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New Jersey Statutes Title 51. Standards, Weights, Measures and Containers 51 § 7-1

Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

For the purpose of this chapter the following words shall be deemed to have the meaning herein given:

a. “Department” shall mean state department of weights and measures.  1

b. “Person” shall be construed to include any individual, partnership, unincorporated association, corporation or other form of business enterprise.

c. “Weights and measures officers” shall be construed to include the state superintendent of weights and measures  2 or his assistants or inspectors, county or assistant county superintendents of weights and measures or inspectors, and municipal or assistant municipal superintendents of weights and measures or inspectors.

1 Now Division of Weights and Measures in the Department of Law and Public Safety. See N.J.S.A. § 52:17B-23.
2 Functions, powers and duties transferred to Superintendent of the Division of Weights and Measures, see N.J.S.A. § 52:17B-25.
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