New Jersey Revised Statutes Title 51 - Standards, Weights, Measures And Containers

• Section 51:1-1 - Municipal Power Not Impaired
  Nothing in this title shall be construed to abrogate or impair the power of the governing body of any municipality or of the courts...
• Section 51:1-2 - Definitions
  51:1-2. As used in this chapter: a."Commodity" means any article of food, drink, trade or commerce, or any service or amusement, goods, wares, merchandise,...
• Section 51:1-3 - Use Of Both Systems
  The inch-pound system of weights and measures in customary use in the United States and the metric system or System International (SI) of weights...
• Section 51:1-4 - Yard
  The standard yard shall contain three feet of thirty-six inches.
• Section 51:1-5 - Chain For Measurement Of Land
  The standard chain for the measurement of land shall consist of four rods of sixty-six feet.
• Section 51:1-6 - Test Of Measuring Devices
  Steel measuring tapes used by professional land surveyors and professional engineers shall be compared by the State superintendent at least once in five years...
• Section 51:1-7 - Standard Ton
  The standard gross ton shall consist of two thousand, two hundred and forty pounds. The standard net ton shall consist of two thousand pounds.
• Section 51:1-8 - Pound; Avoirdupois; Troy
  The standard avoirdupois pound, which shall be the standard for all commodities usually sold by weight, except gold, silver, jewels and drugs, shall contain...
• Section 51:1-9 - Gallon; Quart
  The standard gallon shall contain two hundred and thirty-one cubic inches. The standard liquid quart shall contain fifty-seven and seventy-five one-hundredths cubic inches.
• Section 51:1-10 - Sale Of Milk Or Cream
  All milk, skimmed milk or cream, except such as may be bought or sold either by weight or on the butter fat basis, shall...
• Section 51:1-11 - Labeling Or Tagging Milk Cans
  Each can originally containing more or less than forty quarts of milk or cream shall bear a label or tag naming in quarts its...
• Section 51:1-12 - Penalties; Disposition
  51:1-12. A person violating any provision of sections 51:1-10 or 51:1-11 of this Title shall be liable to a penalty of $100.00 to be...
• Section 51:1-13 - Branding Butter And Cheese Packages; Penalty
  Every firkin, tub or other vessel for the package of butter or cheese shall be branded in legible letters and characters by the cooper...
• Section 51:1-14 - Use Of Unbranded Package; Defacing Or Altering Brand; Penalty
  Any person who shall sell or dispose of butter or cheese in a firkin, tub or vessel manufactured for such purpose in this State...
• Section 51:1-15 - Liquids Only To Be Sold By Liquid Measure
  No person shall use a liquid measure in the purchase or sale of other than liquid commodities.
• Section 51:1-16 - Bushel
  The standard bushel shall contain two thousand one hundred and fifty and forty-two one-hundredths cubic inches which capacity shall apply to all articles usually...
• Section 51:1-17 - Foods Sold Only By Weight Or Numerical Count; Exceptions
  All articles of food, other than liquids, which are capable of being measured by dry capacity measure and which heretofore have been sold by...
• Section 51:1-18 - Bread To Be Sold By Weight; Specification Of Weight To Purchaser
  All bread shall be sold by weight. The weight of all loaves of bread offered for sale shall be specified by the baker or...
• Section 51:1-25 - Peach Basket; Marking, Etc.; Penalty
  The standard peach basket shall be 16 quarts Winchester half-bushel measure. It shall be of the following dimensions: Height, 12 1/4 inches; width across...
• Section 51:1-26 - Sale Of Fruits Or Vegetables In Nonstandard Containers Forbidden
  Except as standards are otherwise provided by law, no person shall sell or deliver, or have in possession with intent to sell or deliver...
• Section 51:1-27 - Marking Of Containers
  No person shall sell or deliver, or have in possession with intent to sell or deliver, any fruit, berries or vegetables contained in any...
• Section 51:1-27.1 - Penalty For Violations Of Section 51:1-26 Or Section 51:1-27
  Any person violating any of the provisions of either section 51:1-26 or section 51:1-27 of this Title shall be liable to a penalty of...
• Section 51:1-28 - Marking Of Containers; Packer's Name; Penalty
  Any person who shall pack, or cause to be packed for the purpose of selling, offering or exposing for sale any fruits or vegetables,...
• Section 51:1-29 - Commodity Package Labeling; Slack Filling
  a. No person shall distribute, expose for sale, sell, or have in his possession with intent to distribute, expose for sale or sell any...
• Section 51:1-29.1 - Hydrate Of Sodium Tetraborate
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a person may manufacture, pack, distribute, deliver, cause to be delivered, sell, expose for sale,...
• Section 51:1-29.2 - Net Weight Standards Pertaining To Flour; Adopted
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the State Superintendent shall adopt the net weight standards pertaining to flour as set forth...
• Section 51:1-31.1 - Terms Defined
  As used herein, the term "frozen desserts" shall be deemed to mean and include "ice cream," "custard ice cream," "French ice cream," "French custard,"...
• Section 51:1-31.4 - Weight
  Frozen desserts shall weigh not less than four and five-tenths pounds per gallon. L.1941, c. 278, p. 749, s. 4.
• Section 51:1-31.10 - Tolerances Or Variations As To Quantity
  Reasonable tolerances or variations as to quantity shall be permitted. There is no tolerance permitted with reference to the minimum weight per gallon requirement...
• Section 51:1-33 - Definitions
  As used in sections 51:1-34 and 51:1-35 of this title: "Laundries" and "laundry establishment" means and includes all persons, conducting or operating power laundry...
• Section 51:1-34 - Tested Scales
  All commercial laundries, performing, selling, or offering for sale, laundry service on the basis of weight, shall have legal scales of approved type and...
• Section 51:1-35 - Delivery Tickets; Marking; Alteration Prohibited
  Each delivery of laundry, which is charged for on the basis of weight, shall be accompanied by a delivery ticket, which shall have indelibly...
• Section 51:1-35.1 - Penalties For Violations Of Section 51:1-34 Or Section 51:1-35
  Any person violating any of the provisions of either section 51:1-34 or section 51:1-35 of this Title, or who alters or defaces delivery tickets...
• Section 51:1-42 - Department; Composition
  The department of weights and measures, created and established by an act entitled "An act to establish a uniform standard of weights and measures...
• Section 51:1-43 - Appointment Of Superintendents; Record Of Appointment Of Municipal Superintendents
  The governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint a state superintendent for a term of five years. The...
• Section 51:1-44 - Assistant State Superintendents; Clerical Assistants
  The state superintendent may appoint three assistant state superintendents. He may temporarily appoint honorary or special assistant superintendents who shall have all the powers...
• Section 51:1-45 - Assistant County And Municipal Superintendents; Number; Deputy Superintendents; Powers
  The governing body of each county and municipality shall fix the numbers of assistant superintendents therein, and by resolution may authorize the superintendent to...
• Section 51:1-46 - Persons Employed To Give Full Time
  The officers and employees designated to enforce this chapter shall devote all their time to such duties.
• Section 51:1-47 - No Other Person To Engage As Superintendent, Etc.
