Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 34:1B-285

  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • 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
17. a. A developer may apply to the director and the chief executive officer of the authority for a tax credit transfer certificate, during the privilege period in which the director awards the developer a tax credit pursuant to section 16 of P.L.2020, c.156 (C. 34:1B-284), in lieu of the developer being allowed to apply any amount of the tax credit against the developer’s State tax liability. The tax credit transfer certificate, upon receipt thereof by the developer from the director and the chief executive officer of the authority, may be sold or assigned, in the privilege period during which the developer receives the tax credit transfer certificate from the director, to another person, who may apply the credit against a tax liability pursuant to section 5 of P.L.1945, c.162 (C. 54:10A-5), sections 2 and 3 of P.L.1945, c.132 (C. 54:18A-2 and C. 54:18A-3), section 1 of P.L.1950, c.231 (C. 17:32-15), or N.J.S. 17B:23-5 The tax credit transfer certificate provided to the developer shall include a statement waiving the developer’s right to claim the credit that the developer has elected to sell or assign.

b. The developer shall not sell or assign a tax credit transfer certificate allowed under this section for consideration received by the developer of less than 85 percent of the transferred credit amount before considering any further discounting to present value which shall be permitted, except a developer of a residential project consisting of newly-constructed residential units that has received federal low income housing tax credits under 26 U.S.C. § 42(b)(1)(B)(i) may assign a tax credit transfer certificate for consideration of no less than 75 percent subject to the submission of a plan to the authority and the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency to use the proceeds derived from the assignment of tax credits to complete the residential project. The tax credit transfer certificate issued to a developer by the director shall be subject to any limitations and conditions imposed on the application of State tax credits pursuant to section 16 of P.L.2020, c.156 (C. 34:1B-284) and any other terms and conditions that the director may prescribe.

c. A purchaser or assignee of a tax credit transfer certificate pursuant to this section shall not make any subsequent transfers, assignments, or sales of the tax credit transfer certificate.

d. The authority shall publish on its Internet website the following information concerning each tax credit transfer certificate approved by the authority and the director pursuant to this section:

(1) the name of the transferor;

(2) the name of the transferee;

(3) the value of the tax credit transfer certificate;

(4) the State tax against which the transferee may apply the tax credit; and

(5) the consideration received by the transferor.

L.2020, c.156, s.17; amended 2021, c.160, s.9.

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