New Jersey Revised Statutes Title 1 - Acts, Laws And Statutes

• Section 1:1-1 - General Rules Of Construction
  In the construction of the laws and statutes of this state, both civil and criminal, words and phrases shall be read and construed with...
• Section 1:1-2 - Words And Phrases Defined.
  1:1-2. Unless it be otherwise expressly provided or there is something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction, the following words and...
• Section 1:1-2a - "Present War" And Similar Phrases
  Unless it be otherwise expressly provided or there is something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction, the following words, phrases and...
• Section 1:1-2b - "Blighted Area" And "Renewal Area"
  The term "blighted area" as defined and used in the statutes of this State may also be designated as a "renewal area" and the...
• Section 1:1-2.1 - Seal; Sealed
  Every instrument, to which it is required or permitted by law that a seal be attached, shall be deemed to be sealed when there...
• Section 1:1-2.2 - Surety; Sureties
  When a bond, recognizance, guarantee or obligation is required or permitted to be given by any law, or by any charter, ordinance, rule or...
• Section 1:1-2.3 - Time; Standard Time
  The standard time of this State shall be the time of the seventy-fifth meridian west from Greenwich, and wherever time is named within this...
• Section 1:1-2.5 - Notice Or Communication Required To Be Sent, Taken, Or Transmitted Out Of United States; Acts Of Congress To Control
  Whenever, by the terms of (a) any present or future statute or law of this State; (b) any present or future ordinance, rule, regulation...
• Section 1:1-3 - Effect Of Definitions On Treaties, Compacts, Or Agreements
  Definitions of words and phrases applicable to statutes generally shall not be so construed as either to limit or enlarge any provision in any...
• Section 1:1-3.1 - Definition Applicable To Amendment Of, Or Supplement To, Statute
  Any definition contained in any statute shall be applicable to any amendment of, or supplement to, such statute. L.1960, c. 187, p. 780, s.
• Section 1:1-3.2 - Repeal Of Repealing Statute
  The repeal of any statute or section of any statute, which statute or section repealed another statute or section of a statute, shall not...
• Section 1:1-3.3 - Reference To Revised Statute
  Any reference in any statute to any other statute, which is revised by a revision law, shall, after the effective date of such revision...
• Section 1:1-4 - Construction As Continuation Of Heretofore Existing Laws
  The provisions of the Revised Statutes, not inconsistent with those of prior laws, and the provisions of any revision law not inconsistent with those...
• Section 1:1-5 - Classification And Arrangement; Effect On Construction
  The classification and arrangement of the several sections of the Revised Statutes have been made for the purpose of convenience, reference and orderly arrangement,...
• Section 1:1-5.1 - Citation Of, Pleading Or Otherwise Referring To Legislation Contained In Revised Statutes Or New Jersey Statutes
  The legislation contained within any title, subtitle, part, chapter, article, section or group of sections of these Revised Statutes or of the New Jersey...
• Section 1:1-6 - Outlines, Analyses And Headnotes Not Part Of Statutes
  In the construction of the Revised Statutes, or of any statute or any part thereof, no outline or analysis of the contents of any...
• Section 1:1-7 - References To Titles, Subtitles, Chapters, Articles And Sections
  All references in the Revised Statutes or in any other statute to titles, subtitles, chapters, articles or sections are to the titles, subtitles, chapters,...
• Section 1:1-8 - Inclusive References
  References in the Revised Statutes or in any statute to more than 1 title, subtitle, chapter, article, section or other division of the Revised...
• Section 1:1-9 - References To Repealed Or Superseded Statutes
  If any statute or part of any statute, which is repealed or superseded by the enactment of any statute or of the Revised Statutes...
• Section 1:1-10 - Partial Unconstitutionality
  If any title, subtitle, chapter, article or section of the Revised Statutes, or of any statute or any provision thereof, shall be declared to...
• Section 1:1-11 - Acts Done, Rights Acquired, Etc., Under Repealed Acts Not Affected By Repeal
  The repeal, by the enactment of a. the Revised Statutes, b. the New Jersey Statutes, or c. any other revision law, of any statute...
• Section 1:1-12 - Effect Of Enactment Of Revised Statutes Upon Existing Offices, Etc., And The Incumbents Thereof
  No office, position or employment, created and existing at the time when the Revised Statutes shall become effective, under or by virtue of any...
