New Jersey Statutes Title 54. Taxation 54 § 32B-8.21

Receipts from sales of school textbooks for use by students in a school, college, university or other educational institution, approved as such by the Department of Education or by the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education, when the educational institution, upon forms and pursuant to regulations prescribed by the director, has declared the books are required for school purposes and the purchaser has supplied the seller with the form at the time of the sale are exempt from the tax imposed under the Sales and Use Tax Act.