Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 17:14A-54

  • 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
As used in R.S. 17:14A-53, “control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a safe deposit company, whether by means of the ownership of the stock or equity interests of the safe deposit company by means of a contractual arrangement, or otherwise. Control shall be presumed to exist if any person or company, directly or indirectly, owns, controls or holds with power to vote 10% or more of the stock of the safe deposit company or of any company which owns, controls or holds with power to vote 10% or more of the stock of the safe deposit company, but a person shall not be deemed to control a safe deposit company solely by reason of his being an officer or director of the safe deposit company.

L.1983, c. 566, s. 17:14A-54