Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 58:26-3

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Joint meeting: An occasion, often ceremonial, when the House and Senate each adopt a unanimous consent agreement
  • 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
As used in this act:

a. “Contracting unit” means a county, district water supply commission, municipality, municipal or county utilities authority, municipal water district, joint meeting or any other political subdivision of the State authorized pursuant to law to operate or maintain a public water supply system or to construct, rehabilitate, operate, or maintain water supply facilities or otherwise provide water for human consumption;

b. “Department” means the Department of Environmental Protection;

c. “Division” means the Division of Local Government Services in the Department of Community Affairs;

d. “Vendor” means any person financially, technically, and administratively capable of financing, planning, designing, constructing, operating, or maintaining, or any combination thereof, a water filtration system, water supply facilities, or of providing water supply services to a local government unit under the terms of a contract awarded pursuant to the provisions of this act;

e. “Water filtration system” means any equipment, plants, structures, machinery, apparatus, or land, or any combination thereof, acquired, used, constructed, rehabilitated, or operated for the collection, impoundment, storage, improvement, filtration, or other treatment of drinking water for the purposes of purifying and enhancing water quality and insuring its potability prior to the distribution of the drinking water in the general public for human consumption, including plants and works, and other personal property and appurtenances necessary for their use or operation;

f. “Water supply facilities” means and refers to the real property and the plants, structures, interconnections between existing water supply facilities, machinery and equipment and other property, real, personal and mixed, acquired, constructed or operated, or to be acquired, constructed or operated, in whole or in part by or on behalf of a political subdivision of the State or any agency thereof, for the purpose of augmenting the natural water resources of the State and making available an increased supply of water for all uses, or of conserving existing water resources, and any and all appurtenances necessary, useful or convenient for the collecting, impounding, storing, improving, treating, filtering, conserving or transmitting of water, and for the preservation and protection of these resources and facilities and providing for the conservation and development of future water supply resources;

g. “Water supply services” means services provided by a water supply facility.

L. 1985, c. 37, s. 3, eff. Feb. 1, 1985.