• Section 1:1-13 - Existing Boards, Commissions And Public Bodies Continued
  No board, commission or public body, established pursuant to any referendum or otherwise and existing at the time when the Revised Statutes shall become...
• Section 1:1-13.1 - Successors To Members Of Existing Boards; Terms
  The inclusion in the Revised Statutes of the provisions, or the substance of the provisions, of any statute, in force at the time when...
• Section 1:1-14 - Effect Of Revised Statutes And Acts Hereafter Passed Upon Actions Or Proceedings Commenced Prior To The Effective Date Of Such Legislation
  No action, proceeding or matter of any kind whatsoever of a civil nature begun in any of the courts of this state or before...
• Section 1:1-15 - Offenses, Liabilities, Penalties And Forfeitures Committed Or Incurred Under Repealed Acts Not Affected By Such Repeal
  No offense committed, and no liability, penalty or forfeiture, either civil or criminal, incurred, previous to the time of the repeal or alteration of...
• Section 1:1-16 - Effect Of Revised Statutes On Ordinances And Resolutions Adopted Or Enacted Under Authority Of Pre-existing Laws
  Neither anything contained in the Revised Statutes, nor the repeal of any act, law or statute by the enactment of the Revised Statutes, shall...
• Section 1:1-17 - Revision Or Inclusion Of Referendum Acts In Revised Statutes; Effect
  The inclusion in the Revised Statutes, by revision, compilation or otherwise, of the substance of acts of the legislature, which, for their operative force...
• Section 1:1-18 - Corporations, Associations Or Societies; Effect Of Repealer On Existence, Etc., Thereof
  The repeal by the enactment of the Revised Statutes or of any statute of any other statute or part thereof, under or by virtue...
• Section 1:1-19 - Corporations, Associations Or Societies Included In Revised Statutes
  Any corporation, association or society incorporated, organized or formed prior to the effective date of the Revised Statutes under or by virtue of any...
• Section 1:1-20 - Public Institutions And Agencies; Effect Of Repealer Thereon
  The repeal by the enactment of the Revised Statutes of any act or part of any act under which any public institution or agency...
• Section 1:1-21 - Construction And Effect Of Statutes Compiled Or Saved From Repeal
  Statutes and parts of statutes included in the Revised Statutes under the titles by which they were adopted by the Legislature and the statutes...
• Section 1:1-22 - Statutes Which Became Effective Before September 15, 1948 Relating To Courts Or Officers Existing Prior Thereto; Effect To Be Given To
  Any statute, which became effective prior to September fifteenth, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight and still remains in effect and which contains any...
• Section 1:1-23 - Statutes Containing References To Proceedings Under Former Prerogative Writs
  Where any such statute contains a reference to any proceeding under the former prerogative writs the reference shall be given effect, on and after...
• Section 1:1-24 - Statutes Containing References To Certain Summary Proceedings
  Where any such statute contains a reference to any summary proceeding founded upon a cause of action of an equitable nature to be begun...
• Section 1:1-25 - Statutes Containing References To "Term Of Court"
  When any such statute contains a reference to a "term of court" or to "terms of court" the reference shall be given effect, on...
• Section 1:1-26 - Statutes Containing References To Rules
  Where any such statute contains a reference to the Rules of the Court of Chancery, the Rules of the Prerogative Court, the Rules of...
• Section 1:1-27 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect September fifteenth, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight. L.1948, c. 375, p. 1545, s. 6.
• Section 1:1-28 - Effect To Be Given Certain Statutory References Upon Taking Effect Of Acts Adopting New Titles 2a And 3a
  Any reference to a section or sections of Title 2 or Title 3 of the Revised Statutes as amended and supplemented, included in any...
• Section 1:2-1 - Enacting Clause Of Laws; Numbering Sections; Engrossing Of Bills
  All laws of this State shall begin in the following style: "Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of...
• Section 1:2-2 - Chapters Designated By Arabic Numerals
  Arabic numerals shall be used to designate the numbers of the chapters of the several laws in the order in which they are enacted.
• Section 1:2-3 - Effective Date Of Public Acts
  No public act shall go into operation or be in force until the fourth day of July next after the passage thereof, unless otherwise...
