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• Chapter 1

• 1
  Seals
  
  
• 6
  "Court Technology Improvement Fund"
  
  
• 5
  Electronic payment systems established by courts
  
  
• 4
  Electronic access to court records
  
  
• 3
  Criminal history record information.
  
  
• 2
  Preservation of court records
  
  
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• Chapter 2A

• 4
  Prosecution of removal proceedings
  
  
• 5
  Suspension pending determination
  
  
• 6
  Preparation of defense; counsel; production of witnesses and evidence
  
  
• 7
  Taking of evidence
  
  
• 8
  Rules governing
  
  
• 9
  Removal
  
  
• 10
  Suspension prior to hearing
  
  
• 11
  Impeachment proceedings
  
  
• 3
  Institution of removal proceedings
  
  
• 2
  Cause for removal
  
  
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• Chapter 2

• 1
  Number of judges.
  
  
• 1.1
  Information relative to Superior Court nominees
  
  
• 1.2
  Notification to Legislature of Superior Court judges fulfilling requirements of N.J.S.2B:2-1
  
  
• 2
  Assignment of Superior Court judges
  
  
• 3
  Judge seeking elective office
  
  
• 4
  Judicial salaries.
  
  
• 5
  Responsibility for judicial salaries
  
  
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• Chapter 2A

• 1
  Definitions
  
  
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• Chapter 3

• 4
  Clerk of the Superior Court as named party
  
  
• 3
  Instruments executed by clerk of Superior Court in connection with property held by Superior Court; signatures
  
  
• 2
  Clerks, offices and duties
  
  
• 1
  Appointment of court clerks
  
  
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• Chapter 4

• 1
  Special counsel
  
  
• 2
  Appointment of additional employees
  
  
• 3
  Appointment of staff of justices and judges
  
  
• 4
  Grand jury clerks
  
  
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• Chapter 5

• 3
  Compensation of employees administering trust fund
  
  
• 2
  Administrative staff for Superior Court
  
  
• 1
  Secretarial and legal staff of justices and judges
  
  
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• Chapter 6

• 7
  "Statewide CCIS Operations Account;" funding.
  
  
• 6
  Statewide County Corrections Information System.
  
  
• 5
  Expenses incurred by order of Supreme Court
  
  
• 4
  Multi-county vicinage; apportionment of costs
  
  
• 3
  Service of process
  
  
• 2
  Rental of chambers
  
  
• 1
  Courtrooms and equipment security
  
  
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• Chapter 7

• 6
  Records and reports
  
  
• 5
  Employment of court reporters
  
  
• 4
  Transcript; fees.
  
  
• 3
  Temporary service
  
  
• 2
  Assignment; designation of supervisors
  
  
• 1
  Reporting of court proceedings; court reporters
  
  
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• Chapter 8

• 1
  Interpreters
  
  
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• Chapter 10A

• 3
  Self-defense training for probation officers
  
  
• 2
  "Probation Officer Community Safety Unit"
  
  
• 1
  Findings, declarations relative to probation officers
  
  
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• Chapter 10

• 9
  Certification of payroll record information
  
  
• 8
  Determination of county tax levy
  
  
• 7
  Disposition of furnishings, office equipment; service agreements; provision of claim, insurance information
  
  
• 6
  Schedule for payment of county share
  
  
• 5
  Certification of base year amount
  
  
• 4
  State costs, employees, and fees after 1994
  
  
• 3
  Definitions
  
  
• 2
  Findings, declarations
  
  
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• Chapter 11

• 8
  Temporary disablity, unemployment insurance benefits
  
  
• 9
  Health, medical benefits
  
  
• 10
  Reimbursement for premium charges for Part A of Medicare
  
  
• 11
  Health care benefits upon retirement, eligibility
  
  
• 12
  Right to review, void certain adjustments
  
  
• 7
  Transfer to the Public Employees' Retirement System
  
  
• 6
  Seniority, benefits, etc. tranferred
  
  
• 5
  State service applicable; tranferred employees; personnel procedures
  
  
• 4
  Elections for majority representatives
  
  
• 3
  Definitions
  
  
• 2
  Findings, declarations
  
  
• 1
  Short title
  
  
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• Chapter 12

• 23.1
  Penalties payable in installments; alternative penalties.
  
  
• 23
  Default in payment of fine; community service
  
  
• 22
  Periodic service of imprisonment
  
  
• 21
  Officials authorized to act for court
  
  
• 20
  Municipal housing court; jurisdiction.
  
