New Jersey Revised Statutes Title 2b - Court Organization And Civil Code

• Section 2b:1-1 - Seals
  2B:1-1. Seals. The Supreme Court shall prescribe the form of its seal and the seals of the Superior Court and Tax Court. Each municipal...
• Section 2b:1-2 - Preservation Of Court Records
  2B:1-2. Preservation of Court Records. The Supreme Court may adopt regulations governing the retention, copying and disposal of records and files of any court...
• Section 2b:1-3 - Criminal History Record Information.
  2B:1-3. Criminal History Record Information. The Supreme Court is authorized to receive criminal history record information from the Federal Bureau of Investigation for use...
• Section 2b:1-4 - Electronic Access To Court Records
  1. Electronic Access to Court Records. a. The Administrative Office of the Courts is authorized to develop and operate an automated data processing system...
• Section 2b:1-5 - Electronic Payment Systems Established By Courts.
  6. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, the Supreme Court, the Superior Court and the Tax Court, and the...
• Section 2b:1-6 - "Court Technology Improvement Fund"
  33. Revenue derived from the increase in fees collected by the Judiciary pursuant to sections 25 through 32 of P.L.2002, c.34 (N.J.S.22A:2-1 et al.)...
• Section 2b:1-7 - Adoption Of Rules Of Court.
  12. a. The Supreme Court, subject to the limitations set forth in subsection b. of this section, may adopt Rules of Court to revise...
• Section 2b:1-8 - Public Announcement Of Rules, Delivery Of Copies.
  13.The rules proposed pursuant to section 12 of P.L.2014, c.31 (C.2B:1-7) shall be publicly announced by the Supreme Court. On the same day on...
• Section 2b:1-9 - "21st Century Improvement Fund."
  14. a. There is established in the General Fund a dedicated, non-lapsing fund to be known as the "21st Century Justice Improvement Fund," which...
• Section 2b:1-10 - Allocation Of Monies.
  15.Monies annually credited in the "21st Century Justice Improvement Fund" shall be allocated as follows: a.$22 million credited annually to the fund shall be...
• Section 2b:1-11 - Submission Of Reports By Administrative Director Of The Courts.
  17. a. Not later than the sixth month after the end of each State fiscal year, the Administrative Director of the Courts shall submit...
• Section 2b:1-12 - Submission Of Reports By Legal Services Of New Jersey.
  18.Not later than the sixth month after the end of each State fiscal year, Legal Services of New Jersey, through the Department of the...
• Section 2b:1-13 - Revision, Supplementation Of Certain Fees.
  19. a. The authority of the Supreme Court to revise or supplement filing fees and other statutory fees payable to the court pursuant to...
• Section 2b:2-1 - Number Of Judges.
  2B:2-1. Number of Judges. a.The Superior Court shall consist of 443 judges. b. (1) The Superior Court shall at all times consist of the...
• Section 2b:2-1.1 - Information Relative To Superior Court Nominees
  2.Each nomination to the Superior Court shall specifically indicate the name of the former judge whose vacancy the nomination is filling and if the...
• Section 2b:2-1.2 - Notification To Legislature Of Superior Court Judges Fulfilling Requirements Of N. J. S.2b:2-1
  3.Not more than 10 days after the enactment of this act, and annually on September 1 thereafter, the Administrative Office of the Courts shall...
• Section 2b:2-2 - Assignment Of Superior Court Judges
  2B:2-2. Assignment of Superior Court Judges. A judge of the Superior Court may be assigned temporarily by the Chief Justice to any court established...
• Section 2b:2-3 - Judge Seeking Elective Office
  2B:2-3. Judge Seeking Elective Office. A justice or judge of any court of this State, who becomes a candidate for an elective public office,...
• Section 2b:2-4 - Judicial Salaries.
  2B:2-4. Judicial Salaries. Annual salaries of justices and judges beginning on January 1, 2008 shall be: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court$183,182 Associate Justice...
• Section 2b:2-5 - Responsibility For Judicial Salaries
  2B:2-5. Responsibility for Judicial Salaries. The State shall be responsible for the cost of the salaries of the justices of the Supreme Court, judges...
• Section 2b:2a-1 - Definitions
  2B:2A-1. Definitions. As used in this chapter, "judge" means any judge of the Superior Court, the Tax Court or a municipal court. Source: C.2A:1B-1...
• Section 2b:2a-2 - Cause For Removal
  2B:2A-2. Cause for removal. A judge may be removed from office by the Supreme Court for misconduct in office, willful neglect of duty, or...
• Section 2b:2a-3 - Institution Of Removal Proceedings
  2B:2A-3. Institution of removal proceedings. A proceeding for removal may be instituted by either house of the Legislature acting by a majority of all...
• Section 2b:2a-4 - Prosecution Of Removal Proceedings
  2B:2A-4. Prosecution of removal proceedings. The Attorney General or his representative shall prosecute the proceedings unless the Supreme Court shall specially designate an attorney...
• Section 2b:2a-5 - Suspension Pending Determination
  2B:2A-5. Suspension pending determination. The Supreme Court may suspend a judge from office, with or without pay, pending the determination of the proceeding Source:...
• Section 2b:2a-6 - Preparation Of Defense; Counsel; Production Of Witnesses And Evidence
  2B:2A-6. Preparation of defense; counsel; production of witnesses and evidence. The judge shall be given a reasonable time to prepare his defense and shall...
• Section 2b:2a-7 - Taking Of Evidence
  2B:2A-7. Taking of evidence. Evidence may be taken either before the Supreme Court sitting en banc, or before three justices or judges, or a...
• Section 2b:2a-8 - Rules Governing
  2B:2A-8. Rules governing. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, proceedings shall be governed by rules of the Supreme Court. Source: C.2A:1B-8 (P.L.1970, c.151,...
• Section 2b:2a-9 - Removal
  2B:2A-9. Removal. If the Supreme Court finds beyond a reasonable doubt that there is cause for removal, it shall remove the judge from office....
• Section 2b:2a-10 - Suspension Prior To Hearing
  2B:2A-10. Suspension prior to hearing. No hearing to remove a judge from office as provided for in this act shall be held until the...
