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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 52:4B-63

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • 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.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • 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
  • 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
3. a. Every person, firm, corporation, partnership, association or other legal entity, or representative of such person, firm, corporation, partnership, association or entity, which knowingly contracts for, pays, or agrees to pay: (1) any profits from a crime to a person charged with or convicted of that crime, or to the representative of such person, or (2) any funds of a convicted person where such conviction is for a crime and the value, combined value or aggregate value of the payment or payments of such funds exceeds or will exceed $10,000 shall give written notice to the board of the payment or obligation to pay as soon as practicable after discovering that the payment or intended payment constitutes profits from a crime or funds of a convicted person.

b. Notwithstanding subsection a. of this section, whenever the payment or obligation to pay involves funds of a convicted person that a superintendent of a correctional facility receives or will receive on behalf of an inmate or prisoner serving a sentence with the Department of Corrections and deposits or will deposit in an inmate or prisoner account to the credit of the inmate or prisoner and the value, combined value or aggregate value of such funds exceeds or will exceed $10,000, the superintendent shall also give written notice to the board. Further, whenever the State makes payment or has an obligation to pay funds of a convicted person and the value, combined value or aggregate value of such funds exceeds or will exceed $10,000, the State shall also give written notice to the board. In all other instances where the payment or obligation to pay involves funds of a convicted person and the value, combined value or aggregate value of such funds exceeds or will exceed $10,000, the convicted person who receives or will receive such funds, or the representative of such person, shall give written notice to the board.

c. The board, upon receipt of notice of a contract, an agreement to pay or payment of profits from a crime or funds of a convicted person pursuant to subsection a. or b. of this section, or upon receipt of notice of funds of a convicted person from the superintendent where the inmate or prisoner is confined, shall notify all known crime victims of the convicted person of the existence of such profits or funds at their last known address.

L.2003,c.190,s.3.