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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 52:27-39.1

  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • 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
If a municipality in which the municipal finance commission may be or may have been functioning shall for eight years have been in arrears in the payment of the whole or any part of any taxes levied in the municipality for either State, State school or county purposes or any interest thereon, the county may in accordance with this act enter into a compromise settlement in full discharge of all claim of such county and its treasurer for any taxes for State, State school or county purposes, or any interest thereon, or for any note or bond or other receivable, due and in arrears at the date of such settlement from the municipality, together with any interest thereon, whether such taxes, interest or other receivable have been due and in arrears for more or for less than eight years.

L.1946, c. 35, p. 76, s. 1.