  No person, other than a superintendent, assistant superintendent or honorary or special assistant superintendent appointed in accordance with the provisions of this article, shall...
• Section 51:1-48 - Superintendents And Assistants; Qualifications
  The state superintendent shall possess scientific and technical knowledge of the construction and use of standards of weights and measures. All county and municipal...
• Section 51:1-49 - State Superintendent And Assistants; Salaries
  The salary of the state superintendent shall be forty-five hundred dollars per annum. The state superintendent shall fix the salaries of his assistant superintendents...
• Section 51:1-50 - County And Municipal Superintendents And Assistants; Salaries
  The salaries of county and municipal superintendents and their assistant superintendents shall be fixed by the governing body of such county or municipality.
• Section 51:1-51 - County Superintendents; Expenses
  Each county superintendent shall receive the actual necessary expenses incurred by him personally in performing the duties of his office, such as transportation, livery,...
• Section 51:1-52 - County And Municipal Superintendents; Under Civil Service
  All county and municipal superintendents in counties and municipalities operating under the provisions of subtitle 3 of the title Civil Service (s. 11:19-1 et...
• Section 51:1-53 - County And Municipal Superintendents; Assistants And Secretaries; Tenure Of Office; Hearing Prior To Discharge, Etc.
  The county superintendents and municipal superintendents and the secretaries and assistant superintendents appointed by the respective county, municipal or other governing bodies or by...
• Section 51:1-54 - State Superintendent As Administrator
  The State superintendent shall have general supervision of the administration of the provisions of Title 51 of the Revised Statutes. He shall have general...
• Section 51:1-54.1 - Issuance Of Subpenas
  The State superintendent shall have the power to issue subpenas to compel the production of any pertinent records, books, or documents or the attendance...
• Section 51:1-54.2 - Weighing And Measuring Devices; Registration; Fees
  6. a. All weighing and measuring devices located within the State and operated or used for commercial purposes shall be registered with the State...
• Section 51:1-54.3 - Fees; Amounts, Schedule; Use
  7. a. The State superintendent shall establish a fee schedule, including the imposition of late charges when appropriate, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act,"...
• Section 51:1-54.4 - Weights And Measures Fund
  8. a. There is established the "Weights and Measures Fund" as a non-lapsing revolving fund in the Department of Law and Public Safety into...
• Section 51:1-55 - Standards
  The State superintendent shall be the custodian of all standards of weight and measure. He shall procure, at the expense of the State, a...
• Section 51:1-56 - Establish Containers For Farm Products
  The state superintendent may in cooperation with the state department of agriculture from time to time establish and promulgate standards for containers for agricultural...
• Section 51:1-58 - Seals And Certificates
  The state superintendent shall provide a suitable official seal to be used by him during his term of office and to be surrendered by...
• Section 51:1-59 - Annual Tests In State Departments
  The state superintendent or one of his assistants shall, at least once annually, test all weights and measures used in checking the receipt or...
• Section 51:1-60 - Records
  The state superintendent shall keep a complete record of all the orders and rules of his department, of all the standards, balances and other...
• Section 51:1-61 - Regulations
  The State superintendent may adopt, pursuant to the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L. 1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.), rules and...
• Section 51:1-62 - Disseminate Information
  The state superintendent shall disseminate such information to the citizens of this state as will tend to protect them from the use of false...
• Section 51:1-63 - Superintendents And Assistants; Enforcement Of Laws; Power To Weigh Commodities
  All superintendents and all assistant superintendents are hereby charged with the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter. They shall have full power to...
• Section 51:1-64 - Identification Device
  Each weights and measures officer shall be issued a badge or a similar identification device displaying his official number when he has satisfactorily completed...
• Section 51:1-65 - County And Municipal Superintendents; Custodians Of Standards; Annual Inspections Of Weights And Measures
  Each county or municipal superintendent shall procure, at the expense of said county or municipality, a set of legal standards, properly certified by the...
• Section 51:1-66 - Exclusive Use Of Standards
  No standards, whether furnished by the United States or duly certified by it, or by the state superintendent shall be used by any superintendent...
• Section 51:1-67 - Standards Or Copies To Be Furnished To Assistants
  All assistant superintendents shall be provided with suitable standards, or copies thereof for use in the performance of their duties.
• Section 51:1-68 - County And Municipal Superintendents; Jurisdiction; Special Designations By State Superintendent
  The jurisdiction of county superintendents and their assistant superintendents shall extend throughout the county for which they were appointed except that it shall not...
• Section 51:1-69 - State Superintendent May Send Assistants Into Any County
  The state superintendent shall send an assistant state superintendent into any county where a county superintendent has not been appointed. He may, however, send...
• Section 51:1-70 - Superintendents To Keep Records; Monthly Reports
  Every superintendent shall keep a complete record of all standards examined by him. Every municipal and county superintendent shall, not later than the fifth...
• Section 51:1-71 - Superintendents; Annual Reports
  Every municipal and county superintendent shall also make an annual report in writing, duly subscribed and sworn to by him of his work to...
• Section 51:1-72 - Annual Report
  51:1-72. The State superintendent shall within 30 days after the last day of the State fiscal year make a report to the Legislature which...
• Section 51:1-73 - Definitions; Public Weighmaster; Private Weighmaster
  The words "public weighmaster" as used in this title, shall be deemed to mean and include all firms, corporations, copartners or individuals who shall,...
• Section 51:1-74 - Term; Certificate Of Appointment; Fee; Use
  51:1-74. All public weighmasters and certified weighers shall be appointed by the State Superintendent of Weights and Measures for the term of three years....
• Section 51:1-75 - Oath Of Office; No Compensation From State; Duties
  Each public weighmaster and certified weigher shall, before entering upon his duties, make oath to execute faithfully his duties. He shall not receive compensation...
• Section 51:1-76 - Seal
  Every weighmaster and certified weigher shall, at his own expense, provide himself with a seal. His name and the words "New Jersey" , shall...
• Section 51:1-77 - Certificate Of Weight And Measure; Contents; Prima Facie Evidence
  The state superintendent of weights and measures shall prescribe the sole form of certificate of weight and measure to be used by public weighmasters....
• Section 51:1-77.1 - Certification Of Tare Weight By Weighmaster
  2.Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a public weighmaster appointed pursuant to R.S.51:1-74 shall certify the tare weight of a vehicle...
• Section 51:1-78 - Reweighing On Complaint
  When the correctness of the net or gross weight of any commodity, for which a certificate of weight or measure has been issued by...
• Section 51:1-79 - Records Of Public Weighings
  All public weighmasters shall keep and preserve accurate records for a period of six years of all public weighings, which records shall be available...
• Section 51:1-80 - Penalties; Requesting False Weighing; False Certificate Or Other Violation By Weighmaster
  Any person, who shall request a weighmaster to weigh any product, commodity, or article falsely or incorrectly, or who shall request a false or...
• Section 51:1-80.1 - Weighing On Scales Outside State Authorized
  The state superintendent of weights and measures may designate any weighmaster duly appointed under the provisions of sections 51:1-73 to 51:1-80 of this title,...
