Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 58:10B-8.1

  • Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
  • 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
32. a. The New Jersey Economic Development Authority shall require that payment of a grant or financial assistance from the Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund shall be conditioned upon the subrogation to the department of all rights of the recipient to recover remediation costs from an insurance carrier, discharger, or person in any way responsible for a hazardous substance pursuant to subsection c. of section 8 of P.L.1976, c.141 (C. 58:10-23.11g) and who does not have a defense to liability pursuant to subsection d. of that section, upon the failure of the recipient to repay the financial assistance to the State. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to limit or otherwise affect the authority or rights of the department concerning the discharge of a hazardous substance pursuant to P.L.1976, c.141, any other law, or pursuant to common law, against a discharger or a person in any way responsible for a hazardous substance.

b. The New Jersey Economic Development Authority shall not award a grant or financial assistance from the Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund if the applicant relinquishes, impairs, or waives, or has relinquished, impaired, or waived, any right to recover the costs of the remediation against an insurance carrier, discharger, or person in any way responsible for a hazardous substance pursuant to subsection c. of section 8 of P.L.1976, c.141 (C. 58:10-23.11g).

c. In any action by the department to enforce a right of subrogation, the department shall be entitled to invoke any right or defense available to the recipient of a grant or financial assistance from the Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund.

d. All moneys collected in a cost recovery subrogation action shall be deposited into the Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund.

L.2009, c.60, s.32.

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