Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 17:12B-89

  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • 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
When a membership account is opened by a person or persons payable on death to a beneficiary or beneficiaries in the manner provided in the “Multiple-party Deposit Account Act” , and the account is terminated as provided in section 5b(2) of said act, and if the named beneficiary or one of the beneficiaries so named survive the death of the person or persons opening such an account and the beneficiary or all of the beneficiaries so named are 16 years of age or over at the death of the person or persons opening such an account, the association shall pay the moneys to the credit of the account, less all proper set-offs and charges, to the named beneficiary or beneficiaries or upon his or their order, and such payment by the association shall be valid, notwithstanding any lack of legal age of the named beneficiary or beneficiaries.

L.1963, c. 144, s. 89. Amended by L.1979, c. 491, s. 19.