• Section 2b:2a-11 - Impeachment Proceedings
  2B:2A-11. Impeachment proceedings. The action of the Supreme Court may not extend further than removal from office, but proceedings under this act shall not...
• Section 2b:3-1 - Appointment Of Court Clerks
  2B:3-1. Appointment of Court Clerks. a. The Supreme Court shall appoint to serve at its pleasure, and shall fix the salary of, the Clerk...
• Section 2b:3-2 - Clerks, Offices And Duties
  2B:3-2. Clerks, Offices and Duties. a. The offices of the Clerk of the Supreme Court, the Clerk of the Superior Court, and the Clerk...
• Section 2b:3-3 - Instruments Executed By Clerk Of Superior Court In Connection With Property Held By Superior Court; Signatures
  2B:3-3. Instruments Executed by Clerk of Superior Court in Connection with Property held by Superior Court; Signatures. All drafts, checks and other instruments executed...
• Section 2b:3-4 - Clerk Of The Superior Court As Named Party
  2B:3-4. Clerk of the Superior Court as Named Party. The Superior Court of New Jersey may be sued by naming the Clerk of the...
• Section 2b:4-1 - Special Counsel
  2B:4-1. Special Counsel. a. In any action involving the constitutionality or validity of a statute providing for the expenditure of public moneys by the...
• Section 2b:4-2 - Appointment Of Additional Employees
  2B:4-2. Appointment of Additional Employees. The Supreme Court may appoint subordinate officers and employees necessary for the convenient performance of the duties of the...
• Section 2b:4-3 - Appointment Of Staff Of Justices And Judges
  2B:4-3. Appointment of Staff of Justices and Judges. A justice of the Supreme Court or a judge of the Superior Court may appoint secretaries,...
• Section 2b:4-4 - Grand Jury Clerks
  a. The assignment judge of each county may appoint and set the salary of a clerk for the grand jury. The salary of the...
• Section 2b:5-1 - Secretarial And Legal Staff Of Justices And Judges
  2B:5-1. Secretarial and Legal Staff of Justices and Judges. a. The State shall be responsible for the cost of secretarial and legal staff employees...
• Section 2b:5-2 - Administrative Staff For Superior Court
  2B:5-2. Administrative Staff for Superior Court. The State shall be responsible for the cost of employees necessary for the operation, management and recordkeeping of...
• Section 2b:5-3 - Compensation Of Employees Administering Trust Fund
  2B:5-3. Compensation of Employees Administering Trust Fund. The Clerk of the Superior Court shall pay to the State Treasurer out of the income of...
• Section 2b:6-1 - Courtrooms And Equipment Security
  2B:6-1. Courtrooms and Equipment; Security. a. Suitable courtrooms, chambers, equipment and supplies for the Supreme Court, the Appellate Division of the Superior Court and...
• Section 2b:6-2 - Rental Of Chambers
  2B:6-2. Rental of Chambers. Any justice of the Supreme Court may rent convenient and appropriate chambers for use as a study and library and...
• Section 2b:6-3 - Service Of Process
  2B:6-3. Service of Process. a. The sheriff shall be responsible for service, or execution and return of process, orders, warrants and judgments directed to...
• Section 2b:6-4 - Multi-county Vicinage; Apportionment Of Costs
  2B:6-4. Multi-County Vicinage; Apportionment of Costs. Where a judge of the Law Division or of the Family Part of the Chancery Division is assigned...
• Section 2b:6-5 - Expenses Incurred By Order Of Supreme Court
  2B:6-5. Expenses Incurred by Order of Supreme Court. Expenses incurred by order of the Supreme Court in the execution of its duties, the payment...
• Section 2b:6-6 - Statewide County Corrections Information System.
  1. a. The Statewide County Corrections Information System (CCIS) funded in accordance with section 2 of P.L.2004,c.108 (C.2B:6-7), shall serve as the Statewide automated...
• Section 2b:6-7 - "Statewide Ccis Operations Account;" Funding.
  2. a. There is established in the General Fund a separate, non-lapsing, dedicated account to be known as the "Statewide CCIS Operations Account." b.Each...
• Section 2b:7-1 - Reporting Of Court Proceedings; Court Reporters
  2B:7-1. Reporting of Court Proceedings; Court Reporters. a. The Supreme Court shall provide for the reporting of all proceedings in the Superior Court and...
• Section 2b:7-2 - Assignment; Designation Of Supervisors
  2B:7-2. Assignment; Designation of Supervisors. a. A reporter shall be assigned by the Administrative Director of the Courts with the approval of the Chief...
• Section 2b:7-3 - Temporary Service
  2B:7-3. Temporary Service. The Administrative Director of the Courts may appoint and assign reporters for temporary service on a full-time basis, not to exceed...
• Section 2b:7-4 - Transcript; Fees.
  2B:7-4. Transcript; Fees. a. When a transcript of a stenographic record or other recording in any court or in any other proceeding recorded at...
• Section 2b:7-5 - Employment Of Court Reporters
  2B:7-5. Employment of Court Reporters. a. Except as provided in this section, court reporters appointed to serve on a full-time basis pursuant to this...
• Section 2b:7-6 - Records And Reports
  2B:7-6. Records and Reports. The Administrative Director of the Courts, subject to the approval of the Chief Justice, shall prescribe records which shall be...
• Section 2b:8-1 - Interpreters
  2B:8-1. Interpreters. Each county shall provide interpreting services necessary for cases from that county in the Law Division and the Family Part of the...
• Section 2b:9-1 - Effect Of Abolition Of Particular Courts
  2B:9-1. Effect of Abolition of Particular Courts. a. Where any court has been or is abolished: 1. Its property shall be the property of...
• Section 2b:10-1 - Short Title
  1. Sections 1 through 9 of this act shall be known and may be cited as the "State Judicial Unification Act." L.1993,c.275,s.1.
• Section 2b:10-2 - Findings, Declarations
  2. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. The current method of financing the State's judicial system has created undue hardship for both the...
