New Jersey Statutes 40:37A-54. Purposes
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 40:37A-54
- 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
- Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- 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
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
- Personal property: includes goods and chattels, rights and credits, moneys and effects, evidences of debt, choses in action and all written instruments by which any right to, interest in, or lien or encumbrance upon, property or any debt or financial obligation is created, acknowledged, evidenced, transferred, discharged or defeated, in whole or in part, and everything except real property as herein defined which may be the subject of ownership. 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
b. In a fiscal year in which a public health emergency, pursuant to the “Emergency Health Powers Act,” P.L.2005, c.222 (C. 26:13-1 et seq.), a state of emergency, pursuant to P.L.1942, c.251 (C.App.A:9-33 et seq.), or both has been declared by the Governor in response to COVID-19 and during the next following fiscal year, a county improvement authority shall also have as its purpose the pooling of special emergency notes issued by the county or any beneficiary county, or by any local governmental unit within the county or any beneficiary county, pursuant to N.J.S. 40A:4-55 for purposes of financing a special emergency appropriation authorized for the purpose set forth in subsections l. and m. of N.J.S. 40A:4-53
L.1960, c.183, s.11; amended 1962, c.224, s.4; 1967, c.242, s.1; 1968, c.66, s.2; 1973, c.330, s.2; 1978, c.112; 1979, c.275, s.32; 1981, c.460, s.1; 1982, c.113, s.7; 1994, c.76, s.4; 1994, c.110; 2002, c.42, s.8; 2020, c.74, s.8; 2021, c.201, s.13.