Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 52:27-23

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • 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.
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Public debt: Cumulative amounts borrowed by the Treasury Department or the Federal Financing Bank from the public or from another fund or account. The public debt does not include agency debt (amounts borrowed by other agencies of the Federal Government). The total public debt is subject to a statutory limit.
  • 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
Whenever a municipality in which the commission is functioning has been or shall be in default for twelve months in the payment of interest on any of its bonds or notes or other written evidence of indebtedness (except where the same is under litigation as to its validity, or where the validity thereof has been denied by formal notice given by the municipality, and no suit, action or proceeding to enforce the same has been commenced by the holder); or whenever any such municipality has been or shall be in default for six months in the payment of any part of its regular pay roll, or in the payment of any sums due from the annual tax levy to the state, county or school district, no subsequent budget or tax ordinance or appropriation for local school purposes shall include any amounts in excess of such limits as may be fixed by the commission, exclusive of appropriations for the purpose of raising the principal and interest on the public debt, and exclusive of appropriations to create a reserve fund under the provisions of section 52:27-25 of this title.