• Section 51:1-81 - Weighing Of Live Stock, Hay And Grain; Report To Owner; Record
  Any weighmaster who shall for hire or reward weigh any live stock, hay or grain, shall on demand of the party interested, report the...
• Section 51:1-82 - Fraudulent Report Of Weight; Penalties; Imprisonment; Double Damages; Interstate Carriers, Inapplicable To
  Any person who owns, operates, keeps, or has in his possession, control or charge any scales, steelyards or weights who shall certify, declare, represent,...
• Section 51:1-82.1 - State-owned Scales; Weighmasters
  The superintendent of the division of weights and measures in the Department of Law and Public Safety may, subject to the approval of the...
• Section 51:1-83 - Only Sealed Weights And Measures To Be Used; Violations Resulting In Injury Voids Contract
  No person shall buy or sell goods or service based on weight or measurement by the use of any weight or measure which has...
• Section 51:1-84 - Testing And Sealing Of All Weights And Measures; Fee Collection
  51:1-84. a. All weights and measures used in trade shall be tested and sealed at least once in each year. Any superintendent shall also...
• Section 51:1-85 - Tests Made At Request Of Owner; Defective Weights Or Measures; Penalty
  Whenever any inspection of weights and measures has been made upon the request of the owner thereof, if they shall be found not to...
• Section 51:1-86 - Tests; Defective Weights, Etc.; Additional Penalty.
  51:1-86. Upon the first official inspection of any weight or measure, except where the inspection is made upon the request of the owner thereof,...
• Section 51:1-87 - Refusal To Seal Weight, Etc., Easily Arranged To Defraud; Review
  Any superintendent or assistant superintendent may decline to seal any weight or measure which is so constructed as to facilitate the perpetration of fraud....
• Section 51:1-88 - Examination Mandated
  No person shall refuse to exhibit any weights, measures, packages, containers, weight certificates, delivery tickets, invoices or any other documents setting forth the quantity...
• Section 51:1-89 - General Penalty
  Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter for which a specific penalty has not been provided shall be liable to a...
• Section 51:1-90 - Hindering Official; Penalty
  No person shall in any way or manner hinder or molest any superintendent, deputy superintendent, assistant superintendent, inspector, or other weights and measures officer...
• Section 51:1-91 - Changing Weight Or Measure Prohibited
  No person shall alter or change in any manner any weight or measure, or allow the same to be done, after the same has...
• Section 51:1-93 - Legal Standard
  Every weight or measure sold, leased or delivered after sale to any person within the State for use in the purchase or sale of...
• Section 51:1-94 - Retention Of False Weights, Etc.; Misdemeanor
  Any person who shall retain in his possession any weight, measure or container, knowing it to be false, unless it appears beyond a reasonable...
• Section 51:1-95 - Marking Of Short Weights And Tares; Misdemeanor
  Any person who shall knowingly mark false or short weights or false tare on any container, or who shall knowingly sell or offer for...
• Section 51:1-96 - Penalties For Using False Weights
  a. No person shall use, or cause to be used, or have in his possession: (1) a weight or measure found to be incorrect...
• Section 51:1-97 - Illegal Weighing Activities; Penalties
  a. No person shall: (1) Sell or expose for sale less than the quantity represented of a commodity or service; (2) Take any more...
• Section 51:1-98 - Deviations; Scale Of Penalties
  Any deviation from the standards prescribed in this chapter, either in weights or measures or in containers in which any commodity is sold or...
• Section 51:1-99.1 - Prior Violations Not Included
  No conviction of a violation of Title 51 of the Revised Statutes prior to the effective date of this 1986 amendatory and supplementary act...
• Section 51:1-100 - Separate Violations
  The use, ownership or possession of each separate weight, measure, container or commodity in package form in violation of any of the provisions of...
• Section 51:1-101 - Presence Of Weights, Etc., Presumptive Evidence Of Use
  Proof of the existence of weights or measures in or about any place or vehicle, in or from which it is shown trade is...
• Section 51:1-102 - Certificate
  Each weight or measure used by any weights and measures officer as a standard for testing the weights and measures used in trade, commerce...
• Section 51:1-103 - Jurisdiction For Action
  An action for the recovery of a penalty for violation of Title 51 of the Revised Statutes shall be within the jurisdiction of and...
• Section 51:1-103.1 - Injunctions
  Whenever it appears that a person engages in practices in violation of Title 51 of the Revised Statutes or regulations adopted pursuant thereto and...
• Section 51:1-105 - Penalty Enforcement
  A penalty incurred for the violation of any of the provisions of this Title may be enforced pursuant to "the penalty enforcement law," (N.J.S....
• Section 51:1-106 - Arrest; Confiscation
  A weights and measures officer, on the violation of any of the provisions of this Title within his view or presence, may without warrant...
• Section 51:1-107 - Appeal; No Bond Or Deposit Required When State Appeals
  Any party may appeal from a judgment rendered or sentence imposed pursuant to section 51:1-105 of this Title. Where the State is the appellant...
• Section 51:1-109 - Disposition Of Penalties
  Penalties, when imposed or recovered in any action brought by the state superintendent or his assistant superintendents shall be payable to the state treasurer....
• Section 51:1-110 - Costs To Prevailing Party In Superior Or Municipal Court; Provision In Budgets
  51:1-110. In all actions brought under the provisions of this chapter in the Superior Court or municipal court, the prevailing party therein shall be...
• Section 51:1-111 - City Attorney Or County Prosecutor To Aid In Prosecution
  The city attorney of any municipality wherein a violation of any provision of this chapter shall take place shall assist in the prosecution of...
• Section 51:1-113 - Definitions
  Definitions: For the purpose of this act, the following words shall be deemed to have the meaning herein given them: (a) "Department" shall mean...
• Section 51:1-114 - License And Registration To Engage In Business
  It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the business of selling, trading-in, receiving, installing or repairing condemned, rebuilt or used weighing...
• Section 51:1-115 - Application For License And Registration; Verification Under Oath
  Application for the said license and registration shall be made to the department upon the form prescribed and furnished by the State Superintendent of...
• Section 51:1-116 - Examination And Inquiry; Issuance Of License And Registration
  Upon the application being filed, the State Superintendent of Weights and Measures shall examine into the same and cause an inquiry to be made...
• Section 51:1-117 - Conduct Of Examinations
  Examinations shall be conducted by the State Superintendent of Weights and Measures, his duly authorized assistants, or by any competent weights and measures officer...
• Section 51:1-118 - Rules And Regulations
  The State Superintendent of Weights and Measures shall issue rules and regulations governing the examination of applicants for licenses to repair weighing and measuring...
• Section 51:1-119 - License To Repair Limited Classes Or Kinds Of Devices
  The State Superintendent of Weights and Measures may, at his discretion, issue to any applicant, under the terms of the regulations authorized by this...
• Section 51:1-120 - Issuance Of Licenses To Repair Devices
  Any person who qualifies in the form and manner prescribed by the regulations authorized under the terms of this act to repair weighing or...
• Section 51:1-121 - Licenses And Registrations; Term; Renewal; Contents
  Licenses and registrations shall be issued for a term of one year from the date of issue and shall be renewable at the expiration...