• Section 1:2-3.1 - Format Of Bills, Joint Resolutions For Governor's Signature.
  1.Every bill and every joint resolution which has passed the Legislature shall be presented to the Governor in the same text as that in...
• Section 1:2-3.2 - Display Of Summaries Of Appropriations.
  1.Unless it is otherwise expressly provided, the following display, or a substantially similar display, of summaries of appropriations as may appear within an annual...
• Section 1:2-4 - Printed Laws As Evidence
  All the laws heretofore printed, and all that may hereafter be printed by authority of this state, shall be received in evidence before any...
• Section 1:2-5 - Enacted Bills And Resolutions; Delivery To Governor; Signing By Governor And Delivery To Secretary Of State; Filing By Secretary Of State
  On the passage of any bill, or the adoption of any joint resolution, by both Houses of the Legislature, the same shall be delivered...
• Section 1:2-6 - Bills Not Signed Or Vetoed By Governor; Indorsement And Certification By Governor; Delivery To, Indorsement And Filing By Secretary Of State
  If any bill shall pass both Houses of the Legislature, and be presented to the Governor pursuant to Article V, Section I, paragraph 14,...
• Section 1:2-7 - Bills Passed Over Governor's Veto; Delivery To And Filing By Secretary Of State
  If any bill, passed by both houses of the legislature and presented to the governor, and returned by him with his objections to the...
• Section 1:2-8 - Certified Copies Of Filed Bills And Resolutions; Use As Evidence; Fee
  The secretary of state shall give copies of any law or joint resolution filed in his office pursuant to sections 1:2-5, 1:2-6 and 1:2-7...
• Section 1:3-1 - Preparation Of Laws For Printing.
  1:3-1. The Legislative Services Commission shall direct the Office of Legislative Services that, as soon as practicable after any law is enacted, it shall...
• Section 1:3-2 - Delivery To Printer Of True Copies Of Laws, Joint Resolutions, Proclamations And Index, And Analyses, Tables And Schedules
  The Office of Legislative Services shall deliver a true copy of each law and joint resolution filed with the Secretary of State, prepared in...
• Section 1:3-3 - Superintendence Of Printing
  The Legislative Services Commission, through the Office of Legislative Services, shall direct and superintend the printing of the laws, joint resolutions and proclamations. Amended...
• Section 1:3-3.1 - Numbering Of Laws; First And Second Annual Session
  Every bill and joint resolution enacted into law during the first annual session of a Legislature shall be numbered and printed as a public...
• Section 1:3-4 - Style And Contents Of Annual Volume Of Laws
  The laws enacted at each session of the Legislature shall be printed in the same general style as heretofore, subject to such modifications and...
• Section 1:3-5 - Printing Laws; Contract
  The printer having the contract to print the laws shall print the acts of the Legislature and such other material as required to be...
• Section 1:3-6 - General Control And Supervision Of Printing
  The general control and supervision of the printing of the laws, resolutions and proclamations shall be in the Legislative Services Commission, and the printing...
• Section 1:3-7 - Binding And Distribution Of Paper Volumes Of Laws
  The Office of Legislative Services shall, under the direction and control of the Legislative Services Commission, cause to be bound in plain and substantial...
• Section 1:4-1 - Style Of Printing Journal And Minutes
  The Senate Journal, the Assembly Minutes and the minutes of the joint meetings of both Houses of the Legislature shall be printed in such...
• Section 1:4-2 - Preparation Of Copies Of Journal And Minutes For Printing; Originals Deposited With Secretary Of State
  The Secretary of the Senate shall cause to be prepared for printing copies of the Senate Journal in which shall be included the minutes...
• Section 1:4-4 - Indexes Of Journal And Minutes; Preparation; Printing And Delivery
  The Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the General Assembly, respectively, shall prepare and deliver to the printer an index of the...
• Section 1:4-5 - Binding And Distribution Of Complete Journals And Minutes
  Upon receipt of the Senate Journal and Assembly Minutes, together with the indexes thereto, the Office of Legislative Services shall cause to be bound...
• Section 1:4-6 - Current Legislative Printing; Subscriptions; Cost; Advance Copies Of Laws
  a. Any person desiring a complete set of the bills and resolutions introduced in any year in the Legislature, together with the usual index...
