New Jersey Statutes 54:4-10. Guardians and representatives; assessments in name of; estates
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 54:4-10
- assessor: when used in relation to the assessment of taxes or water rents or other public assessments, includes all officers, boards or commissions charged with the duty of making such assessments, unless a particular officer, board or commission is specified. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- Decedent: A deceased person.
- Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
- Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
- 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
- taxing district: when used in a law relating to the assessment or collection of taxes, assessments or water rates or water rents, include every political division of the State, less than a county, whose inhabitants, governing body or officers have the power to levy taxes, assessments or rates. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
Personal property in the possession or under the control of a person as trustee, guardian, executor or administrator, shall be assessed in his name as such, separate from his individual assessment, or in the name of any one of several joint trustees, guardians, executors or administrators, if the one of them having actual control or possession cannot be ascertained by the assessor, but the personal property belonging to the estate of a decedent shall be assessed in the taxing district wherein the decedent resided at the time of his death, except such part of the tangible property thereof as may be actually located in some other taxing district in this state and assessed therein.