New Jersey Statutes 18A:64-53. Definitions
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 18A:64-53
- Board: means the board of education. See New Jersey Statutes 18A:1-1
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Employee: includes the holder of any position or employment. See New Jersey Statutes 18A:1-1
- Employment: includes employment in a position. See New Jersey Statutes 18A:1-1
- 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
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- real property: include lands, tenements and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interests therein. 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
a. “Board of trustees” means the board of a State college;
b. “Contracting agent” means the business officer of the State college having the power to prepare advertisements, to advertise for and receive bids, and to make awards for the State college in connection with the purchases, contracts or agreements permitted by this article or the officer, committee or employee to whom the power has been delegated by the State college;
c. “Contracts” means contracts or agreements for the performance of work or the furnishing or hiring of services, materials, supplies, or construction, as distinguished from contracts of employment;
d. “Legal newspaper” means a newspaper circulating in this State which has been printed and published in the English language at least once a week for at least one year continuously;
e. “Materials” includes goods and property subject to chapter 2 of Title 12A of the New Jersey Statutes, apparatus or any other tangible thing, except real property or any interest therein;
f. “Extraordinary unspecifiable services” means services or products which cannot be reasonably described by written specifications;
g. “Professional services” means services rendered or performed by a person authorized by law to practice a recognized profession and whose practice is regulated by law and the performance of which services requires knowledge of an advanced type in a field of learning acquired by a prolonged formal course of specialized instruction and study as distinguished from general academic instruction or apprenticeship and training. Professional services also means services rendered in the performance of work that is original and creative in character in a recognized field of artistic endeavor;
h. “Project” means any work, undertaking, construction or alteration;
i. “Purchases” are transactions, for a valuable consideration, creating or acquiring an interest in goods, services and property except real property or any interest therein;
j. “State college” means an institution of higher education established pursuant to chapter 64 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes;
k. “Work” includes services and any other activity of a tangible or intangible nature performed or assumed pursuant to a contract or agreement with a State college;
l. “Information technology” means telecommunication and computing goods and services, including, but not limited to, software, hardware, cloud computing, and systems implementation and support for voice, data and video.
L.1986,c.43,s.2; amended 2005, c.369, s.2; 2021, c.417, s.2.