  
• 19
  Authority of municipal court judge prior to indictment; notice to county prosecutor
  
  
• 17.2
  Motor vehicle matters involving death, bodily injury, Superior Court exclusive jurisdiction; prosecution guidelines.
  
  
• 24
  Costs charged to complainant in certain cases
  
  
• 25
  Records and standards for municipal courts
  
  
• 26
  Docketing judgment
  
  
• 27
  Employment of prosecutor by county, municipality.
  
  
• 30
  Automated Traffic System Fund
  
  
• 30.1
  Automated Traffic System Statewide Modernization Fund.
  
  
• 31
  Suspension of driving privileges
  
  
• 32
  Purging of records for violators of certain municipal ordinances.
  
  
• 33
  Application of act.
  
  
• 17.1
  Responsibility for notification.
  
  
• 17
  Jurisdiction of specified offenses
  
  
• 1
  Establishment of municipal courts.
  
  
• 2
  Name of court
  
  
• 3
  Place of court
  
  
• 4
  Judge of municipal court; term of office appointment
  
  
• 5
  Additional municipal judges.
  
  
• 6
  Designation of acting judges
  
  
• 7
  Qualifications of judges; compensation
  
  
• 8
  Chief judge
  
  
• 9
  Presiding judge of the municipal courts
  
  
• 16
  Territorial jurisdiction.
  
  
• 15
  Courtrooms and equipment
  
  
• 14
  Officers empowered to execute process
  
  
• 13
  Powers of administrator
  
  
• 12
  Bond or insurance
  
  
• 11
  Certification of municipal court administrators.
  
  
• 10
  Municipal court administrator and personnel
  
  
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• Chapter 13

• 10
  Presiding judge
  
  
• 11
  Annual report
  
  
• 12
  Assignment of judges to other courts
  
  
• 13
  Clerk
  
  
• 14
  Small claims division jurisdiction
  
  
• 15
  Conduct of hearing
  
  
• 9
  Impeachment and removal; incapacity
  
  
• 8
  Compensation not to be reduced; prohibition against gainful employment
  
  
• 7
  Term of office; retirement
  
  
• 1
  Establishment
  
  
• 2
  Jurisdiction
  
  
• 3
  Hearing and determination of cases; legal and equitable relief; practice and procedure; decisions
  
  
• 4
  Appeals
  
  
• 5
  Locations; facilities
  
  
• 6
  Judges; number; qualifications
  
  
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• Chapter 14

• 13
  Other employees' appointment; compensation
  
  
• 12
  Executive secretary; chief clerk
  
  
• 11
  Special probate clerk
  
  
• 10
  Deputy surrogate; special deputy surrogate
  
  
• 9
  Filing
  
  
• 8
  Recording
  
  
• 7
  Acknowledgment, proof
  
  
• 6
  Recorded documents
  
  
• 1
  Election of surrogates
  
  
• 2
  Bond of surrogates
  
  
• 3
  Salaries of surrogates.
  
  
• 4
  Disqualification; referral to assignment judge
  
  
• 5
  Filling vacancy in surrogate's office
  
  
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• Chapter 19

• 11
  Additional duties of program concerning public defender liens
  
  
• 10
  Referral of uncollected DMV surcharges
  
  
• 9
  Recommendation of hearing officer; approval.
  
  
• 8
  Inability to fulfill financial obligations of sentence; procedure
  
  
• 7
  Transfer of disobeyed community service matters
  
  
• 6
  Transfer of matters involving the collection of monies.
  
  
• 5
  Labor assistance program established by county; enforced community service program by probation services
  
  
• 4
  Deduction of collections to fund program
  
  
• 3
  Comprehensive Enforcement Program Fund
  
  
• 2
  Findings, declarations.
  
  
• 1
  Short title
  
  
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• Chapter 20

• 11
  Deferral of jury service
  
  
• 12
  Retention of records
  
  
• 13
  Discharge of unneeded jurors
  
  
• 14
  Failure to respond to questionnaire or summons
  
  
• 15
  Notice and collection of fines
  
  
• 16
  Excuse from employment for jury duty; compensation
  
  
• 17
  Employment protection
  
  
• 18
  Oath of allegiance
  
  
• 10
  Grounds for excuse from jury service
  
  
• 9
  Excuses and deferrals by Assignment Judge
  
  
• 1
  Qualifications of jurors
  
  
• 2
  Preparation of juror source list.
  
