Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 26:4-3

  • 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
Whenever the state department or a local board, in order to prevent the spread of communicable disease, destroys any goods, it shall make an inventory of the goods, and immediately certify the value of them. The certification shall be made to the state treasurer, in case the goods were destroyed by the state department, and to the treasurer of the proper municipality, in case of destruction by the local board.

The state treasurer or local treasurer, as the case may be, shall pay to the owner of the goods, or his legal representatives, the sum so certified.