New Jersey Statutes 40:60-13. Municipality not liable for misappropriation of funds
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 40:60-13
- Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
- 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
Nothing in sections 40:60-10 to 40:60-12 of this title contained shall be construed to make any municipality liable for the misappropriation of the funds created by the trust, nor to make good any diminution thereof resulting from the wrongful acts of its agents or any person appointed in conformity with the terms and conditions of the deed or instrument creating the trust. If, however, any agent or officer of the municipality is under bonds thereto, and upon default the municipality recovers from the sureties on the bond a sum sufficient to pay or make good the amount of misappropriation of the funds of the trust, the municipality shall make good the same out of the amount so received. No misappropriation of the funds aforesaid shall in anywise affect the trust.