New Jersey Statutes 2A:168-12. Transfer of probationers
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 2A:168-12
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
- Probation officers: Screen applicants for pretrial release and monitor convicted offenders released under court supervision.
Probation officers may at any time, after approval by the court or chief probation officer, transfer any probationer under their care and supervision to the jurisdiction of any other probation officer. Whenever such transfer is made, the probation officer making the transfer shall send to the probation officer to whose care and supervision the probationer is being transferred, a copy of all the records of such officer as to the offense, criminal record and social history of the probationer.
Probation officers may accept under their care and supervision on transfer, any person placed on probation in any other jurisdiction, and shall, from time to time, report to the probation officer from whom the probationer was received under transfer as to the conduct and progress of the probationer. Probation officers shall, with respect to persons transferred to their supervision from any other jurisdiction, have all of the powers and be subject to all of the duties imposed by law upon them in regard to probationers received on probation in their own jurisdiction.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.