52:4B-63. Requirement for written notice of payment to board

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3. a. Every person, firm, corporation, partnership, association or other legal entity, or representative of such person, firm, corporation, partnership, association or entity, which knowingly contracts for, pays, or agrees to pay:

(1)any profits from a crime to a person charged with or convicted of that crime, or to the representative of such person, or

(2)any funds of a convicted person where such conviction is for a crime and the value, combined value or aggregate value of the payment or payments of such funds exceeds or will exceed $10,000 shall give written notice to the board of the payment or obligation to pay as soon as practicable after discovering that the payment or intended payment constitutes profits from a crime or funds of a convicted person.

b. Notwithstanding subsection a. of this section, whenever the payment or obligation to pay involves funds of a convicted person that a superintendent of a correctional facility receives or will receive on behalf of an inmate or prisoner serving a sentence with the Department of Corrections and deposits or will deposit in an inmate or prisoner account to the credit of the inmate or prisoner and the value, combined value or aggregate value of such funds exceeds or will exceed $10,000, the superintendent shall also give written notice to the board.

Further, whenever the State makes payment or has an obligation to pay funds of a convicted person and the value, combined value or aggregate value of such funds exceeds or will exceed $10,000, the State shall also give written notice to the board. In all other instances where the payment or obligation to pay involves funds of a convicted person and the value, combined value or aggregate value of such funds exceeds or will exceed $10,000, the convicted person who receives or will receive such funds, or the representative of such person, shall give written notice to the board.

c. The board, upon receipt of notice of a contract, an agreement to pay or payment of profits from a crime or funds of a convicted person pursuant to subsection a. or b. of this section, or upon receipt of notice of funds of a convicted person from the superintendent where the inmate or prisoner is confined, shall notify all known crime victims of the convicted person of the existence of such profits or funds at their last known address.

L.2003,c.190,s.3.