Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 4:7-18

  • 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
4:7-18. A person who shall fail to obey an order of the department made and served as prescribed in R.S.4:7-17, within the time therein specified, shall be liable to a penalty of fifty dollars ($50.00) to be sued for and recovered by and in the name of the department in the manner provided in article one of chapter twenty-three of this Title (R.S.4:23-1 et seq.) in the Superior Court or municipal court of any municipality.

Amended 1953, c.5, s.8; 1991,c.91,s.161.