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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 26:2H-35

  • 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.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • 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
  • 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
4. Any person, firm, association, partnership or corporation who fails to file a statement as required by this act or willfully files a false statement shall be liable to a penalty of not less than $10.00 nor more than $100.00 for each day that such failure continues or such false statement remains uncorrected. The penalties prescribed and authorized by this act shall be recovered in a summary civil proceeding brought in the name of the State in the Superior Court pursuant to “the penalty enforcement law” (N.J.S. 2A:58-1 et seq.).

L.1977,c.237,s.4; amended 1991,c.91,s.288.