
From vol. 1, 1949.
Westlaw Campus and
Lexis-Nexis Academic contain decisions of the Supreme Court and the Superior Court from 1790. Reports from other
miscellaneous courts are also
included.
11. Organizations
Princeton University Library has been a depository for the documents
of the State of New Jersey since 1950, but has documents from the state and colony
dating back to the seventeenth century. Search for these through the catalog on the
library's home page.
New Jersey State Archives. The official repository for public records of historical value.
The New Jersey State Library
houses three important collections:
The Law Library is comprehensive for New Jersey legal materials,
including legislative bills since 1832, superseded pages of the New Jersey Administrative Code, superseded volumes of New Jersey
Statutes Annotated, and records and briefs from the New Jersey Supreme Court, the Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court,
and
the old New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals.
The New Jersey Government Publications section has been the primary
depository for official state government publications intended for public distribution since 1875. These include
departmental annual reports, statistical reports, transcripts of legislative hearings, and special studies from the early part of the
nineteenth century to the present.
The Jerseyeana Collection contains publications about the state other than official documents.
The
Law School Library of Rutgers Camden, has digitized the following New Jersey legal sources:
New Jersey Session Laws (from 1703-1994),
decisions of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey,
New Jersey Court Opinions, New Jersey Administrative Law Decisions(From Oct. 1997 to Present (see Rutgers Newark below for decisions
from 1982-1991.), New Jersey Administrative Law Final Decisions, and
Opinions of the New Jersey Supreme Court Ethics Committees.
The
Law School Library of Rutgers Newark has created the
New Jersey Digital Legal Library
whose contents include
New Jersey Administrative Reports (1979-1991),
New Jersey Attorney General Opinions (1949-1998),
New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) Decisions (1986-2004),
New Jersey Executive Orders (1941-1989),
The Law of Slavery in New Jersey (bibliography, statutes and cases),
The Mount Laurel Archives (history and selected documents), and
Compilations of New Jersey Statutes.
The 1600 manuscript groups in the collection of the
New Jersey Historical Society in Newark
include "diaries, ledgers, correspondence, family and personal papers, architectural drawings, church records, receipt books, business
records, social welfare agency records, women's organization materials," and the original charter deeding the colony from Charles II.
There are also manuscripts, broadsides, pamphlets, newspapers, etc. in the Society's Library, including more tha 1,000 pre-1850
imprints.
The
Sinclair New Jersey Collection, which is part of the Rutgers University Library
Special Collections on the New Brunswick campus, boasts the largest collection of
New Jersey materials in the state and includes approximately 64,000 monographs, pamphlets, periodicals and serials.
The
Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center of the Newark Public Library
contains books, documents, newspapers, pictures and manuscripts pertaining to
New Jersey, Essex County and Newark. Among the finding aids they have created is an
Inventory of New Jersey Newspapers on Microfilm
and links to
New Jersey Historical Societies and Cultural Organizations.
Last update: November 15, 2006
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