• Section 1:4-7 - General Control And Supervision; Laws Applicable
  The general control and supervision of the printing of the Senate Journal, the Assembly Minutes and the current legislative printing shall be in the...
• Section 1:5-1 - Acceptance Filed With Secretary Of State
  Whenever a statute shall be adopted or accepted by the voters of a county or municipality at an election, the clerk of the county...
• Section 1:5-2 - Statement Of Adoption Or Acceptance Published In Volume Of Laws; Effect
  Whenever a statute shall be adopted or accepted by the voters of the state, or a proposed statute shall become effective by action of...
• Section 1:5-3 - Format Of Petition For Referendum
  4. a. Whenever a petition is circulated within a county, municipality, school district, or special district for the purpose of gathering the signatures of...
• Section 1:6-1 - Notice Of Application For Passage In General; Contents; Publication
  Whenever, by the constitution, notice of the intention to apply for the passage of any bill is required, such notice shall contain a correct...
• Section 1:6-3 - Notice Of Application For Passage Of Bill To Repeal Corporate Charter; Publication; Service On Corporation
  The notice of intention to apply for the passage of a bill to repeal the charter of any corporation, or bill to repeal the...
• Section 1:6-4 - Proof Of Publications Of Notices
  Proof of the publications required by sections 1:6-1 and 1:6-3 of this title shall be by oath or affirmation in writing, made by the...
• Section 1:6-5 - Record Of Proof Of Publication Of Notices
  The secretary of state shall, after the adjournment of each legislature, record, in well-bound books to be provided by him for that purpose, every...
• Section 1:6-6 - Publication In Pamphlet Laws Prima Facie Evidence Of Notice Given
  The publication in the pamphlet laws published by the state of any law, as to which notice of intention to apply for its passage...
• Section 1:6-7 - False Swearing In Making Proofs Of Publications; Perjury
  If anyone shall falsely swear or affirm, in the making of the proofs required by section 1:6-4 of this title, he shall be deemed...
• Section 1:6-8 - Assessments On Private, Local And Special Acts; Amount; Time For Payment; Effect Of Nonpayment
  Each private, local or special act or supplement thereto constitutionally enacted by the legislature, except such as refer to benevolent, religious, charitable or educational...
• Section 1:6-9 - Report By Comptroller Of Laws On Which Assessments Unpaid; Proclamation By Governor; Effect
  The comptroller of the treasury shall, during the month of July in each year, report to the governor or person administering the government every...
• Section 1:6-10 - Petition For Passage Of Private, Special Local Law
  1. The governing body of any municipal corporation formed for local government, hereinafter called a municipality, or the board of chosen freeholders of any...
• Section 1:6-11 - Petition Requesting Filing Of Petition With Legislature
  Whenever there shall be filed with the clerk of a municipality or the clerk of the board of chosen freeholders of a county a...
• Section 1:6-12 - Adoption Of Resolution
  If the clerk shall certify to the sufficiency of the petition, the said governing body or board of chosen freeholders shall, within thirty days...
• Section 1:6-13 - Question Placed On Ballot
  If the resolution so adopted shall provide for submission of said proposal to the voters of the municipality or of the county, there shall...
• Section 1:6-14 - Adoption Of Resolution After Favorable Vote
  If, at such election, a majority of all of the votes cast both for and against the adoption of such proposal shall be cast...
• Section 1:6-15 - Petition; Publication Of Notice Of Intention
  In any case in which an ordinance or resolution authorizing the filing of a petition with the Legislature for the passage of a private,...
• Section 1:6-16 - Filing Of Petition And Resolution With Bill
  The original of the petition for the passage of such a law, together with a duly certified copy of the ordinance or resolution authorizing...
• Section 1:6-17 - Law Operative Only After Adoption
  Any such private, special or local law passed pursuant to any such petition shall become operative in such municipality or county only when the...
• Section 1:6-18 - Submission Of Question Of Adoption
  The question of the adoption of such law shall be submitted to the legal voters of the municipality or county at the next general...
• Section 1:6-19 - Question
  There shall be printed on each official ballot to be used at such general or municipal election, the following: If you favor the proposition...
• Section 1:6-20 - Law Operative Upon Adoption
  If at such election a majority, of all the votes cast both for and against the adoption of such law, shall be cast in...
