Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 40:41A-142

  • 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
  • population: when used in any statute, shall be taken to mean the population as shown by the latest Federal census effective within this State, and shall be construed as synonymous with "inhabitants. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
Whenever notice by publication is required under this act the clerk to the board of freeholders or the county counsel, whichever shall be charged by the board to do so, or any other person charged under any section of this act with the duty of causing such publication, shall cause all such notices to be published in at least one of the two newspapers qualified by law and designated by majority vote of the board of freeholders to publish the county’s legal notices. The two newspapers designated by the board of freeholders shall be:

a. Both printed and published in the county, one of which shall be either a newspaper published at the county seat of such county or a newspaper published in a municipality in such county having the largest population according to the last population estimate published by the New Jersey Department of Labor and Industry; or

b. One printed and published in such county and one circulating in such county, if only one daily newspaper is printed and published in such county; or

c. One published at the county seat and one circulating in the county if no daily newspaper is published; or

d. Both circulating in such county, if no newspapers are printed and published in such county.

L.1972, c. 154, s. 142, eff. Sept. 19, 1972. Amended by L.1975, c. 84, s. 45, eff. May 5, 1975; L.1978, c. 141, s. 14, eff. Nov. 13, 1978.

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