New Jersey Statutes 58:10-23.11f10. Definitions
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 58:10-23.11f10
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. Source: FDIC
- person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
“Department” means the Department of Environmental Protection.
“Division” means the Division of Purchase and Property within the Department of the Treasury.
“Engineering services” means services or creative work such as consultation, investigation, the evaluation, planning, and design of engineering works and systems, planning the use of land and water, engineering studies, and the administration of construction for the purpose of determining compliance with drawings and specifications, the adequate performance of which requires engineering education, training, and experience, and the application of special knowledge of the mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences.
“Hazardous substance” means a hazardous substance as defined in section 3 of P.L.1976, c.141 (C. 58:10-23.11b).
“Remediation” means the cleanup, removal, mitigation, control or management of a discharge of a hazardous substance.
“Response action contract” or “contract” means a contract entered into by a response action contractor with the department, or any other agency of the State, or with the division on behalf of the department to provide services or work for, or relating to, the remediation, or attempted remediation, of a hazardous substance, or to prevent or mitigate damages to the public health, safety, or welfare, including damages to public or private property, pursuant to P.L.1976, c.141 (C. 58:10-23.11 et seq.), which services or work shall include evaluation, planning, engineering, surveying, design, construction, or other related services or work.
“Response action contractor” or “contractor” means a person, including an employee or subcontractor of a person, who enters into a response action contract, and, for the purposes of indemnification by the department, a surety that issues a bid, performance, or payment bond for the contractor on the response action contract, and who begins activities to meet the obligations under such bond but only in connection with such activities or obligations.
L.1991,c.373,s.3; per s.22, section expired January 10, 1995.