• Section 51:1-122 - Revocation Or Suspension Of License; Grounds; Hearing; Notice
  The State Superintendent of Weights and Measures may revoke or suspend the license of any person convicted of any violation of this act or...
• Section 51:1-123 - Report Of Repair Work Done By Licensee
  Any person licensed to repair weighing or measuring devices shall report to the department or to the weights and measures officer of his county...
• Section 51:1-124 - Notice And Statement To State Department Or County Or Municipal Superintendent Of Weights And Measures
  Every person engaged as in this act provided shall within ten (10) days, after the making of a repair, or the sale and delivery...
• Section 51:1-125 - Condemned Weighing Or Measuring Devices
  Any person who accepts any weighing or measuring device which has been condemned by any weights and measures officer, in trade for a new...
• Section 51:1-126 - Comparison And Calibration Of Testing Equipment
  Every person engaged in any business covered by the provisions of this act shall submit their testing equipment at least once a year to...
• Section 51:1-127 - Record Or Register
  Every person licensed and registered pursuant to the provisions of this act shall maintain a record or register in which the following information shall...
• Section 51:1-128 - Fees; Use
  16. Every person who maintains or carries on the business of selling, trading in, receiving, or engaging in the repairing of condemned, rebuilt, or...
• Section 51:1-129 - Administration Of Act; Rules And Regulations
  The State Superintendent of Weights and Measures shall have general supervision of the administration of this act and shall make such rules and regulations...
• Section 51:1-130 - Enforcement Of Act
  The State Superintendent of Weights and Measures, his duly authorized assistants and inspectors, county and assistant county superintendents of weights and measures and inspectors,...
• Section 51:1-131 - Penalties For Violations Of Act
  Any person violating any of the provisions of this act, shall, upon being found guilty of a first offense, pay a fine of not...
• Section 51:1-132 - Recovery Of Penalties, Procedure
  20. A proceeding to recover any penalty incurred under the provisions of this act, or acts supplementary or amendatory thereof, may be brought in...
• Section 51:1-133 - Exceptions To Application Of Act
  The provisions of this act shall not be applicable to any person or to a bona fide employee solely and exclusively employed by such...
• Section 51:3-1 - Pillars Showing True Meridian; Verification Of Meridian Line
  51:3-1. The board of chosen freeholders of each county shall erect, and properly inclose and protect at public spots, adjacent to the courthouse of...
• Section 51:3-2 - Custody Of Pillars And Inclosure; Free Access Thereto
  The said pillars and inclosure shall be subject to the custody of the county clerk. Any surveyor of lands, or civil engineer, residing in...
• Section 51:3-3 - Injuring Pillars; Misdemeanor
  Any person who shall willfully erase, alter, deface, displace, destroy, carry away or otherwise injure any such pillar or inclosure, or any part thereof,...
• Section 51:3-4 - Variation Of Compass; Testing; Certificate; Filing; Fees
  Every surveyor engaged in surveying land within this state, shall test and note the actual variation of his compass from the true meridian line...
• Section 51:3-5 - Penalty For Violation; Recovery
  Every surveyor, who shall neglect or refuse to comply with the provisions of section 51:3-4 of this title, shall for each offense, be liable...
• Section 51:3-6 - Salem And Cumberland Counties
  L.1869, c. 228, p. 566, entitled "Supplement to the act to establish a meridian line standard in the several counties of this state," approved...
• Section 51:3-7 - Official Survey Base Established; Plane Co-ordinates
  51:3-7. The official survey base for New Jersey shall be a system of plane co-ordinates to be known as the New Jersey system of...
• Section 51:3-8 - Connecting Property Surveys With System Of Co-ordinates
  51:3-8. Any triangulation or traverse station established as described in section 51:3-7 of this title shall be used in establishing a connection between a...
• Section 51:3-9 - Indorsement Of Surveys
  No survey of lands hereinafter made shall have indorsed thereon any legend or other statement indicating that it is based upon the New Jersey...
• Section 51:3-10 - Reliance Wholly On System Not Required
  Nothing in this article contained shall be interpreted as requiring any purchaser or mortgagee to rely on a description based wholly upon the aforesaid
• Section 51:4-1 - Deception In Sale Of Liquid Fuels And Oils Prohibited; Certain Marks Allowed
  No person, firm, partnership, association or corporation, their agents and servants, shall store, expose or offer for sale, or sell, or aid or assist...
• Section 51:4-2 - Violations; Punishment
  Any person, firm, partnership, association or corporation, or any servant, agent or employee thereof, who shall violate section 51:4-1 of this Title shall be...
• Section 51:4-3 - Inflammable Fluids To Be Sold By True Names; Marking Of Containers
  Benzole, gasoline, naphtha and benzine shall be sold, or offered or exposed for sale, under their true names respectively, plainly shown upon the container...
• Section 51:4-4 - Flash Or Fire Test For Certain Fluids; Misdemeanor
  It shall not be lawful for any person to keep or offer for sale or use in any place or building within this state,...
• Section 51:4-5 - Sale Of Kerosene, Etc., For Illumination; Marking Containers
  Petroleum or kerosene, which will flash at a temperature less than one hundred degrees Fahrenheit, flash test, shall have plainly marked upon the container,...
• Section 51:4-6 - State Department Of Health To Determine Character Of Illuminating Oils
  The state department of health shall determine and declare the means of ascertaining whether petroleum or kerosene to be sold for illuminating purposes is...
• Section 51:4-7 - Test Of Illuminating Oils; Notice Prohibiting Sale
  The state department of health, or any analyst or inspector authorized by such department, or any member of a county or municipal board of...
• Section 51:4-8 - Sales Within State; Presumption
  The provisions of sections 51:4-3 to 51:4-7 of this title shall apply only to petroleum or its products sold for use within this state....
• Section 51:4-9 - Violations; Punishment
  Any person who shall violate any provision of sections 51:4-3 to 51:4-8 of this Title shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and except as...
• Section 51:4-9.1 - Sale Or Offer To Sell Of Kerosene Of Grade 2k Or With 0.04% Or Greater Sulfur Content; Warning; Posting; Violations; Penalties; Inspections
  a. Every pump used or connected with the sale or offer for sale at retail of the grade of kerosene commonly known as 2-K,...
• Section 51:4-9.2 - Rules And Regulations
  The State Superintendent of Weights and Measures in the Division of Consumer Affairs, Department of Law and Public Safety, shall adopt, pursuant to the...
• Section 51:4-10 - Adulterated Turpentine Or Spirits Of Turpentine To Be So Labeled
  No person shall manufacture, mix for sale, offer or expose for sale, have in possession with intent to sell, or sell under the name...
• Section 51:4-11 - Linseed Oil Must Be Commercially Pure Linseed Or Flaxseed Products
  No person shall sell under the name of raw linseed oil any article which is not wholly the product of commercially pure linseed or
• Section 51:4-12 - Boiled Linseed Oil
  No person shall sell under the name of boiled linseed oil or boiled oil, any article unless the oil from which said article was...
