Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 4:12A-9

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
The board is hereby empowered and charged with the duty to hear, review, and determine all appeals by any person, applicant or licensee aggrieved by any act, proceeding, rule, regulation, decision or determination of the director, and to make reasonable rules regulating the manner, form, time, terms and conditions of such appeals, and to make such orders upon the final determination of such appeals as will effectuate such final determination according to law.

On any appeal from a rule or order of the director fixing or refixing any price, the petition of appeal shall be filed with the board within five days from the date of filing such rule or order with the Secretary of State. On any such appeal the board shall hold its hearing and render its decision within twenty days from the date of filing such rule or order with the Secretary of State.

The filing of an appeal to the board from a rule or order of the director fixing or refixing any price, shall act as a stay upon any such rule or order that would otherwise become effective, such stay to continue until the rendering of decision upon such appeal by the board.

The hearings before and the proceedings of the board shall be conducted in accordance with such rules of evidence and procedure as the board may from time to time prescribe.

L.1941, c. 274, p. 718, s. 9.

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