Weisman v. Brunetti

The Borough of New Milford, in which is located the Brookches-ter Apartments whose tenants’ claims generated tax refunds, appeals from a Law Division judgment determining that unclaimed property tax refunds which the judge had previously ordered deposited into an escrow account should now be paid over to the Superior Court Trust Fund established pursuant to R. 1:21— 6(i). The Borough claims entitlement to administer the unclaimed refunds pursuant to its municipal rent leveling ordinance. The State of New Jersey, as intervenor in the person of the State Treasurer, also appeals contending that…