Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 2A:161A-3

  • 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
3. a. For purposes of this act, a “strip search” means the removal or rearrangement of clothing for the purpose of visual inspection of the person‘s undergarments, buttocks, anus, genitals or breasts. The term does not include the use of body imaging scanning equipment pursuant to section 1 of P.L.2015, c.213 (C. 30:4-91.3e) or any removal or rearrangement of clothing reasonably required to render medical treatment or assistance or the removal of articles of outer-clothing such as coats, ties, belts or shoelaces.

b. For purposes of this act, a “body cavity search” means the visual inspection or manual search of a person’s anal or vaginal cavity.

L.1985, c.70, s.3; amended 1991, c.305, s.3; 2015, c.213, s.2.

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