Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 54:29A-74.1

  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • 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
The taxes imposed by this act shall be in lieu of all other State and local taxation of or upon franchise and property used for railroad purposes. Nothing herein shall, however, be construed to affect any pending litigation, nor to repeal, abate, cancel, cause to lapse or otherwise affect in any manner any assessment or the lien or obligation to pay any taxes heretofore assessed to any taxpayer, or the local authority to collect taxes, interest and penalties which have heretofore accrued under the act to which this act is amendatory and supplementary, or under any other law, or to affect the authority of the commissioner to assess omitted property, and to apportion the tax so assessed for any year prior to the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight according to the classifications and at the rates then in effect.

L.1948, c. 40, p. 123, s. 17.