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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 26:10-20

  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • 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

2. a. No person shall sell, lease, offer to sell, lease or deliver, or consign in sale or lease, or possess with intent to sell, lease, deliver, or consign in sale or lease, a used mattress or box spring unless that mattress or box spring is encased in plastic, polyethylene film, or similar material designed to prevent the transfer of insects or other contaminants.

b. No person shall sell a used mattress or box spring unless that mattress or box spring has been cleaned and disinfected using a reasonable process approved by the Commissioner of Health.

L.2015, c.183, s.2.