18A:42-3 - Collection and deposit of savings of pupils

18A:42-3.  Collection and deposit of savings of pupils    In order to encourage the habit of saving among the pupils in schools, the principal or superintendent of any public school, or any person designated for that purpose by the board of education or other school authority under which the school shall be, may collect once a week, or from time to time, small amounts of savings from the pupils of the school, to be deposited by the principal, superintendent, or designated person promptly upon collection in any  financial institution having its principal office in New Jersey, whose accounts  or deposits are insured or guaranteed by any corporation created or organized  under the laws of the United States, which corporation is an instrumentality of  the United States or of any successor corporation having for its purpose the  insurance of deposits or accounts.

    These moneys shall be placed to the credit of the respective pupils for whom  the money has been collected, or if the amount collected at any one time is  deemed insufficient for the opening of individual accounts, in the name of the  principal, superintendent, or designated person, in trust, and to be by him  eventually transferred to the credit of the respective pupils to whom the same  belongs.  In the meantime, the principal, superintendent, or designated person  shall furnish to the financial institution a list giving the names, signatures,  addresses, ages, places of birth, parents' names, and such other data  concerning the respective pupils as the financial institution may require.

    The words  "system of school savings"  or  "school savings"  may be used in  circulars, reports, and other printed or written matter used in connection with  this section.
 
L.1967, c.271.