Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 17:9A-91

  • Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
  • 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
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
At all meetings of stockholders of a bank, the presence in person or by proxy of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares entitled to vote shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Unless otherwise provided by law, the acts of the holders of a majority of the shares represented at any meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the acts of the stockholders. If a quorum is not present at a meeting, a majority in interest of the stockholders present in person or by proxy may adjourn the meeting to a fixed time.

L.1948, c. 67, p. 261, s. 91.