Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 26:10-9

  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • 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
26:10-9. No person shall, directly or indirectly, at wholesale or retail, or otherwise, sell, lease, offer to sell or lease, or consign in sale or lease, or have in possession with intent to sell or lease, or consign in sale or lease, any mattress that shall not have plainly and indelibly written or printed thereon, or upon a plain muslin or linen label securely sewed to the covering thereof, a statement in the English language containing the items required by R.S.26:10-10 to R.S.26:10-12. This label shall not be less than three by four and a half inches in size and shall be yellow in color if the label is for a mattress which was used in whole or in part or contains any material which was used prior to any sale, lease, or consignment.

amended 2015, c.183, s.5.