• Section 2b:10-3 - Definitions
  3. As used in this act: a. "Base year amount" means the total local fiscal year 1993 expenditures for judicial costs and probation costs...
• Section 2b:10-4 - State Costs, Employees, And Fees After 1994
  4. On and after January 1, 1995: a. The State is required to pay for judicial costs and probation costs; b. All judicial employees...
• Section 2b:10-5 - Certification Of Base Year Amount
  5. a. On or before February 28, 1994, the chief financial officer of the county shall certify the actual base year amount to the...
• Section 2b:10-6 - Schedule For Payment Of County Share
  6. a. Except as provided in subsection e., in local fiscal years 1995, 1996 and 1997, each county shall pay a share of its...
• Section 2b:10-7 - Disposition Of Furnishings, Office Equipment; Service Agreements; Provision Of Claim, Insurance Information
  7. a. By September 1, 1994, a list shall be jointly developed by the Administrative Office of the Courts and the governing body of...
• Section 2b:10-8 - Determination Of County Tax Levy
  8. For the purpose of determining the county tax levy upon which a county shall calculate its permissible tax levy, any amounts appropriated for...
• Section 2b:10-9 - Certification Of Payroll Record Information
  9. a. To facilitate the transfer of judicial employees from county payroll processing to the State's payroll processing system the chief financial officer of...
• Section 2b:10a-1 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Probation Officers
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.The enforcement of probation sentences is crucial to the public safety; b.Despite a drop in the overall crime...
• Section 2b:10a-2 - "Probation Officer Community Safety Unit"
  2. a. There shall be established within the Administrative Office of the Courts a "Probation Officer Community Safety Unit." The "Probation Officer Community Safety...
• Section 2b:10a-3 - Self-defense Training For Probation Officers
  3.Any probation officer, duly appointed pursuant to the provisions of N.J.S.2A:168-5, including probation officers assigned to the "Probation Officer Community Safety Unit" established pursuant...
• Section 2b:11-1 - Short Title
  1. Sections 1 through 12 of this act shall be known and may be cited as "The Judicial Employees Unification Act." L.1994,c.162,s.1.
• Section 2b:11-2 - Findings, Declarations
  2. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. As a result of voter approval in November of 1992 of a constitutional amendment and pursuant...
• Section 2b:11-3 - Definitions
  3. As used in this act, a. "Transferred employee" means any person employed by a county on December 31, 1994 who becomes an employee...
• Section 2b:11-4 - Elections For Majority Representatives
  4. Elections to establish majority representatives in new Statewide collective negotiations units will be conducted in accordance with the provisions of P.L.1941, c.100 (C.34:13A-1...
• Section 2b:11-5 - State Service Applicable; Tranferred Employees; Personnel Procedures
  5. a. Subject to the judiciary's rights to create new unclassified positions and make unclassified appointments under court rule, and with the exception of...
• Section 2b:11-6 - Seniority, Benefits, Etc. Tranferred
  6. a. Transferred employees who become State judicial employees shall receive State credit for years of employment service retroactive to the date utilized by...
• Section 2b:11-7 - Transfer To The Public Employees' Retirement System
  7. a. Any transferred employee who is a member of a county pension fund or retirement system shall become a member of the Public...
• Section 2b:11-8 - Temporary Disablity, Unemployment Insurance Benefits
  8. Immediately upon becoming State judicial employees, all transferred employees shall become eligible for New Jersey Temporary Disability Insurance and Unemployment Insurance benefits consistent...
• Section 2b:11-9 - Health, Medical Benefits
  9. a. Immediately upon becoming a State judicial employee, all transferred employees shall receive all the health and medical benefits, including dental and prescription...
• Section 2b:11-10 - Reimbursement For Premium Charges For Part A Of Medicare
  10. Any transferred employee who: a. was a member of a county pension fund or retirement system on December 31, 1994; b. retires from...
• Section 2b:11-11 - Health Care Benefits Upon Retirement, Eligibility
  11. A transferred employee shall be eligible for health care benefits after retirement on the same basis as other State judicial employees under the...
• Section 2b:11-12 - Right To Review, Void Certain Adjustments
  12. For the purposes of application of all provisions of this act, the judiciary shall review and may void as against public policy any...
• Section 2b:12-1 - Establishment Of Municipal Courts.
  2B:12-1. Establishment of municipal courts. a.Every municipality shall establish a municipal court. If a municipality fails to maintain a municipal court or does not...
• Section 2b:12-2 - Name Of Court
  2B:12-2. Name of court. The name of a municipal court of a single municipality shall be the "Municipal Court of (insert name of municipality)."...
• Section 2b:12-3 - Place Of Court
  2B:12-3. Place of court. Courtrooms and sessions of a municipal court need not be in the municipality for which the court has jurisdiction. If...
• Section 2b:12-4 - Judge Of Municipal Court; Term Of Office Appointment
  2B:12-4. Judge of municipal court; term of office; appointment. a. Each judge of a municipal court shall serve for a term of three years...
• Section 2b:12-5 - Additional Municipal Judges.
  2B:12-5. Additional municipal judges. a. With the written consent of the Assignment Judge of the vicinage, a county or municipality may: (1) increase the...
• Section 2b:12-6 - Designation Of Acting Judges
  2B:12-6. Designation of acting judges. Subject to the Rules of Court, the Assignment Judge of the vicinage may appoint an acting judge of each...
• Section 2b:12-7 - Qualifications Of Judges; Compensation
  2B:12-7. Qualifications of judges; compensation. a. Every judge, temporary judge and acting judge of a municipal court shall be a resident of this State...
• Section 2b:12-8 - Chief Judge
  2B:12-8. Chief judge. Where there is more than one judge of a municipal court, the county or municipality may designate one of the judges...
• Section 2b:12-9 - Presiding Judge Of The Municipal Courts
  2B:12-9. Presiding judge of the municipal courts. If the Chief Justice designates a judge of the Superior Court or a judge of one of...
• Section 2b:12-10 - Municipal Court Administrator And Personnel
  2B:12-10. Municipal court administrator and personnel. a. A county or municipality shall provide for an administrator and other necessary employees for the municipal court...
