Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 3B:12-6

  • 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
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Personal property: includes goods and chattels, rights and credits, moneys and effects, evidences of debt, choses in action and all written instruments by which any right to, interest in, or lien or encumbrance upon, property or any debt or financial obligation is created, acknowledged, evidenced, transferred, discharged or defeated, in whole or in part, and everything except real property as herein defined which may be the subject of ownership. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
3B:12-6. Circumstances under which money may be paid or personal property delivered.

Any person under a duty to pay or deliver money or personal property to a minor may perform this duty, in amounts not exceeding $5,000.00 per annum, by paying or delivering the money or property to:

a. The minor, if married;

b. A parent or parents of the minor;

c. Any person having the care and custody of the minor with whom the minor resides;

d. A guardian of the person of the minor; or

e. A financial institution incident to a deposit in a federally insured savings account in the sole name of the minor and giving written notice of the deposit to the minor.

Amended 2005, c.304, s.6.