New Jersey Statutes 40:73-3. No officer or employee to receive free service; exceptions
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 40:73-3
- 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
No such officer or employee shall accept or receive, directly or indirectly, from any person operating within the territorial limits of said municipality any interurban railway, street railway, gas works, waterworks, electric light or power plant, heating plant, telegraph line, telephone exchange, or other business using or operating under a public franchise, any frank, free pass, free ticket, or free service or accept or receive directly or indirectly, from any such person any other service upon terms more favorable than is granted to the public generally, but such prohibition of free transportation shall not apply to policemen or firemen in uniform. Nor shall any free service to city officials heretofore provided by any franchise or ordinance be affected by this section.