N.J. Stat. tit. 38, ch. 23A

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N.J. Stat. § 38:23A-1 Proof or acknowledgment of deeds or instruments before commissioned officers; "in time of emergency" defined

Any oath, affirmation or affidavit, required or authorized to be taken or made in any suit or legal proceeding in this State or for any lawful purpose whatever, by any person in the military, naval or air force service of the United States or the spouse of any such person, or by any person who, is serving as a merchant seaman outside the limits of the United States included within the 48 States and the District of Columbia or, is outside said limits by permission, assignment or direction of any department or official of the United States Government in connection with any activity pertaining to the prosecution of any war in which the United States is then engaged, or, in time of emergency, for use within this State or any acknowledgment or proof of any deed or other instrument, relating to real or personal property within this State, by any such person or the spouse of any person in such military, naval or air force service, in order to entitle such deed or instrument to be recorded or filed in any public office of this State, may be taken or made before any commissioned officer of the United States Army, Navy, Air Force or Marine Corps and the recital that he is such commissioned officer, including a recital of his rank and official designation as such and that the person taking or making such oath, affirmation or acknowledgment or making any such proof is in the military, naval or air force service of the United States or is the spouse of any such person or is serving as a merchant seaman outside the limits of the United States included within the 48 States and the District of Columbia or is outside said limits by permission, assignment or direction of any department or official of the United States Government in connection with any activity pertaining to the prosecution of any war in which the United States is then engaged, or in time of emergency, in the jurat or certificate of such oath, affirmation, affidavit, acknowledgment or proof over his signature as such commissioned officer shall be sufficient proof that the person before whom the same is taken or made is such an officer and that such person taking or making such oath, affirmation, affidavit or acknowledgment or making such proof is in the military, naval or air force service of the United States or is the spouse of any such person or is serving as a merchant seaman outside the limits of the United States included within the 48 States and the District of Columbia or is outside said limits by permission, assignment or direction of any department or official of the United States in connection with any activity pertaining to the prosecution of any war in which the United States is then engaged, or in time of emergency at the time of the taking or making the same and such oath, affirmation, affidavit, acknowledgment or proof when so taken or made and certified shall have the same force and effect as though taken or made before any other officer of this State authorized to take oaths, acknowledgments and proofs and any such deed or instrument when so acknowledged or proved, if otherwise sufficient, shall be entitled to recording or filing in any public office of this State without any other or additional certificate of the authority of such officer to take the acknowledgment or proof of the execution thereof. Any such certificate of acknowledgment shall be valid and sufficient to all intents and purposes, if it certifies that the party making such instrument appeared before such officer and acknowledged the same to be his act and deed; and any affidavit of proof by a witness, made before such officer shall be sufficient to all intents and purposes if the affiant swears that the party making such instrument executed and delivered the same as his act and deed. The failure to state the place of execution of any such deed or other instrument or of any such oath, affirmation, affidavit, acknowledgment or proof shall not invalidate the same deed or other instrument or said oath, affirmation, affidavit, acknowledgment or proof. As used in this act the term "in time of emergency" shall mean and include any time after June 23, 1950, and prior to the termination, suspension or revocation of the proclamation of the existence of a national emergency issued by the President of the United States on December 16, 1950, or termination of the existence of such national emergency by appropriate action of the President or Congress of the United States. L.1941, c. 333, p. 889, s. 1. Amended by L.1943, c. 156, p. 438, s. 1; L.1945, c. 234, p. 755, s. 2; L.1951, c. 92, p. 493, s. 1; L.1957, c. 136, p. 521, s. 1; L.1959, c. 74, p. 191, s. 2, eff. June 8, 1959.

N.J. Stat. § 38:23A-2 Age limits extended for veterans

1. When the qualifications for any examination or test for, or appointment or election to any office, position or employment under the government of this State, or of any county, municipality, school district or other political subdivision of this State, or under any board, body, agency or commission of this State, or of any county, municipality or school district, includes a maximum age limit, any person who, heretofore and subsequent to July 1, 1940, entered or hereafter, in time of war, shall enter the active military or naval service of the United States or the active service of the Women's Army Corps, the Women's Reserve of the Naval Reserve or any similar organization authorized by the United States to serve with the Army or Navy, including service as a member of the American Merchant Marine during World War II which is declared by the United States Department of Defense to be eligible for federal veterans' benefits, shall be deemed to meet such maximum age requirement, if his actual age, less the period of such service, would meet the maximum age requirement in effect on the date the person entered into such service of the United States. As used in this section the term "war" shall include the conflicts in Viet Nam and Korea. L.1944,c.98,s.1; amended 1946,c.206; 1984,c.44; 1991,c.389,s.16.