• Section 2b:12-11 - Certification Of Municipal Court Administrators.
  2B:12-11. Certification of municipal court administrators. a.The Supreme Court may appoint a Municipal Court Administrator Certification Board. That board shall: (1)Design examinations for certification...
• Section 2b:12-12 - Bond Or Insurance
  2B:12-12. Bond or insurance. Before assuming the duties of office, a judge or administrator of a municipal court, or person employed by the court...
• Section 2b:12-13 - Powers Of Administrator
  2B:12-13. Powers of administrator. Any process, order, warrant or judgment issued by a municipal court may be signed by the judge or be attested...
• Section 2b:12-14 - Officers Empowered To Execute Process
  2B:12-14. Officers empowered to execute process. Any law enforcement officer, or any other person authorized by law, may act in the service, execution and...
• Section 2b:12-15 - Courtrooms And Equipment
  2B:12-15. Courtrooms and equipment. Suitable courtrooms, chambers, offices, equipment and supplies for the municipal court, its administrator's office and its violations bureau shall be...
• Section 2b:12-16 - Territorial Jurisdiction.
  2B:12-16. Territorial jurisdiction. a. A municipal court of a single municipality shall have jurisdiction over cases arising within the territory of that municipality except...
• Section 2b:12-17 - Jurisdiction Of Specified Offenses
  2B:12-17. Jurisdiction of specified offenses. A municipal court has jurisdiction over the following cases within the territorial jurisdiction of the court: a. Violations of...
• Section 2b:12-17.1 - Responsibility For Notification.
  4.As required pursuant to section 3 of P.L.2003, c.67 (C.4:22-57), a municipal court adjudging guilt or liability for a violation of any provision of...
• Section 2b:12-17.2 - Motor Vehicle Matters Involving Death, Bodily Injury, Superior Court Exclusive Jurisdiction; Prosecution Guidelines.
  1. a. In any matter concerning Title 39 of the Revised Statutes where death or serious bodily injury has occurred, regardless of whether the...
• Section 2b:12-18 - Jurisdiction Of Specified Offenses Where Indictment And Trial By Jury Are Waived
  2B:12-18. Jurisdiction of specified offenses where indictment and trial by jury are waived. A municipal court has jurisdiction over the following crimes occurring within...
• Section 2b:12-19 - Authority Of Municipal Court Judge Prior To Indictment; Notice To County Prosecutor
  2B:12-19. Authority of municipal court judge prior to indictment; notice to county prosecutor. a. A municipal court has authority to conduct proceedings in a...
• Section 2b:12-20 - Municipal Housing Court; Jurisdiction.
  2B:12-20. Municipal housing court; jurisdiction. A municipality in a county of the first class may establish, as a part of its municipal court, a...
• Section 2b:12-21 - Officials Authorized To Act For Court
  2B:12-21. Officials authorized to act for court. a. An administrator or deputy administrator of a municipal court, authorized by a judge of that court,...
• Section 2b:12-22 - Periodic Service Of Imprisonment
  2B:12-22. Periodic service of imprisonment. A court may order that a sentence of imprisonment be served periodically on particular days, rather than consecutively. The...
• Section 2b:12-23 - Default In Payment Of Fine; Community Service
  2B:12-23. Default in payment of fine; community service. a. A person, sentenced by a municipal court to pay a fine, who defaults in payment...
• Section 2b:12-23.1 - Penalties Payable In Installments; Alternative Penalties.
  1. a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, if a municipal court finds that a person does not have the ability...
• Section 2b:12-24 - Costs Charged To Complainant In Certain Cases
  2B:12-24. Costs charged to complainant in certain cases. In cases where the judge of a municipal court dismisses the complaint or acquits the defendant...
• Section 2b:12-25 - Records And Standards For Municipal Courts
  2B:12-25. Records and standards for municipal courts. The Supreme Court may prescribe records to be maintained and reports to be filed by the municipal...
• Section 2b:12-26 - Docketing Judgment
  2B:12-26. Docketing judgment. A judgment of a municipal court assessing a penalty, fine or restitution may be docketed in the Superior Court by the...
• Section 2b:12-27 - Employment Of Prosecutor By County, Municipality.
  14.The governing body of the county or municipality may employ an attorney-at-law as a prosecutor, under the supervision of the Attorney General or county...
• Section 2b:12-30 - Automated Traffic System Fund
  2B:12-30. Automated Traffic System Fund. a. The Legislature finds and declares that there is a need to improve the management, efficiency and effectiveness of...
• Section 2b:12-30.1 - Automated Traffic System Statewide Modernization Fund.
  1. a. There is established in the General Fund a separate, non-lapsing, dedicated account to be known as the Automated Traffic System Statewide Modernization...
• Section 2b:12-31 - Suspension Of Driving Privileges
  2B:12-31. Suspension of driving privileges. a. (1) If a defendant charged with a disorderly persons offense, a petty disorderly persons offense, a violation of...
• Section 2b:12-32 - Purging Of Records For Violators Of Certain Municipal Ordinances.
  1. a. Upon a court ruling that a municipal ordinance is unconstitutional, or approving a settlement of a civil action contesting the constitutionality of...
• Section 2b:12-33 - Application Of Act.
  2. a. This act shall apply to all rulings of unconstitutionality and all settlements dated on or after January 1, 1999. b.In any case...
• Section 2b:13-1 - Establishment
  2B:13-1. Establishment. a. A Tax Court is hereby established as a court of limited jurisdiction pursuant to Article VI, Section I, paragraph 1 of...
• Section 2b:13-2 - Jurisdiction
  2B:13-2. Jurisdiction. a. The Tax Court shall have jurisdiction to review actions or regulations with respect to a tax matter of the following: (1)...
• Section 2b:13-3 - Hearing And Determination Of Cases; Legal And Equitable Relief; Practice And Procedure; Decisions
  2B:13-3. Hearing and Determination of Cases; Legal and Equitable Relief; Practice and Procedure; Decisions. a. The Tax Court, in all causes within its jurisdiction,...
