New Jersey § 51:1-42
Full text of New Jersey New Jersey Statutes § 51:1-42, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 51:1-42.
The department of weights and measures, 1 created and established by an act entitled “An act to establish a uniform standard
of weights and measures in this state, to establish a department of weights and measures,
and to provide penalties for the use of other than standard or legal weights and measures,”
approved April twenty-fourth, one thousand nine hundred and eleven (L.1911, c. 201,
p. 414), is continued. It shall consist of a state superintendent, 2 and assistant state superintendents, county superintendents, municipal superintendents
and their respective assistant superintendents, each of whom shall, before entering
upon his duties, take an oath of office as provided by law. 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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