Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 52:9S-1

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • 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
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
As used in this act, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context shall indicate another or different meaning or intent:

a. “Capital project” means any undertaking which is to be financed or funded or is proposed to be financed or funded by the issuance of bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness of the State or any public authority thereof; or any undertaking which is to be financed or funded or is requested to be financed or funded by an appropriation in the annual budget, where the expenditure therefor is, by statute, or under standards as they may be prescribed from time to time by the Department of the Treasury, a capital expenditure.

b. “Commission” means the New Jersey Commission on Capital Budgeting and Planning created by section 2 of this act;

c. “Plan” means the State Capital Improvement Plan provided for by subsection a. of section 3. of this act.

d. “State agency” means an executive or administrative department, office, public authority or other instrumentality of State Government.

L.1975, c. 208, s. 1, eff. Sept. 23, 1975.