Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 54:4-8.12

  • 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
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • 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
  • 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
3. No veteran’s deduction from taxes assessed against real and personal property, as provided herein, shall be allowed except upon written application therefor, which application shall be on a form prescribed by the Director of the Division of Taxation, in the Department of the Treasury, and provided for the use of claimants hereunder by the governing body of the municipality constituting the taxing district in which such claim is to be filed and the application has been approved as provided in this act. An assessor shall not require the filing of an application for a veteran’s deduction under this act of any person who has filed, or shall file, a claim for an exemption from taxation under chapter 184 of the laws of 1951, on or before December 31, 1963, but shall approve a veteran’s deduction for such person, if it appears from such claim for exemption that such person meets all the other prerequisites required by law for the approval of a claim for a veteran’s deduction. Each assessor may at any time inquire into the right of a claimant to the continuance of a veteran’s deduction hereunder and for that purpose he may require the filing of a new application or the submission of such proof as he shall deem necessary to determine the right of the claimant to continuance of such deduction. No application for a veteran’s deduction based upon service in the Armed Forces of the United States shall be allowed unless there is annexed thereto a copy, which may be photostatic, of claimant’s certificate of honorable discharge or of his certificate of release under honorable circumstances from active service in a branch of the Armed Forces of the United States. In the case of an application by a surviving spouse said application shall not be allowed unless it clearly establishes that:

(a) Claimant’s spouse died while on active duty in a branch of the Armed Forces of the United States, having had active service in a branch of the Armed Forces of the United States, or in the case of a surviving spouse of a veteran, claimant shall establish that the veteran was honorably discharged or released under honorable circumstances from active service in any branch of the Armed Forces of the United States, (b) claimant’s spouse was a citizen and resident of this State at the time of death, (c) claimant was the spouse of the veteran at the time of the veteran’s death, and (d) claimant is a resident of this State and has not remarried.

L.1963, c.171, s.3; amended 1985, c.515, s.8; 1995, c.259, s.1; 1997, c.30, s.1; 2019, c.413, s.5.