Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 17:31-7

  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • 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.
  • 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
Any such undertaking shall be in a form to be prescribed by the Commissioner of Insurance, and subject to such regulations as he shall from time to time prescribe in regard thereto, and shall state the following:

a. The name and address of the automobile club or clubs or automobile association or associations with respect to guaranteed arrest bond certificates of which the surety company undertakes to be surety;

b. The unqualified obligation of the surety company to pay the fine or forfeiture in an amount not to exceed $500.00 of any person who, after posting a guaranteed arrest bond certificate with respect to which the surety company has undertaken to be surety, failed to make the appearance for which the guaranteed arrest bond certificate was posted.

L. 1970, c. 262, s. 2, eff. Nov. 2, 1970. Amended by L. 1985, c. 270, s. 2, eff. Aug. 2, 1985.