Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 51:1-125

  • 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
  • weights and measures: means a device, apparatus, or instrument designed or used to weigh, measure, count or time any physical property or determine value, and any auxiliary apparatus and accessories that indicate quantity or value, or records representative thereof. See New Jersey Statutes 51:1-2
Any person who accepts any weighing or measuring device which has been condemned by any weights and measures officer, in trade for a new or used weighing or measuring device, and which is intended to be repaired, rebuilt, dismantled or destroyed, shall upon receipt thereof remove the condemned tags and such condemned tags shall be returned to the department or to a weights and measures officer within ten (10) days thereafter, with a statement describing the weighing or measuring device, giving the number of the device if obtainable, and the name and address of the person from whom it was received together with a statement of what disposition has been made of the weighing or measuring device.

L.1938, c. 182, p. 396, s. 13.

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