Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 2A:65B-3

  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • 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
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
3. a. A person violating the provisions of section 2 of this act shall be liable, in addition to the liability for any civil damages for any injury to a plaintiff resulting from the sale or offering for sale of a Yo-Yo Waterball, for a civil penalty of:

(1) not more than $10,000, for the first offense; and

(2) not more than $20,000, for the second and each subsequent offense.

b. The penalty prescribed by this section shall be collected and enforced by summary proceedings under the “Penalty Enforcement Law of 1999,” P.L.1999, c.274 (C. 2A:58-10 et seq.).

L.2007, c.224, s.3.

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