Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 51:1-126

  • 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
  • weights and measures officer: means , at the State level, the State superintendent, deputy State superintendent, assistant State superintendent, State supervisor, State metrologist, and State weights and measures officers of all grades. See New Jersey Statutes 51:1-2
Every person engaged in any business covered by the provisions of this act shall submit their testing equipment at least once a year to a weights and measures officer for comparison and calibration with the standards maintained by such officer. After comparison and calibration with such standards, the weights and measures officer shall issue to such person a statement or a certificate of his findings.

L.1938, c. 182, p. 397, s. 14.