Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 54:4-9.3

  • assessor: when used in relation to the assessment of taxes or water rents or other public assessments, includes all officers, boards or commissions charged with the duty of making such assessments, unless a particular officer, board or commission is specified. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Personal property: includes goods and chattels, rights and credits, moneys and effects, evidences of debt, choses in action and all written instruments by which any right to, interest in, or lien or encumbrance upon, property or any debt or financial obligation is created, acknowledged, evidenced, transferred, discharged or defeated, in whole or in part, and everything except real property as herein defined which may be the subject of ownership. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
Except in the case of a willfully false or fraudulent return made with intent to evade valuation, assessment or taxation of personal property pursuant to chapter 4 of Title 54 of the Revised Statutes, no increase in any taxable valuation of property reported or required to be reported in such return shall be made by the assessor after the expiration of 2 years from the date of the filing of a return; provided that where no return required by law has been filed, the taxable value may be determined and assessed at any time within 6 years after the date upon which such return was required to be filed. Notwithstanding any other provision of law relating to the assessment of taxable property omitted from assessment under said chapter, the times within which such assessments of tangible personal property may be made shall be as provided in this section.

L.1960, c. 51, s. 33.