Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 48:4-25

  • Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
  • person: as used in this chapter means and includes any individual, copartnership, association, corporation or joint stock company, their lessees, trustees, or receivers appointed by any court. See New Jersey Statutes 48:4-1
The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles shall have power, whenever he deems it expedient, to make or cause to be made by deputy, auditor or investigator, an examination or investigation of the books, records, papers, vouchers, accounts and documents of every such owner or operator for the purpose of administering the provisions of sections 48:4-20 to 48:4-34 of this Title.

It shall be the duty of every such owner or operator and of every director, officer, agent or employee thereof to exhibit to the director, his deputy, auditor or investigator all of the books, records, papers, vouchers, accounts and documents of the owner or operator to facilitate, as far as it may be in his or their power so to do, any such examination or investigation.

The director, his deputy, auditor or investigator may take any oath of any person signing a deposition, statement, return or report required by the director in the administration of said sections 48:4-20 to 48:4-34.

Amended by L.1962, c. 198, s. 75.