New Jersey Statutes 30:6-1.1. Definitions
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 30:6-1.1
- 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
As used in this act:
a. “Blind” means having a condition which qualifies an individual as a blind person as defined in section 2 of P.L. 1964, c. 290 (C. 30:6-18).
b. “Commission” means the Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired of the Department of Human Services.
c. “Visually impaired” means having a condition in which a person has a corrected visual acuity not exceeding 20/70, but not less than 20/200, in the person’s better eye, or in which the peripheral field of the person’s vision has contracted so that the diameter of the visual field subtends an angle no greater than 40 degrees but no less than 20 degrees.
L. 1986, c. 147, s. 3, eff. Nov. 13, 1986.