New Jersey Statutes 38:23B-7. “Veteran” defined; “national emergency” defined
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 38:23B-7
- 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
For the purpose of this act, a “veteran” shall mean any bona fide resident of the State who has or shall have served in the active military or naval service of the United States at any time after September sixteenth, one thousand nine hundred and forty, and prior to December thirty-first, one thousand nine hundred and forty-six, or at any time after June twenty-third, one thousand nine hundred and fifty, and prior to December sixteenth, one thousand nine hundred and fifty, or during a period of national emergency, and who shall have been discharged or released therefrom under conditions other than dishonorable after active service of ninety days or more, or has or shall have been discharged or released therefrom after less than ninety days of service for disability incurred in line of duty; except that no person shall be eligible for the benefits of this act by reason of service from which he has or shall have been discharged or released on his own initiative to accept employment unless he had served outside the continental limits of the United States or in Alaska.
As used in this act, the term “national emergency” shall mean the existence of a national emergency as proclaimed by the President of the United States on December sixteenth, one thousand nine hundred and fifty, and shall include the period of time following such proclamation and until the termination, suspension or revocation thereof, or termination of the existence of such national emergency by appropriate action of the President or Congress of the United States.
L.1944, c. 126, p. 346, s. 7. Amended by L.1951, c. 89, p. 484, s. 1, eff. May 22, 1951.