New Jersey Statutes 40:66A-18. Service charge with regard to real property; interest; liens, enforcement of; collection
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 40:66A-18
- collector: when used in relation to the collection of taxes or water rents or other public assessments, includes all officers charged with the duty of collecting such taxes, water rents or assessments, unless a particular officer is specified. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
- Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
- month: means a calendar month, and the word "year" means a calendar year. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
- Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
- 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
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- real property: include lands, tenements and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interests therein. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
(b) In the event that a service charge of any incinerator or environmental services authority with regard to any parcel of real property owned by any person, firm, corporation or association shall not be paid as and when due, the unpaid balance thereof and all interest accruing thereon shall be a lien on such parcel. Such lien shall be superior and paramount to the interest in such parcel of any owner, lessee, tenant, mortgagee or other person except the lien of State, county and municipal taxes and shall be on a parity with and deemed equal to the lien on such parcel of State, county and municipal taxes.
(c) In the event that a service charge of any incinerator or environmental services authority with regard to any parcel of real property shall not be paid as and when due, the incinerator or environmental services authority may, in its discretion, discontinue the furnishing of any of the services and facilities of said garbage disposal system until such service charge and any subsequent service charge with regard to such parcel and all interest accrued thereon shall be fully paid to the incinerator or environmental services authority.
(d) The collector or other officer of every municipality charged by law with the duty of enforcing municipal liens on real property shall enforce, with and as any other municipal lien on real property in such municipality, all service charges and the lien thereof and shall pay over to the incinerator or environmental services authority the sums or a pro rata share of the sums realized upon such enforcement or upon liquidation of any property acquired by the municipality by virtue of such enforcement.
(e) In the event that any service charge of an incinerator or environmental services authority shall not be paid as and when due, the unpaid balance thereof and all interest accrued thereon, together with attorneys’ fees and costs, may be recovered by the incinerator or environmental services authority in a civil action, and any lien on real property for such service charge and interest accrued thereon may be foreclosed or otherwise enforced by the incinerator or environmental services authority by action or suit in equity as for the foreclosure of a mortgage on such real property.
(f) All rights and remedies granted by this act for the collection and enforcement of service charges shall be cumulative and concurrent.
L.1948, c.348, s.18; amended 2012, c.31, s.19.