Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 52:18A-30.1

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • 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
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the State Treasurer shall have continuing authority to destroy, or dispose of for the purpose of destruction, any and all records under his jurisdiction or custody as head of the Department of the Treasury and classified as (a) auxiliary books of entry, (b) duplicates of books of original entry, and (c) records of a supplemental nature containing data recorded in another book or other books of original entry; provided, that no such record or records shall be destroyed or disposed of for the purpose of destruction unless the entries contained therein were made at least twenty years prior to the date of such destruction or disposal for destruction; and provided further, that the authority herein vested in the State Treasurer shall extend to records at any time separately kept by the State Comptroller before the office of State Comptroller was transferred to and constituted an office in the Department of the Treasury.

L.1952, c. 208, p. 733, s. 1.