N.J. Stat. § 38:23A-3 Privileges of honorably discharged veterans; persons engaged in public service

Whenever in any law, any rights, privileges or benefits are granted to persons holding any appointive office, position or employment in either the State, county or municipal government by reason of having been honorably discharged from the armed services of the United States in any of its wars, such persons shall include all those engaged in the public service in any of its branches within this State. No distinction shall be made by reason of the source of the public funds from which such person is paid or the changes in or from the governmental office, position or employment to any other branch of the government within this State. L.1945, c. 175, p. 604, s. 1, eff. April 17, 1945.

N.J. Stat. § 38:23A-4 "Veteran" and "present emergency" defined

1. The word "veteran" as used in this act shall mean any person who served in the active military or naval service of the United States on or after September 16, 1940, and prior to the termination of the war by lawful federal authority, or during the present emergency, including any member of the American Merchant Marine who is declared by the United States Department of Defense to be eligible for federal veterans' benefits, who was a resident of this State when he entered such active service, who shall have been discharged, or released, therefrom under conditions other than dishonorable and who either shall have served 90 days or shall have been discharged or released from active duty by reason of an actual service-incurred injury or disability. The term "present emergency" as used in this act shall mean and include any time after June 23, 1950, and on or prior to January 31, 1955. L.1946,c.51,s.1; amended 1952,c.116; 1991,c.389,s.17.

N.J. Stat. § 38:23A-5 Renewal or reinstatement of professional or occupational licenses

Any veteran who at the time of entering such service or within one year prior thereto was the holder of a license, registration certificate or permit, to practice any profession or to engage in any occupation, issued by any State board, body or officer, pursuant to law, which expired, lapsed or was forfeited or shall expire, lapse or be forfeited, by limitation of time for failure to renew the same, or to pay an annual license or renewal fee, shall be entitled, without examination or re-examination, upon making application therefor within six months after his said discharge or release from such service, to a renewal or reinstatement of such license, registration certificate or permit until the next renewal or termination period of such license, registration certificate or permit, upon payment of the lawful fee, if any, provided for a renewal or reinstatement thereof, and upon the giving or renewal of any bond provided to be given or renewed upon a renewal or reinstatement of such license, registration certificate or permit. L.1946, c. 51, p. 108, s. 2.

N.J. Stat. § 38:23A-6 Rules and regulations

Any such State board, body or officer may adopt rules and regulations to carry into effect the provisions of this act. L.1946, c. 51, p. 109, s. 3.

N.J. Stat. § 38:23A-7 Apprentice and on-the-job training for veterans; "present emergency" defined

Each State department and each county and municipality in the State hereby is authorized and empowered to establish and maintain apprentice and on-the-job training programs for the employment of veterans of World War II as contemplated by public laws Nos. 16 and 346 of the Seventy-eighth Congress of the United States, and for persons who have served in the armed forces of the United States in the present emergency who may be entitled to on-the-job training benefits under any Federal law, and the head of each State Department and the governing body of each county and municipality is authorized to determine the positions to be included within such program and their rating and to fix the compensation to be paid to such veterans while serving therein under the supervision, and subject to the approval, of the Civil Service Commission in the case of State departments and the counties and municipalities in which subtitle three, of Title 11, Civil Service, of the Revised Statutes is in effect. The term "present emergency" as used in this act shall mean and include any time after June twenty-third, one thousand nine hundred and fifty, and prior to the termination, suspension or revocation of the proclamation of the existence of a national emergency issued by the President of the United States on December sixteenth, one thousand nine hundred and fifty, or termination of the existence of such national emergency by appropriate action of the President or Congress of the United States. L.1946, c. 162, p. 731, s. 1. Amended by L.1952, c. 232, p. 784, s. 2, eff. May 19, 1952.

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