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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 52:31-1.1a

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • real property: include lands, tenements and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interests therein. 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
11. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, a State entity, as defined in section 1 of P.L.2004, c.42 (C. 27:5-27), shall not enter into any contract or agreement for the sale, lease or license of real property owned or controlled by it, or of any interest therein, with any person, firm, partnership or corporation for the purpose of displaying any advertisement, as defined in section 3 of P.L.1991, c.413 (C. 27:5-7), without publicly advertising for bids. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any State entity may enter into such a contract or agreement with any of its current contractors, tenants or licensees with respect to the current real property on which they are a contractor, tenant or licensee for the purpose of displaying advertisement, for a period of time not to exceed five years, without publicly advertising for bids. Where, pursuant to the foregoing, a State entity enters into a contract or agreement with such a current contractor, tenant or licensee for a period not exceeding five years, after the completion of that contract or agreement, any future contract or agreement for the same purposes shall be done by publicly advertising for bids.

L.2004,c.42,s.11.