Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 32:12-2

  • Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • 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
Upon the filing in the office of the secretary of state of the consent and request of any three or more of such counties, expressed and declared by resolution duly passed at a regular meeting of the governing bodies of such counties, after such notice and in such form as is required to obligate a county to enter into a legal contract for the payment of money, the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint three suitable persons from each of said counties, and one person a resident of the state but not a resident of any of such counties, who shall be known as “The river bridge and tunnel commission” (inserting in the blank space the name of the stream or river).