Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 17:12B-241

  • 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.
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • 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
All public funds, including those of the State of New Jersey, or any county or municipality or other political subdivision of New Jersey, and those in the control or possession of any public board or official, and all trust funds of every character in the control or possession of any fiduciary or other person or corporation, may, without any order of any court, be invested in one or more accounts in any insured association whose principal office is located in New Jersey in any amounts up to, but not exceeding, the amounts for which such accounts are insured, or 25% of the total reserves and undivided profits of the association, whichever is greater. Any savings bank may invest in one or more accounts in any such association in any amounts up to, but not exceeding, the amounts for which such accounts are insured, or 25% of the total reserves and undivided profits of the association, whichever is greater.

Any such account, in any amount up to, but not exceeding, the amount for which it is insured, or 25% of the total reserves and undivided profits of the association, whichever is greater, shall be eligible for acceptance as security, whenever security is required by any law of this State.

L.1963, c. 144, s. 241.