Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 18A:3B-96

  • Higher education: means that education which is provided by any or all of the public institutions of higher education as herein defined and any or all equivalent private institutions. See New Jersey Statutes 18A:1-1
  • 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
12. a. It shall be an unlawful practice and a violation of P.L.1960, c.39 (C. 56:8-1 et seq.) for any institution of higher education, proprietary institution licensed to offer academic degrees, person, or entity to collect on a student’s institutional debt if the institutional financial aid agreement does not contain the language required under paragraph (3) of subsection c. of section 8 of P.L.2021, c.27 (C. 18A:3B-92).

b. It shall be an unlawful practice and a violation of P.L.1960, c.39 (C. 56:8-1 et seq.) for an institution of higher education or proprietary institution licensed to offer academic degrees to collect on the institutional debt of a student who attended a program in which a disorderly closure occurred.

L.2021, c.27, s.12.