Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 54:4-50

  • Fixed Rate: Having a "fixed" rate means that the APR doesn't change based on fluctuations of some external rate (such as the "Prime Rate"). In other words, a fixed rate is a rate that is not a variable rate. A fixed APR can change over time, in several circumstances:
    • You are late making a payment or commit some other default, triggering an increase to a penalty rate
    • The bank changes the terms of your account and you do not reject the change.
    • The rate expires (if the rate was fixed for only a certain period of time).
  • 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
  • taxing district: when used in a law relating to the assessment or collection of taxes, assessments or water rates or water rents, include every political division of the State, less than a county, whose inhabitants, governing body or officers have the power to levy taxes, assessments or rates. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
When assessments in a taxing district are reduced subsequent to the date when the county board of taxation has determined the amount of money to be raised in the taxing district on account of a state tax at a fixed rate, so that, pursuant to that determination, an excess over the amount which would have been payable if the assessments had been reduced before that date, must be paid to the county treasurer from the taxing district, the county board shall ascertain the amount of such excess.
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