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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 51:1-124

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • 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
  • weights and measures: means a device, apparatus, or instrument designed or used to weigh, measure, count or time any physical property or determine value, and any auxiliary apparatus and accessories that indicate quantity or value, or records representative thereof. See New Jersey Statutes 51:1-2
Every person engaged as in this act provided shall within ten (10) days, after the making of a repair, or the sale and delivery of a repaired, rebuilt, exchanged, or used weighing or measuring device, in writing, notify the department or the county or municipal superintendent of weights and measures in whose jurisdiction the said device is located, giving the name and address of the person for whom such repair has been made or to whom a repaired, rebuilt, exchanged, or used weighing or measuring device has been sold or delivered, and a statement shall be made by the licensee that the same has been so altered, rebuilt, or repaired as to conform to the standard specifications and regulations of the department.

L.1938, c. 182, p. 396, s. 12.