New Jersey Statutes Title 17. Corporations and Institutions for Finance and Insurance 17 § 9A-284

A. The proceeds of the liquidation of the assets of a bank, the property and business of which the commissioner has taken possession, shall be distributed according to the priorities and preferences provided by chapter 14 of Title 14A, Corporations, General, of the New Jersey Statutes; except that, in the case of a savings bank, the surplus remaining after the payment or provision for the payment of all of its liabilities, claims and deposits, with interest or dividends to the date when possession was taken by the commissioner, and payment of or provision for all expenses upon final distribution, shall be divided pro rata among its depositors according to the amounts of their deposits at the time such possession was taken by the commissioner.

B. After the expiration of the times limited for the filing of claims and for the institution of actions upon rejected claims as provided by sections 280, 281, and 282,  1 the commissioner may, from time to time, file an accounting in the Superior Court and apply for an order authorizing the payment of a liquidating dividend out of the funds in his hands. No distribution shall be made by the commissioner until he has accounted as provided in sections 277  2 and 279,  3 and judgment is entered allowing the account and directing such distribution.

C. Upon making final distribution, the commissioner shall file in the Superior Court a statement of such distribution, and he shall file in the department a certificate that such statement has been filed, specifying the date of such filing.