Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 40:43-64.3

  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
In any such case of annexation and consolidation:

(a) all of the property, tangible and intangible, and all of the rights of any kind of the borough shall be transferred to and become the property and rights of the township;

(b) all books, papers, records and evidence of title in the possession or custody of any officer or employee of the borough shall be turned over to the officers or employees of the township holding offices or positions in the township similar to those of the borough having such possession or custody;

(c) all liabilities, except as are released, as provided in this act, of the borough shall be assumed by and shall become the liabilities of the township;

(d) all offices and positions in the borough shall cease upon the final release of the borough from the jurisdiction and control of said Local Government Board in accordance with the provisions of this act;

(e) the governing body of the said township, by resolution, shall provide for any and all necessary adjustments and apportionments to equitably impose the burden of taxation upon the taxpayers of the township until such time as all of the liabilities of the borough shall have been liquidated.

L.1945, c. 268, p. 801, s. 3, eff. April 30, 1945.