Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 54:4-9.1

  • 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
  • Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
  • 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
  • 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
Tangible personal property not used in business, other than tangible household personal property and personal effects, shall be assessed and taxed for local use at the general tax rate of the taxing district wherein such property is found. Such property shall be assessed according to the fair value thereof, which shall be the fair market value thereof, and the assessment shall be expressed at that percentage of such fair value as is established pursuant to law as the percentage level for the taxation of real property within the county in which the municipality is located. The taxable valuations of tangible personal property determined under this section shall be included by the assessor of each taxing district in his tax list and duplicate required to be filed on or before January 10 in each year.

L.1960, c. 51, s. 12.