Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 18A:68-9

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Higher education: means that education which is provided by any or all of the public institutions of higher education as herein defined and any or all equivalent private institutions. See New Jersey Statutes 18A:1-1
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
18A:68-9. An officer or member of a school, corporation, association or institution of learning who by vote or in any other manner or capacity, or a school, corporation, association or institution of learning which shall admit or participate in admitting a scholar, student, or subscriber to any grade of a degree by conferring or participating in conferring any degree upon him, contrary to the provisions of this chapter, or who shall sign any certificate or diploma as evidence of the conferring of such degree shall be liable to a penalty of not more than $300.00 for each offense, to be enforced and collected by and in the name of the Commission on Higher Education in a summary proceeding in accordance with chapter 58 of Title 2A of the New Jersey Statutes, the penalty enforcement law. Process shall be either in the nature of a summons or warrant.

L.1967, c.271; amended 1994,c.48,s.200.