Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 54:4-90

  • collector: when used in relation to the collection of taxes or water rents or other public assessments, includes all officers charged with the duty of collecting such taxes, water rents or assessments, unless a particular officer is specified. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • 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
  • 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 delinquent taxes are assessed upon unimproved or untenanted land, or on land tenanted by one unable to pay the tax, the collector shall, in person or by deputy, levy the tax by distress and sale of so much of the timber, wood, herbage, or other vendible property of the owner on the premises as will be sufficient to pay the tax with costs. Notices of the sale shall be put up in five of the most public places in the taxing district at least thirty days before the sale, and published at least four weeks successively, once in each week, setting forth the name of the delinquent, the amount of the tax, the day and hour of the sale, which shall be between the hours of twelve and five, and the place, which shall be on the premises. The advertisement shall be published in a newspaper circulating within the taxing district. The purchaser, for the space of two months next after the sale and no longer, may enter on the premises to sever and carry away the property purchased.