N.J. Admin. Code § 19:61-1.10
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
"Chair" and "Vice Chair" shall mean the members of the Commission designated by the Governor to serve as the Chair and Vice Chair thereof.
"Cohabitant" shall mean any person who is actually residing with the State official.
"Commission" shall mean the State Ethics Commission continued and established in but not of the Department of Law and Public Safety by the provisions of 52:13D-12 et seq.
"Financial disclosure statement" means a comprehensive statement of assets, liabilities, business interests and sources of income which persons occupying certain positions in State government are required to file annually with the Commission pursuant to statute or Executive Order.
"Person" means any natural person, government entity, association, organization, firm, partnership or corporation.
"Preliminary investigation" means the investigative process undertaken by the Commission and/or its staff and/or a State agency's ethics liaison officer or State agency's ethics committee with regard to an allegation prior to review of and final action on the allegation by the Commission at a public meeting, pursuant to either 19:61-3.1(h) or (i).
"Relative" shall mean an individual's spouse, civil union partner, or domestic partner, or the individual's or spouse's, civil union partner's, or domestic partner's parent, child, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, grandparent, grandchild, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, stepparent, stepchild, stepbrother, stepsister, half brother or half sister, whether the relative is related to the individual or the individual's spouse, civil union partner, or domestic partner by blood, marriage or adoption.
"State agency" means any of the principal departments in the Executive Branch of the State government, and any division, board, bureau, office, commission or other instrumentality within or created by such department, and to the extent consistent with law, any interstate agency to which New Jersey is a party and any independent State authority, commission, instrumentality or agency. A county or municipality shall not be deemed an agency or instrumentality of the State.
"State official" shall mean any State officer or employee or special State officer or employee as defined in the Conflicts of Interest Law, 52:13D-13(b) and (e).
N.J. Admin. Code § 19:61-1.10
See: 28 N.J.R. 4755(b), 29 N.J.R. 593(a).
Added "Chair"; deleted "Chairman"; and amended "Commission" and "Preliminary investigation".
Amended by R.2006 d.292, effective 8/21/2006.
See: 38 N.J.R. 1804(a), 38 N.J.R. 3318(a).
In introductory paragraph, inserted comma following "chapter"; in definition "Chair", substituted "Commission" for "Executive Commission on Ethical Standards"; in definition "Commission", substituted "State Ethics Commission" for "Executive Commission on Ethical Standards", and inserted "but not of"; in definition "Preliminary Investigation" substituted "State agency's" for "departmental" two times; and added definitions "Cohabitant", "Financial disclosure statement", "Person", "Relative", "State agency" and "State official".
Amended by R.2012 d.045, effective 2/21/2012.
See: 43 N.J.R. 1515(a), 44 N.J.R. 519(a).
In the introductory paragraph, inserted a comma following "meanings"; in definition "Cohabitant", deleted ", whether related by blood or adoption or not," following "person"; and in definition "Relative", inserted ", civil union partner, or domestic partner,", ", civil union partner's, or domestic partner's", and ", civil union partner, or domestic partner".