New Jersey Statutes 52:14A-3. Definitions
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 52:14A-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
- 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
(a) “Attack” means any attack or series of actions by an enemy of the United States causing, or which may cause, substantial damage or injury to property or persons in the United States in any manner by sabotage, bombs, missiles, shellfire, atomic, radiological, chemical, bacteriological, biological means or other weapons or methods.
(b) “Emergency interim successor” means a person designated pursuant to this act, in the event the officer is unavailable, to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of an office until a successor is appointed or elected and qualified as may be provided by the Constitution and Statutes, or until the lawful incumbent is able to resume the exercise of the powers and discharge the duties of the office.
(c) “Office” includes all State offices, the power and duties of which are defined by the Constitution and Statutes, except the office of Governor, and except those in the Legislature and the Judiciary.
(d) “Unavailable” means either that a vacancy in office exists and there is no deputy authorized to exercise all of the power and discharge the duties of the office, or that the lawful incumbent of the office (including any deputy exercising the powers and discharging the duties of an office because of a vacancy) and his duly authorized deputy are absent or unable, for physical, mental, legal or other reasons, to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the office.
L.1963, c. 117, s. 3.