N.J. Stat. § 54:4-98
When any such revision, alteration, adjustment or settlement of taxes or assessments, or both, and the interest or penalties thereon shall be made, and the person making the application shall, within thirty days after such revision, alteration, adjustment or settlement, pay the amount fixed or determined by the revision, alteration, adjustment or settlement, the tax collector or such person as may be authorized by law to receive them, shall make and deliver to the person so paying them a receipt therefor, and shall forthwith cancel the record of the taxes or assessments, or both, together with all interest and penalties which may have accrued thereon. The taxes or assessments, or both, together with all interest and penalties which may have accrued thereon, shall thereupon cease to be a lien upon the real estate upon which they were levied or assessed, or to affect the personal property or its owner, and shall be deemed to have been fully paid, satisfied and discharged.
N.J.S. § 54:4-98