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Code · New Jersey · Title 4 — Public Fiscal Administration · Chapter 19

4:19-15.23. Refusal to pay judgment; confinement in jail

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The court shall cause a defendant who refuses or neglects to pay forthwith the amount of a judgment rendered against him and the costs and charges incident thereto, to be committed to the county jail for a period not exceeding ten days in the case of a first conviction, and in the case of a conviction for a second, subsequent or continuing violation, for a period not exceeding thirty days.
L.1941, c. 151, p. 504, s. 23.
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