• Section 2b:13-4 - Appeals
  2B:13-4. Appeals. Judgments of the Tax Court may be appealed as of right to the Appellate Division of the Superior Court pursuant to the...
• Section 2b:13-5 - Locations; Facilities
  2B:13-5. Locations; facilities. a. The Tax Court shall maintain permanent locations in Trenton and Newark and may hold sessions at other locations throughout the...
• Section 2b:13-6 - Judges; Number; Qualifications
  2B:13-6. Judges; Number; Qualifications. a. The Tax Court shall consist of no less than six, nor more than 12 judges, each of whom shall...
• Section 2b:13-7 - Term Of Office; Retirement
  2B:13-7. Term of Office; Retirement. a. The judges of the Tax Court shall hold their offices for initial terms of seven years and until...
• Section 2b:13-8 - Compensation Not To Be Reduced; Prohibition Against Gainful Employment
  2B:13-8. Compensation Not to be Reduced; Prohibition Against Gainful Employment. a. Each judge of the Tax Court shall receive annual compensation and other benefits...
• Section 2b:13-9 - Impeachment And Removal; Incapacity
  2B:13-9. Impeachment and Removal; Incapacity. a. The judges of the Tax Court shall be subject to impeachment, and upon impeachment shall not exercise judicial...
• Section 2b:13-10 - Presiding Judge
  2B:13-10. Presiding Judge. The Chief Justice shall assign one of the judges of the Tax Court to be the presiding judge of the Tax...
• Section 2b:13-11 - Annual Report
  2B:13-11. Annual Report. The presiding judge shall submit a report to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court annually. The report shall be published...
• Section 2b:13-12 - Assignment Of Judges To Other Courts
  2B:13-12. Assignment of Judges to Other Courts. The Chief Justice may assign judges of the Tax Court to the Superior Court or to any...
• Section 2b:13-13 - Clerk
  2B:13-13. Clerk. The Supreme Court shall appoint to serve at its pleasure a Clerk and a Deputy Clerk of the Tax Court, neither of...
• Section 2b:13-14 - Small Claims Division Jurisdiction
  2B:13-14. Small Claims Division Jurisdiction. The Tax Court shall have a Small Claims Division with jurisdiction in those classes of cases as may be...
• Section 2b:13-15 - Conduct Of Hearing
  2B:13-15. Conduct of Hearing. Hearings in the Small Claims Division shall be informal, and the judge may receive evidence as the judge deems appropriate...
• Section 2b:14-1 - Election Of Surrogates
  2B:14-1. Election of Surrogates. A Surrogate shall be elected to serve in each county for a five-year term commencing January 1 after election. The...
• Section 2b:14-2 - Bond Of Surrogates
  2B:14-2. Bond of Surrogates. A county may require the Surrogate to enter into a faithful performance bond and may set the amount and terms...
• Section 2b:14-3 - Salaries Of Surrogates.
  2B:14-3. Salaries of Surrogates. The board of chosen freeholders in each county shall fix the Surrogate's annual salary by resolution in an amount equal...
• Section 2b:14-4 - Disqualification; Referral To Assignment Judge
  2B:14-4. Disqualification; referral to Assignment Judge. a.Neither the Surrogate nor any employee of the Surrogate's office may perform duties respecting a matter if the...
• Section 2b:14-5 - Filling Vacancy In Surrogate's Office
  2B:14-5. Filling vacancy in Surrogate's office. If a Surrogate does not take office within 30 days after the end of the preceding term or...
• Section 2b:14-6 - Recorded Documents
  2B:14-6. Recorded documents. The Surrogate shall record: a.Orders and judgments of the Superior Court, Chancery Division, Probate Part; b.Fiduciary bonds required by law; c.Accounts...
• Section 2b:14-7 - Acknowledgment, Proof
  2B:14-7. Acknowledgment, proof. Receipts and releases shall be acknowledged or proved prior to recording. The acknowledgment or proof shall be recorded with the receipt...
• Section 2b:14-8 - Recording
  2B:14-8. Recording. The Surrogate shall determine the means of recording instruments and the county shall furnish equipment and supplies for recording. L.1999,c.70,s.1.
• Section 2b:14-9 - Filing
  2B:14-9. Filing. On the first Monday in January, April, July and October, annually, the Surrogate shall file with the Clerk of the Superior Court...
• Section 2b:14-10 - Deputy Surrogate; Special Deputy Surrogate
  2B:14-10. Deputy Surrogate; Special Deputy Surrogate. a.A Surrogate may appoint a Deputy Surrogate who shall serve at the pleasure of the Surrogate. b.During the...
• Section 2b:14-11 - Special Probate Clerk
  2B:14-11. Special Probate Clerk. A Surrogate may designate one or more employees to serve as Special Probate Clerk. A special probate clerk shall serve...
• Section 2b:14-12 - Executive Secretary; Chief Clerk
  2B:14-12. Executive Secretary; Chief Clerk. A Surrogate may, in his discretion, appoint an Executive Secretary and a Chief Clerk, both of whom shall serve...
• Section 2b:14-13 - Other Employees' Appointment; Compensation
  2B:14-13. Other Employees' Appointment; Compensation. The Surrogate shall select and appoint the Deputy Surrogate, any special Deputy Surrogate, Executive Secretary, Chief Clerk and engage...
• Section 2b:14-14 - Preparation Of Annual Budget Request By County Surrogate.
  8.A county surrogate shall prepare the annual budget request for the office of the county surrogate pursuant to the requirements of section 3 of...
• Section 2b:19-1 - Short Title
  1. Sections 1 through 9 of this act shall be known and may be cited as the "Comprehensive Enforcement Program Fund Act." L.1995,c.9,s.1.
• Section 2b:19-2 - Findings, Declarations.
  2.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.The Judiciary routinely enters judgments and court orders setting forth assessments, surcharges, fines and restitution against litigants pursuant...
• Section 2b:19-3 - Comprehensive Enforcement Program Fund
  3. There is established as a separate fund in the General Fund, to be administered by the Administrative Office of the Courts, a "Comprehensive...