• Section 51:4-13 - Adulterated Linseed Oil To Be Labeled
  Compounds, mixtures and preparations of raw or boiled linseed oil to which some other substance has been added may be manufactured, mixed and sold...
• Section 51:4-14 - Purchaser Of Adulterated Turpentine Or Linseed Oil To Be Informed
  No person shall sell or deliver adulterated spirits of turpentine, adulterated raw linseed oil or adulterated boiled linseed oil without informing the purchaser at...
• Section 51:4-15 - Penalties
  Any person who shall violate any provision of this article shall be liable to a penalty of $100.00 for the first offense, to a...
• Section 51:4-16 - Enforcement; Inspection; Recovery Of Penalties
  The state department of health shall enforce the provisions of this article. All its inspectors shall have free access to all places, where spirits...
• Section 51:4-23 - Definitions.
  1.As used in this act: "Building materials" means lumber, wood and wood product materials regulated by the Superintendent of the Office of Weights and...
• Section 51:4-24 - Compliance With Act Required For Lawful Sale
  It shall be unlawful for any dealer to sell, sell and deliver, offer or advertise for sale to consumers by the use of any...
• Section 51:4-25 - License.
  3.It shall be unlawful for any dealer to engage in the business of selling or selling and delivering building materials, to a consumer for...
• Section 51:4-26 - License; Application, Fee, Expiration.
  4.Applications for a license shall be made upon forms prescribed and furnished by the superintendent and shall list the places of business of the...
• Section 51:4-27 - Grading, Measuring And Labeling
  All lumber, wood products and building materials shall be graded, measured and labeled in accordance with the applicable commercial standards of the United States...
• Section 51:4-28 - Delivery Ticket, Form And Content; Filing Of Voided Tickets.
  6.No dealer shall deliver or cause to be delivered by vehicles under his own control or the control of any contractor or other carrier...
• Section 51:4-29 - Misrepresentation, Mislabeling Or Misbranding; Misdemeanor
  Any person who misrepresents, mislabels or misbrands any lumber, wood product or building material or who causes a deviation from the applicable standards, rules...
• Section 51:4-30 - Sale Or Purchase In Compliance With Superintendent's Standards, Rules Or Regulations
  No person shall sell, expose for sale, offer for sale in this State, buy for the purpose of resale or manufacture for the purpose...
• Section 51:4-31 - Rules, Regulations Or Orders
  The superintendent is authorized to establish and promulgate such rules, regulations or orders as he may deem necessary to implement the enforcement or administration...
• Section 51:4-32 - Administration And Enforcement By Superintendent; Power And Authority Of Weights And Measures Officials.
  10.The superintendent shall have general supervision of the administration and enforcement of this act. All weights and measures officials shall have full power and...
• Section 51:4-33 - Stop-use, Stop-removal, Removal, Condemnation, Or Confiscating Orders; Liability Of Consumers.
  11.In the event that the superintendent or any of his agents or employees or any weights and measures officials issue any stop-use, stop-removal, removal,...
• Section 51:4-34 - Revocation, Suspension, Restriction Or Refusal To Issue Or Renew License; Hearing
  The superintendent may, after proper notice and hearing, revoke, suspend, restrict or otherwise limit, or refuse to issue or renew any license issued or...
• Section 51:4-35 - Employment Of Specialists And Experts
  The superintendent may from time to time employ on a temporary basis such specialists and experts as he may deem necessary in carrying out...
• Section 51:4-36 - Legal Proceedings Or Processes
  The superintendent is empowered to institute, or cause to be instituted such legal proceedings or processes as may be necessary to enforce and give...
• Section 51:4-37 - Authority To Issue Subpoenas; Court Action
  15. The superintendent shall have the power to issue subpoenas to compel production of any pertinent records, books or documents or the attendance of...
• Section 51:4-38 - Violations; Penalties; Collection And Enforcement; Process.
  16.Any person who knowingly violates any of the provisions of this act for which specific penalty or punishment is not otherwise provided, shall pay...
• Section 51:5-1 - Manufacture Or Sale Of Gold Articles With False Quality Marks
  No person shall make for sale or sell, or offer to sell or dispose of, or have in his possession with intent to sell...
• Section 51:5-2 - Tests And Standards For Determining Fineness Of Gold
  In any test for the ascertainment of the fineness of the gold or its alloy in any article mentioned in section 51:5-1 of this...
• Section 51:5-3 - Manufacture Or Sale Of Articles Made Of Silver, With Marks Of "Sterling" , "Coin" , Etc., Where Articles Less Than Certain Fineness
  No person shall make for sale, sell or offer to sell or dispose of, or have in his possession with intent to sell or...
• Section 51:5-4 - Tests For Determining Fineness Of Silver; Additional Standards
  In any test for the ascertainment of the fineness of any article mentioned in section 51:5-3 of this title, according to the standards therein...
• Section 51:5-5 - Manufacture Or Sale Of Gold Plated Articles Without Indicating They Are Plated
  No person shall make for sale, sell, or offer to sell or dispose of or have in his possession with intent to sell or...
• Section 51:5-6 - Manufacture Or Sale Of Silver Plated Articles With False Marks Of "Sterling" Or "Coin" Thereon
  No person shall make for sale, sell or offer to sell or dispose of, or have in his possession with intent to sell or...
• Section 51:5-7 - Penalty For Violations
  Every person, firm, corporation or association guilty of a violation of any provision of this chapter, and every officer, manager, director or managing agent...
• Section 51:6-1 - Definitions
  As used in this chapter: a. The term "article" means any article of merchandise and includes any portion of such article, whether a distinct...
• Section 51:6-2 - Quality Mark Not To Apply To Mechanism And Other Enumerated Things
  When an article is composed of mechanism, works or movements and of a case or cover containing the mechanism, works or movements, a quality...
• Section 51:6-3 - Trade-marks On Articles
  If there is any quality mark printed, stamped or branded on the article itself, there must also be printed, stamped or branded on the...
• Section 51:6-4 - Quality Marks Described; Marks Refer To Weight
  All quality marks applied to any article shall be equal in size and equally visible, legible, clear and distinct, and no quality mark which...
• Section 51:6-5 - Marking Contents And Quality Of Pure Platinum And Platinum Combined With Other Metals
  There shall not be applied to any article any quality mark or any colorable imitation thereof, nor any contraction thereof, nor any addition thereto,...
• Section 51:6-6 - Abbreviations Permissible
  Whenever provided for in this chapter except as specifically excepted in paragraph "d" of section 51:6-5 of this title, the word "platinum" may be...
• Section 51:6-7 - Penalty
  Any person, firm, partnership, corporation or association, or any officer, manager, director, employee or agent thereof, who shall sell or offer or expose for...
• Section 51:6-8 - Articles Manufactured Prior To July 4, 1929, Not Affected
  The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any article manufactured prior to July fourth, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine.
• Section 51:6-9 - Presumption As To When Article Was Manufactured
  In any action relating to the enforcement of this chapter, proof that an article has been marked in violation of the provisions of this...
• Section 51:6-10 - Certificate Of Federal Assay Office As Prima Facie Proof Of Weight Or Fineness
  In any action relating to the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter, a certificate duly issued by an assay office of the treasury...
