Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 2A:160-3

  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Extradition: The formal process of delivering an accused or convicted person from authorities in one state to authorities in another state.
  • 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
2A:160-3. The county treasurer of any county may advance to the prosecutor of the county, or to such person as the prosecutor shall designate, from the funds of such county appropriated, set aside and available for court expenses, money necessary to defray the expenses of the prosecutor or such person as he shall designate, to be used for the arrest, extradition and return from foreign jurisdictions of persons charged with violating the criminal laws of this State, and who are fugitives from justice. No such money shall be advanced by the county treasurer, except upon written order of the prosecutor with the approval of the Assignment Judge in such county indorsed thereon, and unless the prosecutor shall file with the county treasurer a statement of the purposes for which the money is to be used and an estimate, in reasonable detail, of the anticipated expenses.

L.1951 (1st SS), c.344; amended 1991,c.91,s.130.

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