• Section 2b:19-4 - Deduction Of Collections To Fund Program
  4. a. Subject to the approval of the Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting, the Administrative Office of the Courts is authorized...
• Section 2b:19-5 - Labor Assistance Program Established By County; Enforced Community Service Program By Probation Services
  5. a. The governing body of each county, through the sheriff or such other authorized officer, may establish a labor assistance program as an...
• Section 2b:19-6 - Transfer Of Matters Involving The Collection Of Monies.
  6. a. All matters involving the collection of monies in the Superior Court and Tax Court which have not been resolved in accordance with...
• Section 2b:19-7 - Transfer Of Disobeyed Community Service Matters
  7. All matters involving the imposition of a sentence of community service by either the Superior Court or a municipal court which have not...
• Section 2b:19-8 - Inability To Fulfill Financial Obligations Of Sentence; Procedure
  8. a. At any time after a person has completed the total sentence to a labor assistance program or enforced community service program, the...
• Section 2b:19-9 - Recommendation Of Hearing Officer; Approval.
  9.Any recommendation by a comprehensive enforcement hearing officer shall be in conformity with court rules and shall be approved by: a.a judge of the...
• Section 2b:19-10 - Referral Of Uncollected Dmv Surcharges
  4.The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles and the Administrative Office of the Courts shall develop procedures for the referral of uncollected surcharges...
• Section 2b:19-11 - Additional Duties Of Program Concerning Public Defender Liens
  4.In addition to the duties set forth in P.L.1995, c.9 (C.2B:19-1 et seq.), the comprehensive enforcement program shall provide for the collection of moneys...
• Section 2b:20-1 - Qualifications Of Jurors
  2B:20-1. Qualifications of jurors. Every person summoned as a juror: a. shall be 18 years of age or older; b. shall be able to...
• Section 2b:20-2 - Preparation Of Juror Source List.
  2B:20-2. a. The names of persons eligible for jury service shall be selected from a single juror source list of county residents whose names...
• Section 2b:20-3 - Questionnaires Concerning Qualifications
  a. The Assignment Judge may direct that questionnaires be sent to potential jurors, requesting that they provide pertinent information concerning their qualifications for jury...
• Section 2b:20-4 - Public And Random Selection Of Jurors
  a. Before each session of the Superior Court, the Assignment Judge shall provide for the drawing of names from the juror source list of...
• Section 2b:20-5 - Certification, Filing And Posting Of Juror Lists
  The list of names randomly selected from the juror source list shall be filed and publicly posted in the office of the County Clerk....
• Section 2b:20-6 - Designation Of Period Of Service For Petit Jury Panels
  a. The Assignment Judge shall designate the period of service of each panel of jurors selected from the juror source list. b. A panel...
• Section 2b:20-7 - Summoning Of Jurors
  a. Upon receipt of a list of persons selected to serve on a panel of jurors, the sheriff shall, under the direction of the...
• Section 2b:20-8 - Form And Service Of Summons
  a. The summons for jury service shall be by written notice and shall state the date, time and place where the juror is to...
• Section 2b:20-9 - Excuses And Deferrals By Assignment Judge
  a. A person may be excused from jury service or may have jury service deferred only by the Assignment Judge of the county in...
• Section 2b:20-10 - Grounds For Excuse From Jury Service
  An excuse from jury service shall be granted only if: a. The prospective juror is 75 years of age or older; b. The prospective...
• Section 2b:20-11 - Deferral Of Jury Service
  Upon a request for deferral of jury service or upon the denial of a request for an excuse from jury service, the Assignment Judge...
• Section 2b:20-12 - Retention Of Records
  All records concerning the granting of excuses from and deferrals of jury service, and all juror questionnaires, shall be retained for a period of...
• Section 2b:20-13 - Discharge Of Unneeded Jurors
  If the number of jurors in attendance is greater than is necessary for the business of the court, the Assignment Judge may discharge the...
• Section 2b:20-14 - Failure To Respond To Questionnaire Or Summons
  a. Persons who are sent questionnaires concerning their qualifications for jury service who fail to respond to the questionnaire without reasonable excuse shall be...
• Section 2b:20-15 - Notice And Collection Of Fines
  a. The Assignment Judge may direct the sheriff to send written notice to a person who has failed to respond to a questionnaire concerning...
• Section 2b:20-16 - Excuse From Employment For Jury Duty; Compensation
  2B:20-16. Excuse from employment for jury duty; compensation. Any person employed full-time by any agency, independent authority, instrumentality or entity of the State or...
• Section 2b:20-17 - Employment Protection
  a. An employer shall not penalize an employee with respect to employment, or threaten or otherwise coerce an employee with respect to that employment,...
• Section 2b:20-18 - Oath Of Allegiance
  The following oath shall be administered to every person summoned for service as a juror who is not excused from service, before beginning service...
• Section 2b:21-1 - Number Of Grand Juries
  The Assignment Judge for each county shall impanel one or more grand juries for that county, as the public interest requires. There shall be...
• Section 2b:21-2 - Impaneling Grand Jury
  a. A grand jury shall consist of not more than 23 persons selected from the panel of jurors summoned for service as grand jurors....
• Section 2b:21-3 - Oath Of Grand Jurors
  The following oath shall be administered to all of the members of the grand jury: "Do you as a member of this grand jury...
• Section 2b:21-4 - Vacancies In Grand Jury
  A grand juror who becomes ill, dies or does not appear for service after having been sworn may be replaced at the direction of...
• Section 2b:21-5 - Selection Of Foreperson And Deputy Foreperson
  The foreperson and the deputy foreperson of each grand jury shall be selected publicly and randomly from the persons impanelled as members of the...
• Section 2b:21-6 - Swearing Of Witnesses By Foreperson
  a. The foreperson of the grand jury shall administer the following oath to witnesses who give evidence before the grand jury: "Do you swear...
• Section 2b:21-7 - Indictment
  An indictment may be found only upon concurrence of 12 or more grand jurors who either were present during, or who have read or...
