Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 52:4B-51

  • 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
3. The Attorney General shall establish a Statewide Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner program in the Department of Law and Public Safety.

Upon implementation of the certification process for a forensic sexual assault nurse examiner pursuant to section 5 of P.L.2001, c.81 (C. 52:4B-53), the county prosecutor in each county shall appoint or designate a certified forensic sexual assault nurse examiner to serve as program coordinator for the program in the county in accordance with the provisions of this section.

a. The county prosecutor may appoint an employee of the prosecutor’s office who is a certified forensic sexual assault nurse examiner to serve as program coordinator to administer the program in that county.

b. In a county where the county prosecutor does not appoint an employee of his office to serve as program coordinator, the county prosecutor shall designate a certified forensic sexual assault nurse examiner who is an employee of a licensed health care facility or a county rape care program that is designated by the Division on Women in the Department of Children and Families to serve as the program coordinator. A person designated as a program coordinator pursuant to this subsection shall not be deemed an employee of the county prosecutor’s office.

L.2001, c.81, s.3; amended 2012, c.16, s.134.