Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 54:4-1.1

  • assessor: when used in relation to the assessment of taxes or water rents or other public assessments, includes all officers, boards or commissions charged with the duty of making such assessments, unless a particular officer, board or commission is specified. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • 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.
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Personal property: includes goods and chattels, rights and credits, moneys and effects, evidences of debt, choses in action and all written instruments by which any right to, interest in, or lien or encumbrance upon, property or any debt or financial obligation is created, acknowledged, evidenced, transferred, discharged or defeated, in whole or in part, and everything except real property as herein defined which may be the subject of ownership. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
Nothing herein shall 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taxpayer, or the legal authority to collect taxes, interest and penalties which have accrued under any provision of law repealed by this act, or under any other law, except as specifically provided in this act; provided, however, that on and after the effective date of this act no county board of taxation shall by resolution cause to be entered upon the tax duplicate an assessment against any intangible personal property omitted by the assessor, nor entertain any complaint for the adding of omitted intangible personal property, save that any proceeding heretofore actually instituted for the listing and assessment of omitted property may be prosecuted to its final conclusion without respect to the provisions of this section.

L.1945, c. 163, p. 581, s. 9.