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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 3B:24-7

  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Fiduciary: includes executors, general administrators of an intestate estate, administrators with the will annexed, substituted administrators, substituted administrators with the will annexed, guardians, substituted guardians, trustees, substituted trustees and, unless restricted by the subject or context, temporary administrators, administrators pendente lite, administrators ad prosequendum, administrators ad litem and other limited fiduciaries. See New Jersey Statutes 3B:1-1
  • 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
A person acting in a fiduciary capacity shall not be required to transfer, pay over or distribute to any person, other than the fiduciary charged with the duty to collect and pay the tax, any fund or property with respect to which the tax is or may be imposed, until the amount of the tax and any interest thereon apportioned or which may be apportioned against the fund or property and which may be due from the persons entitled to the fund or property is paid, or, if the tax has not been determined or apportionment made, until adequate security for the payment is furnished to the person acting in a fiduciary capacity. A fiduciary shall not be under any duty to institute any action under this chapter or to make an apportionment thereunder until after the expiration of 3 months following the final determination of the tax. A fiduciary, who within a reasonable time after the expiration of 3 months following the final determination of the tax shall proceed to carry out the duty imposed upon himself by this chapter, shall not be subject to liability or surcharge in case the amount of the tax or any part thereof apportioned or to be apportioned against any transferee or person in possession of property shall be collectible at any time following the death of the decedent but shall thereafter be or become uncollectible.

L.1981, c. 405, s. 3B:24-7, eff. May 1, 1982.