New Jersey Statutes 40:66A-34. Definitions
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 40:66A-34
- 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.
- 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
(1) “Municipality” shall mean any city of any class, any borough, village, town, township, or any other municipality other than a county or a school district;
(2) “Governing body” shall mean the commission, council, board or body, by whatever name it may be known, having charge of the finances of the municipality;
(3) “Person” shall mean any person, association, corporation, nation, State or any agency or subdivision thereof, municipality of the State or a solid waste management authority;
(4) “Solid waste management authority” shall mean a public body created pursuant to section 4 of this act;
(5) Subject to the exceptions provided in the section 4 of this act, “district” shall mean the area within the territorial boundaries of the municipality or municipalities which created or joined in the creation of a solid waste management authority;
(6) “Local unit” shall mean any municipality which created or joined in the creation of a solid waste management authority;
(7) “Garbage and solid wastes disposal system” shall mean the plants, structures and other real and personal property acquired, constructed or operated or to be acquired, constructed or operated by a solid waste management authority, including incinerators or other plants for the treatment and disposal of garbage, solid waste and refuse matter and all other real and personal property and rights therein and appurtenances necessary or useful and convenient for the collection or treatment or disposal in a sanitary manner of garbage, solid waste and refuse matter (but not including sewage).
(8) “Cost” shall mean, in addition to the usual connotations thereof, the cost of acquisition or construction of all or any part of a garbage and solid waste disposal system of all or any property, rights, easements and franchises deemed by the solid waste management authority to be necessary or useful and convenient therefor, including reimbursements to the solid waste management authority or any municipality or other person of any moneys theretofore expended for the purposes of the solid waste management authority and including interest or discount on bonds to finance such cost, engineering and inspection costs and legal expenses, the cost of financial, professional and other advice, and the cost of issuance of any such bonds;
(9) “Real property” shall mean lands, both within and without the State, and improvements thereof or thereon, or any rights or interests therein;
(10) “Construct” and “construction” shall connote, and include acts of construction, reconstruction, replacement, extension, improvement and betterment of a garbage and solid waste disposal system;
(11) “Garbage, solid wastes or refuse matter” shall mean any refuse matter, trash or garbage from residences, hotels, apartments or any other public or private building but shall not include water-carried wastes or the kinds of wastes usually collected, carried away and disposed of by a sewerage system;
(12) “Ordinance” means a written act of the governing body of a municipality adopted and otherwise approved and published in the manner or mode of procedure prescribed for ordinances tending to obligate such municipality pecuniarily; and
(13) “Resolution” means a written act of the governing body of a local unit adopted and otherwise approved in the manner or mode of procedure prescribed for resolutions tending to obligate such local unit pecuniarily.
L.1968, c. 249, s. 3, eff. Aug. 16, 1968.