Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 40:63-114

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Joint meeting: An occasion, often ceremonial, when the House and Senate each adopt a unanimous consent agreement
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • month: means a calendar month, and the word "year" means a calendar year. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • 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
The joint meeting shall at all times keep full and accurate account of its receipts, expenditures, disbursements, assets and liabilities and an itemized or detailed statement in writing to be approved by such joint meeting and signed by the chairman and secretary, and countersigned by the treasurer thereof, shall be made and rendered at least once in each month, to each municipal body or board in its corporate name, represented in the joint meeting. The itemized or detailed statement shall include all moneys expended, all obligations incurred since the date of the last preceding statement in or about such public improvement or works, or in anywise connected therewith, and shall set forth the amount, the date when payable, name of person to whom and for what payable, the total sum paid or to be paid by each of such municipalities pursuant to the percentage fixed in the contract between them, and such other matters as the joint meeting may deem advisable or important to include therein.