• Section 1:7-1 - Direction By Governor To Attorney General To Institute Proceeding; Application By Attorney General
  If, at any time within one year after any law or joint resolution has been filed with the Secretary of State pursuant to sections...
• Section 1:7-2 - Summary Hearing Of Application; Witnesses; Depositions; Notices
  The court, on the application, shall inquire summarily into the circumstances and may, for that purpose, order witnesses to be subpoenaed and sworn and...
• Section 1:7-3 - Hearings; Adjudging Law Or Resolution Void
  After a full hearing the court may, if satisfied that the constitutional and statutory provisions relating to the enactment and approval of laws and...
• Section 1:7-4 - Application By Citizens; Procedure Thereon
  Any two or more citizens of the State may, within the time prescribed by section 1:7-1 of this Title, present to the Appellate Division...
• Section 1:7-5 - Participation By Citizens In Proceedings
  Any citizen of the State may, when an application is presented under authority of either section 1:7-1 or section 1:7-4 of this Title, appear...
• Section 1:7-6 - Judgment Of Invalidity; Copy For And Proclamation By Governor; Operation And Effect
  If in any application authorized in this chapter, the court shall adjudge any law or joint resolution, or any part thereof, to be void,...
• Section 1:7-7 - Costs, Fees And Expenses Of Proceedings
  When an application presented under authority of section 1:7-4 of this Title is dismissed the court shall allow and tax the costs and necessary...
• Section 1:8-1 - Appointment, Powers And Duties Of Commissioners
  L.1909, c. 154, p. 229 [C.S. p. 4987, s.s. 79 to 82], entitled "An act to authorize the appointment of commissioners to represent this...
• Section 1:10-1 - Commission Established; Members; Powers And Duties
  L.1925, c. 73, p. 244, entitled "An act to provide for the revision and consolidation of the public statutes of this state," approved March...
• Section 1:12a-1 - Law Revision Commission
  There is created in the Legislative Branch of State Government a commission to be known as the New Jersey Law Revision Commission. L. 1985,...
• Section 1:12a-2 - Membership
  The commission shall consist of: a. The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, or its successor, who shall serve while chairman of that committee;...
• Section 1:12a-3 - Terms
  Of the members of the commission first appointed, two shall be appointed for terms of four years and two for terms of five years....
• Section 1:12a-4 - Vacancies
  Vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired terms in the same manner as the original appointments were made. L. 1985, c. 498, s. 4,...
• Section 1:12a-5 - No Compensation
  Members of the commission shall not receive any compensation, but they shall be reimbursed for expenses incurred in the performance of their duties. L....
• Section 1:12a-6 - Chairman
  The commission shall elect one member thereof as chairman, who shall serve for a term of two years. L. 1985, c. 498, s. 6,...
• Section 1:12a-7 - Employees
  The commission may appoint employees and consultants as may, in its judgment, be necessary, prescribe their qualifications and duties, and fix their compensation within...
• Section 1:12a-8 - Functions; Duties
  The commission shall promote and encourage the clarification and simplification of the law of New Jersey and its better adaption to present social needs,...
• Section 1:12a-9 - Annual Report
  The commission shall report annually to the Legislature on or before February first in each year. L. 1985, c. 498, s. 9, eff. Jan....
• Section 1:13-10 - Transfer Of Records And Property And Unexpended Balance Of Appropriations To Commission
  All files, books, papers, records, furniture, equipment and other property of the commission constituted under this act are transferred to the Law Revision and...
• Section 1:14-12 - New Jersey Corporate And Business Law Study Commission
  a. There is created in the Legislative branch of State Government a permanent commission to be known as The New Jersey Corporate and Business...
• Section 1:14-13 - Organization
  The commission shall organize as soon after the appointment of its members as is practicable, shall choose a chairman from among its members and...
• Section 1:14-14 - Duties, Powers
  a. It shall be the duty of the commission to study and review all aspects of the statutes, legislation and decisions of the courts...
• Section 1:14-15 - Annual Report; Recommended Legislation
  The commission shall file annually with the Governor and the Legislature a report containing its findings and recommendations, accompanying its report with any proposed...
• Section 1:17-20 - Repeal
  Chapter 81 of the laws of 1961, is repealed. L.1964, c. 29, s. 11.

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