• Section 51:6a-1 - Buyer On Basis Of Bulk Value; Duties; Serialized Receipts; Digital Photographs.
  1.Any person in the business of buying precious metals who buys, attempts to buy or offers to buy precious metals on the basis of...
• Section 51:6a-2 - Registration Of Buyer; Transient Buyer; Additional Requirements; Violation; Penalty
  A buyer of precious metals as provided for in this act shall, before buying, attempting to buy or offering to buy any precious metals,...
• Section 51:6a-3 - Penalties.
  3.Any person who violates any provision of this act shall be liable to a mandatory penalty of not less than $500 nor more than...
• Section 51:6a-4 - Arrest Without Warrant
  On the violation of any of the provisions of this act within his view, a weights and measures officer may without warrant arrest the...
• Section 51:6a-5 - Definitions
  For purposes of this act: a. "Precious metals" means gold, silver, platinum, palladium and alloys thereof. b. "His name and address" means the name...
• Section 51:6a-6 - Inapplicability Of Act To Government Agencies, Banks, Or Commodity Markets
  This act is not applicable to government agencies, State or Federally chartered banks or Federally regulated commodity markets. L.1981, c. 96, s. 6.
• Section 51:6a-7 - Right Of Municipalities To Enact More Restrictive Ordinances Or Resolutions
  This act is not intended, and nothing in this act shall be construed to preclude the right of any municipality to adopt and enforce...
• Section 51:6a-8 - Severability
  If the provisions of any section, subsection, paragraph, subdivision or clause of this act shall be adjudged invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction,...
• Section 51:6a-9 - Certification Of Weight Or Measure Used By Precious Metals Buyer.
  3. a. Upon the first official inspection of any weight or measure used by a precious metals buyer not subject to the provisions of...
• Section 51:7-1 - Definitions
  For the purpose of this chapter the following words shall be deemed to have the meaning herein given: a. "Department" shall mean state department...
• Section 51:7-2 - Transporting Anthracite Into State Over Highways By Motor Vehicle; Certificate Of Origin Required; Signatures
  It shall be unlawful for any person to transport over the highways of this State any anthracite brought into this State by motor vehicle...
• Section 51:7-3 - Contents Of Certificate Of Origin
  The certificate of origin shall contain the following: a. The name or names and location of, and the name or names of the owners...
• Section 51:7-4 - Issuance Of Certificates; Nontransferable; False Certificate
  The certificates of origin as herein provided shall be issued only on forms to be supplied, on application therefor, by the superintendent of the...
• Section 51:7-5 - Duplicate Certificate Filed With Weighmaster
  Any person bringing anthracite into this State from outside of this State and said anthracite is to be sold or delivered within the boundaries...
• Section 51:7-6 - Revoking License To Sell Solid Fuel; Voiding Certificate Of Origin
  The superintendent of the department shall revoke the license of any person licensed to sell solid fuel in this State who buys, sells or...
• Section 51:7-7 - Enforcement Of Chapter
  All weights and measures officers in this State, in addition to their various duties now provided for by law, are hereby charged with the...
• Section 51:7-8 - Penalty For Violations
  Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter shall upon being found guilty of such offense pay a fine of not...
• Section 51:7-9 - Procedure For Recovery Of Penalties; Jurisdiction
  51:7-9. Any penalty incurred under the provisions of this chapter shall be sued for in the name of the State of New Jersey by...
• Section 51:8-1 - Definitions
  For the purpose of this chapter the following words shall be deemed to have the meaning herein given them: a. "Department" shall mean the...
• Section 51:8-2 - Sale, Etc., Not In Accordance With Chapter Unlawful
  It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, deliver, or sell and deliver, or weigh or issue weight certificates for, solid fuel in...
• Section 51:8-3 - Enforcement; Jurisdiction Over Inspectors
  All weights and measures officers in this state, in addition to their various duties now provided for by law, are hereby charged with the...
• Section 51:8-4 - General Supervision By Superintendent; Rules And Regulations
  The superintendent of the department shall have general supervision of the administration of this chapter and shall make such rules and regulations as he...
• Section 51:8-5 - License To Sell Or Deliver Solid Fuel; Certificates Of License; License Plates; Issuance; Terms; Fees; Display; Emergency Plates; Expiration; Revocation Or Refusal To Issue; Names On Vehicles
  It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the business of selling, delivering or selling and delivering solid fuel in this State...
• Section 51:8-6 - Sale By Weight Only; Pounds To The Ton; Weighmaster To Weigh
  All solid fuel shall be sold by weight. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or deliver or start out for delivery...
• Section 51:8-7 - Weighing Fuel Of Unequipped Dealer On Scales Of Equipped Dealer
  Unequipped dealers engaged in the sale, or sale and delivery of solid fuel in this state purchased from and weighed over the scales of...
• Section 51:8-8 - Weighing Fuel Of Unequipped Dealer On Approved Scales; Procedure
  Unequipped dealers engaged in the sale and delivery of solid fuel in this state, except as provided in section 51:8-7 of this title, shall...
• Section 51:8-9 - Weight Certificates; Necessity Of; Contents; Delivery Tickets; Exceptions
  It shall be unlawful for any person to deliver or cause to be delivered or to be started out for delivery any solid fuel...
• Section 51:8-10 - Substituting Name Of Another Person In Weight Certificate
  Where any person shall be unable to deliver solid fuel to the purchaser originally designated in the weight certificate, he may, by direction of...
• Section 51:8-11 - Weighing Fuel In Process Of Delivery
  Any weights and measures officer who finds any quantity of solid fuel ready for or in process of delivery may direct the person in...
• Section 51:8-12 - Who May Issue Weight Certificates; Certificate Of Designation As Weighmaster; Application; Period; Revocation; Substitution Of Weighmaster
  It shall be unlawful for any person to make or issue a weight certificate for solid fuel unless certified as a weighmaster by the...
• Section 51:8-13 - Disposition Of License Fees; Payments To Counties And Municipalities Of Moneys Collected
  All license fees required to be collected by the superintendent of the division under the provisions of this chapter shall be turned over to...
• Section 51:8-14 - Violations; Penalties
  It shall be unlawful: a. For any weighmaster to issue a false or incorrect weight certificate or for any person to solicit him so...
• Section 51:8-15 - Procedure For Recovery Of Penalties
  An action to recover any penalty incurred under the provisions of this chapter may be brought in the name of the State of New...
• Section 51:8-16 - Arrest Without Warrant
  51:8-16. For violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, done within the view of any weights and measures officer, such weights and...
• Section 51:8-19 - Disposition Of Penalties
  All fines and penalties collected from persons offending against the provisions of this chapter shall be paid by the magistrate or court clerk receiving...
• Section 51:9-1 - Definitions
  As used in this chapter: a. The words "liquid fuels" shall be deemed to mean and to include fuel in liquid form, which can...
• Section 51:9-2 - Only Approved Measuring Devices To Be Used; Certificate Of Approval
  It shall be illegal to use or to employ any measuring device for use in the purchase or sale of any liquid fuel without...
