New Jersey Statutes 40A:9-68. Duties of county clerk for the courts
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 40A:9-68
- clerk: means the clerk of a municipality or of a board of chosen freeholders. See New Jersey Statutes 40A:1-1
- 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
40A:9-68. The county clerk shall perform for the Superior Court the duties pertaining thereto in their respective counties as prescribed by law and applicable to the Supreme Court rules for the administration of the courts.
The county clerk, either in person or by deputy, shall attend the sessions of the Superior Court held in the county and keep the minutes of the proceedings of said courts. The clerk and his deputy shall be under the supervision of the assignment judge of the Superior Court for the county. The minutes of said courts shall be open to the public at all proper and reasonable hours.
L.1971, c.200, s.1; amended 1991,c.91,s.395.