Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 45:27-35

  • Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • 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
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
35. a. A license from the board is required for any natural person to be compensated to act as a cemetery salesperson for interment spaces in cemeteries operated by cemetery companies or for goods or services provided by cemetery companies.

(1) Each salesperson license shall state the name and address of each cemetery company with which the salesperson is associated.

(2) A salesperson shall produce the license for inspection when requested during sales activities, and shall retain possession of the license until it expires or is canceled, revoked or suspended.

(3) A copy of the license shall be posted by the cemetery company in each of its offices.

b. No municipality of this State shall require a licensed salesperson to obtain a municipal license to sell interment spaces or cemetery goods or services.

c. The following may sell cemetery property without a cemetery salesperson license:

(1) The owner of an interest in an interment space, or a person acting for the owner, making an occasional sale of the interment space;

(2) An officer, manager or employee of a cemetery company engaging in sales activities whose primary responsibility is other than sales activities; or

(3) A receiver, trustee in bankruptcy or other person acting under court order for a trustee selling under a deed of trust.

L.2003,c.261,s.35.