• Section 2b:21-8 - Record Of Proceedings
  The testimony of witnesses, comments by the prosecuting attorney, and colloquy between the prosecuting attorney and witnesses or members of the grand jury shall...
• Section 2b:21-9 - Statement Of Investigation
  a. A person who has been investigated by a grand jury and against whom no indictment has been returned, may request the grand jury...
• Section 2b:21-10 - Unauthorized Disclosure Of Grand Jury Proceedings
  a. Any person who, with the intent to injure another, purposely discloses any information concerning the proceedings of a grand jury, other than as...
• Section 2b:22-1 - Impaneling State Grand Jury
  a. There shall be at least one State grand jury with jurisdiction extending throughout the State serving at all times. b. The State grand...
• Section 2b:22-2 - Powers And Duties Of State Grand Jury
  a. A State grand jury shall have the same powers and duties and shall function in the same manner as a county grand jury...
• Section 2b:22-3 - Selection Of State Grand Jurors
  a. The Administrative Director of the Courts, upon receipt of an order directing the impaneling of a State grand jury, shall prepare a list...
• Section 2b:22-4 - Summoning Of State Grand Jurors
  The Administrative Director of the Courts shall transmit the names of the prospective jurors selected for service on the State grand jury to the...
• Section 2b:22-5 - Judicial Supervision Of State Grand Jury
  The judge designated by the Chief Justice shall maintain judicial supervision over the grand jury. All indictments, presentments and formal returns of any kind...
• Section 2b:22-6 - Presentation Of Evidence To State Grand Jury
  The Attorney General or the designee of the Attorney General shall present evidence to the State grand jury. Source: 2A:73A-7 L.1995,c.44,s.1.
• Section 2b:22-7 - Return Of Indictment Or Presentment
  The judge who issues an order impaneling a State grand jury shall designate the county of venue for the purpose of trial of an...
• Section 2b:22-8 - Expenses Of State Grand Jury
  a. The State shall pay the expenses of impaneling and operating a State grand jury out of funds appropriated for this purpose to the...
• Section 2b:22-9 - Grand Jury Instruction In Elements Of Justification For Use Of Force By Law Enforcement Officer.
  1. a. In a grand jury proceeding where the use of force by a law enforcement officer has been introduced as an issue, the...
• Section 2b:23-1 - Number Of Jurors
  a. Juries in criminal cases shall consist of 12 persons. Except in trials of crimes punishable by death, the parties in criminal cases may...
• Section 2b:23-2 - Selection Of Trial Jury From Panel
  a. When a jury is required for trial, the names or identifying numbers of the jurors who constitute the panel or panels from which...
• Section 2b:23-3 - Impaneling Of Additional Jurors
  The court may direct the impaneling of a jury with additional members having the same qualifications and impaneled and sworn in the same manner...
• Section 2b:23-4 - Names Of Selected Trial Jurors
  The names of the jurors selected and sworn to try a case shall be made a part of the record of the case. Source:...
• Section 2b:23-5 - Names Of Jurors Drawn For Trial Jury Replace In Pool
  After a jury has been selected and sworn, the names or identifying numbers of jurors not sworn to try the case shall be returned...
• Section 2b:23-6 - Oath Of Jurors
  The following oath shall be administered to each juror: "Do you swear or affirm that you will try the matter in dispute and give...
• Section 2b:23-7 - Oath Of Officer Attending Jury
  The following oath shall be administered to the officer appointed to attend the jury: "Do you swear or affirm that you will do your...
• Section 2b:23-8 - Jurors To Serve Beyond Period For Which Drawn Until Completion Of Trial
  When a jury does not complete its trial service during the session for which its members are to serve as jurors, the court may...
• Section 2b:23-9 - Juries Drawn From Other Counties
  a. When a court orders a trial by a jury drawn from outside the county in which the court is sitting, the order shall...
• Section 2b:23-10 - Examination Of Jurors.
  2B:23-10. Examination of jurors. a. In the discretion of the court, parties to any trial may question any person summoned as a juror after...
• Section 2b:23-11 - Challenge To Qualifications Of Jurors
  It shall be good cause for challenge to any person summoned as a juror that the person does not possess the qualifications required by...
• Section 2b:23-12 - Interest In Action By Or Against County Or Municipality
  In an action in which a county or municipality is or may be a party or otherwise has an interest in the action, it...
• Section 2b:23-13 - Peremptory Challenges.
  2B:23-13. Peremptory challenges. Upon the trial of any action in any court of this State, the parties shall be entitled to peremptory challenges as...
• Section 2b:23-14 - Trial Of Challenges To Jurors
  All challenges to panels of jurors or to individual jurors shall be decided by the court. Source: 2A:78-8 L.1995,c.44,s.1.
• Section 2b:23-15 - Time For Making Challenges
  a. Challenges to jurors may be made at any time before the juror is sworn to try the case. b. No challenge to a...
• Section 2b:23-16 - Jury Of View
  a. At any time during trial the court may order that the jury view the lands, places or personal property in question to understand...
• Section 2b:23-17 - Verdict By Five-sixths Of The Jury
  In any civil trial by jury, at least five-sixths of the jurors shall render the verdict unless the parties stipulate that a smaller majority...
• Section 2b:23-18 - Disagreement Of Jurors
  If the jury does not agree on a verdict, the court may order a new trial. Source: 2A:80-3 L.1995,c.44,s.1.
• Section 2b:24-1 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Municipal Public Defenders
  1. The Legislature finds and declares: a. Municipal public defenders are a critical component of New Jersey's system for the administration of justice and...
• Section 2b:24-2 - Definitions Relative To Municipal Public Defenders
  2. As used in this act: "Indigent defendant" means a person who is entitled to be represented by a municipal public defender pursuant to...
• Section 2b:24-3 - Appointment Of Municipal Public Defenders, Chief Municipal Public Defender
  3. Each municipal court in this State shall have at least one municipal public defender appointed by the governing body of the municipality in...
• Section 2b:24-4 - Requirements For Municipal Public Defenders
  4. a. A municipal public defender shall be an attorney-at-law of this State in good standing, and shall serve for a term of one...