• Section 51:9-3 - Sale By Volume; Unit Of Volume
  All liquid fuel shall be sold by volume. The unit of volume shall be the standard United States gallon.
• Section 51:9-4 - Calculating Volume By Weight; Tables For Conversion Of Weight To Volume And Temperature Corrections
  If the volume be calculated by weight, the net weight shall be determined by means of a scale of approved type and capacity, tested...
• Section 51:9-5 - Measuring Quantities Between 50 And 10,000 Gallons; Exceptions
  Each sale or delivery of liquid fuel exceeding 50 gallons but not exceeding 10,000 gallons shall be measured by means of a positive displacement...
• Section 51:9-6 - Measuring Quantities Over 10,000 Gallons
  Deliveries of quantities in excess of 10,000 gallons may be measured through a meter or from compartments which have been calibrated and whose indicators...
• Section 51:9-7 - Delivery Tickets; Duplicates; Contents
  A delivery ticket and duplicate thereof shall be issued upon the completion of delivery of each sale or delivery of liquid fuel exceeding 10...
• Section 51:9-8 - Adjustment, Repair Or Alteration Of Measuring Device; Removing Meter From Tank
  It shall be unlawful after the approval, testing and sealing of any measuring device and equipment used in delivering liquid fuel, to adjust, repair...
• Section 51:9-9 - Delivery Measured By Approved Device; Misrepresenting Quantity
  No person shall deliver any liquid fuel without the same having been measured by a measuring device approved, tested and sealed in accordance with...
• Section 51:9-9.1 - Residential Oil Fill Pipe, Regulations, Violations, Fees
  a. The owner of any residential dwelling served by a home heating oil tank shall provide that the cap of any exterior heating oil...
• Section 51:9-10 - Rules And Regulations
  The State Superintendent of Weights and Measures shall make such rules and regulations governing the type of all measuring devices and equipment used in...
• Section 51:9-11 - Penalties; Amount; Disposition; Municipal Attorney To Assist In Prosecution
  Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, pay a penalty of not less than $50.00 nor more...
• Section 51:9-12 - Summons Or Warrant To Issue
  51:9-12. A complaint having been made to the Superior Court or a municipal court by any weights and measures official, that any person has...
• Section 51:9-16 - Request To Attorney-general To Attend
  The county prosecutor of any county, charged with the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter, may request the Attorney-General to attend personally, or...
• Section 51:9-17 - Entitling Proceedings
  All proceedings for the violation of the provisions of this chapter shall run in the name of the State of New Jersey with the...
• Section 51:9-18 - Arrest Without Warrant
  51:9-18. Any police officer, or weights and measures official is hereby authorized to arrest, without warrant, any person violating, in the presence of such...
• Section 51:9-20 - Summons Or Warrant Valid Throughout State; Arrest In County Other Than Where Violation Occurred; Procedure
  51:9-20. A summons or warrant issued by any court having jurisdiction in accordance with the provisions of this chapter shall be valid throughout the...
• Section 51:10-1 - Terms Defined
  1. For the purpose of this act the following words shall be deemed to have the meaning herein given them: (a) "Liquefied petroleum gas"...
• Section 51:10-2 - Liquefied Petroleum Gas; Units Of Measurement
  Liquefied petroleum gas shall be sold or offered for sale by avoirdupois net weight, by liquid measure based on the standard United States gallon...
• Section 51:10-3 - Package Weight; Liquefied Petroleum Gas; Variations
  When liquefied petroleum gas is sold or offered for sale by package weight, variations at the rate of one pound per one hundred pounds...
• Section 51:10-4 - Markings On Containers Or Labels; Tare Weight
  Containers used where the gas content is sold by package weight must have the tare weight plainly and conspicuously marked on the container or...
• Section 51:10-5 - Removal Of Container From Premises; Weighing Liquefied Petroleum Gas Remaining
  When liquefied petroleum gas is sold or delivered in package form and the cylinder or container is connected to the consumer's apparatus, the said...
• Section 51:10-6 - Delivery Tickets And Duplicates
  Each delivery of liquefied petroleum gas sold on a package basis in cylinders or containers to consumers and each delivery of such gas from...
• Section 51:10-7 - Meter And Pertinent Equipment
  When liquefied petroleum gas is sold by liquid measure and measured by meter, the meter and pertinent equipment must be such as to assure...
• Section 51:10-8 - Artificial Heat To Expand Liquefied Petroleum Gas Being Delivered Prohibited
  The use of artificial heat for the purpose of expanding liquefied petroleum gas before or during the process of delivery, when the basis of...
• Section 51:10-9 - Sealing Of New Meters; Regulations
  New meters for measuring liquefied petroleum gas sold in the vapor state shall be sealed by the manufacturer thereof as hereinafter provided or by...
• Section 51:10-10 - Types And Designs Of Scales And Meters
  All scales and meters used for the weighing or measuring of liquefied petroleum gas shall be of types and designs approved by the superintendent...
• Section 51:10-11 - Rules, Regulations, Specifications And Tolerances
  The superintendent of the division of weights and measures of the Department of Law and Public Safety is authorized after a public hearing duly...
• Section 51:10-12 - Exemptions From Provisions Of Act
  The provisions of this act shall not apply to interstate tank car and transport truck deliveries to bulk storage, nor to public utility systems...
• Section 51:10-13 - Violations; Penalties
  Any person who shall, by himself or by his agent, or as the agent of another, violate any of the provisions of this act,...
• Section 51:10-14 - Recovery Of Penalty, Jurisdiction
  14. Any penalty shall be recovered as specified in sections 51:1-103 and 51:1-105 to 51:1-107 of the Revised Statutes. An action for the recovery...
• Section 51:10-15 - Supervision Of Administration And Enforcement Of Act
  The superintendent of the division of weights and measures of the Department of Law and Public Safety shall have general supervision of the administration...
• Section 51:10-16 - Disposition Of Penalties
  Penalties, when imposed or recovered in any action brought by the superintendent, deputy superintendent or assistant superintendents of the division of weights and measures...
• Section 51:10-17 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect July first, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-two. L.1952, c. 143, p. 500, s. 17.
• Section 51:10-18 - Discontinuance Or Curtailment Of Supply To Residential Dwellings; Advance Notice
  No supplier of liquefied petroleum gas to residential dwellings shall discontinue or curtail its service for nonpayment of a bill by any customer who...
• Section 51:10-19 - Violations; Penalties; Enforcement; Disposition; Discontinuance Not Violation; Conditions
  Any person violating this act shall be subject to a penalty of $1,000.00 for each violation. The penalty shall be enforced pursuant to "the...
• Section 51:11-1 - Definitions
  As used in this act: "Consumer" means any person who purchases soil amendments for home use, for resale, for manufacturing or for landscaping purposes....
• Section 51:11-2 - Sale By Standard Dry Measure Or Avoirdupois Net Weight; Exception
  All soil amendments shall be sold, offered or exposed for sale by standard dry measure or by avoirdupois net weight except in cases of...
• Section 51:11-3 - Sale In Package Form; Marking
  No person shall distribute, sell, offer or expose for sale or have in his possession with intent to distribute or sell any soil amendment...
