6-26-07 (A-60-06)
If design or construction services relating to an improvement to
real property are completed before a certificate of occupancy is
issued, and the designed or contractor has no further work to
perform on that construction project, then the start date for
purposes of the Statute of Repose, N.J.S.A. 2A:14-1.1(a), is the
date on which the designer or contractor has completed his or
her portion of the work. The complaint against Lepley and
Buterick was properly dismissed because it was filed more than
ten years after they completed their work.
