2020 New Jersey Revised Statutes
Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation
Section 34:11-32 - Procedure where personal property is removed under process without payment of wages of debtor's employees
34:11-32. Procedure where personal property is removed under process without payment of wages of debtor's employees
If an officer shall by virtue of execution, attachment or other process remove any personal property from the possession or premises of any employer against whom the process is directed without first paying to the employees of such employer their wages owing and earned or accrued to the amount specified in section 34:11-31 of this title, such personal property shall not be sold by the officer until ten days after such removal and then not until the plaintiff or party causing the levy shall, before the sale, pay to such employees such wages upon the payment of which the process may be executed and sale made; provided the persons to whom such wages may be owing, shall within ten days after such removal give notice to the officer holding such process of the amount of wages due, and claim the same, which notice may be served by delivery to the officer or leaving a copy thereof at his usual place of abode.