• Section 2b:24-5 - Compensation Of Municipal Public Defender
  5. A municipal public defender shall receive compensation, either on an hourly, per diem, annual or other basis as the municipality may provide. In...
• Section 2b:24-6 - Duties Of Municipal Public Defender
  6. a. It shall be the duty of the municipal public defender to represent, except in the case of temporary unavailability or conflict of...
• Section 2b:24-7 - Representation Of Indigent Defendants
  7. a. The municipal public defender shall represent an indigent defendant charged in municipal court with a crime as specified in N.J.S.2B:12-18 or, if...
• Section 2b:24-8 - Communications Protected Under Attorney-client Privilege
  8. All communications between the indigent defendant and the municipal public defender or any other attorney appointed to act as a municipal public defender...
• Section 2b:24-9 - Eligibility For Services Of Municipal Public Defender
  9. Eligibility for services of the municipal public defender shall be determined by the municipal court on the basis of the need of the...
• Section 2b:24-10 - Investigation Of Financial Status Of Defendant
  10. The municipal court shall make an investigation of the financial status of each defendant seeking representation pursuant to this act and shall have...
• Section 2b:24-11 - Eligibility Of Defendant Under 18 Years Of Age
  11. Whenever a person entitled to representation by a municipal public defender pursuant to this act, is under the age of 18 years, the...
• Section 2b:24-12 - Reimbursement To Municipality
  12. If the defendant has or reasonably expects to have means to meet some part, though not all, of the cost of the services...
• Section 2b:24-13 - Lien On Property Of Defendant
  13. a. A municipality shall have a lien on any property to which the defendant shall have or acquire an interest for an amount...
• Section 2b:24-14 - Compromise, Settlement Of Claims
  14. The municipal attorney is authorized to compromise and settle any claim for services performed pursuant to this act whenever the financial circumstances of...
• Section 2b:24-15 - Books For Recording Liens
  15. The Clerk of the Superior Court shall provide separate books for the recording of liens established pursuant to section 13 of this act,...
• Section 2b:24-16 - Collection Of Money Due Municipality
  16. The municipal attorney in the name of the municipality may do all things necessary to collect any money due to the municipality by...
• Section 2b:24-17 - Application Fee, Waiver; Deposit In Dedicated Fund
  17. a. A municipality may require by ordinance a person applying for representation by a municipal public defender or court approved counsel to pay...
• Section 2b:25-1 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Municipal Prosecutors.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that municipal prosecutors are a critical component of New Jersey's system for the administration of justice, that the role...
• Section 2b:25-2 - Definitions Relative To Municipal Prosecutors.
  2.As used in this act: a."Municipal prosecutor" means a person appointed to prosecute all offenses over which the municipal court has jurisdiction. b."Governing body"...
• Section 2b:25-3 - Exemptions For Municipal Prosecutor Currently Serving.
  3.Any person serving as a municipal prosecutor on the effective date of this act shall be exempt from its requirements for a period of...
• Section 2b:25-4 - Appointment, Qualifications For Municipal Prosecutor; Compensation.
  4. a. Each municipal court in this State shall have at least one municipal prosecutor appointed by the governing body of the municipality, municipalities...
• Section 2b:25-5 - Duties Of Municipal Prosecutor; Use Of Special Counsel, Private Attorneys.
  5. a. A municipal prosecutor, except as provided by subsection b. of this section and sections 6 and 7 of this act, shall represent...
• Section 2b:25-5.1 - Municipal Prosecutors, Review Of Motor Vehicle Abstracts Of Certain Offenders For Repeat Offenses; Transmission To Judge.
  1.Whenever a person is charged with a violation of R.S.39:3-40, R.S.39:4-50, section 2 of P.L.1981, c.512 (C.39:4-50.4a) or R.S.39:4-129, a municipal prosecutor shall contact...
• Section 2b:25-6 - Vacancies, Filling, Alternative Representation.
  6. a. Appointments to fill vacancies in the position of municipal prosecutor shall be made in accordance with the provisions of section 4 of...
• Section 2b:25-7 - Supersedure By Attorney General, County Prosecutor.
  7.Whenever in the opinion of the Attorney General or a county prosecutor the public interest of the State will be promoted by so doing,...
• Section 2b:25-8 - Reimbursement To Attorney General, County Prosecutor.
  8.Whenever the Attorney General or county prosecutor shall prosecute in a municipal court of this State pursuant to section 6 of this act, the...
• Section 2b:25-9 - Removal From Office, Procedure.
  9.In addition to any of the other means provided by law for the removal from office of a public official, a municipal prosecutor may...
• Section 2b:25-10 - Training Programs, Certification.
  10.The Attorney General in consultation with the county and municipal prosecutors may develop curricula for training programs for all municipal prosecutors. Participation in such...
• Section 2b:25-11 - Acceptance Of Plea To Lesser Offense.
  2.In accordance with the Rules of Court adopted by the Supreme Court of New Jersey, a municipal prosecutor may recommend to the court to...
• Section 2b:25-12 - Motion To Amend Original Charge.
  3.In accordance with the Rules of Court adopted by the Supreme Court of New Jersey, a municipal prosecutor may move before the municipal court...
• Section 2b:50-1 - Action For Replevin
  2B:50-1. Action for Replevin. A person seeking recovery of goods wrongly held by another may bring an action for replevin in the Superior Court....
• Section 2b:50-2 - Temporary Relief; On Notice
  2B:50-2. Temporary Relief; On Notice. If the court, after notice and hearing, and based upon filed papers and testimony, if any, finds a probability...
• Section 2b:50-3 - Temporary Relief; Without Notice
  2B:50-3. Temporary Relief; Without Notice. In an extraordinary case if, before notice and hearing, the court finds from specific facts in an affidavit or...
• Section 2b:50-4 - Security
  2B:50-4. Security. As part of an order that determines who shall hold the goods pending judgment, the court may further order the holder to...
• Section 2b:50-5 - Unrelinquished Property
  2B:50-5. Unrelinquished property. If the court orders a person to relinquish goods and the person does not relinquish them, the court shall enter an...

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