• Section 51:11-4 - Delivery In Bulk Lots Exceeding 100 Pounds; Sale In Liquid Or Gaseous Form; Delivery Ticket
  No person shall deliver, start out for delivery or cause to be delivered soil amendments in bulk lots exceeding 100 pounds and not in...
• Section 51:11-5 - Sale In Bulk Amounts Of 100 Pounds Or Less; Receipt; Contents; Exception
  No person shall sell soil amendments in bulk in amounts of 100 pounds or less unless such sale is accompanied by a receipt containing...
• Section 51:11-6 - Sale Or Delivery Of Less Than Quantity Represented
  Any person who sells, exposes or offers for sale, or delivers, either in bulk or package form, less than the quantity he represents of...
• Section 51:11-7 - License To Sell From Vehicle
  No person shall canvass or solicit for the sale of, or sell, offer or expose for sale, directly from a vehicle of any kind,...
• Section 51:11-8 - Applications; Renewals; Forms
  Applications for a license or for renewal of a license shall be in writing, under oath, on forms prescribed and furnished by the superintendent...
• Section 51:11-9 - Fee
  Every person required to be licensed according to the provisions of this act shall for such license pay a fee of $50.00 per annum...
• Section 51:11-10 - Term Of License; Contents
  Licenses shall be issued for a term of 1 year from the date of issue and shall be renewable at the expiration thereof. Each...
• Section 51:11-11 - License Tags And Identification Cards
  The superintendent shall issue license tags and identification cards to every licensee. The license tags shall be plainly and conspicuously exhibited on and shall...
• Section 51:11-12 - Estimates Of Amount Required By Consumer; Regulation By Superintendent
  The licensee shall, before every sale and delivery of soil amendment, execute in duplicate a written estimate of the total amount of soil amendment...
• Section 51:11-13 - Receipt Showing Amount Delivered; Retention By Licensee For Three Years
  After every sale each licensee shall execute in duplicate a serially numbered receipt showing the quantity of soil amendment delivered, the type delivered, the...
• Section 51:11-14 - Display Of Signs On Vehicles
  No licensee shall use any vehicle for transporting any soil amendments unless the vehicle displays a sign stating the type or kind of soil...
• Section 51:11-15 - Portion Of Licensing Fee Returned To County Or Municipality
  30% of each vendor and canvasser licensee fee shall be returned to the county or municipality from which said licensing fee originated. The counties...
• Section 51:11-16 - Enforcement Of Act
  In addition to their powers and duties as prescribed by Title 51 of the Revised Statutes, all weights and measures officials in this State...
• Section 51:11-17 - Rules And Regulations
  The superintendent is authorized to establish and promulgate such rules, regulations or orders as he may deem necessary to implement the administration or the...
• Section 51:11-18 - Administration And Enforcement Of Act; Powers Of Weights And Measures Officials
  The superintendent shall have general supervision of the administration and enforcement of this act. All weights and measures officials shall have full power and...
• Section 51:11-19 - Revocation, Suspension, Restriction Or Refusal To Issue Or Renew License
  The superintendent may, after proper notice and hearing revoke, suspend, restrict, or otherwise limit, or refuse to issue or renew any license issued or...
• Section 51:11-20 - Legal Proceedings Or Processes
  The superintendent is empowered to institute, or cause to be instituted such legal proceedings or processes as may be necessary to enforce and give...
• Section 51:11-21 - Subpoenas; Oaths
  21. The superintendent shall have the power to issue subpoenas to compel production of any pertinent records, books, or documents or the attendance of...
• Section 51:11-22 - Violations; Penalties
  Any person who violates any of the provisions of this act for which a specific penalty is not otherwise provided, shall be liable to...
• Section 51:11-23 - Double Penalties For Certain Violations
  Any person who knowingly violates sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, 13, 14 shall be liable to twice the penalties as stated...
• Section 51:11-24 - Separate Violations For Different Days And Places
  Violations of any of the provisions of this act or rules or regulations promulgated thereunder shall be deemed a separate violation for each different...
• Section 51:11-25 - Jurisdiction; Enforcement Of Penalties; Arrest Without Warrant
  25. The Superior Court and municipal court shall have jurisdiction of proceedings for the enforcement and collection of a penalty imposed because of the...
• Section 51:11-26 - Application Of Chapter
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to repeal, amend, or alter in any way the provisions concerning horse manure contained in chapter 43...
• Section 51:11-27 - Prosecutions
  Prosecutions for any violations of this act are declared to be valid and proper notwithstanding the existence of any other valid general or specific...
• Section 51:11-28 - Partial Invalidity
  If any section of this act or any provision thereof, shall be declared to be unconstitutional, invalid or inoperative such section or provision shall...
• Section 51:12-1 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Safety glazing material" means any glazing material, such as tempered glass, laminated glass, wire glass or rigid plastic,...
• Section 51:12-2 - Label For Safety Glazing Material
  a. Each light of safety glazing material manufactured, distributed, imported, or sold for use in hazardous locations or installed in such a location within...
• Section 51:12-3 - Installation Of Glazing Materials Other Than Safety Glazing Materials In Hazardous Locations; Prohibition
  After the effective date of this act no person shall within the State knowingly sell, fabricate, assemble, glaze, install, consent or cause to be...
• Section 51:12-4 - Transparent Glass Doors Or Adjacent Fixed Glass Panels; Marking
  All transparent glass doors or adjacent fixed glass panels subject to this act, and all doors or adjacent fixed glass panels which may reasonably...
• Section 51:12-5 - Rules And Regulations
  The Commissioner of the Department of Community Affairs is authorized to promulgate, amend and repeal rules and regulations necessary for the administration of this...
• Section 51:12-6 - Penalties
  25. Any person who shall violate any provisions of this act, or any rule or regulation of the commissioner promulgated pursuant to this act...
• Section 51:12-7 - Inapplicability Of Act To Buildings And Structures Regulated By Other Acts
  This act shall not apply to buildings and structures which are subject to the Hotel and Multiple Dwelling Health and Safety Law, P.L.1967, c....
• Section 51:12-8 - Nonliability Of Workmen Who Are Employees Of Person Responsible For Compliance With Act
  No liability under this act shall be created as to workmen who are employees of a contractor, subcontractor, or other employer responsible for compliance...
• Section 51:12-9 - Nonsupersedure Of Municipal Ordinances; Requirements; Enforcement Of Act
  This act shall not supersede any municipal ordinance or parts thereof relating to the subject matter hereof more stringent than the requirements of this...
• Section 51:13-1 - Lighters, Certain, Sales, Etc. Prohibited; Definitions
  1. On and after January 1, 1994, no lighter shall be sold, offered for sale, given, transferred, or otherwise be assigned, furnished or made...
• Section 51:13-2 - Violations, Fines
  2. Any person violating the provisions of section 1 of P.L.1991, c.487 (C.51:13-1) by selling, offering for sale, giving, transferring, or otherwise assigning, furnishing...
• Section 51:13-3 - Rules, Regulations
  3. Within 18 months of the effective date of this act, the Bureau of Fire Safety in the Department of Community Affairs shall, pursuant...

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