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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 34:1A-12.2

  • Attorney-at-law: A person who is legally qualified and licensed to practice law, and to represent and act for clients in legal proceedings.
  • 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 person hereafter appointed as a “referee,” “referee, formal hearings,” “supervising referee,” or “supervising referee, formal hearings” shall be an attorney-at-law of the State of New Jersey, except that a referee or a referee, formal hearings who, on July 1, 1966, had been a referee or a referee, formal hearings for a period of not less than 5 years may be appointed as a “referee,” “referee, formal hearings,” or as a “supervising referee” or “supervising referee, formal hearings,” notwithstanding that he is not such an attorney-at-law.

L.1952, c. 269, p. 921, s. 6. Amended by L.1960, c. 57, p. 486, s. 1; L.1967, c. 128, s. 1, eff. June 22, 1967.