  
• 3
  Questionnaires concerning qualifications
  
  
• 4
  Public and random selection of jurors
  
  
• 5
  Certification, filing and posting of juror lists
  
  
• 6
  Designation of period of service for petit jury panels
  
  
• 7
  Summoning of jurors
  
  
• 8
  Form and service of summons
  
  
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• Chapter 21

• 10
  Unauthorized disclosure of grand jury proceedings
  
  
• 9
  Statement of investigation
  
  
• 8
  Record of proceedings
  
  
• 7
  Indictment
  
  
• 6
  Swearing of witnesses by foreperson
  
  
• 5
  Selection of foreperson and deputy foreperson
  
  
• 4
  Vacancies in grand jury
  
  
• 3
  Oath of grand jurors
  
  
• 2
  Impaneling grand jury
  
  
• 1
  Number of grand juries
  
  
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• Chapter 22

• 9
  Grand jury instruction in elements of justification for use of force by law enforcement officer.
  
  
• 8
  Expenses of State grand jury
  
  
• 7
  Return of indictment or presentment
  
  
• 6
  Presentation of evidence to State grand jury
  
  
• 5
  Judicial supervision of State grand jury
  
  
• 4
  Summoning of State grand jurors
  
  
• 3
  Selection of State grand jurors
  
  
• 2
  Powers and duties of State grand jury
  
  
• 1
  Impaneling State grand jury
  
  
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• Chapter 23

• 11
  Challenge to qualifications of jurors
  
  
• 12
  Interest in action by or against county or municipality
  
  
• 13
  Peremptory challenges.
  
  
• 14
  Trial of challenges to jurors
  
  
• 15
  Time for making challenges
  
  
• 16
  Jury of view
  
  
• 17
  Verdict by five-sixths of the jury
  
  
• 18
  Disagreement of jurors
  
  
• 10
  Examination of jurors.
  
  
• 9
  Juries drawn from other counties
  
  
• 1
  Number of jurors
  
  
• 2
  Selection of trial jury from panel
  
  
• 3
  Impaneling of additional jurors
  
  
• 4
  Names of selected trial jurors
  
  
• 5
  Names of jurors drawn for trial jury replace in pool
  
  
• 6
  Oath of jurors
  
  
• 7
  Oath of officer attending jury
  
  
• 8
  Jurors to serve beyond period for which drawn until completion of trial
  
  
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• Chapter 24

• 11
  Eligibility of defendant under 18 years of age
  
  
• 12
  Reimbursement to municipality
  
  
• 13
  Lien on property of defendant
  
  
• 14
  Compromise, settlement of claims
  
  
• 15
  Books for recording liens
  
  
• 16
  Collection of money due municipality
  
  
• 17
  Application fee, waiver; deposit in dedicated fund
  
  
• 10
  Investigation of financial status of defendant
  
  
• 9
  Eligibility for services of municipal public defender
  
  
• 8
  Communications protected under attorney-client privilege
  
  
• 1
  Findings, declarations relative to municipal public defenders
  
  
• 2
  Definitions relative to municipal public defenders
  
  
• 3
  Appointment of municipal public defenders, chief municipal public defender
  
  
• 4
  Requirements for municipal public defenders
  
  
• 5
  Compensation of municipal public defender
  
  
• 6
  Duties of municipal public defender
  
  
• 7
  Representation of indigent defendants
  
  
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• Chapter 25

• 12
  Motion to amend original charge.
  
  
• 11
  Acceptance of plea to lesser offense.
  
  
• 10
  Training programs, certification.
  
  
• 9
  Removal from office, procedure.
  
  
• 8
  Reimbursement to Attorney General, county prosecutor.
  
  
• 7
  Supersedure by Attorney General, county prosecutor.
  
  
• 6
  Vacancies, filling, alternative representation.
  
  
• 5.1
  Municipal prosecutors, review of motor vehicle abstracts of certain offenders for repeat offenses; transmission to judge.
  
  
• 1
  Findings, declarations relative to municipal prosecutors.
  
  
• 2
  Definitions relative to municipal prosecutors.
  
  
• 3
  Exemptions for municipal prosecutor currently serving.
  
  
• 4
  Appointment, qualifications for municipal prosecutor; compensation.
  
  
• 5
  Duties of municipal prosecutor; use of special counsel, private attorneys.
  
  
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• Chapter 50

• 1
  Action for replevin
  
  
• 2
  Temporary relief; on notice
  
  
• 3
  Temporary relief; without notice
  
  
• 4
  Security
  
  
• 5
  Unrelinquished property