2009 New Jersey Code
TITLE 40A - MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES
Section 40A:9
40A:9-22.3 - Definitions 

40A:9-22.3.  Definitions 
     As used in this act:

 

    a.   "Board" means the Local Finance Board in the Division of Local Government Services in the Department of Community Affairs; 

    b.   "Business organization" means any corporation, partnership, firm, enterprise, franchise, association, trust, sole proprietorship, union or other legal entity; 

    c.   "Governing body" means, in the case of a municipality, the commission, council, board or body, by whatever name it may be known, having charge of the finances of the municipality, and, in the case of a county, the board of chosen freeholders, or, in the case of a county having adopted the provisions of the "Optional County Charter Law," P.L.1972, c.154 (C.40:41A-1 et seq.), as defined in the form of government adopted by the county under that act; 

    d.   "Interest" means the ownership or control of more than 10% of the profits, assets or stock of a business organization but shall not include the control of assets in a nonprofit entity or labor union; 

    e.   "Local government agency" means any agency, board, governing body, including the chief executive officer, bureau, division, office, commission or other instrumentality within a county or municipality, and any independent local authority, including any entity created by more than one county or municipality, which performs functions other than of a purely advisory nature, but shall not include a school board; 

    f.   "Local government employee" means any person, whether compensated or not, whether part-time or full-time, employed by or serving on a local government agency who is not a local government officer, but shall not mean any employee of a school district; 

    g.   "Local government officer" means any person whether compensated or not, whether part-time or full-time:  (1) elected to any office of a local government agency;  (2) serving on a local government agency which has the authority to enact ordinances, approve development applications or grant zoning variances; (3) who is a member of an independent municipal, county or regional authority; or (4) who is a managerial executive or confidential employee of a local government agency, as defined in section 3 of the "New Jersey Employer-Employee Relations Act," P.L.1941, c.100 (C.34:13A-3), but shall not mean any employee of a school district or member of a school board;

    h.   "Local government officer or employee" means a local government officer or a local government employee; 

    i.   "Member of immediate family" means the spouse or dependent child of a local government officer or employee residing in the same household. 

    L.1991,c.29,s.3.