Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 52:18A-78.22

  • 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.
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • 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
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • 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
22. All State agencies may purchase, lease, rent, sublease or otherwise acquire any project or any space embraced in any project and pay such amount as may be agreed upon between the State agency and the authority or a person, firm, partnership or corporation as the purchase price, rent or other charge therefor, except that all leases shall be subject to the approval of the State Leasing and Space Utilization Committee established pursuant to P.L.1992, c.130 (C. 52:18A-191.1 et al.). Any agreement entered into by any State agency with the authority or a person, firm, partnership or corporation pursuant to the aforesaid authorization, shall expressly provide that the incurrence of any liabilities by the agency under the agreement, including, without limitation, the payment of any and all rentals or other amounts required to be paid by the agency thereunder, shall be subject to and dependent upon appropriations being made from time to time by the Legislature for that purpose and upon the approval of the lease agreement by the State Leasing and Space Utilization Committee.

L.1981,c.120,s.22; amended 1983,c.138,s.10; 1992,c.130,s.12.